Tell us all the origin
    how you live 
on the edge of town
    how you manage 
to miss the village maypole
    the fireworks over our grey river
how your wife's friends 
    are not your friends
how your hidden ways
    make sense among us.
Tell us again
tell us whenever
    we grow curious
tell us
    who really need to know.
Faraway and wild places draw you
    away from your bread and butter.
Will you not understand us at all-
    mountains and streams call to all of us.
As well as great culture we revere popular culture
    we see you show no interest and that we see as a threat.
Your presence in unexpected places 
    we feel as a threat.
A well-ordered heart should only hold treasures...
    how do you speak to the unheeding meadows
        while our loyal recorders are slighted by your silence.
Your disorderly conduct threatens orderly society.
Young girls in the woods 
    you threaten with your odour.
Tell us again
tell us now
    we have grown curious.
A sheep will shiver at an intense stare
a pregnant cow could miscarry
    under an uncanny gaze.
Tell us, who really need to know