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Staff Meeting
03:32
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Tea Coffee Biscuits 10.15
Anthrax virus quarter-to
Ten minutes later cracked the gas main
Demolition charges blew
The centre of the earth is waiting
We’ll never answer for our crimes
A paradise the hollow earth
A place to spend the rest of time
Staff meeting
Team building
Being at the copier…
Tea break
Lunch break
Board meeting…
Interview
Overtime
Schedule
PowerPoint…
Brainstorm
Strategy
Internity
Ticking days off
Diagnosis
Tablets
Therapy
Mortgage Rates…
Eating rocks
And drinking petrol
Breathing fire
Can’t concentrate
Pushing biros
up my nose
Painting windows
Tippex white…
Save time… skip stairs:
use the window
Exercise my human right.
Freefall impact
Tarmac car park
Rocks and glass that broke my fall
Patched me up
Back Monday morning
Hardly feel the pain at all
I used to think that Satan
Was the terror and the rogue
But when it comes to suffering
He’s gone right out of vogue
The office desk, a big success
A cosy hell on earth
They start to train you early on
Your number’s there at birth
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This is the ballad of Morris Maroon
Two sided man
The divided tycoon…
Boardroom devotee
Making money grow
But night-time and weekends
He plots to overthrow…
himself
Morris Maroon
Morris Maroon
Two distorted sides
Of the same silver spoon
Eyes outlined in black
Like a living cartoon
Saves in the morning
Kills all afternoon
Threw a petrol bomb
At his own limousine
Black paint a’ crackling
A shout and a scream
Calls the judge for release
On his gold telephone
I’m Morris Maroon
And I’m coming home
CHORUS (SILVER SPOON)
He issued an order
To his own secret police
To track down the man
In the tunnels beneath
His own hollowed-out personality
They captured him quick
He had nowhere to hide
Tortured and beaten
But just on one side
CHORUS (SILVER SPOON)
Sends a hitman
From Switzerland
To obliterate himself
Avoiding any mention
Of his mental health
the ABC
Of SCHIZO-PHRENITY
Goes to D
A is for Anarchy
B is for Business
C for explosive
D - is deformative
In a statement to shareholders
read out at dawn
in front of the smoking
and bombed-out form
of …
Monday morn’…:
“Shares they be shorting
Boardrooms a slaughter
It’s a warning
To Headquarters
there’s LSD in all the water
I’m two halves like plutonium
Of one much stranger beast
I’m Morris Maroon
the most
and yet the least”
and then he detonated the bomb…
BOOM 🤯
A burial 🪦
A eulogy
A memorial stone
Rest in pieces Mr M
You’ll never walk alone
CHORUS
After Morris Maroon
To the relief of all his staff
Died of ‘blown to bits’
His gravestone cracked in half
When one part fell over on a
Sleeping policeman’s head
Morris the undead
Tried to sue himself instead.
This is the ballad of Morris Maroon
Two sided man
The divided tycoon…
Morris Maroon
Morris Maroon
Two distorted sides
Of the same silver spoon
If you’re still a’ wondering
Who is Morris Maroon
Morris Maroon
Is YOU
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Ketamine ketchup
Bourgeoisie
Not a pet
Effervescent
Follicles go free
She’s a woman with a strong
Identity
Sweaty Betty
She’s a yeti!
Hairy
Sweaty X4
Betty x4
She’s a yeti
Hair care bear
Obsessed with spaghetti
My girl Betty
She’s a real live yeti
Repairs to her lair
At the end of a jetty
Warm weather
Long hair
Two metres n 20
Sweaty X4
Betty x4
She’s a yeti
Shampoo’d
N rinsed
Conditioner in
Mangle tangle angle
Hair in a spin
Brush comb air dry
I’m not a spy
But I peek at my girls
Mega furry pie
Sweaty X4
Betty x4
She’s a yeti
Fringe Loomed
Overgrown
We are not alone
Preps confetti
Musculato
not Giacometti
Swoop comb alone
Shiny furry moan
Betty phones
Furry droney atone
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Jody Barton Copenhagen, Denmark
Jody Barton was born and raised in the UK near London and now lives in Copenhagen. His rowdy and eclectic music calls to
mind the post-punk and anarcho folk of Crass, Ian Dury & The Blockheads and just a little bit of Tim Curry. His latest project ‘Morris Maroon & Other Ballads’ is an open-ended work in progress both as a solo live set and recorded album.
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