Nothing Like Velvet

Another feature film about an air-line disaster

Another news item and another newscaster

But there's worst to come at the arrival gate

There's a crack on board and it's running in freight

Well the fruit of the poppy take up all your time

Getting high by the hands of re-organised crime

Put the put the squeeze on the Colombian leaf

Make the brother a liar and a sister a thief

It's nothing like velvet, nothing like velvet

It's nothing like velvet but it starts off smooth

Nothing like velvet and a rut's not a groove

It's nothing like velvet when it's pound on pound

Nothing like velvet when you're underground

They're shooting up Glasgow, shooting up Leeds

There was never this peril with the stems and seeds

And the hip and the right have got nothing to say

Except, "It's out of control and it's headed your way"

It's nothing like velvet, nothing like velvet

And I loved Charlie Parker but you know he did us harm

Every time he left to pour that inspiration in his arm

It's nothing like velvet but it starts off smooth

Nothing like velvet and a rut's not a groove

It's nothing like velvet when it's pound on pound

Nothing like velvet when you're underground