Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
When he spied her over the dance floor,
She was making the shape of a fan.
He gyrated across to be near her,
Throwing moves learnt from his old man.
She couldn't escape his attention,
He thought he was living a dream.
Then she laughed out loud in amazement,
When his jeans ripped apart at the seam.
Where there's a mine or a hole in the ground,
Where there are lost souls that need to be found.
They're leaving the country behind, they're not coming back.
Making home in a fine bivouac.
He said would you like to come with me,
To the Tonbridge alluvial planes,
Where the sedimentary sandstone deposits,
Are carved by the wind and the rains.
He showed her his gemstone collection,
And gave her a small one to keep,
Was it love or a tremor she felt when,
The earth moved under her feet.
Where there's a mine or a hole in the ground,
Where there are lost souls that need to be found.
They're leaving the country behind, they're not coming back.
Making home in a fine bivouac.
She thought she could cure his addiction,
His obsession with fossils and rocks,
In the old days they'd gag and they'd bind him,
And administer electrical shocks.
He needed professional assistance,
She knew just the right therapy,
She invited him onto her sofa,
For a session of her best CBT.
Where there's a mine or a hole in the ground,
Where there are lost souls that need to be found.
They're leaving the country behind, they're not coming back.
Making home in a fine bivouac.
At a zoo in Stockholm five years later,
Against a background of emperor penguins,
He sank to one knee and proposed with,
A ring and a rock set therein.
She joyously accepted his offer,
And agreed for the rest of her life,
To be the gem of his collection,
And to be a geologist's wife.
Where there's a mine or a hole in the ground,
Where there are lost souls that need to be found.
They're leaving the country behind, they're not coming back.
Making home in a fine bivouac.
Not a tent, not a yurt, not a shack!
Not a flimsy IKEA flatpack!
But a Walkley designed bivouac!