On - Burning Down The Oasis

Easy to assume

Easy to dismiss

Looking for - The Oasis

Searching for - The Oasis

All you can do with insanity

Is infect the rest of humanity

What do you want? 

What do you need?

Thumbing a ride back to reality.

Easy to assume

Easy to dismiss

Show me the way - to The Oasis

Take me down - to The Oasis

All you can do with insanity

Is infect the rest of humanity

Based my whole personality

On a t-shirt I saw in captivity

Easy to assume

Easy to dismiss

Waiting in line - at The Oasis

Fitting in down - at The Oasis

All you can do with insanity

Is infect the rest of humanity

Bones of words learned from kids toys

Janet and John, and a popular song

Easy to assume

Easy to dismiss

Talk to the walls - at The Oasis

Shouted down - at The Oasis

All you can do with insanity

Is infect the rest of humanity

Crowd-fund appeal for a remedy

Gaffer tape, cable ties

Recycled self-help books from the seventies

Easy to assume

Easy to dismiss

Setting fire - to The Oasis

Burning down - The Oasis

All you can do with insanity

Is infect the rest of humanity

Wrestling smoke and shadows

Lipstick, masks and eyeliner

Easy to assume

Easy to dismiss

Toeing the line - at The Oasis

Keeping the peace

Sneaking around

Spiking them up

Strapping 'em down

Freaking out

Climbing the walls

Breaking down - at The Oasis

There's a lock-in - at The Oasis

Sink or swim - at The Oasis

Easy to assume

Easy to dismiss

Setting fire - to The Oasis

Burning down - The Oasis

Setting fire - to The Oasis

Burning down - The Oasis

All you can from the other side of sanity

Is infect the rest of humanity

All that you consume

All that you resist

All aboard - another crisis

All aboard - another crisis

Breaking down - at The Oasis

    *Ad hoc repeat*

Hear the track here -> Burning Down The Oasis by The Vulture Is A Patient Bird

Words by Los Dave; Music and samples by Rusty Sheriff and Matt Chuter
Published by Press Without A Press October 2017

Your well-being is a vanity.

Recovery is the responsibility of the sick.

Mental health is subordinate to dental health. 

This is fearasentertainment. Performed live at Southsea Castle as part of Portsmyth Darkfest in October 2017

Suffocating and culturally undermined by its fear of the consequences of failure,

for decades, our health services have subsisted on a thin gruel of funding, anaemic and starving in a culture of political intransigence and neurosis.