Let's shoot the messenger

    Copyright Keith Piddington,
    Robert Von Rudloff, Malcolm Dew-Jones.




Son of Xerces
ride your foul steed
you can't convince me
there's anything I need
it's a wide world
yet steaming horse shit lies
on the well trod path
but I have grown wise

    Let's shoot the messenger
    bad news always leads to more bad news
    let's shoot the messenger
    sad truths arrive upon his shoes
    let's shoot the messenger
    his pen is mightly like a sword
    let's shoot the messenger
    when we're done he'll be ignored

Spawn of yes men
cash your foul cheques
you may bankrupt me
as all the world expects
but the flood flows
and two by two we sink
into oblivion
I'll have time to think

    Let's shoot the messenger
    bad news always leads to more bad news
    let's shoot the messenger
    sad truths arrive upon his shoes
    let's shoot the messenger
    his pen is mightly like a sword
    let's shoot the messenger
    when we're done he'll be ignored

Clone of no one
tip your test tube
and spill her contents
this poisonous lube
there is still time
to learn to unknow how
what the world requires
what the world needs now

    Let's shoot the messenger
    bad news always leads to more bad news
    let's shoot the messenger
    sad truths arrive upon his shoes
    let's shoot the messenger
    his pen is mightly like a sword
    let's shoot the messenger
    when we're done he'll be ignored