Sing the song. Feel the beat.
By tom
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Sing the song. Feel the beat.
Dry ice wipes out the faces and features of the crowd like a dragon's
puff. Bodies pile forwards in a mangle of limbs, sweaty grins and
bruised arms and shins. Feedback cuts off the roof of my head with a
scalpel of sound. Dry ice clears. Still dancing, still jumping, nothing
can stop us now, we're invincible, king of kings, diamond tipped grins,
always moving forwards towards the stage, towards the loudest sound.
Repeated from the lips of the gods on the floor.
'I'm gonna walk down to where the plane trees grow,
With a bomb in my pocket and a riot in tow.
Stand your ground, stand your ground - I'm a super freaky evil sneaky
doctor dangerous rocket-powered superhero. I win ten zero.
You better watch out when my eyes glow red,
'Cos pretty damn quick you'll all be dead
Stand your ground, stand your ground - I'm a super freaky evil sneaky
doctor dangerous rocket-powered superhero. I win ten zero.
I can see a camera in the sky
I say, "My oh my, I didn't realise pigs could fly"
Stand your ground, stand your ground - I'm a super freaky evil sneaky
doctor dangerous rocket-powered superhero. I win ten zero.'
Feet bang, whistles shriek the whole world begs for more. It's cold
outside amid the lonely streetlights and steam of my breath as I sing
in the night. The words swell me up and take me away and then
everything seems to change. This time for real. I change direction and
walk along an unlit street to where some plane trees claw the starless
sky. My pocket is heavy and I can hear it tick. I stand stock-still. My
heart ripples beneath my skin as I slowly change shape. I know what's
happening because I'm a doctor - I know that I'm changing shape. Sparks
blister from beneath as I rise slowly into the air. A car explodes
across the road, I realise that my I made it explode just by looking at
it. My eyes glow red again and a lamp post melts like dripping plastic.
I see a camera pointing at me from the secrecy of the night sky. It's
held by a pig and to my alarm I realise that pigs can fly. None of this
bothers me though because I know that, come what may, I'll always win
ten nil.
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