BOYS FOR PELE

 

 

 

BEAUTY QUEEN

 

She's a beauty queen

My sweet bean bag in the street

Take it

down to the laundry scene

Don't know why she's in my hand

Can't figure what it is

but I lie again

 

 

HORSES

 

I got me some horses to ride on to ride on

They say that your demons can't go there

So I got me some horses to ride on to ride on

as long as your army keeps perfectly still

 

And maybe I'll find me a sailor a tailor

and maybe together we'll make mother well

So I got me some horses to ride on to ride on

as long as your army keeps perfectly still

You showed me the meadow and Milkwood and Silkwood

and you would if I would but you never would

so I chased down your posies your pansies in my hosies

then opened my hands and they were empty then

 

Off with superfly sniffing a Sharpie pen

Honey it's Bill and Ben

Off with superfly counting your bees

oh me honey like one two three

The camera is rolling

It's easy like one two three

 

And if there is a way to find you

I will find you

but will you find me if Neil

makes me a tree an afro a pharaoh

I can't go you said so

and threads that are golden don't break easily

 

So I got me some horses to ride on to ride on

They say that your demons can't go there

So I got me some horses to ride on to ride on

as long as your army keeps perfectly still

keeps perfectly still

keeps perfectly still

 

 

BLOOD ROSES

 

Blood roses

Blood roses

Back on the street now

Blood roses

Blood roses

Back on the street now

Can't forget the things you never said

on days like these starts me thinking

 

When chickens get a taste of your meat

Chickens get a taste of your meat

 

You gave him your blood

and your warm little diamond

He likes killing you after you're dead

You think I'm a queer

I think you're a queer

I think you're a queer

I think you're a queer

 

I shaved every place where you been boy

I shaved every place where you been yes

 

God knows I know I've thrown away those graces

 

The belle of New Orleans tried to show me

once how to tango

Wrapped around your feet

Wrapped around like good little roses

 

Blood roses

Blood roses

Back on the street now

Blood roses

Blood roses

Back on the street now

Now you've cut out the flute

from the throat of the loon

at least when you cry now

he can't hear you

when chickens get a taste of your meat

Come on come on come on come on

when he sucks you deep

Sometimes you're nothing but meat

 

 

FATHER LUCIFER

 

Father Lucifer you never looked so sane

You always did prefer the drizzle to the rain

Tell me that you're still in love with that milkmaid

How the lizzies

How's your Jesus Christ been hanging

 

Nothing's gonna stop me from floating

Nothing's gonna stop me from floating

 

He says he reckons I'm a watercolour stain

He says I run and then I run from him and then I run

He didn't see me watching from the aeroplane

He wiped a tear and then he threw away our appleseed

 

Nothing's gonna stop me from floating

Nothing's gonna stop me from floating

 

Everyday's my wedding day

Though baby's still in his comatose state

I'll dye my own Easter eggs

Don't go yet

and Beenie lost the sunset but that's OK

Does Joe bring flowers to Marilyn's grave

and girls that eat pizza and never gain weight

 

Father Lucifer you never looked so sane

You always did prefer the drizzle to the rain

Tell me that you're still in love with that milkmaid

How the lizzies

How's your Jesus Christ been hanging

 

 

PROFESSIONAL WIDOW

 

Slag pit stag shit

Honey bring it close to my lips yes

Don't blow those brains yet

We gotta be big boy

We gotta be big

Starfucker just like my Daddy

Starfucker just like my Daddy yes

Selling his baby

Just like my daddy

Gonna strike a deal

make him feel like a congressman

Runnin in the family

Runnin in the family

 

Rest your shoulders Peaches and Cream

Everywhere a Judas as far as you can see

Beautiful angel calling

"We got every re-run of Muhammad Ali"

 

Prism perfect

Honey bring it close to your lips yes

What is termed a landslide of principle

proportion boy it better be big boy

Starfucker just like my daddy

Starfucker just like my daddy

sellin his baby just like my Daddy

Gonna strike a deal

make him feel like a congressman

It runs in the family

Runnin in the family

 

Mother Mary

china white

Brown may be sweeter

She will supply

She will supply

She will supply

She will supply

 

 

MR. ZEBRA

 

Hello Mr. Zebra

Can I have your sweater

cause it's cold cold cold

in my hole hole hole

Ratatouille Strychnine

Sometimes she's a friend of mine

with a gigantic whirlpool

that will blow your mind

 

Hello Mr. Zebra

Ran into some confusion

with a Mrs. Crocodile

Furry mussels marching on

She thinks she's Kaiser Wilhelm

or a civilized syllabub

to blow your mind

 

Figure it out

She's a goodtime fella

She's got a little fund to fight

for Moneypenny's rights

Figure it out

She's a goodtime fella

Too bad the burial was premature

she said and smiled

 

 

MARIANNE

 

Tuna rubber

A little blubber in my igloo

and I knew you pigtails and all

Girls when they fall

 

And they say Marianne killed herself

and I said not a chance

not a chance

Don't you love the girls ladies babes

old bags who say she was so pretty

Why why why why did she crawl down in the

old deep ravine

 

C'mon pigtails girls and all those sailors

Get your bags and hold down won't you just

hold down cause Ed is watching my every sound

I said they're watching my every sound

 

The weasal squeaks faster

than a seven day week

I said Timmy and that purple monkey

are all down at Bobby's house

making themselves pesters and lesters

and jesters and my

traitors of kind

 

And I'm just having thougts of Marianne

She could outrun the fastest slug

She could

Marianne

quickest girl in the frying pan

I'm just having thoughts of Marianne

 

 

CAUGHT A LITE SNEEZE

 

Caught a lite sneeze caught a lite breeze

caught a lightweight lightningseed

Boys on my left side

Boys on my right side

Boys in the middle and you're not here

I need a big loan from the girl zone

 

Building

tumbling down

Didn't know our love was so small

Couldn't stand at all

Mr. St. John just bring your son

 

The spire is hot

and my cells can't feed

and you still got that Belle dragging your foots

I'm hiding it well Sister Ernestine

but I still got that Belle

dragging my foots

 

Building

tumbling down

Didn't know our love was so small

Couldn't stand at all

Mr. St. John just bring your son

 

Right on time you get closer and closer

Call my name but there's no way in

Use that fame

Rent your wife and kids today

Maybe she will maybe she will

Caught a lite sneeze

Dreamed a little dream

Made my own pretty hate machine

Boys on my left side

Boys on my right side

Boys in the middle and you're not here

Boys in their dresses and you're not here

I need a big loan from the girl zone

 

Building tumbling down

Didn't know our love was so small

Couldn't stand at all

Mr. St. John just bring your son

 

 

MUHAMMAD MY FRIEND

 

Muhammad my friend it's time to tell the world we both know it was a girl

back in Bethlehem

and on that fateful daywhen she was crucified

she wore Shiseido Red and we drank tea by her side

 

Sweet sweet sweet

used to be so sweet to me

 

Muhammad my friend I'm gettin very scared

Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law

and what about the deal on the flying trapeze

Got a peanut butter hand but honey do drop in

at the Dew Drop Inn

 

Sweet sweet sweet

between the boys and the bees

 

and Moses I know

I know you've seen fire

but you're never seen fire

until you've seen Pele blow

and I've never seen light

but I sure have seen gold

and Gladys save a place for me on your grapevine

till I get my own honey TV show

 

Ashre ashre ashre ashre

and if I lose my Cracker Jacks at the tidal wave

I got a place in the Pope's rubber robe

Muhammad my friend it's time to tell the world

We both know it was a girl back in Bethlehem

We both know it was a girl back in Bethlehem

 

 

HEY JUPITER

 

No one's picking up the phone

Guess it's me and me

and this little massochist

She's ready to confess

all the things that I never thought

that she could feel

 

Hey Jupiter

nothing's been the same

so are you gay

are you blue

Thought we both could use a friend to run to

and I thought I

wouldn't have to be with you

something new

 

Sometimes I breathe you in

and I know you know

and sometimes you take a swim

Found your writing on my wall

If my heart's soaking wet

Boy your boots can leave a mess

 

Hey Jupiter

nothing's been the same

so are you gay

are you blue

Thought we both could use a friend to run to

and I thought you wouldn't have to keep

with me

hiding

 

Thought I knew myself so well

all the dolls I had

Took my leather off the shelf

Your apocalypse was fab

for a girl who couldn't choose

between the shower or the bath

and I thought I wouldn't have to be with you

a magazine

 

No one's picking up the phone

Guess it's clear he's gone

and this little masochist

is lifting up her dress

Guess I thought I could never feel the things

I feel

 

Hey Jupiter

nothing's been the same

so are you gay

Are you blue

Thought we both could use a friend to run to

Hey Jupiter

nothing's been the same

so are you safe

now we're through

Thought we both could use a friend to run to

Hey Jupiter

 

 

WAY DOWN

 

Maybe I'm the afterglow

cause I'm with a band you know

Don't you hear the laughter on the way down

 

Yes I am the anchorman

dining here with Son of Sam

Hear too much to chatter on the way down

 

Gonna meet a great big star

Gonna drive his great big car

Gonna have it all here on the way down

Way down

Way down

Way down

She knows

Way down

Way down

Way down

She knows

 

 

LITTLE AMSTERDAM

 

Little Amsterdam

in a southern town

Hominy get it on your plate girl

Momma keep your head down

Momma it wasn't my bullet

 

Don't take me back to the Range

I'm just comin out of the cell in my brain

Girl you got to know these days

which side you're on

 

Momma got shit

She loved a brown man

then she built a bridge in the Sheriff's bed

She'd do anything to save her man

You see her olives are cold pressed

and her best friend is a sun dress

but Momma it wasn't my bullet

 

Don't take me back to the Range

I'm just comin out of the cell in my brain

Girl you got to know these days

which side you're on

 

Round and a round and a round I go

Round and a round this time for keeps

 

Father only you can save my sould

and playing that organ must count

for something

Girl you got to know these days

 

Little Amsterdam

shut down today

They buried her with a butter bean bouquet

and the Sheriff now can't ride away

like he said into the sunset

and I won't say that he shouldn't of paid

but Momma it wasn't my bullet

 

 

TALULA

 

Congradulate you

said you had a double tongue

Balancing cake and bread

Say goodbye to a glitter girl

 

Talula

Talula

You don't want to lose her

She must be worth losing

if it is worth something

Talula

Talula

She's brand new now to you

Wrapped in your papoose

Your little fig newton

 

Say goodbye to the old world

 

Ran into the henchman who severed

Anne Bolyn

He did it right quickly a merciful man

She said 1+1 is 2

but Henry said that it was 3

So it was

Here I am

 

Talula

Talula

I don't want to lose it

It must be worth losing if it is worth something

Talula

Talula

She's brand new now to you

Wrapped in your papoose

your little fig newton

 

and Jamaica

Do you know what I have done

Mary M weaving on said

what you want is in the blood of senators

 

I got Big Bird on the fishing line

I got a bit of a shout bit of a shout

a bit of an angry snout

He's my faourite hooker of the whole bunch

and I know about his only bribe

and how the Russians die on the ice

I got my rape hot on

honey but I always could accessorise

and I never cared too much for the money

but I know right now

that it's in God's hands

but I don't know who the father is

 

Talula

Talula

I don't want to lose him

he must be worth losing

if it is worth something

Talula

Talula

He's brand new now to you

Wrapped in your papoose

Your little fig newton

 

 

NOT THE RED BARON

 

Not the Red Baron

Not Charlie Brown

Think I got the message figured

Another pilot down

and are their devils with halos

in beautiful capes

taking them into the flames

 

Not Judy G

Not Jean Jean with a hallowed

heart

I see that screen go down

in the flames with every step

with every beautiful heel pointed

 

Not the Red Baron I'm sure

Not Charlie wonderful dog

Not anyone I really know

Just another pilot down

Maybe I'll just sing him a last

little sound many there know some girls

with red ribons

The prettiest red ribbons

 

 

AGENT ORANGE

 

Gotta tell you what I heard from Agent Orange

Mr. Suntan

Mr. Happy Man

Mr. I know the girls on all the world tours

Mr. Agent, yes

He's my favourite

and they don't understand

He's got palm oil for hands

Yes he's down there and everywhere

He's getting in too deep in this

underwater city where she swims and swims

 

 

DOUGHNUT SONG

 

Had me a drink and a kick and your message

Well you'll never gain weight from a doughnut hole

Then thought that I could decipher your message

There's no one here dear

no one at all

 

And if I'm wasting all your time this time

maybe you never learned to take

And if I'm hanging on to your shade

I guess I'm way beyond the pale

 

And southern men can grow gold

can grow pertty

Blood can be pertty like a delicate man

Copper to steel to a hinge that is faltered

that let's you in let's you in let's you in

 

And if I'm wasting all your time this time

maybe you never learned to take

And if I'm hanging on to your shade

I guess I'm way beyond the pale

 

Something's just keeping you numb

 

You told me last night

you were a sun now with your very own

devoted satellite

Happy for you and I am

sure that I hate you

Two sons too many too many able fires

 

You been waisting all my time this time

Said you never learned to take

And if I'm hanging on to your shade

I guess I'm way beyond the pale

 

Had me a drink and a kick and your message

You never gain weight from a doughnut hole

 

 

IN THE SPRINGTIME OF HIS VODOO

 

Standin on a corner in Winslow Arizona

and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song

2 girls 65 got a piece tied up in the back seat

"Honey we're recovering Christians"

 

In the springtime of his vodoo

He was going to show me spring

 

And right there for a minute

I knew you so well

And right there for a minute

I knew you so well

 

Got an angry snatch

Girl you know what I mean

when swivelin that hip doesn't do the trick

Me pureed sanitarily Mr. Sulu

warp speed

warp speed

warp speed

 

In the springtime of his vodoo

In the springtime of his vodoo

 

Every road leads back to my door

[And right there for a minute]

Every road I will follow

[I knew you so well]

Every road leads back to my door

[And right there for a minute]

Got all your crosses loaded

 

And I know she's not than foxy boys

I said I know she's not that foxy but

You gotta owe something sometimes

You gotta owe when you're your momma's sunshine

You've got to give something sometimes

when you're the sweetest cherry in an apple pie

I need some vodoo on these prunes

 

In the springtime of his vodoo

In the springtime of his vodoo

He was going to show me spring

 

 

PUTTING THE DAMAGE ON

 

Glue stuck to my shoes

Does anyone know why you play with an orange rind

You say you packed my things and divided what was mine

You're off to the mountain top

I say her skinny legs could use sun

but now I'm wishing for my best impression

of my best Angie Dickenson

but now I've got to worry

cause boy you still look pretty

when you're putting the damage on

 

Don't make me scratch on your door

I never left you for a banjo

I only just turned around for a poodle

and a corvette

and my impresson

of my best Angie Dickenson

but now I've got to worry

cause boy you still look pretty

when you're putting the damage on

 

I'm trying not to move

It's just your ghost passing through

I said I'm trying not to move

It's just your ghost passing through

It's just your ghost passing through

and now I'm quite sure

there's a light in your plantoon

I never seen a light move

like yours can do to me

so now I'm wishing for my best impression

of my best Angie Dickenson

but now I've got to worry

cause boy you still look pretty to me

 

But I've got a place to go

I've got a ticket to your late show

and now I've got to worry cause even still

you sure are pretty

when you're putting the damage on

yes

when you're putting the damage on

you're just so pretty

when you're putting the damage on

 

 

TWINKLE

 

Sure that star can twinkle

and you're watching it do

boy so hard boy so hard

but I know a girl twice as hard

and I'm sure

said I'm sure

she's watching it too

No matter what tie she's got

in her right dresser

tied

I know she's watching that star

Gonna twinkle

Gonna twinkle

Gonna twinkle

 

And last time I knew

she worked at an Abbey in Iona

She said "I killed a man T

I've gotta stay hidden in this Abbey"

but I can see that star

when she twinkles

and I sure can

that means

I sure can

 

That means

I sure can

so hard

so hard can grow pertty

 

 

 

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