MATCHING MOLE
"Matching Mole" (1972)

O CAROLINE
Words by Robert Wyatt, Music by David Sinclair

David's on piano, and I may play on a drum
And we'll try to make the music work, we'll try to have some fun
But I just can't help thinking that if you were here with me
I'd get all my thoughts in focus and play more excitingly
I love you still - Caroline
I want you still - Caroline
I need you still - Caroline

If you call this sentimental crap you'll make me mad
Cause you know that I would not sing about some passing fad
And if my attempts at rhyming aren't convincing to your ear
Then memories betray you through the passing of the year
I love you still - Caroline
I want you still - Caroline
I need you still - Caroline

You must think it doubtful that I mean the words I sing
Or that all attempts to reach you this way could not mean a thing
But you must admit we both thought we'd be man and wife
And that I could make you happy for the best part of your life
I love you still - Caroline
I love you still - Caroline

INSTANT PUSSY
Words and Music
by Robert Wyatt

And later we had coffee and the cream spilled on the sheets
and you said leave it I can clean when you've gone and
underneath the chaos of your hair around your pretty face
and shoulders you were thinking 'bastard you bastard'

And I get up in the morning, saw your face upon the pillow
where you dribble in the night like a baby in the womb
and you flip the sheets around your head above your soft
and fragile body, then I wanted to stay with you forever

And I plucked your naked eyelid and the makeup off your mouth
and then the cheeks around your mouth
and then you stretched your legs and arms and closed them up again
tucked up inside the bed clothes and the frontman gave a dirty little smile

So wherever peeled off sheets and blankets
and you turn until your bare toe captified them put you on the neck
you slid your fingers down my back and could be only you
and I knew then I'd be picked up to be with you forever

(Note: the version by Matching Mole is instrumental)

SIGNED CURTAIN
Words and Music
by Robert Wyatt

This is the first verse
This is the first verse
This is the first verse
This is the first verse...
And this is the chorus
Or perhaps it's a bridge
Or just another part
of the song that I'm singing

This is the second verse
Or it may the last verse
This is the second verse
Or it may the last one
And this is the chorus
Or perhaps it's a bridge
Or just another key change
Never mind
It doesn't hurt
It only means that I
lost faith in this song
'Cause it won't help me reach you...