23 Years Too Late - Wire

20-day perch selected, we snail through streets of smoke

Tilo and Hardcore, Massive Attack and transfer prints

Fresh from The States with extra fear

Each suit tailored for silhouette promise

Copyists target the sun-stung pier

An unengaged jack demolishes walls

Of careful construction

23 years late…

23 years too late

Chisel jumping, laid-back pastry

Naked punks and stone-hard pagans

Sonic paramedics weep

Harness short delays

Fuelled by Finnish rude familiars

Lead the screw-top revolutionaries

In the land of hats

Smith & Wright shoot in from ballistic Berlin

Fuelled by the Finnish Rude-boy Engineering Front

In plum-black knit love, they officiate

Open-plan tendencies, engulf the room

Enthusiastically embracing, the ziggurat beat

Head locked in gridlock, oozing through Flanders

White kicker magic plants poppies of remembrance

Popeye remembers a cycloptic monster

23 years late, 23 years late…

23 years too late

Chisel jumping, laid-back pastry

Naked punks and stone-hard pagans

Sonic paramedics weep

Harness short delays

Fuelled by Finnish rude familiars

Lead the screw-top revolutionaries

In the land of hats

Airbrush camouflage

Cloaked by night, we slip the border

Collaborative pacts, the ferry spurned, we hit the ramps

Chaos junctions crash

Upon a crowd of lost construction

Russian hotel check-in kitchen

Expectations, black-knit love

Reinventing the schedule

Fun-filled firemen visit the Museum of Backward Hats

Totally Oscared, the Netherlands are un-tethered

Rhizomic gastropods interweave slender tails

Grey hairs genuflect as perforated anarchists

Lead the Screw-top Revolution

23 years late…

23 years too late

Chisel jumping, laid-back pastry

Naked punks and stone-hard pagans

Sonic paramedics weep

Harness short delays

Fuelled by Finnish rude familiars

Lead the screw-top revolutionaries

In the land of hats

Airbrush camouflage

Cloaked by night, we slip the border

Collaborative pacts, the ferry spurned, we hit the ramps

Chaos junctions crash

Upon a crowd of lost construction

Russian hotel check-in kitchen

Expectations, black-knit love

23 years late…

We enter the hashish Kasbah

With millimetres to spare

Citizens of Christiania, the Cannabis Castaways

Victims of the cookie-cutter crucifixion

23 years late…

23 years too late

Chisel jumping, laid-back pastry

Naked punks and stone-hard pagans

Sonic paramedics weep

Harness short delays

Fuelled by Finnish rude familiars

Lead the screw-top revolutionaries

In the land of hats

Airbrush camouflage

Cloaked by night, we slip the border

Collaborative pacts, the ferry spurned, we hit the ramps

Chaos junctions crash

Upon a crowd of lost construction

Russian hotel check-in kitchen

Expectations, black-knit love

Becalmed in green fog banks

Over baked pastries

Goodbye… Goodbye…

Goodbye… Goodbye!