The Answer phone Message
I’m sorry to have to say
Barmaid's partner was in today
Please leave your message after the tone
And as soon as possible
Barmaid, she’ll get right back to you
If she can be bothered to pick up the phone
It said just calling for her to explain
The organisation she used wanted to answer her complaint
Don’t know if Barmaid will sort it out her end or if she'll come home
She just wishes that he was there to listen and pick up the phone
When she got home that day
Barmaid didn’t know what to say
When she checked the message on the answer phone
It lay silent where it used to lay
Barmaid just wondering why she went out that day
And why she wasn’t there to pick up the phone
The message just plays over in her head
She still can’t believe that her partner is almost so brain-dead
Not notes, not even a number, even from the sofa where he lay
And that’s the price that he's now had to pay
He's been beaten up black and blue, now stupid
All he wanted to do is bet a couple more quid
Betting to the Betfred on her High Street
At least he'd still be all together
From now until forever
And not now in ashes in the garden under Barmaid's feet.