
Date of issue: 09.08.1987
Record label: Cherry Red
Song language: English
Islington John |
This part of town is all flatfish tramps |
Beautiful women becoming mothers |
All night long the piano grins |
And I sit drinking sweetheart stout |
Hey lonely you, you with the negro face |
Say lonely what time does the music start? |
Suddenly the actress belly laughs |
And I put my hand on hers |
Islington John, time you were gone |
Look at the clock, it’s a quarter to one |
And when it strikes the hour |
I will steal your poppy flower |
I get a nosebleed under the blue lamp |
The actress goes up to the ugly man and they kiss |
The wind ruffles the polythene |
On a woman drunk on powdered milk and gas |
Me and the actress meet a crowd walking backwards |
Football fans attacking gypsy caravans |
Someone hits my head from the back |
As I’m peeping at cookery down an extractor stack |
Islington John, time you were gone |
Look at the clock, it’s a quarter to one |
And when it strikes the hour |
I will steal your poppy flower |
Cars beep as we flamenco dance on the pavement |
The innards of an old alsatian preserved by frost |
Back at her flat the actress gargles |
And puts on a record by Juliette Greco |
Islington John, time you were gone |
Look at the clock, it’s a quarter to one |
And when it strikes the hour |
I will steal your poppy flower |
Islington John lifted the nylon |
Lay amongst the broken antiques and smiled |
Reeking of coffee and piss |
Sober enough just to say this: |
«I will pay for the fire extinguisher |
The sand bucket and case |
If you will let me pay for this man’s face» |
Islington John, time you were gone |
Look at the clock, it’s a quarter to one |
And when it strikes the hour |
I will steal your poppy flower |
I will steal your poppy flower |
I will steal your poppy flower |
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