- 1
Fish - Cliché
- 2
Fish - Credo
- 3
Fish - Fugazi
- 4
Fish - State Of Mind
- 5
Fish - Vigil
- 6
Fish - Jigsaw
- 7
Fish - Just Good Friends
- 8
Fish - Plague of Ghosts
- 9
Fish - Rites of Passage
- 10
Fish - The Company
- 11
Fish - Tilted Cross
- 12
Fish - What Colour Is God
- 13
Fish - 13a Star
- 14
Fish - 13th Star
- 15
Fish - A Gentleman's Excuse Me
- 16
Fish - A Soldiers Story (Pilgrim's Address)
- 17
Fish - Angel Face
- 18
Fish - Another Murder Of A Day
- 19
Fish - Apeman
- 20
Fish - Arc Of The Curve
- 21
Fish - Assassing
- 22
Fish - Bandwagon
- 23
Fish - Beaujolais Day
- 24
Fish - Big Wedge
- 25
Fish - Bitter Suite
- 26
Fish - Black Canal
- 27
Fish - Blind Curve
- 28
Fish - Boston Tea Party
- 29
Fish - Bouncing Around The Room
- 30
Fish - Brother 52
- 31
Fish - Change of Heart
- 32
Fish - Charting The Single
- 33
Fish - Chasing Miss Pretty
- 34
Fish - Chelsea Monday
- 35
Fish - Childhood's End?
- 36
Fish - Cinderella Search
- 37
Fish - Circle Line
- 38
Fish - Dancing In Fog
- 39
Fish - Dark Star
- 40
Fish - Dear Friend
- 41
Fish - Do Not Walk Outside This Area
- 42
Fish - Emerald Lies
- 43
Fish - Emperor's Song
- 44
Fish - Exile On Princess Street
- 45
Fish - Faith Healer
- 46
Fish - Family Business
- 47
Fish - Favourite Stranger
- 48
Fish - Fearless
- 49
Fish - Fish - Sunset Hill
- 50
Fish - Fish - View From the Hill
- 51
Fish - Five Years
- 52
Fish - Flower Of Scotland
- 53
Fish - Forgotten Sons
- 54
Fish - Fortunes of War
- 55
Fish - Freaks
- 56
Fish - Garden Party
- 57
Fish - Going Under
- 58
Fish - Goldfish & Clowns
- 59
Fish - Goldfish and Clowns
- 60
Fish - Grendel
- 61
Fish - He Knows You Know
- 62
Fish - Heart Of Lothian
- 63
Fish - Hold your Head up
- 64
Fish - Hotel Hobbies
- 65
Fish - I Know What I Like (in your wardrobe)
- 66
Fish - Incommunicado
- 67
Fish - Incomplete
- 68
Fish - Incubus
- 69
Fish - Institution Waltz
- 70
Fish - Internal Exile
- 71
Fish - Jack And Jill
- 72
Fish - Jeepster
- 73
Fish - Jumpsuit City
- 74
Fish - Jungle Ride
- 75
Fish - Just For The Record
- 76
Fish - Kayleigh
- 77
Fish - Lady Let It Lie
- 78
Fish - Lady Nina
- 79
Fish - Lavender
- 80
Fish - Lords Of The Backstage
- 81
Fish - Lucky
- 82
Fish - Manchmal
- 83
Fish - Market Square Heroes
- 84
Fish - Miles Of Besos
- 85
Fish - Mission Statement
- 86
Fish - Mr 1470
- 87
Fish - Mr. Buttons
- 88
Fish - No Dummy
- 89
Fish - Openwater
- 90
Fish - Out Of My Mind
- 91
Fish - Parting Of The Ways
- 92
Fish - Pipeline
- 93
Fish - Poet's Moon
- 94
Fish - Pseudo Silk Kimono
- 95
Fish - Punch And Judy
- 96
Fish - Question
- 97
Fish - Raingods Dancing
- 98
Fish - Raw Meat
- 99
Fish - Roadhouse Blues
- 100
Fish - Say it with Flowers
- 101
Fish - Say It With Pride
- 102
Fish - Scotland By our side
- 103
Fish - Script For A Jesters Tear
- 104
Fish - Shadowplay
- 105
Fish - Shadows on the Barley
- 106
Fish - She Chameleon
- 107
Fish - Slainte Mhath
- 108
Fish - Solo
- 109
Fish - Somebody Special
- 110
Fish - Something in the Air
- 111
Fish - Square Go
- 112
Fish - Story from a Thin Wall
- 113
Fish - Sugar Mice
- 114
Fish - Sunset Hill
- 115
Fish - Sunsets on Empire
- 116
Fish - Tara
- 117
Fish - That Time Of The Night
- 118
Fish - The Last Straw
- 119
Fish - The Perception of Johnny Punter
- 120
Fish - The Voyeur (I Like To Watch)
- 121
Fish - The Web
- 122
Fish - Three Boats Down From the candy
- 123
Fish - Tic-tac-toe
- 124
Fish - Tiki 4
- 125
Fish - Tongues
- 126
Fish - Torch Song
- 127
Fish - Tumbledown
- 128
Fish - Tux On
- 129
Fish - View From A Hill
- 130
Fish - View From the Hill
- 131
Fish - Vigil In a Wilderness Of Mirrors
- 132
Fish - Voice in the Crowd
- 133
Fish - Warm Wet Circles
- 134
Fish - Waterhole (Expresso Bongo)
- 135
Fish - Where In The World
- 136
Fish - Whiplash
- 137
Fish - White Feather
- 138
Fish - White Russian
- 139
Fish - Worm in a Bottle
- 140
Fish - Zoe 25
Black Canal
Fish
No one ventures into the streets these days
except strangers and those like me, looking for work
I noticed the smell when I got off the bus
and traced it down to a canal that ran
right through the heart of the city
like an open vein full of black rotten blood
A mirror surface broken only by the bubbles of gas
escaping from the stagnating mess that lay on the bottom
fuelled by the chemicals and effluent of the city
which was fed, in turn, by the barges and the ships
that followed that line and created the waves across that
surface to the dockside where they unloaded their holds,
the swarms of people clambering over them
I sat down in a cafe and I was holding my own
and minding my own business
and a voice spoke in my ears as if it recognized
that I was questioning the source of the smell
Have another beer boy, take it with a pinch of snuff
And my eyes were bedazzled, by the jewels in his silken cuff
and a voice rolled out from an ashen cloud from behind a long
cigar
Son, you'll never need to smell the black canal
It was as if he'd read my mind, as if he expected it
and, as the afternoon was wasted, I became aware
I was becoming wrapped up in his world
I became aware of the smell from the bouquet in his buttonhole
It was taking me away from the canal
and away from my questions
I was aware that the perfumes were all around us
And he sold me the city, well at least he tried to with all his
stories
All the silks out of China
And all the satins out of Spain
All the powders for your noses
will keep the stench at bay
Have another beer boy, take it with a pinch of snuff
Your eyes will be bedazzled, by the jewels in my scented cuff
And a voice rolled out from an ashen cloud from behind a long
cigar
Son, you'll never need to smell this black canal
And my world was spinnin', my head was awash
with this promises and his beer
And I looked up as he reached down
and snorted the flower in his buttonhole
He smiled and his eyes lied
I was staring at a suit with no soul
No matter how you wash them
How you scrub and bleach and boil
You'll never get rid of the smell of the black canal
Of the black canal
Black canal
The black canal
The black canal
The black canal