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There's a pilot
Who lived in the days
when planes were
Still made out of wood and fiber
And hearts of men
Women loved him;
The way how he looked
right through them;
The sound of his motor humming;
And then he's gone!
He's a man called
Gaspard Oil
And he's flying to the moon
But he's flying there too soon
Just to see whether he could
He is confident to try
Below him only sky
He's a man called
Gaspard Oil
And he's not around
here soon anymore!
He's a man called
Gaspard Oil!
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Agatha
03:02
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I came back to England
I left him in France
I thought I might meet him
Perhaps by a chance
I knew it could be
Yes, it would happen to me!
And well, eventually
it did
He was different then
Unlike most gentlemen I had seen
I could not guarantee
My safety with him
He flies me to the moon
And I think he knows this too
If he will just
say the right thing for me
I will love him good
And then: he was a-fleeing
I remember seeing
Him with a miss:
Oh, I suspected this!
And right I was once more
I gave up my life
To be the sorrowful wife
Of a man much worse
Than the one I'd cursed
Whom I still bore
A grudge aching and sore
And thought how I could
Just do him no good
But I still love him
He's the one and only true man
That I have ever
Seen in my life!
He flies me to the moon...
And I think I know how
To get him back to my life
I think I need some
Straight strychnine!
He flies me to the moon...
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Well now, brother.
It seems like you have a taste for the blues.
But first of all you should learn
the don'ts and especially the dos
of what is black and what should never be tried
by any man whose soul is white.
Deep in the delta lives a lady of the earth
Held in high regard by men of musical worth
Her mojo rises from the marsh,
More potent than that of most men
And if you're lucky, she will 'stow
On you the mysteries of her soul
Watch out for the big black Ana!
It's no secret:
there are dark things in the mistier parts.
But before you go out and judge,
you should redefine ”dark”.
What you're about to learn is of the good kind,
no worse than the darkness in our skin.
Initiated in the chemistry of love,
This sorceress does not come from above
She's gonna give you all you need
To tap into roots that grow underneath
You'd better keep your pale white hands
Far from this fairy's juju bag
Watch out for the big black Ana!
When you walk out, you know,
you might not be the same
It's not without risk that you
go play her groovy game
She's gonna hoodoo you so bad
You won't even know your own plane
She is a rose, she is a thorn
– by all by which you've ever sworn,
Watch out for the big black Ana!
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Alice
06:02
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She stands and she laughs
Smiles down on me
They call her Alice
I'm not her first
but I am most
She has it on herself
I go down for her
And she looks at me again
I leave my mind
And stay with her now once again
One by one
All the good men must go
Down down down
Aim too high and fall with me
I will show you how and
One by one
Every DJ lets you
Down down down
Just lie down and slide away
Come on, just fly with me 'til the dawn
I take my time
The heat is on me
and she comes to me again
She's still yearning
For me to go down once again
I take my leave
It's some 'til five
and she kisses me again
I look right through her
a whiff of smoke and she is gone
One by one...
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Manuel
01:41
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We'd rather not tell...
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Cold Poison
05:13
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Take your belongings
Take your clothes
Take your jewelry
Do it but do it silently
Take all your moonlit secrets
And hide them
Bury them deep in your heart
Bury them deep in your heart
I will cover you day by day
I will honour you:
Care for your welfare entirely
I will be there forever
And take you with me into sweet harmony
take you to golden harmony
Come with me!
Come with me!
I do doubt that I will
Flying always on is you
I like it down here
Like you could never know
I still want you to be my sweetheart
And stay with me
Lie to me
Make a fool of me!
I want to hold your hand
And to smell your hair in the sea breeze quietly
Hold you in sea breeze quietly
Come with me!
Come with me!
I feel better about this
Flying always on is you
But I still love you!
If you will love me too!
Come this way in the moonlit hours
I will meet you then
And I will fly you to safety
Meet me in darkest corner
Of darkest and foulest
Of lakeside alehouses
Darkest of lakeside alehouses
Drink with me!
Drink with me!
”I am feeling unsober
And you do sound so different!
Oh Lord have mercy!
I don't wanna die this young!”
One good forgery
One fine mockery
Knowing when to lie
And to flatter pointlessly
Two grains of Indian strychnine
These are ingredients of murder in art!
Ingredients of murder in art
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Isabella
03:12
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Have you been across the empty quarter?
Have you seen the mountains in their majesty?
And the valleys where the Tree of Life still flourishes
If only as blossoms...
Let me tell you:
There is something more than fair flowers
Hidden in that noble land,
Something fairer than the highest mountain ranges
And twice as deadly
Fools go there for her,
Wise men for the flowers
Isabella
Fairy of the foothills
You were never meant to be caressed by white hands
well protected
By your burning brothers
Daughter of the poppy fields
Do you get my word of warning, young man?
Is it clear enough for you to understand?
I'm a-telling you to keep away for your sake,
Not for my advantage
And this is not a fabrication,
There are many men to verify what I have said;
Many men have felt the vengeance of her family
And perished in wooing
All save for one man,
Or so the story goes...
Isabella...
Pick a flower – don't pick Isabella!
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Yehudit
02:07
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A Letter to Marié
01:48
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Every night I think of you
As I look into the moon on desert sky
And prepare for the flight
My dreams have held so dear
But darling! There's no fear;
I shall come back
And take you to the stars with me
I'll go ahead just to see...
If it is allright for you there to be!
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The Treachery of Emilia
06:06
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We bought a house beside the Skawa
It was temperate in the summer months
We started growing some grass
And apples, too
We hadn't even thought of babies
It just did not seem the thing for us
We were content just to try and settle down
One sunny morning he appeared
A master over all the ways of flight
Oh, you were taken by his stories
Of distant lands and by his sky-blue eyes
Cast between our blooming hearts
This rapting falcon from above
Was crushing everything I'd grown
Me, I have no right to grant
Wishes or to understand
I could never make you fly
My baby, what have you been up to?
Have you met the moustached man again?
No revelation can hurt like silence does
My only fear is that of shame, now
I just wait for future proof for it:
Could my true love bear for me
A foreign child?
For you who spend your whole life crawling
In salt mines, envying the men who fly:
Flight is no fairer than your toiling
If one is flying merely to get laid
Cast between our blooming hearts
This rapting falcon from above
Was crushing everything I'd grown
Me, I have no means to grant
Wishes or to understand
I could never make you fly
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Tell Him, Louise!
02:29
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This road is burning under
Four wheels are yelling higher
There is an airfield somewhere
Then we gotta be there:
Babe, you gotta leave him!
I might be wrong but I tell you:
Uh huh – don't go there, girlfriend!
That mustache gunna fuck you over
An' I ain't talking downtown, lady!
I wanna love him!
Like aviator loves the sky
I really want to
Why don't you just let me try?
I wanna love him
Like aviator wants to fly
I really want to
Why don't you just let me try?!!
Coyotes howlin' ouu ouu
I say: he's gunna use you!
But no! Not if you do
Dump him, darling! Ditch 'im!
Babe, you gotta leave him!
I wanna love him
Like aviator loves the sky
I really want to
Why don't you just let me try?
I wanna love him!!
Like aviator wants to fly
I really want to
Why don't you just let me try?!!
And he flies and he flies and he flies
Don't it bother!
And he flies and he flies and he lies
Mahalia – A mean-mouthed, kindhearted rotund black momma on a highway with Louise
Louise – A skinny white blonde chick with a hopelessly romantic heart
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I was just a starchild
comet tail a-blazing
I flared it through
and, sometimes, guess I was amazing
You made me behave like a fool
to you
who came to me amidst my flight
and shone like million stars at night
And we
just came to be
two lovers
Who shared the same memories
You were just a starchild
comet tail a-blazing!
You flared with me
and, for some time, guess we were amazing
But I just flew too far
without you
I thought I'd find the moon for you
But what I had misunderstood was
you
just wanted me
to love you
instead of my fantasies
But I was just a starchild
Might be a bit crazy!
Though I love you
My heart I could not go misplacing
We just can't pull this through
anymore
It's time to leave this stage, ami
We can't pretend it's a-ok
But though
we must let go
mmm we still
have our memories
You wanted to fly to the moon
But I wanted to become a star
Now you have flown too soon
And the stars between tear us apart
I wanted to come to you
But I could not make up my own heart
It's getting too dark
For stars to be...
Come on to me Gaspard!
Come on to me now!
Come on to me Gaspard...
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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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