Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller Band

Familiar jiggling morning, cage pacer

plan maker, cake baker, leaf raker

thank you lord for my day of leisure

 

Flick my switch, some sounds to mask 

zero gravity descending - pre-programmed 

station no 3 offers Silver Sun 

and their latest lanky, speccy stab at three-minute glory 

their bouncing   a flicker too far

 

Remote down and pre-programmed station no 2 

offers the intro to the Manics new

single with the long polemic, and it's a very fine intro 

but I've heard it a thousand times already on 

every station on every hour for

weeks in advance of its release, and

I will not tolerate it or succumb to

its nagging charms

 

Station no 1 throws up

Fly Like an Eagle and its 

instant flash of painting walls

walls walls and more walls

- some windowsills and ceilings -

some 20 gilded & rose-tinted summers ago

this playing on the radio 

in the works, smell of oil and grease

spark of welding and Pirelli calendar

cuppas from tattooed Stanley and time

keeps on slipping slipping   s l i p

                                               p i n g  

No comments:

Post a Comment