…english glasnost…
…from the mouths of those….
…who use air rifles on their friendly….
…why is the truly skint never ssssss-scotch ridden…
…embrace…negate…
…how does…
….devolute….
….man prise the political from anything from a garden…
…metamorphosis…barge…
…eject plane or a loaf…
…euro jazz..devo-land…
…english glasnost…
…metro-jazz…
…to re-iterate
…indiginous…
…injury list…
…devolute-tionite….
…the stinking cast and the stinking east…
…in fear of bill…
… three mile quaker pub radius…
…became different person…
…the reality of right of portion of forthcoming…
…was posessed by the indiginous…Chorltonite natural aversion…
…’tricity and face three years solid for evasion…
…there is also the little matter of shafting somebody while they’re working…

Like to take a cement fix…like what you did at Sheffield
Be a standing cinema…get lost…yours sincerely…
Dress my friends up just for show…famous face…
See them as they really are…pop star…
…also when are you can’t afford a stamp…and get with food…
…fat-arse…Put a peephole in my brain
which…Two New Pence to have a go
…it’s a gas…I’d like to be a gallery
Put you all inside my show

Andy Burnham had a dream*
Listening to The Fall
Andy’s PM, Andy’s lean
King North to rule them all

never…devoluted…
…what would life be without comedy…

Andy talking, he’s inspired
Andy tackling the news
Tie him up in mission creep
How to fund his pleasant views

…what would life be like without…

When he wakes up on the train
Sure to think of Devolute
He’ll think about care and he’ll think about queues
What a King of the Northlings thing to do…

Andy Burnham had a dream
Listening to The Fall
Andy’s PM, Andy’s lean
King North to rule them all

Andy Burnham had a dream
Listening to The Fall
Andy’s PM, Andy’s lean
King North to rule them all

the gurning hosts
were grinning twinkle eyed
maniac
rumour host
and all the stuff in your…
invalid
devolute
I…on freezin’ rot
strafed by
days of chance
english glasnost
its visitation is vibration
i am not
wrong-able
english glasnost
devolute
devolute

with apologies to The Fall and David Bowie

*Andy Burnham lyrics – Bill Herbert