"The Murder Mystery" [A] 1. Denigrate obtuse and active verbs pronouns Skewer the sieve of the optical sewer Release the handle that holds all the gates up Puncture the eyeball that seeps all the muck up Read all the books and the people worth reading And still see the muck on the sky of the ceiling 2. Relent and obverse and inverse and perverse And reverse the inverse of perverse and reverse And reverse and reverse and reverse and chop it And pluck it and cut it and spit it and sew it To joy on the edge of a cyclop and spinet To rage on the edge of a cylindrical minute 3. Tantalize poets with visions of grandeur As their faces turn blue with the reek of the compost As the living try hard to retain what the dead lost With the double dead sickness from writing at what cost And business and business and reverse and reverse And set the brain reeling the inverse and inverse 4. Whit cheap simian melodies hillbilly outgush For illiterate ramblings, for cheap understanding The compost the reverse the obtuse and stupid And business and business and cheap stupid lyrics And simple mass reverse while the real thing is dying 5. Jumpsuit and pig meat and making his fortune While making them happy with the inverse and obverse And making them happy and making them happy With the cloy and the stupid just another dumb lackey Who puts out the one thing while singing the other But the real things alone and it is no man's brother 6. Oh not to be whistled or studied or hummed Or remembered at nights when the eye is alone But to skewer and revage and savage and split With the grace of a diamond and bellicose wit To stun and to stagger with words of such stone That those who do hear cannot again return home 7. Contempt contempt and contempt for the seething For writhing and reeling and two bit reportage For sick whit the body and sinister holy The drowned burst babies now dead on the seashore The valourous horseman who hand from the ceiling The pig on the carpet the dusty pale jissom That has no effect for the sick with the seesaw The inverse obverse converse reverse of inverse The diverse and converse of reverse and perverse And sweet pyrotechnics and let's have another Of inverse converse diverse perverse and reverse Hells graveyard is damned as they chew on their brains The slick and the scum reverse inverse and perverse /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// [B] 1. Candy screens wrappers of silk-screen fantastic Lurid and lovely with twilight of ages Laconic giggles, ennui for the passions Rectify moments most serious and urgent Requiring replies most facile and vacuous On the subject of great concern, noble origin 2. For screeching and yelling and various offenses Against the state the country and the committee For groveling and spewing and various offenses The inverse the obverse the converse and reverse And suitable reckonings too numerous to mention It is heretofore, heretothree, forthleft forthrightly stated - 3. Rembrandt and Oswald and peanuts and ketchup Up to the stand with your feet on the Bible Do you swear to ketchup and throw up and up up Excuse me to willow and wander dark wonders The fate of a nation rests hard on your bosom And set the tongue squealing, the reverse and reverse 4. Contempt contempt and contempt for the boredom For cordless and Harry and Apepig and Scissor For children and adults all those under ninety A stray in this fray is no condom worth saving No dimple crass inverse can make lying worth dying 5. Off with his head, take his head from his neck off Put out his eyes and then cut his nose off Scoop out his brain put a string were his ears were And swing the whole mess from the end of a wire The wire extend from the tip of a rose Whick will retain the remnants of what once was a nose 6. Casbah and cascade and Rrosehip and feeling Cascade and cyanide Rachmaninoff Beethoven Skull silly wagons and justice and perverse And reverse the inverse of inverse and inverse Blueberry catalogue questionable earnings Point of Order return the king here to the ceiling 7. Sick leaf and sorrow and pincers not scissors Regard and refrain from the daughters of marriage Regards from the elders and youngest in carriage Regard and regard from the inverse and perverse From the hump storing water, like brain is to marrow To x-ray and filthy and cutting and peeling To skin and to skin and to bone and to structure To living and pallid and turgid and structured And structured and structured and structured and structured And regard and refrain and regard and refrain The sick and the dumb inverse reverse and perverse /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// [AA] 1. Please raise the flag Rosy red carpet envy English used here This messenger is nervous It's no fun at all Out here in the hall 2. Put down the rag Simpering callow and morose If I knew then I could get out The murder you see Is a mystery to me 3. Objection ! Suffice Apelike and tactile bassoon Oboeing me, cordon that virus' section Off - to the left Is what is not right 4. Exit the pig Enter the owl and gorgeous King on the left It on the right and primping Adjusting his nose As he reads from the scrolls 5. No one nose No nose is good news and sceneless Extend the wine Drink here a toast to something Ten year old port is perfect in court 6. Razzmatazz There's nothing up my shoulder Lust is a must Shaving my heads made me bolder Will you kindly read What is was I brought three /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// [BB] 1. Mister Moonlight Succulent smooth and gorgeous Isn't it nice We're number one and so forth Isn't it sweet, being unique 2. Mister Muse Fellow of wit and gentry Medieval ruse Filling the shallow and empty Fools that dual, dual in pools 3. English arcane Tantamount here to frenzy Passing for me Lascivious elder passion Corpulent filth, disguised as silk 4. Folksy Knockwurst Peel back the skin of French and What do you find Follices intertwining Succulent prose, wrapped up in rolls 5. Safety is nice Not an unwise word spoken Scary bad dreams Made safe and lovely songs No doom of gloom Allowed in this room 6. Hello to Ray Hello to Gidiva and Angel Who let you in ? Isn't it nice the party Aren't the lights, pretty at night /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// [C] Sick upon the staircase Sick upon the carpet Blood on the pillow Climbing on the parapet See the church bells gleaming Knife that scrapes a sick plate Dentures full of airholes The tailor couldn't mend straight Shoot her full of airholes Climbing up the casket Take me to the casket Teeth upon her red throat Screw me in the daisies Rip apart her holler Snip the seas fantastic Treat her like a sailor Full and free and nervous Out to make his fortune Either this or that way Sickly or in good health Piss upon a building Like a dog in training Teach to heel or holler Yodel on a sing song Down upon the carpet Tickle polyester Sick within the parapet Screwing for a dollar Sucking on a firehose Chewing on a rubber line Tied to chair and rarebits Pay another player Oh your such a good led Here's another dollar Tie him to the bedpost Sick with witches covens Craving for raw meat Bones upon the metal Sick upon the circle Down upon the carpet Down below the parapet Waiting for your bidding Pig upon the carpet Tumenescent railroad Neuro-anesthesia analog Ready for a good look Drooling at the birches Swinging from the birches Succulent Nebraska /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// [CC] Plowing while it's done anyway Dumb and ready pigmeat Sick upon the carpet Climb into the casket Safe within the parapet Sackets in the parapet Pigs are out and growling Slaughter by the seashore See the lifeguard drowning Sea is full of fishes Fishes full of China China Plates are falling All fall down Sick and shimmy carpets Rise before my eyes eyes Lead me to the ceiling Walk upon the wall wall Tender as the green grass Drink the whiskey horrow See the young girls dancing Flies upon the beaches Beaches are for sailors Nuns across the sea wall Black hood horseman raging Swordsmen eating fire Fire on the carpet Set the house a blazing Seize and bring it flaming Gently to the ground ground Dizzy bell Miss Fortune Fat and full of love juice Drip it on the carpet Down below the firehose Weep and whiskey fortune Sail me to the moon dear Drunk and dungeon sailors Headless Roman horseman The King and Queen are empty Their heads are in the outhouse Fish upon the water Bowl upon the savior Toothless wigged laureate Plain of bull and fancy Name upon a letter head Impressing all the wheat germ Love you for a nickel Maul you for a quarter Set the casket flaming Do not go gentle blazing /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// intro {Gm}{Gm}{C}{C} {Gm}{Gm}{C}{C} {Gm}{Gm}{C}{C} organ {Cm}{Cm}{Cm}{Cm} {Cm}{Cm}{Cm}{Cm} {Cm}{Cm}{Cm}{Cm} voice {Gm}{Gm}{C}{C} (....) {Gm}{Gm}{C}{C} (....) {Gm}{Gm}{C}{C} (....) {Cm}{Cm}{Cm}{Cm} (Mister Moonlight ...) {Cm}{Cm}{Cm}{Cm} (Isn't it nice ...) {Cm}{Cm}{Cm}{Cm} (Isn't it sweet ...) .... piano {D.G/D.C}{D.G/D.C}{D.G/D.C}{D.G/D.C} (....) {D.G/D.C}{D.G/D.C}{D.G/D.C}{D.G/D.C} (....) {D.G/D.C}{D.G/D.C}{D.G/D.C}{D.G/D.C} (....) {D.G/D.C}{D.G/D.C}{D.G/D.C}{D.G/D.C} (....) ... repeat and fade out * riff (mute) {Gm} {Gm} --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------3--3-3--3-3---6--6-6--6-6-- --3--3-3--3-3---5--5-5--5-5------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- {C} {C} -------------------------------6--6-6--6-6---10--10-10--10-10--- ---5--5-5--5-5---8--8-8--8-8------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///// transcribed by Shirou Kouchi (wildside@mtci.or.jp) ////////////// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////