EEN - Undervalued & Oversold

KO: GARY GILMORE'S EYES!

I'm lying in a hospital
I'm pinned against the bed
A stethoscope upon my heart
A hand against my head
They're peeling off the bandages
I'm wincing in the light
The nurse is looking anxious
And she's quivering with fright

I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes (4x)

The doctors are avoiding me
My vision is confused
I listen to my earphones
And I catch the evening news
A murderer's been killed and he
Donates his sight to science
I'm looking into a private ward
I realise that I must be

Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

I smash the light in anger
Push my bed against the door
I close my lids across the eyes
And I wish to see no more
The eye receives the messages
And sends them to the brain
No guarantee the stimuli
Must be perceived the same

When looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

Gary don't need his eyes to see
Gary and his eyes have parted company!

(written by the brilliant songwriter T.V. Smith and performed by his soper punk rock band The Adverts, featuring the very lovely Gaye Advert on bass guitar. Gary Gilmore was a real person, excecuted in the US, who donated his eyes to medical science) bob