hiding out in dungeness

have you ever heard the story...?

probably not as I just made it up

I'll ask again, have you ever heard the story?

well let me tell it to you in a version uncut-

it's the story of an ex-con named steely martin

not many were smarter than him

for this guy, he escaped from prison

and not just any prison, but wandsworth prison
listen mate, wandsworth prison
 it's worse than belmarsh,
they treat 'em real harsh

in there...so I hear...

anyway so steely somehow escaped from jail

and hailed down a van 

it was part of his plan, he had a plan 

he would start a brand

new life in dungeness

that's right,

he escaped to dungeness

england's very own 

'wild wild west'

and there
steely spent his days

in an assortment of ways 

wishing and forgetting,

fishing and sketching 

wretched pictures- it figures 

he spent his nights 

in the drafty lighthouse

the sound of the waves did arouse 

him from his sleep, he would keep 

awake and listen to the raging winds
seldom did natures noise bring

him any peace, but at least

 he was no longer in jail

for the coast was far more pretty

than the brick and mortar city

that homes convicts- far better to up sticks 

and move to a place like dungeness

a place of noisy rest- 

a place far more vast, far more homely

far less lonely than empty cell, 

in Wandsworth prison.