Wire - 23 Years Too Late lyrics

20-day perch selected, we snail through streets of smoke Tilo and Hardcore, Ma**ive Attack and transfer prints Fresh from The States with extra fear Each suit tailored for silhouette promise Copyists target the sun-stung pier An unengaged jack demolishes walls Of careful construction 23 years late… 23 years too late Chisel jumping, laid-back pastry Naked punks and stone-hard pagans Sonic paramedics weep Harness short delays Fuelled by Finnish rude familiars Lead the screw-top revolutionaries In the land of hats Smith & Wright shoot in from ballistic Berlin Fuelled by the Finnish Rude-boy Engineering Front In plum-black knit love, they officiate Open-plan tendencies, engulf the room Enthusiastically embracing, the ziggurat beat Head locked in gridlock, oozing through Flanders White kicker magic plants poppies of remembrance Popeye remembers a cycloptic monster 23 years late, 23 years late… 23 years too late Chisel jumping, laid-back pastry Naked punks and stone-hard pagans Sonic paramedics weep Harness short delays Fuelled by Finnish rude familiars Lead the screw-top revolutionaries In the land of hats Airbrush camouflage Cloaked by night, we slip the border Collaborative pacts, the ferry spurned, we hit the ramps Chaos junctions crash Upon a crowd of lost construction Russian hotel check-in kitchen Expectations, black-knit love Reinventing the schedule Fun-filled firemen visit the Museum of Backward Hats

Totally Oscared, the Netherlands are un-tethered Rhizomic gastropods interweave slender tails Grey hairs genuflect as perforated anarchists Lead the Screw-top Revolution 23 years late… 23 years too late Chisel jumping, laid-back pastry Naked punks and stone-hard pagans Sonic paramedics weep Harness short delays Fuelled by Finnish rude familiars Lead the screw-top revolutionaries In the land of hats Airbrush camouflage Cloaked by night, we slip the border Collaborative pacts, the ferry spurned, we hit the ramps Chaos junctions crash Upon a crowd of lost construction Russian hotel check-in kitchen Expectations, black-knit love 23 years late… We enter the hashish Kasbah With millimetres to spare Citizens of Christiania, the Cannabis Castaways Victims of the cookie-cutter crucifixion 23 years late… 23 years too late Chisel jumping, laid-back pastry Naked punks and stone-hard pagans Sonic paramedics weep Harness short delays Fuelled by Finnish rude familiars Lead the screw-top revolutionaries In the land of hats Airbrush camouflage Cloaked by night, we slip the border Collaborative pacts, the ferry spurned, we hit the ramps Chaos junctions crash Upon a crowd of lost construction Russian hotel check-in kitchen Expectations, black-knit love Becalmed in green fog banks Over baked pastries Goodbye… Goodbye… Goodbye… Goodbye!