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Butterfly (Julian)
02:58
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She can go where she wants to under the sky
She will stare through your window, hanging there
Crucified, terrified, butterfly
She can do what she wants to any old time
Ballerina in curtain, spinning 'round
horrified, crucified, butterfly
terrified, electric eyed, butterfly
She is out there flying 'round
and her feet don't touch the ground
I am in this room, alone
inside my wingless dead cocoon
She's got something in her eye
but she's not supposed to cry
She will paint this town, in fact
she'll turn it upside down and
all around, 'till everything is gone
She can go where she wants to under the sky
She will stare through your window, hanging there
Crucified, terrified, butterfly
Terrified, electric eyed, butterfly
She is out there flying 'round
and her feet don't touch the ground
I am in this room, alone
inside my wingless dead cocoon
She's got something in her eye
but she's not supposed to cry
She will paint this town, in fact
she'll turn it upside down and
all around, 'till everything is gone
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Glass Room (Julian)
03:43
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Calling 2032, we're lost in outer space
We got the word, we got the word
but still we couldn't get away
Sitting in electric dome above the universe
We start to fade, we start to fade
and now we don't know where to turn
I'm losing hold on just who you are
Sitting up late in the glass room counting stars
I'm disjointed in unconscious outer realms
I got my way, I got my way
but still I couldn't get her down
Zipped up in transparencies we hover mother earth
Lost in the haze, lost in the haze
still we don't know where to turn
I'm losing hold on everyone
Shooting up space in the glass room turning on.
I'm losing hold on everyone
Shooting up space in the glass room turning on
Calling 2032, we're lost in outer space
We got the word, we got the word
but still we couldn't get away
Sitting in electric dome above the universe
We start to fade, we start to fade
and now we don't know where to turn
I'm losing hold on just who you are
Sitting up late in the glass room counting stars
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In a mystic land, lived a little man
Frumpy Ogden Styre, he lived beneath the briers.
Wore a candle crown and sat behind a frown
And there he'd sit all day, lonely and afraid
All the day he'd sit and stare with antiseptic hollow eyes
Ugly little homely gnome alone he sits in candle light
Every night turns out the light and lets his mind go outer space
On the liquid sheen lands a strange machine
Behind the rattling gears a small strange creature peers
A door then opens slow then from the mystic glow
A small gray hand appears, thus drawing Frumpy near
All the day he'd sit and stare with antiseptic hollow eyes
Ugly little homely gnome alone he sits in candle light
Every night turns out the light and lets his mind go outer space
In the mystic realm, in propeller gown
Frumpy Ogden Styre, lives above the spires
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Mister Spaceman (Julian)
02:46
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Hey mister spaceman we've got another song
It will probably make you millions if you'd only sing-a-long
So hey mister spaceman we're waiting for a sign, if you will
Hey mister spaceman we've been here for some time
And we've seen you in your spaceship as you swim through Hailey's sky
So hey mister space man oh please give us a sign if you will
I am hiding in your mind
I have been here for some time
We are running out of life
Looking through your aging eyes
We don't know if you will ever get to
see inside our minds.
(instr)
I am hiding in your mind
I have been here for some time
We are running out of life
Looking through your aging eyes
We don't know if you will ever get to
see inside our minds.
So hey mister spaceman we've got another song
It will help to introduce you if you only sing-a-long
So hey mister spaceman oh please give us a sign, if you will
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Stop (Julian)
03:39
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She used to live in the basement
She stayed alone in her candy colored room
I just needed somebody new
she just needed somebody too
I used to bring her the paper
Then sit and wait 'till she opened up her door
I'd never seen no one before
you just keep me waiting for more
I think she knows what's happening,
but I don't think she really cares for me
I'd like to hold her to me
but I just better stop
She used to walk in the garden
I'd watch the leaves as they danced about her feet
She is the woman for me
She is so perfect too
I followed her to the market
I heard her singing a haunted melody
Could she be singing for me?
I think she's singing to me.
I think she knows what's happening,
but I don't think she really cares for me
I'd like to hold her to me
but I just better stop
Take me back to the golden garden, take me with you to the golden garden
Take me back to the golden garden, I want to go to the golden garden
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Old man Arthur, Old man Arthur,
Old man Arthur, Old man Arthur,
Old man Arthur he's wearing his medicine frown
Puts on his overcoat, walks into town
All of the people they gather around
Arthur he don't make a sound
All of the people say Arthur's insane, they say
Old man Arthur (He's insane)
Old man Arthur (In his mind)
Old man Arthur (Dragonfly)
Old man Arthur
Old man Arthur he puts on his evening gown
Stands in the garden he's spinning around
Paints up his face just like Happy the clown
He's wearing his chemical crown
All of the people say Arthur's insane, they say
Old man Arthur (He's insane)
Old man Arthur (In his mind)
Old man Arthur (Dragonfly)
Old man Arthur
Bottle eyed priestess comes
fluttering from fairy land
through haunted sky
Crumpled winged mantis girl
froze in the windowsill
she butterflies.
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Hourglass (Julian)
05:06
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Mary Martin hair of gold
walk out in your field of snow
button up your overcoat
meet me by your mother's stone
We know, we know, we know
We know, we know, we know
We know, we know, we know
Mary Martin eyes of black,
she's peering through the hourglass
She opens up her eyes to see the sun
Mary Martin, golden one
sit beneath the orange sun
cover up your pretty face
meet me by your mother's grave
We know, we know, we know
We know, we know, we know
We know, we know, we know
Mary Martin grew too fast
She fell into the hourglass
She opens up her eyes to see the sun.
Hourglass, she closes both her eyes
and now she's gone
Behind the grey stone wall
I hear her call
'neath velvet skies
through crystal branches
standing naked in the rain.
Mary Martin hair of gold
walk out in your field of snow
Button up your overcoat
Meet me by your mother's stone
We know, we know, we know
We know, we know, we know
We know, we know, we know
Mary Martin spirit trapped
She's slipping through the hourglass
She opens up her eyes to see the sun
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Mrs. Walker (Julian)
03:38
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Poor old Mrs. Walker
lives on main street
comes 'round Sundays
We know what she's after
and we know where she's going
Photographs she's showing
Mrs. Walker he's the best we've ever seen
Mrs. Walker he's your boy, my how he's grown
In the photograph in uniform holding a machine gun
Poor old Mrs. Walker
sits in church in silence praying
We know what she's asking
Keep his spirit lasting
Save his soul from passing
Mrs. Walker he's the best we've ever seen
Mrs. Walker he's your boy, my how he's grown
In the photograph in uniform holding a machine gun
Poor old Mrs. Walker
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Merry Christmas Elizabeth Kimball
I hope that you're having a lovely December
Rushing by on your way, past the store front display
catch a glimpse of herself in that window
In your red velvet cape, with your colors in-laced
You're the harlequin princess of winter
And I wanted to just say hello but I froze
when you're near I just hang there in limbo
And late at night when you are warm inside your home
I wander through the streets of snow. I am all alone.
Happy holidays, all of the children are gathered around
singing carols they wake me.
I get up to my feet and walk back to the street
where I know that I'll see you, I'm waiting
Santa's ringing his bell and the shop keeper yells at me
please go away you old beggar
As I turn to walk off I see you and you're scoffing along
with those fresh faced young fellows.
And in my tattered coat I walk out in the street
And then my eyes fill up with tears, eyes fill up with tears.
(instr)
And late at night when you are warm inside your home
I wander through the streets of snow. I am all alone.
Merry Christmas Elizabeth Kimball
I hope that you're having a lovely December
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Doctor Centenial's going insane, he threw all his things away
He walks through the corridors out in the air, he's watching the airplanes
When all the city is astir he sits alone in the rain
And no one seems to notice him, he's slowly slipping away
Doctor Centenial's losing his mind, he sat in his car today
He rolled up the windows and locked all the doors, he's not coming out they say
The institute of mental health is trying to have him paged
All the while he's sitting alone, quietly going insane
Doctor Centenial's losing his brain, he opened the doors today
And all of the patients are leaving their rooms, they meet on the promenade
When all the city is asleep and safely tucked away
Doctor Centenial's laughing men are marching the strange parade
(Madness)
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Alistair (Julian)
03:42
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Alistair came to stay, arrived on a holiday
Don't you know you should never play with Alistair
You're having a lovely day, when you hear your mother say
Don't you know you should never play with Alistair
He's got an overcoat, a spyglass, an old pair of shoes
He sleeps in jolly park, he walks around with nothing to do
He's not like anyone, He's not like anyone
We're having a lovely day, 'till Alistair came to stay
Don't you know you should never play with Alistair
Molly can't come to stay, 'till Alistair goes away
Don't you know you you can never stay with Alistair
He wear a pirate's hat, a dirty bag, an old pair of shoes
With a look of liberty, you must admit he's got his own style
He's not like anyone, He's not like anyone
There's something wrong inside his mind
he knows he's running out of time
Alistair came to stay, arrived on a holiday
Don't you know you should never play with Alistair
Don't you know you should never play with Alistair
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Icecycle Rainbow
04:26
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Carolyn stands in the window,
Victorian, Icecycle rainbow
I'm just sitting here in stratosphere meadow
Love is coming on, just like a volcano
She draws a picture for me,
on frosty window it's all I can see
Icecycle rainbow, Icecycle rainbow
Walk with me through crystal branch winter
Christmas queen, bride of December
I will meet you there, under the willow
You can walk with me through stratosphere meadow
She draws a picture for me,
on frosty window it's all I can see
Icecycle rainbow, Icecycle rainbow
(Instr)
She draws a picture for me,
on frosty window it's all I can see
Icecycle rainbow, Icecycle rainbow
And I thought she said she'd wait for me for evermore
But the winter's here and I am all alone and waiting
And the picture that you drew for me on frosted window
is melting fast away the sun is shining on you
Icecycle rainbows, Icecycle rainbows
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Walter Ghoul's Lavender Brigade is coming.
Walter and his caravan of friends are coming
And everyone's happy (But everyone's scared)
And everyone's laughing (But all out of fear)
And everyone says it's the strangest collection that they'd ever seen.
Walter Ghoul's Lavender Brigade is coming.
Walter hands out lemonade and say good morning.
And everyone's watching (Cause everyone's scared)
And everyone's waving (But all out of fear)
As everyone says "Mr. Walter can I have a photo him?"
Kaleidoscopic caravan with
"Laughing Wilma" and the "two headed man"
"One eyed Henry" and his upper torso parasitic twin.
Walter Ghoul's Lavender Brigade is coming.
Lock the door and close the curtain Mrs. Wilson
And everyone's coming (But everyone's scared)
And everyone's pushing (Is everyone here?)
As the spotlight reveals the "Incredible Zoomorphic Man"
Paranormal, pornographic, Belladonna, the nude astrologer
You can see your future when you lie with her
I see mansions of black meds
I see woman in velvet robes, chanting, celebrating,
with shaved heads, wearing tattoos of Shiva and Shakti
mantras and rituals, tarantulas and candles
red rooms and phantoms,
black forest witches with branches for arms
scratching at bedroom window
stretching through adolescent spider web nightmares
It's Walter himself and he's standing right before me
in his black waving coat with silvery buttons
he's wearing surgical gloves and a pig mask
he's holding something in his hand
it's the medicine jar
It's full of eyes
He's laughing
Hey Walter,
I'm taking off the bandages now.
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In a mystic land
lived a little man
Frumpy Ogden Styre
whom lived beneath the briers
He wore a candle crown
and sat behind a frown
and there he'd sit all day
lonely and afraid
All the day he'd sit and stare
with antiseptic hollow eyes
Ugly little homely gnome
alone he sits in candle light
Every night turns out the light
and lets his mind go outer space
On the liquid sheen
lands a strange machine
Behind the rattling gears
a small strange creature peers
A door then opens slow
then from the mystic glow
A small grey hand appears
thus drawing Frumpy near
All the day he'd sit and stare
with antiseptic hollow eyes
Ugly little homely gnome
alone he sits in candle light
Every night turns out the light
and lets his mind go outer space
In the mystic realm
in propeller gown
Frumpy Ogden Styre
lives above the spires
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I went to the Doctor he gave me the needle
We sat in the courtyard and talked about evil
He said that the devil represented my father
as the nurse she rolled up my sleeve
He opened his black bag, he's holding up ink blots
He asked me to name them, I gave it my best shot
That's Hitler in tutu and Van Gogh on high wire
at least that's how it appears
And it's all right, everything they do and it's
all right, everything I take keeps me up all night
and I don't even know if I'll ever see the world
the way I think they want the world to appear
Meanwhile they will keep me here
inside this spinning medicine wheel
They called up my girlfriend, she came and watched TV
then after four hours, she said she was leaving
I called up my mother, she said that she prayed so
everything is okay.
I closed both my eyes and pretend that I'm dreaming
the nurse she burst in and started taking my shoe strings
She's strapping my hands down, put a tube in my penis
she said "Oh no, please don't mind me".
And it's all right, everything they do and it's
all right, everything I take keeps me up all night
and I don't even know if I'll ever see the world
the way I think they want the world to appear
Meanwhile they will keep me here
inside this spinning medicine wheel
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