It's hard to live in the country
In the present state of things
Your body gets pulled right back
You get a terrible urge to drink


At three a.m.
The stick people recede
The locals get up your nose
And leather soles stick on cobble stones


It's hard to live in the country
It has a delicate ring
Nymphette new romantics come over the hill
It gets a bit depressing


Paper local
Drunken scandal
Publish your address as well
Locals surround where you dwell
Old ladies confiscate your gate railings
For government campaigns


Its tough in home country
Councils hold the ring
D. bowie look-alikes
Permeate car parks
Grab the churches while you can
Portaloos
Yellow cabins by methodist doors
New jersey car parks permeated by
D. bowie sound-alikes


It's good to live in the country
You can get down to real thinking
Walk around look at geometric tracery
Hedgehogs skirt around your leathered soles
Fall down drunk on the road
It's good to live in the country


Look at yourself as a man
The valley rings with ice-cream vans
It's good to live in the country


Leather soles stick on precinct flagstones
Small up town americas like your outskirt town


The villagers
Are surrounding the house
The locals have come for their due
It's hard to live in the country

• 2 by 4
• Arid Al's Dream
• Australians in Europe
• Backdrop
• Bingo-master's Breakout
• Birthday
• Blood Outta Stone
• Bug Day
• Butterflies 4 Brains
• C'n'c - Peel Session
• C. R. E. E. P.
• Calendar
• City Hobgoblins
• Clear Off!
• Cloud of Black
• Copped It
• Craigness
• Cruisers Creek
• Deadbeat Descendant
• Disney's Dream Debased
• Don't Take The Pizza
• Dr Buck's Letter
• Draygo's Guilt
• Dresden Dolls
• Ed's Babe
• Elf Prefix
• Elves
• Entitled
• Fantastic Life
• Glam Racket / Star
• God Box
• H. O. W.
• Hard Life in Country
• Hey Luciani!
• Hey! Marc Riley!
• Hot Aftershave Bop
• How I Wrote & Quot;Elastic Man & Quot ;
• I'm Into Cb
• It's The New Thing!
• Ivanhoes Two Pence
• Jingle Bell Rock
• Kicker Conspiracy
• Kimble
• Last Orders
• Lay of The Land
• Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
• Look Know
• Lucifer Over Lancashire
• Ludd Gang
• M. H. 's Jokes
• Mark'll Sink Us
• Medical Acceptance Gate
• Mere Pseud Mag Ed - Live Version
• Mess of My
• Neighborhood of Infinity
• No Bulbs
• Noel's Chemical Effluence
• Oh! Brother
• Passable
• Pat-trip Dispenser
• Pinball Machine
• Plug Myself In
• Psycho-mafia
• Psykick Dance Hall #2 -single Version
• Pumpkin Head Xscapes
• Putta Block
• Repetition
• Scareball
• Second Dark Age
• Simon, Dave John
• Slang King
• Slates, Slags Etc
• Sleep Debt Snatches
• Squid Law
• Stephen Song
• Stepping Out
• Ten Points
• The City Never Sleeps
• The Classical
• The Legend of Xanadu
• The Man Whose Head Expanded
• Theme from Error-orrori
• Three Points
• Totally Wired
• Touch Sensitive
• Village Bug
• Wigan Soul Poem
• Wings
• Words of Expectation
• Xmas With Simon
• Zagreb