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Well ah jumpt! and fled this fucken heap on

doctored wings

Mah flailin pinions, with splints and rags

and crutches!

(Damn things nearly hardly flap)

Canker upon canker upon one million tiny

punctures

That look like…

Long thin red ribbons draped across the arms

of a lil mortal girl

(Like a ground-plan of Hell)

Curse these smartin strings! These fucken

ruptures!

Enough! Enough is enough!

(If this is Heaven ah’m bailin out)

If this is Heaven, ah’m bailin out!

Ah caint tolerate this ol tin-tub

So fulla trash and rats! Felt one crawl across

mah soul

For a seckon there, ah thought ah wassa back

down in the ghetto!

(Rats in Paradise! Rats in Paradise!)

Ah’m bailin out! There’s a mutiny in Heaven!

Ah wassa born…

And Lord shakin, even then was dumpt into

some icy font

like some great stinky unclean!

From slum-church to slum-church, ah spilt

mah heart

To some fat cunt behind a screen…

Evil poppin eye presst up to the opening

He’d slide shut the lil perforated hatch… at night

mah body blusht

To the whistle of the birch

With a lil practice ah soon learnt to use it on

mahself

Punishment?! Reward!! Punishment?! Reward!!

Well, ah tied on… percht on mah bed ah was….

sticken a needle in mah arm…

Ah tied off! Fucken wings burst out mah back

(Like ah was cuttin teeth!!)

Ah took off!!!

(Rats in Paradise! Rats in Paradise!)

There’s a mutiny in Heaven!

Oh Lord, ah git down on mah knees

(Ah git down on mah knees and start to pray)

Wrapt in mah mongrel wings, ah nearly freeze

In the howlin wind and drivin rain

(All the trash blowin round ’n’ round)

From slum-heaven into town

Ah take mah tiny pain and rollin back mah sleeve

(Roll anna roll anna roll anna roll)

Ah yank the drip outa mah vein! UTOPIATE! Ah’m

bailin out!

UTOPIATE!

If this is Heaven ah’m bailin out!

Mah threadbare soul teems with vermin and louse

Thought comes like a plague to the head… in

God’s house!

Mutiny in Heaven!

(Ars infectio forco Dio)

To the plank!

(Rats in Paradise! Rats in Paradise!)

Ah’m bailin out!

(Hail Hypuss Dermio Vita Rex!)

Hole inna ghetto! Hole inna ghetto!

(Scabio Murem per Sanctum… Dio, Dio, Dio)