LG - The Herd

A moment passes as life flows through glasses

And I hear laughter from the long grasses

Babes in baskets and drinking from casks

Now cigarette throats crackle and rasp

Asking questions about my family and folken

A real conversation with no jingles or tokens

The circle is broken it’s split wide open

Now a spliff is lit and the perimeter is floating

Lips that are split become angry and spit

Yo backflipping pollies create a shit pit

Now swags dragged away forms filled in with ink

With bolt cutters drawn they’re snapping the link

The most social of cultures judged anti-social

For living with families out in the open

Whereas we live in boxes preoccupied foxes

Yet nobody stops when an old lady crosses

Hey

The game’s begun

The dice rolled

Now move along

I said hey

The game’s begun

The dice is rolled

Now who has won

As i look into the eyes of these old fellas

As they look up into mine these storytellers

For the richness of culture I get jealous

As we hold up the cup and we drink from the chalice

Legs spread cross-legged again in the park

Hard fed stories inspirational spark

Dragonflies (??) signaling dark

Over my shoulder yes a night patrol car

Mob’s moving song’s soothing path choosing

Perimeter perusing has become a way of prooving

Displacement adjacent to the concrete jungle

But once whispered currawong to warraguls

I can’t help but be a little bit ropeable

Hey

The game’s begun

The dice rolled

Now move along

I said hey

The game’s begun

The dice is rolled

Now who has won

I take flight with my bike and go cruise through the night

When confronted by shadows in an absence of light

My palms are getting sweaty I’m already forgetting

The netting of the bedding when the sun before setting

The shadows unravel telling stories of travel

And long (joyless?) walks across car-parks of gravel

Oval smiles pasted dials worthwhile tales for conversational styles

While all the while our canines hear/hit fences

An imaginary defense against walking a while

I dabble then I dibble when I’m stuck in the middle

Could you buy a vowel to help me solve this riddle

Piddles and skiddles and size mc jiggles (???)

Selectively alert now plays the fiddle

Hey

The game’s begun

The dice rolled

Now move along

I said hey

The game’s begun

The dice is rolled

Now who has won x 2