1. |
Who's Sorry Now?
02:08
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If ghosts could have a drinking problem.
he'd get him one in double time
the living strength who seeks to weaken
by applying mass to time.
so get out the way
of fate train coming
bring out your dead
who's sorry now?
In nucleus Shiva dancing
struck out to meet my ship come in
marooned to eat the bowls of city
by viaduct to brewery
its not the ghost that I expected
the one with the white sheet on his head
As flight attendants assist fleeing
egg shell stench shell peace of mind
suddenly I'm all hooked up
you and your barbed wire war
its cramped and limitless in here
and I swear I'll never ask for more.
I'll never ask for more.
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2. |
Mr E
04:06
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There was an upstairs flat in Brixton
with a very angry man living downstairs
who we only ever knew as Mr E
forever confronting us on the stairs
about some disturbance real or imaginary (usually real)
that had happened the night before
and he'd punctuate the end of every sentence with this 'Boy!'
Anyway, he died and he'd been dead for a few days
and we broke into his flat
well we went to find out why it had been so quiet
and we ended up breaking into his flat
and he had this fantastic little leather pork pie hat that I ended up with
it was later stolen
Well I guess it was stolen in the first case,
wasn't it?
so this song is for him , Mr E...
Unrelieved
you're talking the language of sin, boy!
You don't plant to begin.
Now you're free
freer than military road
but wheels still grind &
buckle that load
Mr E
Uncle tree new found authority
argue it out with some middling minority
you're talking the language of sin.
On my knees
in the park as the clamour begins
protestant cemetery,
cats sick with dysentery
letters arriving, calls from constabulary
waited so long that the poor heart expired.
last scene descending to oceans of fire
Mr E
Unrelieved
you're talking the language of sin, boy!
Now you'll never begin
You are free
freer than military road
but wheels still grind &
buckle that load
(Mr E,)
Uncle tree new form authority
argue it out with some middling minority
you're talking the language of sin.
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3. |
Great Leader
03:43
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Great, great, great leader
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4. |
Hard Day For Night
01:26
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Got that beautiful green light inside of him
Well I will and I wont
and I wont but I will
and I will but I wont
and I don't really need it.
Well it's hard day for night
when you're shooting surreal
to know what you want
and still want what you feel
I've got that Friday hight feeling
skin crawls from dawn until evening
Intoxicated with freedom
we have to deplore.
When it's time to go home
won't you please use the door.
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5. |
Gabriel
02:18
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6. |
Dada DaVinci
02:56
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Dadadadada DaVinci
Dadadadada DaVinci
Who put the hole in the holy lady?
who put the hole in the holy lady?
Jesus did with his big red axe
Jesus was her baby.
Who saved the animals when it rained
got them in the ark on the flood?
Noah saved all the animals
the animals Noah loved.
Who wrote the rules God gave to man
set them down in stone?
Moses wrote the 10 commandments
just him & God alone.
Who hit the giant with a rock,
who tossed that stone at him?
David did with his sling shot
the little guy sometimes wins.
Who helped the Pharaoh with his dream,
the wheat and the cow that shrinks?
Jacob was the Pharaohs therapist
he told him what to think.
Who in the bible had her father's child,
who would do such a thing?
We will not utter her name
'cause it was only a drunken fling.
Who rode the chariot of fire,
who rode it up into the sky?
Elijah got into that chariot
he was one crazy guy.
Who ate the apple off the tree,
the snake tree in the garden
It was Eve who ate that apple
and it caused gods heart) to harden.
Who rent the curtain in the tabernacle
& made black smoke in the closet?
the same guys who knocked down Jericho
they've forfeited their deposit.
dadadadada davinci
dadadadada davinci
dadadadada davinci
dadadadada davinci
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7. |
Calendar
02:28
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Put little springs and cogs in the landscape
so it can work for you.
Travel cross country in an express bus
though fields of green
look over yonder there's a father figure
caught in the midst of a dream.
If you see sparrows in a shoe box gather
looking for a song and dance
rest it on a laurel tree draped up like Christmas
haven't seen your loved ones for the longest time
ever since you came down with song
Miracles are easy when the holidays pass.
Click on that memory again.
Made down payment on a three day week
lucky how often Sunday repeats
the rest of it is always the same
with February thrown in for free.
Drawn by car new show biz lawyer
mercurial descent into the dream.
It messes up the flatness of the picture frame
put little springs and cogs in the landscape
so it can work for you
travel cross country in an express bus
look over yonder though fields of green
there's a father figure turning
in the midst of a dream
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8. |
Clowns
02:10
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Emerald in my room she made
the red machinery and memory
screens pulse form weirdness and arbours
I didn't run away to the circus
so why all the clowns
and pardon me for asking
radio motor activator
I don't know
check out the technology
angel like an abbot airloom
some days
are just better than others
exquisit penny
in a place so special
you can only visit
and you're making the future up
from in your bubble
you're making the future up
from in your bubble
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9. |
Talk Me Over
02:23
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Don't talk me over
Don't talk me over the dew and far away
A beach to sea
Don't talk me over
Don't talk me over the dew and far away
Lay your weary head
Don't talk me over
Don't talk me over the dew and far away
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10. |
Posse
04:04
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And they rode down to Saddam County
'long the banks of the U FREIGHT EASE.
They were bringing truth and justice
or some thing quite close to these.
With freedom on their banner
and justice in their sword
a fair amount of havoc wrecked
before all old debts were scored.
And their seed fell on hard & stony,
the news confused or so they say.
Those hybrid hopes had fallen over
and in the dust down there did lay.
Like the cavalry from Calvary
black &white and cross
with a capital idea that
burning bush made Jesus boss.
Radios are active
but faith abandoned spent
where is all the money gone
and loving that was went.
Like the cavalry from Calvary
black &white & cross
with a capital idea
cavalry from Calvary
black &white & cross cross cross
And they rode down to Saddam County
'long the banks of the U FREIGHT EASE
they were bringing truth and justice
or some thing quite close to these.
Gently lay your withered hopes
beside the meadow
where the weeping live
And memory stalled
beside the creek there
your heart could go
no further on.
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11. |
Mince Meat
02:35
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Rock disappeared on my watch.
Always too much the Nancy boy
Exit, pursued by Purcell
an English God with English hell.
'keeper, maker, mender, repairer and
tuner of the regalls, organs, virginals, flutes and recorders.'
Singspiel. The other fairy queen,
so that's what we're doing. OK?
Three legged soldiers
two legged cows
up to your nuts in guts
and don't know how
So hie me to some revelation hall
where they don't mince worlds or think small
and angels gaze down
through bloodstained light
Belief, doomed if you do
dammed if you don't
Wakefield's flock circle
moral imagination cycling
watch out for trucks
& always work with animals and children
it's more beautiful that way.
So take me up God of the Pod
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12. |
Lifeboat
02:29
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Lifeboat, lifeboat let me come aboard.
I'm still working on my character.
This is not the sea of tranquillity.
Take me up, you could always eat me.
After travelling from far out in the stars
stop at planet Earth, and probe the human arse.
Come like gods in a whirling dome
you at porthole, me down below.
Lifeboat lifeboat, hover over here.
I'm nude & pink & sucking on a beer.
I'll take you to our leader, sorry if he's dull
nobody told him, his intelligence not clear.
Life boat, life boat don't tamper with my jeans
Elvis is on mars if you know what that means.
The truth is out there stranger now than fiction
I'm addicted to causes it's effected disposition.
This is not the sea of tranquillity.
The eagle has landed but wait, I need to pee.
Lifeboat, lifeboat let me come aboard
I'm still working on a caricature
You said you'd return like Jesus and Macarthur
it's raining in the cake park, a recipe for disaster.
I've paid for the ticket & I'm still waiting
another hapless victim of carbon dating.
thank you very much
ladies & gentleman
the auditorium has left....
without elvis
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13. |
Waltz
06:29
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14. |
deSpatch Cock
01:59
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Two little spatchcocks with chicken tikkas
lalalalalalalalala
I caught them in the thicket
lalalalalalalalala
I shot them with my bow and arrow
lalalalalalalalala
Now I'm going to eat them with rye mould loaves
lalalalalalalalala
Suuddenly it all got strange
lalalalalalalalala
Satan was in our town again
la la la la.....
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15. |
Come Gather Round
09:22
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Come gather round you people
there's a story I must tell
about a misconception
it's a spell that's brought us hell.
It was down there in your country.
a place familiar and yet strange
it was in the recent past,
but all seemed prearranged.
Someone made up a story
and we all went along
adding to the verses and
expand that old old song.
There's lots to be afraid of
death comes to everyone
maybe in a hospital
and sometimes from a gun.
Three witches they had gathered;
storm clouds in a play
no point in building arcs
time won't float away.
It's not the sudden impact
but the details we might miss
Smell it's in your head
like the memory of a kiss.
You knew how it would pan out
the old gold testament
with prophets for the taking
but none were heaven sent.
that idea of yourself is flawed and out of date
there's 15 billion others and no one want's to wait
Caught ourself goose stepping
between the church and state.
Meanwhile at the ranch
in the lone star state of one
the gamblers all had gathered
believing they're lucky sons
today there'll be a show down
though all the cards are hid
& the players will deny
almost everything they did.
busted up the language
got truth run out of town.
they busted up the language
got truth run out of town.
still that pie got higher
everyone had won
now nature says that's nonsense
and I fear I must agree
in the terminators waterloo
to the T @ Calvary
Satan's unemployed now
his good lines all are stolen
along with his I D
he's another just another stateless person
lock him up forever
throw away the key
and the evil that's out there
can flow into you & me.
Apparently for justice
all stories need a judge
it's up to you
I'm sure you have some grudge.
Blame it on somebody
the landlord or the law
fingerpointing blame
at foreign types off shore.
flicking threw the media
the atomic weight of crap.
deep in the heart of helium
like Abraham and son
all angels of abandon
every blessed one.
theories of meaning
manufactured by the French
with independent suspension
of belief it's heaven sent.
everything old is new
except the cost gas
approximately Zion
in jungle drums of mass.
finial solution
dissolving peaks of roof
like a polkadot bikini
with the atoll sneaking though.
that's 16 billon more to add
to yr chosen few.
Come gather round you people
but don't get in too close
leave a space up front
for the holy ghost.
he used to live in hall way
sleeping under stairs.
but since the elevator
it seems nobody cares.
Count myself amongst them
talk show hosts agree
temptation of the shepherds
who claim their flock is free.
Yeah it's just wallpaper
strip it off with steam
a thousand renovators
of reconditioned dreams.
I find myself, amongst you
embarrassed & quite shy
I never said that I was
some other type of guy
Whilst driving down the highway
face pressed against the screen
the celluloid that flickers
plasticity of means.
Experience the bell curve
of statistical divorce
if numbers are the answer
with hooves of voice grow horse.
I’m sorry that I came here
and deigned to waste this time
Checked out all the data
and a photographed your mind.
There's nothing going on in there
the curtain it is closed
a matinee is idle
after taking off it's clothes.
Turning up the heaters
Part seas of global warming.
of Job & pawns and ceiling wax
Had sufficient warnings?
So gather round sweet children
draw close in while I tell
It's every single one of us
And we've seen us all in hell.
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16. |
All Pull Together
03:41
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We'll all pull together
through every kind of weather
and you know when they say maybe
it's never going to be any better.
You got guitar regrets and whatever,
oh, you're so clever
You got guitar regrets and whatever,
oh, you're so clever
So lend us a blender to shred up the letters
return lots of love back to the sender.
An Indian summer more than a giver
but he drank like a chief and stuffed up his liver
Hey dead-ender your pots pretty slender
how afford a friend a dollar never a borrower
nor on a bender go, like real slow
And we'll all pull together
through every kind of weather
and you know what they say maybe
it's never going to be any better
You got guitar regrets and whatever,
oh, you're so clever
So lend us a blender to shred up the letters
return lots of love mashed up to the centre.
Yeah I prefer fender the dark chords of November
gather like storm clouds, the hold a quiver
An Indian summer more than a giver
he drank like a chief and stuffed up his liver
Hey dead-ender your plots fairly slender
how afford a friend a dollar? Never a borrower
nor on a bender go, like real slow.
We'll all pull together
through every kind of weather
you know what they say maybe
it's never going to be any better
You got guitar regrets and whatever,
oh, you're so clever
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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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