Shore Leave Ornithology Lyrics - Xtc

Slacks, coffee trend 

I could have been in the us navy 

Flapping grey, coffee smoke 

I could have been in another nineteen-fifty 

Where the hell were you? 

Rough stencil, print music 

Cardboard, cardboard, cardboard, cardboard, cardboard coffee 

Saxophone mention barbers, n.y. 

The cigarette was burning, the flat shoes 

Stool 

Bongo, coffee, don't mention that black man 

The leather-coat was his 

Where was she? 

Could have been in the us navy 

Flow beating air, table-top, shoulder slung 

Shore leave, no sailors here 

Cardboard, cardboard, cardboard, cardboard 

Liquor slacks twisting 

The cigarette was burning 

The flat shoes, the flat shoes, the flat shoes 

Bird, bird, bird, bird 

I could have been in another nineteen-fifty 

Bird, bird, bird, bird, bird, bird, bird, bird, bird, bird 

Bird, bird, bird, bird, bird, bird, bird, bird, bird, bird 

I could have been in another nineteen-fifty 

Bird, bird, bird