Dom and I found a new place to live just in time. It was a bungalow on about two acres, way out in the middle of nowhere. It was about thirty years old and had never had as much as a daffodil planted in the "garden". There were no trees. Just a big concrete slab with a big bungalow plonked on top of it. The two-acre plot was bounded by an unrendered concrete block wall. The fact that this plot was surrounded by some of the most picturesque Galway dry stone walls, as far as the eye could see, lent a surreal quality to the place and I think it was Dom who began to call it the space station. Three days after we moved in I went to Africa and was really quite surprised to return two months later and find Dominic still living there.
The Martian in the third verse was in fact a political canvasser who called while I was out and had quite a long conversation with Dom who couldn't remember any of the details. Dom smoked quite a lot of funny stuff.

Unidentifiable Residential Object

Half asleep this morning I lift the toilet seat
It does it's tennis bat thing and I get wet feet
That's the second time this week, this place is hexed
There's no knowin' round here what's goin' down next
If you lived here too you'd understand this text
This URO's really getting' me vexed

Go to turn on the faucet, forget it's the one that don't work
The other one you've got to turn it off with a jerk
So next I run a bath to get myself awake
And before very long I see I've made a big mistake
'cause the water spurts out from where the shower was before
and soon I've got a swimming pool there on the bathroom floor

so I jump in for a swim, ain't got no fear
'cause at least we ain't got no sharks around here

Livin' livin' livin' in a UR Livin' livin' livin' in a UR
Livin' livin' livin' in a UR Livin' livin' livin' in a UR
Livin' in a UR livin' in a URO

The ad it said spacious, spacious ain't the word
The amount of space we got round here is totally absurd
If you shout from one end of the room you can barely be heard
By people at the other I give you my word
And without a stick of furniture cluttering up the space
You could have a roller skating race all around the place
And it's so far from anywhere you won't be disgraced
By neighbours phonin' up the cops in the middle of the race

This ain't a fuckin' house man it's away of life
I once had all mod cons living with my wife
A fancy house a motor too and she had hers
Occasional dinner parties complete with hor -deouvres
But I didn't play much music there and nothing's worse
With so many songs goin' round my head I couldn't find the words
So after many happy years it went all wrong
Bringing me eventually to the location of this song
This unidentifiable residential object, space within a space
totally surreal man but I kinda like the place and

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Well a Martian landed outback just the other day
I made a cup of tea invited him to stay
He drank his tea, had a smoke, busy taking notes
He wanted an assurance of my Inter-galactic vote
I said I've no time for voting, local or inter-planetary
And saw him to his space ship and told him not to worry
That I'd not vote against him, I wished him no harm
Before he climbed the ladder he gently took my arm
And asked if this was a typical Earth dwelling if it was the norm
I asked him what was normal, he departed in a storm
Of clouds of space dust and oily diesel smoke
I swear that it's the truth man I swear that it's no joke

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Livin' in a UR livin' in a URO

Well the glass in the windows is getting kinda thin
There's a whole in one where the rain gets in
It's not an easy place to heat so I wear a lot of clothes
But the rents quite cheap and that's the way it goes
And maybe I'll move when the winter comes along
Nashville's not so far the sun shines all day long
But if I win the lottery or get a hit song
Maybe I'll buy the place preserve it with a trust
And come and go just when I please and when I feel I've just
Run out of inspiration out of words so sweet
I'll visit the space station and piss upon my feet

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Livin' in a UR livin' in a URO

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Livin' man livin' in a UR Livin' livin' liivin' in a UR
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