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Gun Trade Tango
03:17
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Meet my new friend
Goes by the name of Moses
Good friend indeed
Gives me the gear I need
To feed all feuds
And fuel all fears
The choice of humankind:
A choice of what to follow blind
The choice of you and I:
To rearrange my face
And disappear without a trace
Used to do art
Used to do girls and boys
Gave up it all
Gave up the good life, bored
Deal death to feel
What we call real
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“Nevada, 1945. To bring the unpleasant Nazi question still aflame in Europe to a final solution, the Third Reich turncoat J. R. Oppenheimer and his posse detonated the first nuclear devices upon planet Earth. Little did they know that a massive pulse of light betraying our existence to silent observers lightyears away had been set forth, reaping unforeseen consequences later on...”
Enter rock ‘n’ roll and the fifties
Shaking, rattling, rolling up more than sleeves
A fever branding each mind in tune
And in a most peculiar way
Emergent feature of human nature
Come together now, it is time to say:
It’s rock ‘n’ roll
And it wants you to know
In your flesh and your bone
That we’re not alone
Hey, boys and girls
Something you’ve never heard
It’s beautiful, like out of this world
“But a decade later the alien spectators could but succumb to the now pangalactic boogie…”
Comes the rock ‘n’ roll to the sixties
Swinging, screaming, recklessly aiming high
Always yearning for more than life
While the grooving beautiful people
Are busy making love
Watching Sun go by
Something is clouding the open sky
“Alas, the end of the seventies saw the teenage dream go snowblind under its own brilliance. Brown sugar and other unknown pleasures endangering all things awesome, the visitors resorted to drastic measures: a flick of a switch, and gone was the beat of barely six thousand years, swooped within the belly of their vast mothership as if by an occult hand. In a zap, the ship was off to outer space, thus carrying forth the rock ’n’ roll message of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, plus Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Ramones, Eppu Normaali, ZZ Top, Hurriganes, and introducing Gaspard Oil!”
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3. |
Jester of Leicester
02:26
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She’s the jester of Leicester
Ego molester
Knows just what to do
Always amusing
So perfectly rusing
An all-year April’s fool
She’s got every means to disarm
All I got to give I’d give to keep her from all harm
Uppers & downers
Plastic encounters
Clichés from the heart
Jester of Leicester
Soul polyester
And arse like René Descartes
That is
Very smart
So fine, so mine!
She knows what to do
What to not to do to shake my mind
So mad, so rad!
Life is a laugh
It’s a gag and it is a gas gas gas
Jester of Leicester
Living for yesterday
Is not her sin
Trying to defeat her
Results in a failure
And luck in the garbage bin
You living on the rim
Showing any sign of harm is her cue
‘Cause any way you look at it
The last laugh is on you
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Funeral Train
04:30
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One in, one out
Don’t twist, don’t shout
Stand still and forget your pain
‘Cause the ride is easy on the funeral train
Drive a stake through your heart
Make sure you never come
Back for another start
‘Cause the tracks here only got one lane
It’s a one way ticket on the funeral train
Driver, tell me where we’re bound
‘Twould be nice to know
To ask my friends to come around
But he says:
“The only place where you’re bound and chained
Are the chairs and benches on the funeral train”
Drive her home on your own
Keep wondering your grey old brain
Down to the bone
As to why no-one’s gettin’ off or stayin’
Why there’s only one in on the funeral train
Dying down
The throbbing sound
Lying down
The senses to sleep
Leafing through your life
Sifting sands of time
Through your hands
What’s the word
You always heard?
Where’s the herd
You worked with so well?
Who’s the one in charge here?
Whose barge is bound for the Sun?
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Skyward!
05:53
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Come and close your eyes
I’ll guide you
Past the trees, past the fireflies
To the water
Dive on down
Come and cross the skies
Freefloating
Open up every orifice to the water
Dive on down
What Moloch makes a man forget about his
Long lineage ‘mongst the many families of stars?
What Moloch moulded him into a mindless
Melder into the mass of mediocrity?
No matter what’s his name or where he comes from
No need to know ‘em just to make him go away
All that it takes to turn the water skyward
Is strength to dive, and strength to dive as if to fly
Singing:
This one’s made of mud
Put in place by a bearded god
This one’s meant to be down below
But chance, or so it seems
Gave us visions and gave us dreams
Gave us wings to weigh down the winds
What Sodom waits for us among the lilies
That cover up enormous stretches of the sky?
What Wonderland will we be falling up to?
What voice will sing to us a lotus lullaby?
The echo of the shriek we spat into the world
While working our way out of the waters of the womb!
The tongue we talked among our brothers
Way before we could speak!
Float away, float away until you’re flying
Like leaves in the autumn air
No thoughts, not a worldly care
No hesitation to land among the dying
For the forces that whistle down the wind
Got no faces to smile or frown
So, you see, diving up or down,
We’re all here just to rock ‘n’ rot
Singing:
This one’s made of mind
By the forces of nature, blind
This one’s meant to be down below
But chance, or so it seems
Gave us visions and gave us dreams
Gave us wings to weigh down the winds
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6. |
Had a Few
04:55
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Don’t ever go down below
Where my memories are stacked safe from you
And I’ve got a few
They never knocked
Well, I never locked up my heart
When they came by my way
Some, it seems, to stay
It’s not that you wouldn’t do
Wouldn’t you do what I’ve done
Were I the one to fly?
While you’ve been out there
I’ve had a few
None of them ever
Came close to the dreams
And waking visions
I’ve had of you
While you’ve been out there
So far away
No alibi
Who’d ever buy
All those stories they sew on the past
As if they’d last
For time will rewind
An honest mind
And leave us loving
To play back once more
What we had before
You started out there
And I had a few
None of them ever
Came close to the dreams
And waking visions
I had of you
While you were out there
So far away
Don’t say a thing
Let it ring
It’s just the stacked ones
Scratching their walls
To see what falls...
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7. |
How She Moves
02:43
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Aye!
Bedhead, redhead, deadhead
Satta massagana Jimmy Dread
Chop chop! Off with his head
Separate the body from its neck
Hello high oh how low
Eeny meeny miny moe
You’re going to reap
What you have sown
How she moves, how she moves!
Amazing baby
She’s the only one I could choose
How she moves, how she moves!
Hazy, crazy
She’s the Devil now on the loose
Chicken, heathen kitchen
Rutabaga Baba Yaga 鼯 fan-dan-goo
w/ Pazuzu
かきくけcook of ‘em a stew
You’re on your own, now
On your
Sha na na na na na knees
And bow three times
Copain, bonjour!
How she moves, how she moves!
Amazing baby
She’s the only one you should choose
How she moves, how she moves
Hazy, crazy
She’s the Devil now on the loose!
Voodoo hoodoo
Who do
What you never ever dare to do -people
Fee
Fi
Fo
Fum!
R U ready?
Ready to say she grooves?
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8. |
Absinthe Song
01:44
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Take me for a walk, babe
You know where to go
Push my wheelchair by the bay
Where the hippies spend the day
Let’s join ‘em for a joint
Enjoy the journey, let’s go
Flashing back through memories
From fifty years ago
Paris – 19-
Chérie – -16!
Zürich – Absinthe
Für mich? – Für dich!
The boys
All
Gone
Baby, bring me back now
Can’t take it no more
Seeing all this raving youth
Is just too ripping on me hoot
They’ve got Nam on the TV
They’ve got LSD
But none of them can ever be
As crazy as we were
Demandez quelle heure il est;
Et le vent,
La vague,
L’étoile,
L’oiseau,
L’horloge,
Vous repondront:
“Il est l’heure de s’enivrer!”
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A Dream of Marié
04:21
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Last night I dreamt of angels
I dreamt of you and all the ages gone
I dreamt of the Moon and all her maidens,
How they were lost in the sky,
Deep down in the dark blue sky
Looking for you
And then I knew
I was having trouble trying to memorise
Your face and your name
In my dream of you
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Cocoon
03:46
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Your face
And your figure was
Like a fuel that made us burn
The way you talked
The way you made us believe
Put us together in the first place
Cocoon
And in order to become a butterfly
You should remember
To begin as a cocoon
And in the end
You must go and let flutter by
All the feelings that hold you in the ground
You were
And your feelings were
The very things
That cut us loose
Cocoon
Back then
When we were two
I was the one
To lay in cocoon
You were,
You were
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Gaspard Oil Sumiainen, Finland
A two-headed demon with five bodies and bi-wings of steel and cloth, Gaspard Oil sings and breathes flame the colour of the midnight sky. Named after the infamous French-Polish opium eater, adventurer and early space travel pioneer of the first half of the 20th century – Gaspard Oil the man – this Finnish band aims to capture & honour the wild spirit and demented creativity of its namesake. ... more
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