Lyrics

If you can come at all, boys, then come to Scatterseed Come to rack and ruin, you'll be very glad you did Surrounded by the girls, boys, dressed in sun and slap Giving you their love, boys, and giving you the clap, hey Well never speak of empire, boys, or opportunity If you come to rack and ruin then you come to run to seed Decay is half the point when you're greedy for the sun A little of what you fancy in the face of what's to come, hey Cos here we ache like Gregory Corso Make love like Enrico Caruso Walk like Leonardo, croak like Valentino Spook like Robinson Crusoe Our virtue always was really something of a farce A turgid public show to keep the neighbours in the dark If your unfulfilled ambition is to be an old disgrace A blackguard and scoundrel with a gargoyle for a face You'll fit right in round here, boys, where everybody acts As if the future were a fiction and the past were just a fact, hey And here we ache like Gregory Corso Make love like Enrico Caruso Walk like Leonardo, croak like Valentino And spook around like Robinson Crusoe, hey And so to bed on the Isle of Scatterseed Why should being a pig be for everyone but me My human days are gone, boys, I'm beastly after all And so I shall arise, boys, and so I shall a-fall, hey