We`re All As We Lie

<br>August saw a contest fit for Kings<br>from far and wide they came to trade their swings<br>Little grubs with stone-age clubs and tanners` sons<br>with foxes` gloves<br>they came face to face the stiffest coarse since Tring<br>Harold took an eight-iron at the first<br>hopped the hedge while Tostig chipped and cursed<br>Sliced into a sticky patch and, playing out, he`d met his match<br>when lettuce leaves had made the crowd disperse<br>So, we`re all as we lie<br>We`re all as we`re lying<br>No, don`t tell me it`s time,<br>It`s all in the timing.<br>Getting wiser, so much wiser, introspected ostraciser,<br>drinking up with no holes barred to play..<br>Daphne lay beside the Silent Pool,<br>when suddenly the air began to cool<br>Otto heard it, running back, and tried to stop the thudding crack<br>as Luther strode up, crying "Winter Rules".<br>"Holy Mackerel", cried the Papal Prince,<br>"you`re out of bounds I`m really quite convinced".<br>Luther drew his driver but the Pope pulled out a fiver<br>and they halved the hole on points of sacraments<br>So, we`re all as we lie<br>We`re all as we`re lying<br>No, don`t tell me it`s time,<br>It`s all in the timing.<br>Getting wiser, so much wiser, Seven Sister sympathiser<br>drinking up with no holes left to play.<br>The hour of confrontation now was nigh<br>as Plato and Justinian were tied,<br>Locked in mortal combat firing vulture after wombat<br>their supremacy now could not be denied.<br>The Seventeenth lay waiting for the pair<br>as both advanced with silent, ashen stares<br>But there they stood, incredulous, the distance<br>reading "Nebulous"<br>And "Best of luck, Buzz Aldrin beat you there".<br>So, we`re all as we lie<br>We`re all as we`re lying<br>No, don`t tell me it`s time,<br>It`s all in the timing.<br>So, we`re all as we lie<br>We`re all as we`re lying<br>No, don`t tell me it`s time,<br>or else I`ll be crying.