MIDNIGHT RIDE
 

Forsooth my friends but have you seen?
Derby, the worst its ever been?
The roads are blocked, there’s no bus station and,
if left to THIS administration, no toilets too!
Locked away and out of use, much the same as our museums nearly were, (and, possibly causing a similar stir!)

There is a common thread you frown, ‘don’t repair it, knock it down!
Remove the gutters, roofs and soffits, sell it off, increase the profits.
If you still run out of cash, just put up the council tax. Once, with this, it needed skill, bending voters to your will. Nowadays of course its easy, practised right across the nation, a tacit smile, a clever nod, put it all down to inflation

Have you heard the latest wheeze? Don’t stick phone masts up in trees!
Put them where they’ll light the way, keep you posted, so to speak,
Turn the volume up and down, dim and dimmer, all round town, inform your neighbours up the street

Three years to come of roads dug up, A and B, ring and trunk, this jam, that jam,
round in circles, déjà vu, you’ll think yer drunk. Then I’ll catch the bus you say, public transport can take the strain – but Derwent Street can be quite bleak as your umbrella foils the rain. If you can stand the fumes and weather, from your view of the metropolis, you’ll no doubt quickly get to thinking, ‘How can I get out-of-this?’ a women might think, some rich fellah, a fellah might think, some young miss, unless, of course, you’re that, or this!

We’ll soon have Quad, that will be nice but, either with or without money, we’re not so sure of Riverlights. We’ve got lasers in the Market square however, a black hole (Duckworth Square) as well, board it up then knock it over, lock it up and block it off, build more flats, Dingly Dell

One more thing to jump for joy to, pogo if you like to bounce, Derby’s got a brand new logo (cost? 35,000 smacking pounds), ‘Derby Does It’ so the saying goes, that’s true, screws up an entire City, closes shops, blocks the roads, ruins listed tourist trophies, creates a nightmare, once called HOME!