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It was the first snake of the season in Whittlsea
she'd seen him at the pub, in her dreams, and on tv
a messenger from god all radiant & nude
loitering at laundromat exuding moral turpitude
First snake of the season puppy sacrificed,
three guinea pig, the mayor's duck
and then the vicar's wife
Chaos in Colac, Browns are stirred
tiger snakes, bites that ache till you get to heaven
tiger snakes bites that ache till you get to heaven
Cobras and taipans, south american pets
hiding in the woodcut over to the left
The moral of this story? The last verse of this song?
Eve now runs the general store, Adam is a highwayman
First snake of the season, fruit of knowledge not of reason
first snake of the season, fruit of knowledge not of reason
if paradise gets lost look behind the cross
where tourniquets of faith have cut the venom off
where tourniquets of faith have cut the venom off.
First snake of the season
First snake of the season
First snake of the season
First snake of the season
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2. |
Trollogy
01:16
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The story of her life
Trollogy
Standing in God's door
yelling the four winds down
With the Windemere
flocking rapper OK
Try burlesquing the remnants
Miss her moving through the house
3am angry mouse
warrior for ideas
barking mad at times I fear
Her heart is anchored ground
within which I am moored and sound
Not those displaying jazz or reggae dub
they can find themselves another club
to sink their sound
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3. |
Beef Urban
03:04
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There was movement
at the firestation
for the word had got around
that with regret the buffalo had escaped
When the buffalo come
come down into King Street
when the Newtown folk
and the buffalo meet
It's a sign, a taste
of things to come
as we spin into
our plunging sun
Well we come down south
for some movie work
thougt we'd break on through
have a look around
at the tatoooed girls
catch some urban sounds
Then the sirens call
and the choppers whirl
(get my agent on the phone
this isn't in the contract)
There are no paddy fields
in Camperdown
nothing much for a buffalo to do
and that King Street strip
It's a consumer zoo
When we get back north
got some tales to tell
how a film star's world
is a buffalo's hell
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4. |
Carrot Beer
00:52
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Drinking to forget
forget you and me
but the drinker that I get
the more clear I can see
drinking carrot beer
under the fruit of knowledge tree
is just not setting me free
so we beckoned Alban Berg
and his sympathetic strings
to rustle up some hula hoop
and twelve tone kind of swings
next thing we are
vamping on a train
with Bella and the Derelicts
legato in the rain
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5. |
Cheating Side of Heaven
01:22
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Vibratory Nancy the cheating side of heaven
angels mutating in their radiating genes
we feed each other's demons
Morsels beyond reasons
forever checking out but never leaving
as California dreamscapes on the back of his mind
Guitar Golem glissandos through
memory mansion meantone
realtime stateline lifecrime
Archipelago of morals, freak sequence musics
Hank on the K shell - bird got your wire?
Phoenix to Fire Angel 500 miles
mutating in their radiating genes
mutating in their radiating genes
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6. |
Clubs and Spades
01:24
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Started out as hearts and diamonds
ended up with clubs and spades
marriages made in the mind please
not on the social page
The years were full, the harvest good
the trees marched heaven wood
Started out as hearts and diamonds
ended up with clubs and spaces
marriages of in the mind
not shoe size or age
rooted as ghost gum
requited unrehearsed
the hands they hold
as foretold
from last to first
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7. |
Dante's on the Line
02:06
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I can't believe the things you are saying
and the looks you stole from Minsk
Half a dozen lives together
the card game in the garden
midnight mid-summer
they gambled thing and won
So give the golden boy
the talking stick
so many ways to go mad
out in the countriezzzzz
I can't believe the things you are saying
when you return from hell
nine circles - Dante's on the line
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8. |
Digilante
01:50
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Twighlight vigilante
working dusk till midnight
Barking off the North East winds
skipping over the jasmine like a stoner
halucinatory
standing in a wave of story
cowboy
violet
in his twighlight
incandescent spectrum
felt plectrum
vengeance is my saddle
and oblivion beckons
I'm twighlight vigitlante
dressed in black
blessed to the left
glad to see the back
Digital vigilante
boots of spanish leather
and other things
of fancy
stolen from the maidens
in thier way upon the stages
Quiz them Book of Hours
and cheat the answer pages
Their clothing requisitioned
by highwaymen of frisson
If the Sherrif catches up with me
finally I'll be free
If the Sherrif catches up with me
finally I'll be free
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9. |
Footbridge
02:32
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If there's one thing in this town that's got a lot of class
it's the Cooroy footbridge rail overpass
People around say it must go
open the level crossing and let the traffic flow
Queensland Rail says no no no,
we own the land and over you will go.
Well if there's one thing in this town that's got a lot of class
it's the Cooroy footbridge rail overpass
Today, I nearly lost my eye on that
brutalist monstrosity of asphalt and ply
I saw the munter coming, shuffling his thongs
and a metre-wide umbrella steered by four bongs
Screen aganst projectiles walkway is high sided
as the spokes of his umbrella and my eyeline collided
Well if there's one thing in this town that simply oozes class
it's the Cooroy footbridge rail overpass
Half of the town wrong side of the tracks
open the boom gates - we'd probaby take them back
If there's one thing in this town that's got a lot of class
it's the Cooroy footbridge rail overpass
People around say it must go
open the level crossing and let the traffic flow
Queensland rail says no no no,
we own the land and over you will go.
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10. |
Gold was the Valley
01:49
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He rode a quarter horse
Trice
Chaps and amphetamine
Lonesome cowboy lassoed
inner dreams of cadillac and rodeo
the all-life night-time riding show
towns in betweeen
31 the number of Angels
Guardian of cactus
near perfect, a clear stream
the herd resting at midday
and gold was the valley
Trice melted into the light
as the drover drove hard
the dove of misapprehension
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11. |
In Car Nation
02:02
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When its freshly mowed
my love is parallell to your husband's
The grass is always greener when its freshly mowed
if you don't feed your dog in the morning
Ask Patricia 'casue she knows
So when you wake up somethime
in car nation
He drinks wine and I sip ice in tea
we could be friends forever
Queen and busy busy bees
high on scaricficial living
everyone has a price to pay
hear you on bandwagon
Guitars drown our what you have to say
Wake up in car nation
drunk on love without a key
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12. |
Jesus Heart Lobster
02:53
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Now he wheels have turned you
far away from home
from the womb of the samp crawls
thoughts into your mind
and that barbed wire crown
sinking down
a lobster pot
of sacred burleigh
and the bait has lured you
far too far from home
Up the gorgeous river
paddled into viet namboring
captial of psycho tropics
condfusion now begins
Bands were playing sweet
inside the Time Machine
smashed up songs
from a beautiful frightenerd dream
smashed up songs
from a beautiful frightenerd dream
How the siren sighs all bosom and thighs
you bound to the mast of reason
That barbed heart bait means you will not wait
no immaculate mating season
in a pink nudie suit
you spill your fruit
on flowers and satin and shit
till you latch your claws
and suckle the blessed tit
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13. |
Snapshot Girl
00:58
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Snapshot girl
mingle with the help get the picture
I want her for myself
Nightclub full of cattle
sheep are skinned with wine
marriage made in maccas
where every wife if fine
Mull up Kintyres,
set the joiunt to fire
I'll handle you
if you handle mine
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DATSON Australia
GEOFFREY DATSON is a sound artist, combining spoken word, electronica and instrumentation in his recordings. Many poets recite their work to music, but few are also composers. Datson's work is a synthesis of forms of sonic expression in which the voice and the sound field are interdependent. ... more
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