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Billy Club
03:16
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Ooh-Wee
Switchblade sister, your hand on your Mr.
Mr. Chop-Socky’s on the run from Kathmandu.
Do you wanna play doctor with what’s in your locker?
Courage, and a dose of adrenalin drive.
Get out the Billy Club!
Ooh-Wee
Gimme overexposure, I’ll open your closure.
Close your super secret, close your super mouth.
Mouth into submission, I’ll fact your fiction.
Fictional position, Fast-Forward-Stop!
Get out the Billy Club!
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It came from the speakers, a-spilling the creature
aurally, we ain’t talking oral! Ooh, ooh, ooh…
It’s “More Than A Feeling”, a “Hot Blooded”, “Double Vision”, “Witchy Woman”.
She’s under my bed.
She wants my head
and my 8-track collection.
Silicone tweeters.
She’s an augmented minor with a major in “C”.
She’s under my bed.
She wants my head
and my 8-track collection.
Love reads like a novel idea,
but a Prince, he’s just a man in drag.
DANGER! Spoil me, toil and trouble me.
Hey! You wanna get a six pack?
It’s under my bed.
It wants my head
and my 8-track collection.
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One Little Indian
03:46
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One Little Indian
…was told dirty little lies
all my dirty little life.
…how my “God’s were never right
and my arrow couldn't fly”.
Back when two-leggeds and four-leggeds
were living like-a-relatives,
visions of the snowy hills and
mountains staring right at ourselves…
Blue coats moved us, raised their guns,
“Black Elk Speaks” and
ghosts rise up to dance…
My horse woke from a dream…
with men coming after me,
I saw Big Foot going down,
others dancing all around…
There were one, two, three, four, five little Indians,
visions of the snowy hills and
mountains staring right at ourselves…
Blue coats moved us, raised their guns,
“Black Elk Speaks” and
ghosts rise up to dance…
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Becherovka
02:55
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Gin and Catatonic
02:58
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Gin & Catatonic
I’d like to invite you cordially.
Wear your mohair suit,
bring crackers and root-beer,
and we’ll just breath here.
Gin and catatonic,
put your money on it
and wait for better days.
I can’t forget the blank expression,
but pink elephants, they always do
and play the accordion.
Gin and catatonic,
put your money on it
and wait for better days.
Stirring, blurring, tiny steps,
always placing bigger bets,
cause’ “them’s the rules” I tell you!
Gin and catatonic,
put your money on it
and wait for better days.
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Poly Esther
04:23
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7. |
King Me!
01:49
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8. |
Bambi's Guilty Lover
02:13
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Big White Limo
03:04
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Big White Limo
Big White Limo!
She’s a high-heeled phenomena,
a mystery to her stylist.
Hey! Hey! Hey!
She’s vanishing from restaurants
with her white-wall silver cabbie,
who wants her badly in the…
Big White Limo!
Big, big, big, big, big, big, b-b-b-Barry White Limo!
Fake one-way glass,
he’s watching her in the back seat.
Hey! Hey! Hey!
There’s puzzling outbreaks of
long hair starlet clipping
in Western Cities from a…
Big White Limo!
Big, big, big, big, big, big b-b-b-Barry White Limo!
He wants to be on the cover of Vanity,
but he’s driving the…
Big White Limo!
Big, big, big, big, big, big b-b-b-Barry White Limo!
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Caller ID
02:44
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Caller ID
Say’s she’d love me like a rabbit,
she’s got me pretty panicked,
hippity-hoppity psycho’s on her way.
I’ve got to play it cool
or I’ll end up down on
the bottom of a swimming pool.
I hope that she just goes away…
Damn that caller ID,
now she can get a hold of me
every single time she wants.
Everybody think that I want… her.
I hope she just goes away…
She found and called my phone
looking for a bone.
She took my hair to make a clone.
“Are you thinking of me?”,
she always has to ask.
Only when monkeys are flying out my ass.
I hope she just goes away…
Damn that caller ID,
now she can get a hold of me
every fucking time she wants.
Everybody think that I want… her.
I hope she just goes away…
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I'm So...So-So
03:19
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I’m So… So-So
Feeling like middle-road,
lukewarm, milk-toast medium.
Spice less vice, plain crème pants,
average white boy dance club moves.
I’m So… So-So
Not a cad, nor a gent.
Just a day I’m on the fence.
Same plain-Jane, chalkboard blank,
poster child for dissonance.
I’m So… So-So
I’m So… So-So
I’m stuck, stuck in a, stuck in a rut.
I’m So… So-So
I’m So… So-So
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Love Hymn and Himalaya
02:49
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Love Hymn and Himalaya
Love Hymn and Himalaya…
Love Hymn and Himalaya…
Love Hymn and Himalaya…
Love her and she will laya-too…
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Poly Esther Reprise
01:24
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Truckee Brothers San Diego, California
Born by accident in a studio in 2004. Died bloody in 2009. Rose from the dead live onstage on Jan 10, 2014. Sounds like a Dionysian myth to me.
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