Backwards Is The New Forwards

from Doubt by Dumb Instrument

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lyrics

who put that lamp post there
there’s blood everywhere
down my back matting my hair
i’m just walking backwards home
by jupiter and ganymede
i’ll watch the paving stones recede
till i can’t walk or I am deed
I am walking backwards home

so if I do not say hello don’t take it personally no
I don’t have extra eyes you know behind my ears
just turn your head when you are past and greet me with
a smile that’s vast you’ll get a how de do at last
i’m walking backwards

someone once suggested to me use a mirror you will see
that’s manifest dishonesty when i’m walking backwards home
I know i’m prone to accidents I cut through campsites flatten tents
I tell the folk it wasn’t meant then continue backwards home

get out my bed at 5 each day
and get the train to miles away
be it Largs or Alloway
with my back to the engine

you have got grand theft auto five
to keep you going stay alive
at least i’ve found my way
to get me through the challenge of each day

the young team caught in my slipstream
they chant it’s a pipe dream
as I walk through the scheme
backwards going home
Me well I just say to them
while wiping off the phlegm
they’re blind and foolish to condemn
the backwards walk will come to them

they all say there’s that backward chap
whose shoes are covered in dog crap
oh well I may be facing back
but i’m moving forward
by jupiter and ganymede
i’ll watch the paving stones recede
till i can’t walk or I am deed
I am walking backwards home