DESCRIPTION:
Fan video for the Belle and Sebastian song The Boy With The Arab Strap from their 1998 album of the same name. Image montage from Kenneth Anger films. Lyrics:

A mile and a half on a bus takes a long time
The odour of old prison food takes a long time to pass you by
Day upon day of this wandering gets you down
Nobody gives you a chance or a dollar in this old town

Hovering silence from you is a giveaway
Squalor and smoke's not your style
"I don't like this place, we better go"
Then I compare notes with your older sister
I am a lazy gett, she is as pure as the cold driven snow

What did you learn from your time
In the solitary cell of your mind?
There was noise to distract you from anything good
And the old prison food
Colour my life with the chaos of trouble
'Cause anything's better than posh isolation
I missed the bus
You were laid on your back
With the boy with the Arab strap
With the boy from the Arab Strap

It's something to speak of the way you are feeling
To crowds there assembled
Do you ever feel you've just gone too far?
Everyone suffers in silence, a burden
The man who drives minicabs down in Old Compton
The Asian man
With his love/hate affair
With his racist clientele

A central location for you is a must as you stagger about
Making free with your lewd and lascivious boasts
We all know you're soft 'cause we've all seen you dancing
We all know you're hard 'cause we've all saw you drinking
From noon until noon again
You're the boy with the filthy laugh
You're the boy with the Arab strap

Strapped to the table with suits from the shelter shop
Comic celebrity takes a back seat as the cigarette catches
And sets off the smoke alarm
What do you make of the cool set in London?
You're constantly updating your hit parade
Of your ten biggest wanks
She's a waitress and she's got style
(Sunday bath time could take a while)