Sank into their calculations and snorted on a stench A bare arithmetic Looked for the boy who was hanging his head low More trophies than ideas To follow their pretence
With a scowl in his pocket and a smile on his face He followed with obidience And fell in the Nettles
Afterwards those spikey whispers And he brought his own rope And skipped the bits they loathed Didn't scramble to find a dock leaf and capture back our hope To advice his mind had closed
He lost all of his footholes
And with a scowl in his pocket and a smile on his face He followed with obidience And fell in the Nettles, Fell in the Nettles, Fell in the Nettles
He was a toothpick And the garlic and the cinder upon the path Failed to blunt or hinder, a slow collapse And clinging to the doorframe he was dragged Off to a reminder of where he had been
And with a smile in his pocket And a scowl on his face There was nowhere to flee So sat content in the Nettles