THE SLUM MUMS

buried B-side from 2004

Six filthy children
from six absent fathers
and then you turn to us for succor
because you think we're just suckers
we may be Welfare, oh yeh
but we don't care
and we're paid to despise
your council house eyes
you can change your name
and you can bleach your skin
camouflage your accent
so that even you don't recognise it
but you won't escape from the slum mums
because you are one
because you live and breed like one
and the Labour government can't stand the slum mums
it's ingrained underneath your fingernails
The office of the Social Service
is strategically placed
in a dowdy rowdy part of town
to discourage you from signing
we make you feel as if you're whining
when you're claiming
what's legally yours
you can change your name
and you can bleach your skin
camouflage your accent
so that even you don't recognise it
but you won't escape from the slum mums
because you are one
because you live and breed like one
and the Labour government can't stand the slum mums
it's ingrained underneath your fingernails
take you, and your rat-pack brood
into the long grass of a meadow
administer
seven doses
lethal / illegal
which may render
you
elsewhere.


FATE

Thursday 9 October
Eugene Oregon
Hult Center

Saturday 11 October
Berkeley California
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