Chumbawamba - Creepy Crawling lyrics

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(What a wonderful world...What a wonderful world...)

A loose door-jamb, light left on, the oldest national lottery

Enter Johnny-go-darkly, come to spoil my party

Smell of feces lingers, echo of light fingers

Cold comfort blankets, steeped in creeping anger

Flatfoot comes poking, compounding my misery

Grinding pestle and mortar, adding insult to injury

If only this, if only that, if only in my guts

See my life before my eyes, “Trampled Underfoot”

Creepy crawling, creepy crawling, creepy crawling, creepy crawling

All the creeps go creepy crawling, same thing every night

How can stealing candy from a baby seem alright?

(What a wonderful world...What a wonderful world...)

Corvino, carrion crow, skulking with his mobile

Slippery peat-bog eyes, stick-on smiley smile

Small print like quicksand, not a wooden leg to stand on

Sinking through my stomach, the ground beneath me gone

Free-fall, call Ophelia, clutching at straw

Mixed with bloody feathers from scruff of neck of crow

Johnny go! Johnny gone! Too much drink in your tum-tum-tum

See this finger, see this thumb, see this fist and watch it come

Creepy crawling, creepy crawling, creepy crawling, creepy crawling

All the creeps go creepy crawling, same thing every night

How can stealing candy from a baby seem alright?

All the creeps go creepy crawling, same thing every night

How can stealing candy from a baby seem alright?

Creepy crawling, creepy crawling, creepy crawling

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