SUPERMARKET BRIGHT
You’re supermarket bright when you walk in
From the local authority authorised blackout street
At twelve o’clock on Friday, you can hear the air raid siren
From the barracks across the town ringing like a mobile phone
In the pocket of someone told to turn it off, or at least switch it to silent
It’s unwise to talk too much of anything
Unless you’ll sign and date it for the public record
Try not to hesitate, if you’ve got something to say
Could be a hundred words or less
On the economic failings of a former government
Or some other vague articulation of concern
Or else about the weather and how it hasn’t rained as much
According to recently published reports
That you were reading in the library computer room
Between tragedies and social network opinion polls
But really though
You’re supermarket bright when you walk in
Something about something it’s like walking down every single aisle
Just to forget what you were looking for
You’re supermarket bright when you walk in
From the local authority authorised blackout street
At twelve o’clock on Friday, you can hear the air raid siren
From the barracks across the town ringing like a mobile phone
In the pocket of someone told to turn it off, or at least switch it to silent
It’s unwise to talk too much of anything
Unless you’ll sign and date it for the public record
Try not to hesitate, if you’ve got something to say
Could be a hundred words or less
On the economic failings of a former government
Or some other vague articulation of concern
Or else about the weather and how it hasn’t rained as much
According to recently published reports
That you were reading in the library computer room
Between tragedies and social network opinion polls
But really though
You’re supermarket bright when you walk in
Something about something it’s like walking down every single aisle
Just to forget what you were looking for