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Getting Freaky in the Shrubs

from The Flight Demonstrations by Joshua Ward

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lyrics

1,2,3...

So now the days are getting dirty
with early nights and all the rain...
You hide your flirt up in your jersey.
You wonder if you’ll flirt again...
But as you gaze into the garden
you catch a look at all the slugs...
A thought it hits you of a sudden
That you’re surrounded by the love,
rummage in the mud,
check on all the cuddles in the rubble 'cos
The bugs are getting freaky in the shrubs.

All in a slither are the wormies
up for a snuggle and rub.
A daddy-long-legs got up early
to find himself a ladybug.
Atop the tree there are the squirrels
and squirreled up there is a snug.
They get together for a wiggle
and never fail to check the nuts.
You can’t avoid the smut -
there’s consummated marriages in cabbages.
The bugs are getting freaky in the shrubs!

The horny fishes of the ocean,
a fox’s yowl is never done,
the pigeon’s fluttering commotion,
your cat is off to meet a Tom,
a little Labrador is dreaming
of getting out to sniff a bum,
I heard that humans are misleading
but speaking only there for some.
Not all of are dumb.
The Disneyland of marriage is a sabotage.
We ought to just get freaky in the shrubs.

There they sit on their bums all day:
Tiktok-swiping their life away.
Not one kiss on their lips as they wish where
happiness is – I say
who cares the weather or the day
you just need another and your love
(you should get freaky in the shrubs).

So there’s a moral to the story
that this old life is for the loved.
I will not wait til you implore me,
I’d rather push than be the shoved.
And so if love is for the living
I’ll live it every way I got.
I know that nettles aren’t forgiving
But nor is waiting for your lot.
This one aint for the gods
so disregard your morals in the puddles
cos we ought to just get freaky in the shrubs.

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from The Flight Demonstrations, released May 17, 2020

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Joshua Ward London, UK

Voice of Bath. Hygiene of Bristol. Josh is the songwriter, actor, teacher and poet your parents will, at least initially, approve of.

"Middle class traitor".
"Cracked genius" "Thoughtful fool."

Channelling folk, a choirboy past and his unique lyricism, Josh has finally got off his prodigious backside to, at last, conquer the world.

Songs will be sung.
Hearts will be won.
Cities will fall. ... more

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