Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Lost Time

Its morning still on the British isle
Out in the farthest east,
In Hong Kong and Shanghai
The clock's gone much farther ahead
I set my watch to Hong Kong time
Pour a snifter of Scotland's best
To celebrate the day that's just now begun

Its morning now in the farthest east
Bankers and traders and thieves
Are up and about in force
It’s a boisterous midnight in London yet
The revellers now own the streets
So I turn the clock to British time
Before I join in the raging bacchanal

Again and again it goes
Till I know not where I am
The day of the week or the time of the day
The price I chose to pay for the
Ravaging pleasure of this, my one escape


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