Intake Manor Park The Wicker Norton Freshville Hackenthorpe Shalesmoor Wombwell Catcliffe

Brincliffe Attercliffe Ecclesall Woodhouse Wybourn

[At this point, Candida starts talking...]

Pitsmoor Badger Wincobank Crookes Walkley Broomhill Oh!

[Candida, quoting from some book]

'I was only about eleven when this happened. We were living in a big block of flats

with a central courtyard. All the bedroom windows opened onto this court, and sometimes in

the middle of the night, in that building it sounded like a mass orgy. I may have only

been eleven, but no-one had to tell me what all that moaning and yelling was about. I'd

lie there mesmerised, listening to the first couple. Invariably, they'd wake up other

couples, and like some kind of chain reaction, within minutes the whole building was

fucking. I mean, have you ever heard other people fucking, and really enjoying it? It's a

marvellous sound. Not like in the movies, but when it's real. It's such a happy, exciting

sound.'



The city is a woman

Bigger than any other

Oh, sophisticated lady

Yeah, I wanna be your lover (not your brother, not your mother, yeah)

The sun rose from behind the gasometers at six-thirty a.m.

Crept through the gap in your curtains

And caressed your bare feet poking from beneath the floral sheets.

I watched it flaking bits of varnish from your nails

Trying to work it's way up under the sheets.

Jesus! Even the sun's on heat today; the whole city getting stiff in the building heat.

I just want to make contact with you

Oh that's all I wanna do

I just want to make contact with you

Oh that's all I wanna do Ow

Now I'm trying hard to meet her but the fares went up at seven

She is somewhere in the city somewhere watching television-acap