The Olde HeadBoard
I don't know about a year ago or so
Yo no comprendo, mi amour.
Where'd you get the dumb idea
Yo no comprendo, mi amour.
What becomes a legend most?
The love and the lives of Man and Machine.
What becomes a legend most?
I'll let you think about it,
Space Ghost coast-to-coast
While I give thanks today
For all the things I stole
And all the things I gave away.
You make experiment, you try to
Teach a lesson and then take a stand.
A fake handshake don't make no man.
I must have made you up in my head.
What did I base you on?
Was it a Broadway show I saw?
A hot new book I read?
Half-baked you come at me
You know I told you not to call here no more.
The New Best Friend, The Olde Headboard.
Oh no, yo no comprendo.
The New Best Friend, The Olde Headboard.
For all the secretive platonic dating?
I have experience
In the love and the lives
Of Man and Machine.
Oh no, yo no comprendo.
The New Best Friend, The Olde Headboard.
The love and the lives of Man and Machine.
Olde Headboard.
Olde Headboard.
LeechWife
You get the suckers to suck
You don't need no Nu-Age crap.
All healed and none killed.
You study hard and go west
You'll go far, little girl.
Now try hard and be the best
The best in all the world.
You can create a demand
For this your special skill.
You will be healing the ill.
It's surgery, but with no knife.
She'll make a great LeechWife.
To suck out what is bad.
'Cause this is science not luck.
Luck is not what you've had.
But now you've brought yourself up.
Surprise your Mom and Dad
With this, your special skill.
You will be improving your life.
She'll make a great LeechWife
Good sense is what it makes.
You'll learn it in no time flat.
One leech is all it takes.
It sucks the blood till it's fat.
It's found in ponds and lakes.
The dried up skin then turns black.
You can can be one of the fakes
The quacks and the riff-raff.
She's honing her LeechCraft.
Leech empty, leech filled.
She's honing her LeechCraft skills.
Just think of the folks that she will heal.
She'll make a great LeechWife.
You Don't Own Me
Don't tell me what to do and
You don't own me, no.
I don't tell you what to say.
You don't own me, no.
Don't tell me what to do and
I don't tell you what to say.
I'm wrong.
I'm wrong. Yeah, I love to be wrong.
You don't own me, no.
I'm not one of your little toys.
You don't own me, no.
You can't keep me from those other boys.
Don't tell me what to say.
When I go out with out with you
Don't put me on display.
Don't try to change me in any way.
You don't own me, no.
Don't tie me down 'cause I'd never stay.
I don't tell you what to do.
Just let me be myself.
That's all I ask of you.
I'm not one of your little toys.
You don't own me, no.
You can't keep me from those other boys.
Don't tell me what to say.
When I go out with out with you
Don't put me on display.
I don't tell you what to do.
Just let me be myself.
That's all I ask of you.
I love to be free.
I'm free. Yeah, I love to be free.
Free to do whatever I want.
To live my life the way that I please.
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Oh God no
They don't know The New Zero. |
He has agreed
To take me To the Ice Hotel. |
It's there that no one will stare
At your jaws and your long fur
The claws in your fingers.
It's in the past when the passerby laughed
At your strange way of speaking
Your batteries leaking, oh no!
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Oh God no
They don't know The New Zero. |
He has agreed
To take me To the Ice Hotel. |
Rose K.
Oh, why won't he shutup?
She knows that she forgot
Oh, I don't know why they
They say a stone is a marker
The air is like a hand
We came out to the beach to find the mind I've lost and cannot reach.
They say a rose is a flower
They say a stone is a marker
They say a rose is a flower
Oh, Rose Kennedy.
She doesn't know the man
Who tries to push her wheelchair in the sand.
She just looks out to sea.
He's talking endlessly.
I take my medicine
I crush the paper cup.
Oh, maybe he's my son
And he's coming to set me free.
That there's a story and she
Can't recall the plot.
Of course her family fought
Over the furniture.
Have taken all my favorite things away.
But one thing that's for sure
I don't know what they were.
And that it has weight.
They say it's solid
But it can deteriorate.
Reminding her of all the things she's planned.
Like air that thought is gone
Never to come again.
I used to keep it here.
It was much cleaner then.
And that it is red.
It blooms, it grows, it wilts
And then it is dead.
And that it has weight.
They say it's solid
But it can deteriorate.
And that it is red.
It blooms, it grows, it wilts
And then it is dead.
DwarfStar
I wanna tell you about my friend the DwarfStar.
I wanna tell you about my friend the DwarfStar.
The first time I met him,
He said he was a Dwarfstar because he was small
And he was famous.
I wanna tell you about my friend the DwarfStar.
The second time I met him,
He said I could never be a DwarfStar
Because I was too tall And I wasn't famous.
I wanna tell you about my friend the DwarfStar.
The thir- the second time, I mean,
When I went to see him,
He was not in a very good mood.
He said, "Stop coming around here!"
I wanna tell you about my friend the DwarfStar.
I wanna tell you about my friend the DwarfStar.
The last time that I went to see him,
He had passed away.
I wanna tell ya
I wanna tell ya
I wanna tell ya
I wanna tell ya
I wanna tell you about my friend the DwarfStar.
I wanna tell you about my friend the DwarfStar.
I wanna tell you about my friend the DwarfStar.
I wanna tell you about my friend the DwarfStar.
The end.
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Sign of the Zodiac
Can you avoid what gave Daddy his heart attack?
I know what you need.
Look all around you and notice you're not alone.
I know what you need.
Do you believe in the Signs of the Zodiac?
I know what you need.
Do you believe in the Signs of the Zodiac?
Do you beleve in the Signs of the Zodiac?
Haven't you found that the systems for
Planning always fail?
Have you tried everything, anything
All to no avail?
This will really work.
In ancient times, if you were sick
They make you bleed.
Oh, honey I know it hurts.
We want to gice you the courage to
Go a different way.
Think of the love and attention we all have shown.
What did we do when we heard, well, we
All came right away.
This will really work.
In ancient times, if you were sick
They make you bleed.
Oh, honey I know it hurts.
This will really work.
In ancient times, if you were sick
They make you bleed.
Oh, honey I know it hurts.
TrenchMouth
He was a failed cropduster.
That guy's a lousy actor.
He had a really big TrenchMouth
It's on the edge of nowhere.
He had a really big TrenchMouth
He had a really big TrenchMouth
He had a really big TrenchMouth
Yeah, he was big landowner.
He was a bad mouthbreather.
But you can see his station wagon stand alone.
Woulda, coulda, we should have known.
I am his little sister.
He was a whistleblower for the F. D. A.
Maybe was them sent him away.
He was a football player.
He didn't have a lot to say.
He was a hard-core cracker.
He wore a trenchcoat and he waved the Dixie flag.
But he's my brother, so I brag.
Don't be a dark naysayer.
So they all said he was a fag.
When we were living way down South.
He had a really big TrenchMouth.
No way for them to go there.
I know I'm not much help, but here is where I'll stay.
I'm hoping they'll find him some day.
I should put up some flyers.
Can you think of another way?
When we were living way down South.
Then he up and disappeared.
He just left his car up here.
When we were living way down South.
He had a really big TrenchMouth.
Nobody seems to know why he
Would disappear just leave me here.
On a dirty hill for all time
Me and the pinetree that I stand behind.
When we were living way down South.
He had a really big TrenchMouth.
Herb Girls of Birkenau
Swayback and Ripcord and parachute face
It's not like they mattered.
It's not fair
The Herb Girls of Birkenau walk by on a hill.
It's not fair
But what's fair?
It's not fair.
Experiment victims walk by on a hill
With berries in aprons, I still see them. Still
See black empty eyes staring, no hair, yet ahead
There's no dignity there. They're not living not dead.
Were pulled from the water and put in a place
I've no been to, but what you'll find
Is the kommandant hoarding the vegetable rinds.
Who sucked out your spirit?
Listen how we shout at them.
They can't hear it.
And it seems impossible
That it happened at all.
That there were people who saw
The Herb Girls of Birkenau.
With berries in aprons, I still see them still.
And it seems impossible
That it happened at all.
That there were people who saw the herb girls.
Anything is possible.
But can you understand that there were people who saw the herb girls?
And it seems impossible
That there were people there.
There were people who saw the Herb Girls of Birkenau.
Mayfly
When that day is done
The fly
Ask how
Me, my life is long
The fly
One day one day one day one day
The fly
The fly
Of May
It lives
One day.
The MayFly does not complain.
It flies into the setting sun.
It goes back to the place
From which it came
Of May
Ask why
One day
MayFly.
That's all
You get.
You give
No thought
To it.
With reasons few like you.
When I go and when I'm gone
I will understand these things
I never knew.
Of May.
It's long enough
If you really think about it.
Of May
It lives
One day.
Christian Soldiers
The medieval exorcists used a 20-gallon brass syringe. A 20-gallon brass syringe
filled with holy water. A 20-gallon brass syringe filled with holy water which
they pumped into...into the anus of the possessed.
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Things I'm gonna do
Against the law to talk about the
Rocket in the park I send it
Off to be examined by a
Scientific team
On the Moon on the Moon
On the Moon on the Moon.
I organize a council where the
Prize goes unannounced until there's
In the trees a city, just some
Leaves we left it pretty
Long ago long ago
Long ago Oh so long ago.
I have half-a-mind, it's cracked and breaking.
It's recommended as great for tasting
Spit in the face of a tried and true one.
These are Things That I'm Going To Do.
My cave is lit with tiny lights
I climb the stairs and catch the sights
Of other people far below
I've heard of them, they think they know
I make no friends, I've got no spark
In my defense, I take apart
What's put together easily
This is all true
I'll make it be.
Every day like Jesus He's not
Up there He can't see us. Maybe
Eyes uplifted slowly for effect
The land below me
Far away far away
Far away Oh so far away.
I have half-a-mind, it's cracked and breaking.
It's recommended as great for tasting
Spit in the face of a tried and true one.
These are Things That I'm Going To Do.
I make no friends, I've got no spark
In my defense, I take apart
What's put together easily
This is all true
I'll make it be.
I have half-a-mind, it's cracked and breaking.
It's recommended as great for tasting
Spit in the face of a tried and true one.
These are Things That I'm Going To Do.
How We Quit the Forest
His belongings were meager but,
He would say what he's gonna do.
He felt things that they'd never felt.
Ostrich and Egret and Peacock had very small dreams.
So that's How We Quit the Forest.
The scene wasn't what it used to be.
The Ostrich and the Egret
Had a very fine flat to let.
Figurine hutch, no the place wasn't much, but they
Got a Peacock.
He was pretty, would bring good luck.
They would sing songs all around the piano and
Do the Cakewalk.
He would say what he wanted to.
Ostrich and Egret were filled with regret, but the
Rent's well worth him.
Like the slap of a feather belt.
So still they sit by a fireplace silent.
A chill ran through them.
Thinking of them just reminds me of calendar scenes.
Nobody's laughing when everyone's weeping, it seems.
The scene wasn't what it used to be.
The scene is never what it used to be.
So, that's How We Quit the Forest.
The scene is never what it used to be.
So, that's How We Quit the Forest.
Watch T.V.
I sit and watch T. V.
Oh, where have you gone?
Try another show.
Oh, where have you gone
I'm the lucky one.
One star lost a family
One family lost a star.
I can watch forever
I'm the lucky one.
I'm the lucky one
Always having fun.
I tie back my hair.
I see only me,
Though I look for you there.
Were you canceled?
I change to channel 2.
You were the one
Who gave me all my answers.
I changed
So did you.
With the volume low.
I make up what they say.
Where it used to be your face
Is an empty space
Your co-stars look away.
And do you miss me
And what we used to do?
You were the one
Who'd talk and smile for half an hour
Always new.
I watch a re-run.
It looks a lot like you.
One family lost a star.
That's why I wait and watch
To find out where you are.
One star, they lost their family.
That's why I sit at home alone
And Watch T. V.
I can watch for hours
It just get better
It gives me power
I can watch for hours
I can watch forever
It gives me pleasure
It makes me better
Always having fun.
