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Gone to Seed
03:57
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I’m gonna dig up the King - make him sing
Tell Priscilla everything’s OK!
And on a sunny day wont’cha be my teddy bear and say
Heartbreak Hotel for me
Elvis has gone to seed
So lonely I could cry
Oh Elvis, tell me why
I’m gonna call Dr Tom on the phone today
in a fit of rage I’ll make him pay!
And could he please prescribe for me one last note from Elvis P?
Heartbreak Hotel for me
Elvis has gone to seed
So lonely I could cry
Oh Elvis, tell me why
I’m gonna vote for Elvis president if actors win, why not experiment?
I’m gonna tell the Colonel what I think
“you’re a low-down Memphis money-grubbing fink!”
to take the King’s homeland and turn it to a shameless disgraceland.
Heartbreak Hotel for me
Elvis has gone to seed
So lonely I could cry
Oh Elvis, tell me why...
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2. |
White Queen Black Queen
03:06
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Fade in and away and again illusions make for difficult friends
Wander the twisted encounters symbols rise and circle the bend
Live in this disconnect lifetime which of both of you shall I find?
real or my vision imagined one dimension wanderlust child
White Queen to the Black Queen says...
Leave my kingdom, break your bread
on foreign land in foreign bed
Desperate my search for the only take me on adventure unknown
Each one a possible match convince myself I’ve found the last stone
But then the pain that I find there seems to be the worse I have known
White Queen to the Black Queen says...
Leave my kingdom, break your bread
on foreign land in foreign bed
Mission I fit superstition in the square peg circles and holes
Wait for electrical discharge in her eye and hear the drum roll
Once again now and forever take me up and
take me down and
bring me back the life I have known
White Queen to the Black Queen says...
Leave my kingdom, break your bread
on foreign land in foreign bed
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3. |
The Gardeners Song
04:33
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He thought he saw an Elephant,
That practised on a fife:
He looked again, and found it was
A letter from his wife.
"At length I realise," he said,
"The bitterness of Life!"
He thought he saw a Rattlesnake
That questioned him in Greek:
He looked again, and found it was
The Middle of Next Week.
"The one thing I regret," he said,
"Is that it cannot speak!"
He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk
Descending from the bus:
He looked again, and found it was
A Hippopotamus
"If this should stay to dine," he said,
"There won't be much for us!"
He thought he saw a Coach-and-Four
That stood beside his bed:
He looked again, and found it was
A Bear without a Head.
"Poor thing," he said, "poor silly thing!
It's waiting to be fed!"
He thought he saw an Albatross
That fluttered round the lamp:
He looked again, and found it was
A Penny-Postage-Stamp.
"You'd best be getting home," he said:
"The nights are very damp!"
He thought he saw a Garden-Door
That opened with a key:
He looked again, and found it was
A double Rule of Three:
"And all its mystery," he said,
"Is clear as day to me!"
Words: Lewis Carroll - 1889 excerpts from "Sylvie and Bruno"
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4. |
Hey!
03:10
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Hey! I’m here in Oregon and I’m lookin’ ‘round
and what I see
it seems that I have found
so many personalities
so many drowned
the orange western sun is going down
And I have staged a curiosity
for the benefit of me
My yearly trip and fall duplicity
no guarantees
Hey! I’m here in Oregon I’m looking for a friend
that certain one
on whom I can depend
‘cause things are going awful
‘cause things are at an end
I’ve got your number but I cannot send
a call in your direction
a call that will depend
on getting safely there and safely back my friend
And I have staged a curiosity
for the benefit of me
My yearly trip and fall duplicity
no guarantees
Hey! I’m leaving Oregon I’m heading back alone
‘cause loneliness
is easier at home
and with my final offer
and with my metronome
I’ll sort it out someday happy alone
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5. |
Too Blue
02:54
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Driving the streets a week ago
I saw sights that made me feel so
down and out and oh so all alone
mark this day, I might not make it home
Driving the streets today I saw
10000 broken, baby doll
Broken glass, a broken man
I break my fast and make my stand and say
Can you hear me
Talkin’ to you?
Sending sympathetic messages
Can you see how
I become you?
Caught the fish hook swallowed whole I go down
Driving the streets today I moved
men with signs who’d kill for food or
Laugh at death and pick a fight
I smiled at fate and took another bite
God is napping
I can’t stop laughing
Turn that crazy smile upside down
Driving the streets of yesterday
makes me sad at why I still pay
sadness price and sorrows cost is high
day to day I feel so lost I cry
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Yesterday a tropic wind laughed at me and said, I been
down south and someone waits for you, fatal vision rendezvous
10 horizons later now make our snow camp anyhow
words of warning long forgot scientific juggernaut
Watch me pale Antarctic eyes searching your Antarctic ice
distant mountains in the sky seem enchanted cities to my eyes
90 miles Southward
we sent a separate group
investigate an ancient place
Stop at a remote waste
by peaks of crystal fire
mountains of madness
So they tunneled downward
and found beneath the ice
snow protected caverns
Home of long dead creatures
the fabled elder-race
scientific treasure
Radio reports received the story told
of the specimens they found their 1st dissection notes
cast the evolution theories of the day in disarray
Made our plans to join their group with a haste unparalleled but an Arctic storm arose : radio silence held
We waited through the day until the sky began to clear
Flew above their camp but saw no movement down below what we saw when we arrived.. .a cruel crushing blow
Our expedition brothers left in pieces on the snow
The scene of death around could hardly be explained but even worse our fruitless search no specimens remained
We all drew lots the losers left to search by aero plane
So I flew the barren windswept and dead Antarctic waste into darkly cursed mountains to a truly cursed place
the ruins of an alien city crumbled and misplaced
This land of frozen waste supporting life seemed fantasy but wondering those ruins left me no course but belief
On broken walls their story told
and chronicled a race too old
to measure by the modern day
but I’ll describe them anyway...
The very first society
was started not by human beings
but with this great artistic race
of aliens from deepest space
They came before the final freeze
Antarctica their colony
They built a world of colour great
but then began the last ice age
As colder still the earth became
They built an undersea somain
Atlanteans the legend said
It seems Atlantis is not dead!
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7. |
Refugee
07:18
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Given a first choice would red be turquoise?
For just a half chance would you still play that dance for me?
I’ve sent a flower to your ivory tower
in hopes that someday you’ll come and spend some time with me
I’ve sent attractions I wait for your reaction
I know together that we’d be oh so heavenly
I see a mirror test of life so sweet
I see a lifeline filed “Incomplete”
I see a setting sun of circumstance
I see a new day borne of random chance. . .more time
Now I see just what you always
meant to me fantasy half—life
Give me what I never got and
Do for me know what I need and
give to me open a channel
Right the wrongs write us a new song
Show me how help me to find an
answer now (always elusive)
always there just South of nowhere
Refugee! I’m calling Refugee!
When the sun sets on the moon
and flowers die too soon — you know I’ll come for you
through your loneliness and pain
I’ve been and felt the same -- I’ll be there yet again
And all the horror we have seen
it seems an awful dream — a nightmare spider scene
Yet from this hell we stand today
a victim of a ricochet left faraway...
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8. |
Rabbit Sings the...
03:05
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Early bird — I came for your word thought the rabbit instantly
Lost in line — I’ll never make it in time
Best to run in place
at least I’ll face to face
the faceless fox
that chases after me
Pass the song — I’ll help it along
Sang the rabbit carefully
Skip the verse I’ve heard this chorus is worse!
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Mutiny in Jonestown Washington
Influenced by classic 70's progressive rock bands like King Crimson, Van Der Graaf Generator & Genesis - along with late
60's psychedelia from The Beatles, Procol Harum & Pink Floyd (with a little 70's Black Sabbath thrown in for good measure), Mutiny in Jonestown has always sought to take these influences and synthesize them into something new.
The band has released 42 albums since 1987.
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