Lyrics
Constantinople
Here I come, Constantinople.
Here I come, Constantinople.
I am coming, Constantinople,
Here I come.
All the leaves are off of the oak and
All of the sheep have followed the spoken
Word. I'm coming
Constantinople.
Here I come.
So I stand out in the open.
All my friends are with you I hope and
Pray. I'm coming Constantinople.
Here I come.
Here I come, Constantinople.
Here I come, Constantinople.
I am coming, Constantinople,
Here I come.
Sinister Exaggerator
Your life is leaning downhill
Sloping off the outer edge.
Your undetermined oyster beds
Were found to be a hedge.
You case the kids of Elmer Fudd
To feed the farmer whose
Cadaver's filled with onion rings
And feet are filled with glue.
Now Sinister Exaggerator,
What's your claim to fame?
Is still your favorite Ferlinghetti
Found in Auntie Maim?
Your alter life is superceded
Only from above.
Your heart is like a silken sponge
That calls saliva love.
The Booker Tease
Instrumental
Blue Rosebuds
I love you and cause I do
My skies have changed
From grey to blue.
But blue's not just
A color of the rainbow.
It's shade is not a hazy hue
But pure and hard
My blue sky blue
It's like a Roman candle
Coming rosebuds.
"Your words are empty hollow bleatings
Of a mental crutch.
They're open festered indigestion
With a velvet touch
An ether eating Eskimo
Would gag upon your sight,
Convulsed into oblivion
from laughter or from fright.
A coma with a sweet aroma
Is your only dream,
Malignant with the
misconception
That a grunt can gleam.
Your lichen covered corpuscles
Are filthy as a fist.
Infection is your finest flower
Mildewed in the mist."
I love you and cause I do
My skies have changed
From grey to blue.
But blue's not just
A color of the rainbow.
It's shade is not a hazy hue
But pure and hard
My blue sky blue
It's like a Roman candle
Coming rosebuds.
Blue Rosebuds.
Laughing Song
An oily ole egg with a red peg leg
Thought a porquepine was his daughter.
But he soon found out
that she had the gout,
And often would wink underwater.
A red red rose saw a big pig pose
On the edge of a silver dollar.
The end of his tail
Was a long necked nail.
In place of his face was a scholar.
Bach is Dead
Walking women want to see
The Southern Cross at night.
And so they set aside a sock
And tie their laces tight.
Yes, mournful is the melody
That echoes in their heads.
Without a beat they march along
Believing Bach is dead.
Elvis and His Boss
Oh, I'm gonna be my baby, baby
Baby, but you see.
My mamma said
My mamma said
My mamma said to me
"My son I see the Sunset lies
About a baby bee."
So if you see me
I'll be standing
Out on ole Broadway.
Amused, abused, but not confused,
I'm making my own way.
Straight to the top
I'll never stop
I'll die before my day.
Lizard Lady
What's a woman going to do
But throw away her bread;
Her feet are feeling funny
As she lies beneath the bed;
She reminisces of the pungent Adriatic Sea,
And then she crawls and counts her cans
And twitches like a flea.
What she really likes to do
Is sit upon a pew,
And make believe that time has stopped
And motionless is new;
Planes are stranded in the sky
And drains are stopping, too,
And she alone is laughing under
Eyelids full of flu.
She scurries hurries worries that
The wicked will receive
Their candy from a handsome man
And coffee from a thief;
She gazes at a hourglass and
Asks it if it cares,
And then she wonders if the lizard
Likes his lettuce rare:
"Lizard, yes a lizard, little lizard of the sea,
Conspicuously alcoholic, flicks his tongue at me!
Release me lizard! Licking lizard,
blizzard of the bea,
Mushed inside a sock you still
dare me --- to die
Dare me to die --- at home..."
"Coating all my lungs with honey,
Sticky coating running runny,
Feet of lizard fly!
And stop and fly and stop and fly
And flicker tongue is licking out
To find me --- feel me. Hide!
Hide from the tongue!
The tongue is coming! Cruising! Oozing!
Over land and under ashes,
In the sunlight, see -- it flashes,
Find a fly and eat his eye,
But don't believe in me.
Don't believe in me.
Don't believe in me."
Semolina
She can see the silver sometimes
Shining on the sea;
Reflecting from the flying fishes
Wishing she could be
A little piece of sand that's blown
Above the ocean's breeze,
But all she has is thoughts of all
those fingers peeling seeds,
And leaving them to mold among
The women watching weeds.
Sem-o-lina
Loves the seashells.
At the shore she
Loves the seashells.
Birthday Boy
Bulging eyes abound about
The birthday boy today;
Screaming, "Creaming eyes!"
Screamed he,
His mother looked away.
"Creaming eyes explode upon
An apple pirate toad
And if an injun ate a plate
I'd laugh and live abode."
Nervousness itself was shifting
Guests against the door,
"Forgive us dear, but, uh, baking beer
It what we should be near."
"Bye," the bothered birthday boy said,
"Bye," the bothered birthday boy said,
"Bye or sell or bye,
Bye or sell or bye."
"Happy, happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday to me he-he-hee,
Happy birthday to me...
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Weight-Lifting Lulu
Sweet scented woman, your strange sounding name
Was Weight Lifting Lulu, but I'm not to blame
For putting the gun in your grand-daddy's hand
As he was imprinting your face in the sand.
The part of the pork chop that you left behind,
Has given me breakfast and rendered me blind;
I still want you, baby, and I miss you so much.
I hated your body, but I needed your touch.
Weight Lifting Lulu
Is under the lawn
Weight Lifting Lulu
Forever is gone.
Krafty Cheese
You care for plants and we care for you;
You care for plants and we care for you.
Upward to the sun we grow,
Careful plants, be
Careful plants.
Hello Skinny
Skinny was born in a bathtub
And grew so incredibly thin,
That even the end of an eyedropper
Sucked him in;
Skinny never knew any questions
And Skinny never looked at lights,
But Skinny sold something
Every single night.
Skinny sold a soldier to me
Skinny sold a wife,
Skinny sold a suction cup
And a knife.
Skinny found a "Hello Dolly"
Record in the hall.
He sold it to a truck driver
In the fall.
The Electrocutioner
"Time for all the followers of doom
Is drawin near,
Deceivin no one knowing nothing
But the bite of fear;
Smilin as I throw the switch
That takes away their breath,
I see life as an interruption
To the tune of death."
She is the Electrocutioner
She is the Electrocutioner
"Playin with my birds
I wonder how the world could be
A perfect place to sin about
For anyone but me;
I see the shimmer of the dewdrops
As I drink my tea,
And when the foolishness is over
I am much more me;
I wish that all the sufferin
And all the misery
Could be consumed inside my room
Where switches set you free."