Truant from Psychogeography EP by The Prongs

TRUANT
(Fleming/Toner)

“The burning sands
Of promised lands
The oozing swamp
Cheap hotel damp
Sizzling of the sodium lamp
Against whose pole you lean
The unelected bohemian dean
Of every backstreet city scene
In your bag a life of swag
Lured on the rocks by some seahag
There’s a timeless siren
For your eternal Lord Byron”

Intermittent truant
In cod delinquency you are fluent
Anti-clockwise spiral vector
Path of the wayward, fools’ gold prospector
Take the shortcut, off-the-beaten-track trajector
Obsessive scar and broken heart collector
You knuckle down
In every town
You put down roots
And your marching boots
But when the ocean wave
And the fear of the grave
Emit their clarion call
They make you go awol
Awol awol awol

The burning sands
Of foreign lands
The oozing swamp
Cheap hotel damp
Sizzling of the sodium lamp
Against whose pole you lean
The unelected bohemian dean
Of every backstreet city scene

In your bag a life of swag
Lured on the rocks by some seahag
There’s a timeless siren
For your eternal Lord Byron
A fistful of polished vitamin pills
Puny cures for modern ills
You live your life as one of conformity’s kills
Far from the shadows of cities on hills
In mundane straits you are enslaved
The wastelands the wastelands are now all paved
“See you tomorrow” someone has waved
Their pasty face was cut when shaved
You pillage
Every village
A dog turned wolf
You howl at the moon and the existential gulf
Every so often you try to return
And settle down and try to learn
But ley lines call
And you go back awol
Awol awol awol

The babbling brook
The crimes for a crook
Adventures lifted right out of a book
Dangers and situations in which you come unstuck
You’re passing through, you don’t take a second look
From your feet you shake that clinging muck
And off you go
With nothing to show
Keep your profile low
And eke out your dough
You leave no trace
You leave no trail
But your aged face
And your body is frail
Once so healthy
Once so hail
How can the truant ever fail
To go awol
Awol awol awol?

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