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23 Years Too Late
20-day perch selected, we snail through streets of smoke
Tilo and Hardcore, Massive 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…