Standing Water

The town of Standing Water
Celebrates the coming
Of the fifteenth hundredth Asbo supermarket
With a DJ from the radio
Standing FM - the local anasthetic -
On the Brownfield Estate
There's a purpose-built health centre, dialysis
Now a brand new supermarket

In the town of Standing Water
A generation's growing up
Like newly planted saplings
Bending to the breeze
Hear the children playing
Playing on the playing field
Where methane gas seeps silent to the breeze

John Paul George and Alan
Are writing songs while people sleep
John Paul George and Alan
Are being different and deep
In the town of Standing Water

In a basement below a shop
Walls lined with mattresses
Damp dank mouldy and cold
Maybe it's the mould
They're breathing black mould
Writing tunes that sound like no one else
Tascam Portastudio 424
And they sound so good
They sound like no one else ever did before
John Paul George and Alan
Writing songs while people sleep
John Paul George and Alan
They are different indeed
In the town of standing water
John Paul George and Alan
They're the saving of this town
John Paul George and Alan
That's the Standing Water Sound
The sound, the sound of Standing Water