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The Buddha machine with the seventh seal
is peeling chrome from the steering wheel
A fitting retort to someone's New Deal
All over the shop
Number 1 crop
Start 2 3 4 7 8 Stop
Not a slave out of place
Don't let your guard drop
in Zanzibar
I can't stop the things going round in my bed
but then I fall asleep at the watershed
I'm tucked in, it shorts out the overhead
in Zanzibar
The monkey is asleep but he twists and turns
He twists my mind until it burns
He Looks all day but he never Learns
in Zanzibar
She doesn't have a name, they just call her Child
A peacock screaming as the telephone dialled
Walking on her hands as the gardener smiled
in Zanzibar
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Shadrach, Meshach, A Bendy Bus
glasses upside down
forks on the napkin
melted liquid clock
hanging in the dock
looks around your neck
at a windscreen Indian
fiery furnace!
a dairy dish of ice
a water socket wrench
a violin of Ben
with an architecture plan
dominate the track
bring stereo back
inquisition home
resting here on your bone
roly poly guacamole
I saw Esau fasting slowly
I saw Adam with an apple in his hand
and he made me the King of Switzerland
winter grass
falling leaves
you borrowed my tweezers
give them back to me!
bendy bus, yeah yeah yeah
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Avon Lady
02:13
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"Hi!"
"Well yes I am."
"I am your Avon Lady. We've got the new soap-on-a-rope."
"Well that's so cool."
"We've got the cologne in the car, the cologne in the car..."
"Would you like to smoke some?"
yes I am, yes we do, yes we are
would you?
would you like to try?
we've got Mexican brown
Lebanese blond
sinsemilla and Thai weed
we've got everything
mushrooms fresh from the cows
we've got everything right now
sin-sin-sin-since-I-may-a
"I gotta go now!"
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I'm a bit excited
Do you know why?
I've just injected an unknown substance into my eye
I cannot walk
Perhaps I can fly?
I've just injected an unknown substance into my eye
I cannot laugh
I cannot cry
I've just injected an unknown substance into my eye
I wove a web
I caught a fly
I've just injected an unknown substance into my eye
I cannot laugh
I cannot cry
I've just injected an unknown substance into my eye
I cannot walk
Perhaps I can fly?
I've just injected an unknown substance into my eye
A bird has fallen from the sky,
Its beak as red as rust
I kept it in a shoebox
until it turned to dust.
I'm a bit excited
Do you know why?
I've just injected an unknown substance into my eye
I am an insect
I'm pastrami on rye
I've just injected an unknown substance into my eye
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5. |
Ewe Lifts Mutton
02:03
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you have a malarial mouth
coming up the stairs in the dark
school girls testing your skills
like a snow nurse in the dark
knee them in the groin
and gouge them in the eye
silly slap them about the face
do anything you want to in this case
you are a spurious ball of gas
you are an Audi in the trash
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Sylvia Plath on a Bike
02:27
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Blissful in the whirling wheels
Swimming far out to sea
Hide your homilies under the house
It really doesn't matter to me
Sylvia Plath on a bike
I saw Sylvia Plath on a bike
Tangled in the whirling wheels
Too far out at sea
A sundial in the rain
It never really mattered to me
Sylvia Plath on a bike
I saw Sylvia Plath on a bike
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7. |
The Limb of Creation
02:18
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pull creation through your limbs
push creation through your feet
put the doorway to the strings
and you flying without wings
in the light you are dark you are
light you are dark you are
across the landscapes you are here
across the bleeding atmosphere
across prolapsed magnetic fields
it's your kindness that we feel
in the light you are dark you are
light you are dark you are
infinitesimally small
like the universe beyond
you will please sir let us pass
or fall in love with your own ass
in the light you are dark you are
in the light you are dark you are
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we didn't sell it to you
we didn't give it away
we didn't sell it to you
we didn't know what to do
sell it to you?
give it away?
know what to do
or where to go
on vacation
sell out
well so long
we didn't go down well
it was such a powerful buzz
you know
we didn't sell her any bacon in the dreamtime house
we didn't go on no vacation cuz it was fucking nuts
it was just so fucking nuts
bye bye little pudding brain
bye bye little destiny
bye bye little Russian train
at minimal range we made the exchange
so go just just fucking go
just fucking go!
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Jesus in Tight Pants
02:08
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yo ho ho
you're one in a million
tight ass you can see
everything I believed since 1973
ono ono ono
it's a bear!
ono ono ono
it's a plane!
it's jesus in tight pants!
hep me hep me
you got to hep me
hep me do it
she's a princess in the navy
and she's waiting for you patiently
yo ho ho
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God made the drugs
02:26
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glandular goblin in an eggman suit
an eggman a worried connoisseur
with a package of fruit
no one took him seriously
though they sometimes ate
with their shirt sleeves open
to commiserate
drugs made the day
a little bit brighter for you
bring enough for everyone
leave them by the door
we will compensate you
making bullets for the war
all the eggs in the box are singing
sad songs...
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Raven's longboat
03:00
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his longboat is bent
he ate the condiment
tomorrow morning is lent
some people suck
they suck at it
some people eat
they eat all of it
electrical death from underground
shimmering champaign all around
why do you stand there looking down?
nothing to see
you can do that tomorrow
after you clean the fence!
and you can fly like a raven
like a raven flies
you can cry like a raven
like a raven cries
weep weep weep...
how do you weep like that?
have a weepy do
how you weep?
it's up to you
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We travel Inter-City like the men do
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Leaving Dunkirk
02:09
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I'm leaving Dunkirk in a squall of rain
I'm leaving Dunkirk, I'm leaving Dunkirk again
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Marooned on Rigor Mortis
02:57
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Marooned on rigor mortis
cuts
having a reaction to the anaesthetic
it isn't what he thought it was
they don't have to break your arms
filter generator
3 day darling
totally off yer tits
they don't have to break your arms
if rigor mortis sets in
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Somehow I've opened a chat window
I've opened a chat window with myself!
It presents a problem
What do you say?
And how to explain it
to your friends?
"Hi, how are you?"
"Well I'm fine but you should know all that."
Now we have a little problem you and I
Yes we do
This is the situation
highly unusual and somewhat suspect
What do you say to your favourite person in the whole wide world?
Somehow I forgot to feed the cat
or do anything like that
because I'm so preoccupied
with this chat window!
I've been waiting all day for a reply
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You are so busted tonight
lutefisk sandwiches and turnip greens
nearer my onions gum disease
run it down run it down black out
the dogs in the street have all the balloons!
Can you save enough time to do your nitrous oxide tonight?
all the Lutheran experience ran off
never saw it coming on Hennepin Avenue
during the ice parade
aquatennial fetishes
we were so simple then
we were all wanted then
we were arrested with save enough time
save enough time to do your nitrous oxide tonight
"hi my name is Benny"
96 times, 96 oils, 96 wells, 96 brains
I have some friends who live in the sky with Jesus...
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Razor Blade / Hit Parade
02:10
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if it is or if it isn't
it doesn't make any difference
it's over
it's under
nothing changes
it doesn't matter
now you've come to them
grenade Pixie fellatio rhubarb
crayola migraine dogs on the train
hypnotist victory invasion specialist
like a naughty tat
jolly roger that
reality bite marks up and down your arm
with a razor blade
reading Hit Parader
anything lurid to sell more magazines
anything cultish to warp your little mind
I'd come over if you had some weed
I'd come over if you had some weed
I'd come over right quick like
I'd come over
I'd come over!
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Churn Milk Joan Hebden Bridge, UK
Music created by American Richard Knutson and Englishman Colin Robinson.
"One of the most
extraordinary outfits I ever heard. Intriguing, irreverent and funny as Hell"
Sadly, Richard died from Motor Neuron Disease in March 2020.
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