1. |
Fun's all over
03:17
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FUN’S ALL OVER
women are dancing with lice in their hair
smoking marywanna and feeling despair
early in the morning, police coming round
telling flower children to get on the ground
up jump trouble up jump trouble fun’s all over now
up jump trouble up jump trouble fun’s all over now
in andoria in andoria they are running in ground
in andoria in andoria fun’s all over now
the shower is yellow, the bed full of sand
the neighbor is telling you to move the van
the children are swaying and chanting a psalm
one man is crying, with a vial in his palm
if I would have listened to what my mother said
i’d be at home laying in a sleep train bed
if I had two chances I’d do everything right
I’d button my shirt up and lace my shoes tight
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2. |
Sharp Axe
03:10
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SHARP AXE
how the fuck did I get so young?
seems like the only thing I remember is the past
back in those days men would punch each other in the nose
but you won’t read that in any history book
some women are good some women are bad
margaret thatcher for example
some women even smoke cigarettes
you won’t feel it’s a work of fiction
it’s all part of the process
for which you’ve got no defense
not a new way of thinking
it’s just admission of ignorance
I’m no thunderer Icarus debris polluter
no fire bringer, baby stealer or wagon wheeler
sharp axe broken handle
sharp axe broken handle
some people think that jesus invented forgiveness
some day you might need to give this
and when that moment does comes then please recall these warning chimes
the jury goes uncounted
some people people are good and some people are bad
some people are good at fighting
it’s not the best thing for you
but it’s called called due diligence
just a couple of bad dreams of which I’ve got total innocence
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3. |
Before Swine
01:47
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BEFORE SWINE
who are these strangers
dragging us towards a new doom now
and making us a world tomb
nobody knows
before swine
until the generation comes
take care of your own house
or don't build anything at all
cursing and smoking
banging nails through a club
angry people
buckets of blood
they’re all so scared
they’re safe as houses anyways
rattling sabres
and biting fingernails away
hot water
on an underwater road
halfway around the world
some people you don’t know
animal heatwave, and the icarus debris
the sun’s not any closer
thats just how it feels
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4. |
Hot Southern
03:04
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5. |
The World
04:10
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THE WORLD
I’m not a member of the world
I am a member of the rising sun
until the world is overcome
i’m not a member of the world
I’m not ready to live
by the notions of a passing phase
something erased by simple days
and simpler views
I’m not a member of the crowd
whose sudden anger is unearthly loud
and yet it goes like a winded cloud
to what’s on the news
companion
send me a paris drum
send me a paris drum
we’ll go away singing and drumming
now
covered with a wanted gold
throw away the heavy load
and be new
over the waves
the sun is setting on the minarets
a little boy is selling cigarettes
to a guided tour
of a lonely tomb
misremembered and deeply dark
though still with wonder at nature’s part
in a place of doom
and now lost
in a cavern of unholy forms
half a hundred in uniforms
and crying please
they’re counting heads
but the census can leave me out
this island is the rock of doubt
i’d rather be
not a member of the world
but a member of the rising sun
until the world is overcome
i’m not a member of the world
i’m not a member of the scene
i am a member of the gasoline
give my middle finger to the queen
and my eyes to a crow
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6. |
Jack Diamonds
02:32
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JACK DIAMONDS
police officer how can it be you arrest everybody but you never rest me
two police officers lying in a can, each one of them wishing that the other was a ham
I rosin my fiddle and string up my bow but I still don’t get welcome wherever I go
If the ocean was liquor and i was a duck, i’d go to the bottom and then I’d come up
walking down fourth street and turning on beale
looking for the old man that they’re calling lucille
we’re going to to put him in the old folks home
take all his money and if he won’t give us some
in the middle of the ocean there grows a green tree and never will the old man give my money all to me
I’ve played cards in england I’ve played em in spain, I’ll bet you twenty dollars that I’ll play cards again
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7. |
Facetious Urine Broker
02:19
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8. |
Whitelouse
03:19
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WHITELOUSE
they’re putting you to sleep, like a scary old bird
like the family dog, they cant afford you anymore
you’re hard to keep, so you go to sleep
without a bed
and then, you’ll go up in smoke
and go over
like a lead balloon, like a dirty joke we used to tell
about a southern belle, and a funny smell, of cigarette smoke
we can burn that bridge when it’s come upon
and water is growing old
wet rain wet rain wet rain
I crawled out of the earth, crawled out of my shirt
or havent you heard
that I’m large, but not in charge
when youre full of muscles
and you are big
then you go to work
at the glue factory, is the place to be
with golden pearls, and singing girls
and golden pearls
you wont feel blue, when you are glue i’ll stick up for you
we can burn that bridge when it’s come upon
and water is growing old
wet rain wet rain wet rain
I won’t watch tv, till everyone’s free
then i’ll watch tv
i’ll take my rest when everything is done
it’ll be no fun, it’ll be no fun
when you are dead
the lice in jesus' beard
are white, as white as blood
as white as blood is supposed to be
your missing parts
your after darks, don’t bother me.
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9. |
Clinical Trials
02:24
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CLINICAL TRIALS
she said three words and quaffed a potion
threw the bottle into the ocean
got her charms from a drugstore lotion
from the chemical baths and the clinical trials
her painted up cheeks looked like a painting
and ruby red lips like a dollhouse ceiling
and all of that just to get a feeling
from the chemical baths and the clinical trials
he sells them oils to match the fashion
so they’ll feel ugly without a mask on
and make good money selling all the potions
from the chemical baths
bad people live while good ones die
sticking drugged up needles in a rabbit’s eye
from the chemical baths and the clinical trials
from the chemical baths and the clinical trials
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10. |
The Surf
03:24
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OUT IN THE SURF
out in the surf
out in the surf they have no money their course is confused compelled to obey by pain compliance, out in the surf
sharpened at the end by the roughest of sea tides the foremast broke off the men were ashamed the dreadnought did atrophy press ganged again
we are flightless birds the great auk the dodo, clubbed with a broken bar
extinct and banished
out in the surf
our loincloths ripped open
the old sunburnt animal
picking the shore
siphoning and spouting up-G chord
scabrously sporting scars
many eyed and hungering picked at by seagulls
restlessly eating
out in the surf the old men are surfing
the sun cooks them up
like chemotherapeutic atrocity TV
out in the surf
the legs of the ocean the wild legs of the forties
breaks down the hull
the ice cuts it open heaviest storm
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11. |
Age
03:23
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AGE
in the age and generation
eyes adjust to total darkness
and the operator said that it’s time that things went red
with the hammer and the tongs
in the age and generation
in the hour of the nation
the remote will change the station
and the minute may draw near
when the drudge removes his gear
and begins to squeeze a tear
from his unfamiliar faces
in a tower at the capital
there’s a meeting of the powerful
on the very highest floor
just behind a silver door
the room is filling up with gore
in the tower at the capital
in a bloody revelation
TV people don’t understand it
with the crashing of a gate
all the people fill with rage
and hot smoke comes out their eyes
in a bloody revelation
now they’re meeting at the station
biting glass in a whipped up frenzy
they’re grinding down their teeth
and ringing like cracked bells
with hands balled into fists
in the street before the station
in a mess of crowded feeling
alarms emits a piercing signal
like the shouting of a dove
in an automatic cage
so it cannot be ignored
in the age and generation
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12. |
Pomeranian Knights
02:48
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