That click on the phone

Where they’re listening in to what’s going down

Their bugs in the walls

They’ll be listening, listening, listening in

You can’t go out in the sun

Their most wanted, number one

 

Am I what I seem

Or was I sent in to see what is going down

Every passionate scream

They’ll be listening, listening, listening in

You shine like a distant sun

Their most wanted, number one

 

And you could spend your days

And you could waste away

Behind the curtain sways

Watching their silhouettes

And we could pass the days

In countless other ways

But when we come back safe

You smell their cigarettes

 

I do what I must

When you’re breaking me ‘bout what’s going on

The lie detector tests

They’ll be listening, listening, listening in

Bare bulb blazing like a sun

Agent 43771

 

And now you spend your days

While I just waste away

Behind the curtain sways

I watch the silhouettes

And now you pass your days

In countless other ways

And when you come back late

I smell their cigarettes

 

(C) J. Davies 2018