[ Featuring Gavin Thomson ]
It was one of those indie labels that are surreptitiously funded by a major
But they paid for the band to go down to London and Patty asked me to go with him
To document the trip
Later on, Sydney took us all out for drinks at this club in SoHo
And a few girls appeared, Sydney's sister and her friend Jemima
And a few hangers on and Sydney suggested we all go back to his flat
Which was in a block on the southside of the Thames
His flat was a state, there was still the remains of the morning's breakfast on the table
And then he passed around some joints and
Nobody offered me one, by that point I think they'd actually forgotten I was even there
You know, insignificant me
So I looked out at the river and I could see some poles
And the post office town in the distance
And all the while, Patty had been sitting silently on the couch
Wearing his shades and his battered top hat
And he came over to the window and asked me to stop taking pictures
I'm not, I'm not taking pictures for you, I'm taking pictures for myself
Still, he said, "It's making me uncomfortable, I should have never asked you to come"
So I, I gave him my camera, I don't know why
Sunglasses have a power after dark is all I can say
But yeah, then things started getting really crazy
And a friend turned up in a taxi with a block of opium
I just, I just found a quiet room in the dark and fell asleep
