Guest Informant

<br>Baghdad/Space Cog/Analyst *<br>You`ll never guess who called<br>It was Craig Steele.<br>It`s stool pigeons, da da da da<br>Guest informant, guest informant<br>Guest informant, guest informant<br>I called the colonel to the cheap hotel,<br>I attacked the bed<br>I wired the phones as well,<br>Colonel Boggs McRoley [waltzes Michelle.]<br>And I count it all, I have not counted on<br>Guest Informant, guest informant<br>I`ve been split on, I`ve been tattled on,<br>I had not counted on Guest Informant<br>And the morning Scotch, of another Sunday over<br>A miserable Scottish hotel,<br>Resembled a Genesis or Marillion, 1973 LP cover<br>All the hotel staff had been dismissed,<br>It was me, the Hoover,<br>And the O. A. P. asked Could he turn killer<br>Caught, could I kill him?<br>Bonded?<br>Or is he itinerant?<br>But I guess he`s just a pug analyst<br>Guest informant, guest informant<br>Baghdad/Space Cog/Analyst.<br>I could not comprehend, I could not understand<br>Who had not counted on, I had not counted all<br>Guest informant, guest informant<br>I`ve been split by a first-rate moron<br>And I have been counted on, I`m not counted on<br>Guest informant, guest informant<br>Guest informant, guest informant<br>I`ve been let down, by a first-rate moron<br>And I could not comprehend who I`d counted on<br>Guest informant, guest informant<br>[ This line, a topic of much contention, is as according to Sean<br>Russell, who wrote on 14 Feb., 1996: "I wrote to Cog Sinister with a<br>pile of<br>questions, one of them being what the hell Brix was saying [in "Guest<br>Informant"]. Lucy [Rimmer] wrote back and said she asked Brix, who said<br>the phrase was "Baghdad/Space Cog/Analyst".