For Mr Thomas

歌曲歌詞

From faded newsprint used to wrap a fish

Inscrutably the muse selects your face

As I sit drinking famously in an Irish bar

Five thousand miles and thirty years away

With all the usual ceremonial you were crowned one night

King of the field where doctors nail the cows

To make of the cock's quill the rights of language

And the pricking heart a sword against the hours

Let smirking scholars writhe in their favourite bondage

And hold you plaintiff to the charge of art

Exhibit A: he falls on legendary lines

Singing mother I don't want a a pain here in my heart

All right

The judge in me sucks eggs and jerks the sacred meat

But the boy in me still dreams in Milk Wood town

Like two provincial bastards playing the galleries

I hold your photo to a mirror upside down

And as bacon wafts through hungry streets your ghost pervails

Just like an old ex-boxer aged twenty two

Staged-up like Falstaff or the wild welsh Rimbaud

You'd would laugh to see the monograms they make of you

Ah Mr Thomas let us ramble through the midnight fair

Let us throw old bottles at the ferris wheel

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