Depressed Beyond Tablets

I walk caverns and abysmals that I hope you never dream of
I search around for exits but I'm doubting if there ever was an entrance
In the first place
It's a bleak as the boondock
Where stern faced Neubauten rehearse

Depressed beyond tablets and gone beyond pills
Depressed beyond tablets and gone beyond pills
Depressed beyond tablets and gone beyond pills
Depressed beyond tablets and gone beyond pills

The sunshine and Jennifer seem such a distance
The universe is ruled by chance and indifference
And I'm shrouded
By inexorable darkness
And I tell you this for nowt
La Belle Epoque sang Black is Black
Yeah well I sing
Black is black is black is black

Depressed beyond tablets and gone beyond pills
Depressed beyond tablets and gone beyond pills
Depressed beyond tablets and gone beyond pills
Depressed beyond tablets and gone beyond pills
The cloud base is low on the Clwydian Hills

While she's squealing with pleasure in the arms of her lover
To infernal regions I've been sent to gut humming birds according
To my sentence
Your optimism strikes me like junk mail addressed to the dead

Depressed beyond tablets and gone beyond pills
Depressed beyond tablets and gone beyond pills
Depressed beyond tablets and gone beyond pills
Depressed beyond tablets and gone beyond pills

Oh the results of my lifetime
On a string of nil-nils
Hey Blakey does your bus go by the dark satanic mills
If I was in CSNY I'd be Stephen Stills
And maybe four more without the numerous pills


Notes taken from www.hmhb.co.uk

The title appeared in Chris Morris' "Brasseye" episode on Crime; a Ted Maul interview with the Huffords begins, "Dad unemployed; Mum depressed beyond tablets. You want to help these people, but the truth is, they're got to help themselves..."
Boondock rough, isolated area.
Stern-Faced Neubauten reference to Einsturzende Neubauten, German industrial godfathers.
Belle Epoque cite "Black Is Black"... Belle Epoque were a French 70's female disco group, Black Is Black was their major hit, #2 in 1977. The song itself was a cover of the 1966 #2 for the Spanish quintet Los Bravos.
Clwydian Hills A 20-mile range of undulating hill and moorland; not mountainous, but the views aren't bad. Separating the luscious Vale of Clwyd from the Dee Estuary, this open, expansive ridge is often called the north-eastern rampart of Wales.
dark satanic mills from Blake's Jerusalem.
CSNY (David) Crosby, (Stephen) Stills, (Graham) Nash and (Neil) Young, formed in 1968 from the embers of The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and The Hollies.
Stephen Stills guitarist and vocalist for CSN(Y)