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Cabbie’s Shelter Lyrics by Marsy Mars

Verseus

2020

[Intro]
“I’ll be your one-woman aid society
And I’ll be your rescuer
C’mon, cabbie, cabbie
Let’s ride tonight.”
“Fucking pissheads.”
[Verse 1]
Between the twin peaks of Ciara and Corona
On the old Brompton Road, in poise
Toadlike sat I, on the lily of the cabman’s shelter
Floating in a pond of ten-sugar’d brew
That noise what mingles with distant light
To make rhyme in the air of this town; that’s me
That’s the sound of my vehicle, plunging through
The thought noise, in inexhaustible service to
A city of blood sports, in which
Blades are bathed in acid
To accessorise the later comport
Of thus-sceptred kings
You’re either metropo’ enough
To laugh, or metropoor enough
To wish that you could;
Or you’re among the last of
A dignified labouring class
Born after the fading of the regime
Like me. I inherited only the shelter
And frankly
My top hat revolves in indignation
[Chorus]
Come on cabbie, cabbie
Go on and horse up the cart tonight
We’re going for a ride
[Verse 2]
I’ve been every faith’s witness
Charted confessions at every minute of the night
Which is after all, the kingdom in which
Truth can for a time its heavy helm set aside
Here, where the den of thieves’ philosophy reigns
Common, so potent as to disease and wither the bearer
I find too that I look upon you, my fare and fairest, as but
Plunging lines, stocks and shares, best counted by moonlight
One of 21,000 thousand Haroun al-Droshkys
Not a reference you’d necessarily expect me make
Once upon a time, perhaps me neither; been around
The world, though I’ve never gone anywhere (‘cept Spain)
All that driving, driving, driving
Gives you plenty of time to think;
I wonder, do they consider a moment
How far and deep I’ve thought?
The purest form of movement there is
[Bridge]
‘Long live the Metropolitan class’
They chant, mounted ‘pon Balaam’s ass
[Coda]
I’ll be driving, driving, driving
Until I find that my chariot awaits
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About “Cabbie’s Shelter” by Marsy Mars

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