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Sleepyhead
04:24
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Seven candles on iced cake
Glitters stuck to your skin
Lacey stocking Velvet Shoes
Rub that stardust off your eyes
Its past noon sleepyhead
Wakey wakey now
Wake up sleepyhead
Blow your candles out
While your wishes count
Wakey wakey now
Wake up sleepyhead
Do you plan to be
A child forever and ever
Seven candles on iced cake
Save a slice just in case
Tiny finger blooms tiny toes point
Such a lazy child still as a doll
So shoo mr sandman shoooo!
Wakey wakey now
Wake up sleepyhead
Blow your candles out
While your wishes count
Wakey wakey now
Wake up sleepyhead
Do you plan to be
Asleep forever
Sleepyhead sleep
'Til noon til night
'Til the moon is full
'Til its time for teeth to fall
Wakey wakey now
Wake up sleepyhead
Blow your candles out
While your wishes count
Wakey wakey now
Wake up sleepyhead
Do you plan to be
A child forever and ever
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Vegetables
04:15
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My dear saggy, pruney old granny
is dying in the living room
The ambulance came and took her away to the hospital in the city.
The hospital in the city is damp, crusty and rusty
The doctor told me to wait and behave
But I did not heed his words.
Instead I wandered through the hollow halls.
Curiosity lead me into the staff only room
I saw crates stacked up so high
It was a most curious sight
So I opened one and then to my surprise
I saw...
Vegetables! Carrots, garlics and chards!
Cabbages, pumpkins, lettuce and peas!
Something feels wrong there's a chill in my spine
But before I could figure it out
Footsteps clacking grew louder
...and Louder!
I ran down the hall in a panic
Saw each dying patient as i ran
Like slides in a show I witnessed it all
Was a kafkan metamorphosis
Senile and literal vegetables
My granny's a broccoli
I thought on the ride home, wide-eyed and disturbed
Dreading tonight's salad dinner
My mind swoops on back to the hospital halls
Curiosity lead me into the staff only room
Saw crates stacked up so high
It was a most curious sight
So I took a closer look and inside I saw
I saw...!
Vegetables! Endives, beetroots and maize!
Celeries, aubergines, gingers and leeks!
I see wrinkly faces in the green leafy mess
I told my parents what I saw
But they did not believe me and told me to shut up
And eat...
My broccoli
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3. |
Dimensional Train
06:00
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A train of perpetual motion
Worming through holes
In the pockets of time
Experience our humble operation
Of never ending fascination
Arriving now dont hold your breaths
Before you is an aquatic wonderland
Mermaids, seaweed, singing oyster beds
A track of blue lights lining the sand
And there were stars
Deep in the waters
Darkness like tar
Envelops the ride
Speeding like a shooting light
Arriving now deep in space
Circling a solar furnace
Great brilliant flares burst into sight
Unknown forces
Theories of string
(Falling into)
Unseen orifices
swirling and minimizing
Arriving now a microscopic station
Bacteria, disease and germs
Floating in suspended in animation
An unsterile, gelatinous turf
Cells dividing
Regenerating
Binary Fission
A process of life
Here ends our humble operation
We thank you for riding with us
Waiting at our perpetual stations
We hope to see you once more again
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4. |
Rubber Cowboy
04:30
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Under the hot dessert sun
Drinking cactus water
Eating canned beans and barbecued spleens
I'm on a journey with just me and my horse
Rusty stars on my dirty boots
It's hard bein' a rubber cowboy
In an aimless ride-along alone
On my rubber rhinestone horse
We're slowly sinkin' in the sandy dessert sand
We are taking the long way home
My melted rubber cattle
Is a psychedelic trail of goop
Sizzlin' and bubblin' all over
Melted friends sure are quieter
When they're all just trail of blubber
I'm a lonely rubber cowboy
I dreamt of lights
Shining on me
But not like this, Lord!, Not like this
Slowly melting in the sandy dessert sand
A lone survivor of the sweltering sun
It was a greater slaughter
Than the battle with copper indians
Popping bottle cap guns
But no match for the mighty Sun
This neverending road im on
Ill be another psychedelic trail
Soon with my rubber comrades
Im no rhinestone cowboy afterall
Im a lonely rubber cowboy
A melting rubber cowboy
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5. |
The Detective
08:15
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Dear Mr. Detective, what clues have you?
The answer is tappin at the tip of your tongue
A decade of cruel crimes unsolved
Of murdered women missing hearts
Decorate the streets like Christmas time
The Detective he quivers in sheer disbelief
The string of crimes his eyes have magnified
Are dog-eared, deciphered and fathomed
Yet answers remain in the dark somehow
Like a puzzle piece thats draws no art
And any half wit fool could firmly conclude
That the bloody gloved Botanist down the street
Is the cold callous killer
He triumphs each march his shoes clack
Towards the plaster peeling run down lab
A sound too high to hear
Like a first grade sniper
It pierced through his skull
Fell down and faint to black
A shake of the skull
A twist of the bones
A jolt in the brain
And a cut off from air
Four by four bricked wall
no doors no windows
A choir of cluttered phones
Tangled chords devour the space
Phone wails as if its new born
Each a ring a crash of metal
Unwavering and unending
Voices echo asking for grace
For a crumb of divine intervention
What’s a confused Detective to do?
Placed in this unsermisable state
What an unfortunate fate
How long has it been?
The ringing’s died down.
Dizzy and dazed
In a strange room
His eyes spiral out
Into a dark fuzzy haze
Dear Mr. Detective, what clues have you?
It hardly matters now, with the state they’re in
There are shards of what once was a planet
Corpses floating out to outer space
A glorious tessellation of the human race
The Detective he quivers in sheer disbelief
The end of the world has come
Before he solved the murder mystery
It hardly matters now,
Such a shame,
They're all dead
The world is no more, no more, no more
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Secrets of Wysteria
05:00
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Little Gracie found a strange house,
A place to play just past all the trees.
Swift sharp needles do spot his face,
Before he feeds on the sheep's white fleece.
Phantasmagorical,
Willows of Wysteria.
A Memorial,
A Crescendo
Of Hysteria
Little children went astray
In the sunny soil beneath,
Wriggling worms in disarray.
Hear them laughing underneath.
Counting Ten, Nine, Zero fingers.
Won't you come and play The Grey Man's game?
Move quick, Be an artful dodger
When the cleavers start swishing in flames.
Phantasmagorical,
Willows of Wysteria.
A Memorial,
A Crescendo
Of Hysteria.
Little children went astray
In the sunny soil beneath,
Wriggling worms in disarray.
Hear them laughing underneath.
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7. |
The Worm with a Dream
03:40
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I'm moving up I swear it
A sad little worm no more
I can no longer bear it
A dirt covered world's a snore
See me on broadway opening night
Shining lights ain't a plight
I'm a worm with big dreams
I got no eyes that blind
Flashing my big screen grin
You know I'll be the one
On the cover of Time magazine
Someday this worm will win
Is it a sin? for a worm to dream so big?
To have my name engraved in star light
With a tophat and a suit i'll be squirming center stage
This dirt eating deal just ain't for me
Yes I see it now!
My dream is coming true
Light is streaming forth
This isn't my final bow
Is this it? I see the Ritz!
Up top the world of stars
I'm ready to debut!
Accept me, a humble worm
A worm with a dream!
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