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Just an ordinary day, I knew that autumn was on its way

I could see by the gilt of the clouds, the burnish on the bay

A ring of effusia settled on the city like a vision of the future

Before the scales fell away

A vision of the future looking more than just okay

A good feeling

Yes, just a good feeling

And it only happens now and then —

Out of the mouth of a black dog

Out of the terrors of 3 am

Out of the dark and whispering fen

I was blind then I could see, now I’m blind again

So I hollered up to Jill

«Come down from the mountain, your ears are 'a burning

My speech is a fountain, it’s been another long year

But you know I’m not counting

I dreamed you like you dreamed me

O the bomb dreamed the fuse and the drowner dreamed the sea»

What a strange feeling…

Yes, it? s a strange feeling

And it only happens now and then —

Out of the mouth of a black dog

Out of the terrors of 3 am

Out of the dark and whispering fen

I was blind then I could see, now I’m blind again

Most of the Aegean Sea rushes into my bedroom and glitters for me

The hills of Gallipoli all throw up their bones for my industry

So I build from the charnel the ale house

I build from the tomb a palace of dreams

That old barren rockface got silver seams for a miner of middling means

Singing poems of dissolution and schemes —

My penny whistles, lo!

Now I summon up Jack, sat up on the hill

The wrong kind of music, the wrong kind of pill

Impotent as a potato but still pleading «Give it up Mary

But not by degrees…»

A portrait of Jack, a study in sin, well I knew of myself before I knew of him

Now even I couldn’t tell ya just who it is asking

«Give it up Mary, but not by degrees

Give it up Mary, your virtue, please…»

Into the mouth of a black dog — I go

Into the terrors of 3 am — I go

Into the dark and whispering fen — I go

I was blind then blind again

Into the mouth of a black dog — I go

Into the terrors of 3 am — I go

Into the dark and whispering fen — I go

O what beast has my name on its snaggle tooth

And eternal slobber for my finishing youth?

My penny whistles low

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