Under The Thumb - Ashok

I used to listen to him sitting on my shoulder

But he’s losing my affection, I’ve fallen for another

He made me do some bad things but you make me do the worst

He’s been around for centuries, but you were still the first

He may have fire and brimstone, all the power in the world

But I’m not trying to impress him now that I’m your girl

He says he wants me back and I don’t know what to do

'Cos I don’t need the devil now that I’ve got you

He has so many tricks but next to you he looks the fool

And it’s no longer for him that I keep on breaking rules

When he told me to take one, you tell me to take four

When he said smash the window, you say: break down the door!

He sent me pearls and roses, a diamond necklace too

But I don’t need the devil now that I got you

We don’t need the devil now, we’ve got each other

We don’t need the storm when we’re making our own thunder

Now we don’t need The Reaper, we’re already six feet under!

Well

You can pull the trigger and I will load the gun

You can tie the knot and I’ll make sure that your hung

If you can find the pills, I will make that bed

Because I don’t need the devil, I’ve got you instead!

If you can pull the trigger, I will load the gun

You can tie the knot and I’ll make sure that your hung

If you can find the pills, I will make that bed

Because I don’t need the devil, I’ve got you instead!!!

I’m different now

That I was when he was about

I don’t know how

But something was lost or damaged at lights out

Something went

It vanished

And was never replaced

Something bent or broke

And now there’s nothing but space

Something changed about me

Something crucial

Not my name

Blymes!

It was something useful

Fuck the games!

Tell me

Was it something beautiful

The dutiful brotherly aspect that was torn

Away out the funeral?

I fell halved

I can’t explain it

At first I laughed so hard

It locked the pain in

As rain swept

In tandem with the concept of prophetic fallacy

I tried to put into context the extent of the tragedy

But

Nothing was happening

I guess I was panicking

To get with the plan again

Nothing was rubbing in

I had to stop fumbling

Because there’s nothing but trouble in

Rummaging for the truth

When there’s nothing more pummelling that the proof

That something as powerful as the 'two'

Could be so easily damaged or even reduced!

So where’s this leave you now?

You’re not alone

But you’re not the same

And that’s the difference in a daily way

Anyway

Past the trivia lies the main meal

That even a myriad of counterpoints couldn’t help reveal;

I think in some weird way

This could work out

I’m smiling up, right?

And he’s smiling back down…

But since I’m gravity bound I think

Fuck it!

I’m going to move on around

And not forget

So fucking forget about it!

It’s a different purpose, not a different outfit

Look at me mouth in and then pronounce it

He’s my brother

So fucking forget about it!

Welcome to neverland, my myopic elephant

Where you remember benevolence can get you anything

So lucking up is irrelevant

So fucking forget about it…