Half Man Half Biscuit - Gubba Look-a-Likes Lyrics
They come from underneath the stairsInto my room but no-one caresThey’re on the bus and on the trainThey’re knocking on my window paneOh Mother telephone the nurseCan’t you see it’s getting worseI close my eyes yet still it seemsEverybody in my dreamsGubba look-a-likesGubba look-a-likesI wake up screaming in the hallI didn’t mean to wake at allI run and lock the bathroom doorTurn on the taps and out they pourThrough all the villages and townsA thousand sandy-coloured clownsI try and escape down private drivesAnd then I reach the Readers’ WivesGubba look-a-likesGubba look-a-likesIn order to fling off this curse, I spend all day drinking in diverse taverns, with smarmy acrobats and balding senators. But after a while they too adopt the likeness, and begin to breed like town pigs. As a drunken lump I fall into a state of blissful unconsciousness, but the moment is fleeting, and I awake once more in despair – and in my final agonies believe myself lost.Gubba look-a-likes…In every film and every playOn every public right of wayOn every flag I see unfurledOn all the grounds in all the worldThe one armed bandits in the barIn the back of every carAnd even on my dying dayThey’ll refuse to go awayWhen I walk towards the lightSomething somewhere won’t be rightAnd what was once my Uncle KeithSays there’ll never be reliefAnd we’ll go on and on and on and on and onGubba look-a-likes…
