Boys For Pele

1. Beauty Queen/ Horses
2. Blood Roses
3. Father Lucifer
4. Professional Widow
5. Mr. Zebra
6. Marianne
7. Caught A Lite Sneeze
8. Muhammad, My Friend
9. Hey Jupiter
10. Way Down
11. Little Amsterdam
12. Talula
13. Talula (The Tornado Mix)
14. Not The Red Baron
15. Agent Orange
16. Doughnut Song
17. In The Springtime Of His Voodoo
18. Putting The Damage On
19. Twinkle








Beauty Queen/ Horses
Hah... hah... ha-ha. She's a Beauty Queen.
Ha... in my sweet bean bag in the street,
Take it down out to the laundry scene...
Don't know why she's in my hand.
Can't figure what it is, but...
I lie, lie, lie again.




I go 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.


An 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 but threads that are golden don't break easily.


So I go 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
Ahaha... Ahaha... 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.
An on days like these starts me thinking.
When chickens get a taste of your meat girl.
When chickens get a taste of your meat, yes. Ahaha...

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.
Said I think you're a queer, I think you're a queer.
I shaved every place where you been boy.
I said, I shaved every place where you been, yes. Ahaha...


God knows I know I've thrown away those graces...
God knows I know I've thrown away those graces...
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.


Ahaha... Blood roses, blood roses, back on the street now.
Blood roses, blood roses, back on the street now... now... now... now...
You've cut out the flute from throat of the loon.
And at least when you cry now, he can't even hear you.


When chickens get a taste of your meat girl,
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon,
Oh, when he sucks you deep, yes, sometimes you're nothing but meat...






Father Lucifer
Hi, hi... hmm...
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. Ha.

Nothing's gonna stop me from floating.
Nothing's gonna stop me from floating.


Heh. He says he reckons I'm a watercolor 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.


TORI
Hey... yes...
Every day's my wedding day.
Though baby's still in his comatose state.
Die my own Easter eggs.
Just don't go yet, just don't go.
And Beenie lost the sunset but that's okay.
Does Joe bring flowers to Marilyn's grave?
And girls that eat pizza and never gain weight,
Never gain weight, never gain weight...


SECOND TORI
Go away, world don't leave glass, Gorgie.
Can not faye red skiddly dee.
And I'm, gee yes, never go,
Go so fast... go away down.
Lee glass Gorgie's well.
Your faye red there she goes,
And she goes and she goes.


BACKGROUND TORIS
Maybe she's hiding in her hideout.
Get a peek hiding her truffles.
Wearing those purple garters.
And girl I've got a condo in Hoboken.


Hi, mmm, mmm, yes... hum... mmm... hmm...
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. Hum, mmm...






Professional Widow
Slag pit, stag shit, oh, honey bring it close to my lips, yes.
Don't blow those brains yet, we gotta be big boy, we gotta be big, heh.
Starfucker just like my Daddy, yes. Starfucker just like my Daddy, yes.
Selling his baby, yes, just like my Daddy, yes.
Gonna strike a deal, make him feel like a Congressman.
Run'in in a family, hoh, it's run'in a family... oh... heh, hoh.

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, oh honey bring it close to your lips, yes.
What is termed a landslide of principle proportion boy.
It's gotta be big, I said, it better be big, hey, hey.
Starfucker just like my Daddy, yes. Starfucker just like my Daddy, yes.
Selling his baby, yes, just your Daddy, yes, selling his baby.
I'm gonna strike a deal, make him feel like a Congressman.
It's run'in in a family, hoh, it's run in a family, hey.
It's run'in in a family, hey baby, it's run'in a family... eh... ya...


Mother Mary, china white... Brown may be sweeter, may be sweeter...
Mother Mary, china white... Brown may be sweeter.
She will supply, she will supply, she will supply, she will supply, supply, supply.
Give me peace, love, peace, love.
Give me peace, love and a hard cock.






Mr. Zebra
Hello Mr. Zebra.
Can I have you sweater 'cause it's cold, cold, cold in my hole, hole, hole.
Ratatouille Strychnine- sometimes she's a friend of mine,
With her gigantic whirlpool that will blow your mind.

Hello Mr. Zebra.
Ran into some confusion with a Mrs. Croc-o-dile-dile-dile.
Furry mussels marching on, she thinks she's Kaiser Wilhelm.
Or a civilized syllabub to blow your mind.


Figure it out. She, she's a goodtime fella.
She got a little fund to fight for Moneypenny's rights.
Figure it out. She, she's a goodtime fella.
"Too bad the burial was premature," she said, and smiled.






Marianne
Tuna robber, a little blubber in my igloo, yeah.
And I knew you pigtails and all. Girls when they fall...
And they said 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... Marianne.

C'mon pigtails girls and all those,
Sailors get your bags and hold down...
Won't you just hold down... hold down.
'Cause Ed is watching my every sound,
I said they're watching my every sound.


The weasel 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 thoughts,
I said, I'm just having thoughts of having thoughts, having... Marianne.
Ha-ha-ha, she could outrun the fastest slug.
She could, I'm just having thoughts of Marianne,
Quickest girl in the frying pan and,
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.
Doot do, do do do do do, doot oo...
I need a big loan from a girl zone.

Building... tumbling... down.
Didn't know our love was so small.
Couldn't stand it at all.
Mister Saint John just bring your son.


The spire is hot and my cells can't feed.
And you still got that Belle dragging your foots, yes.
I'm hiding it well, Sister Ernestine.
But I still got that Belle dragging my foots, yes.


Building... tumbling... down.
Didn't know our love was so small.
Couldn't stand it at all.
Mister Saint John just bring your son.


Right on time.
You get closer and closer, call my name.
There's no way... in- use that fame.
Rent your wife and kids today.
And maybe she will, I said 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 a girl zone.
I need a big loan from a girl zone.


Building... tumbling... down.
Didn't know our love was so small.
Couldn't stand it at all.
Mister Saint 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 day when she was crucified,
She wore Shiseido Red and we drank tea by her side.
It's sweet... sweet... sweet... it used to be so sweet to me, well.

Muhammad my friend, I'm getting 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.
I said sweet... sweet... sweet... between the boys and the bees.
It's sweet-sweet-sweet, sweet... sweet... yes,
Between the boys and the bees.


Moses I know, I know you've seen fire.
But you've never seen fire until you've seen the 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 a-own, honey, TV show.


Ashre, ashre, ashre, ashre.
And if I loose my Cracker Jacks at the tidal wave,
I got a place in the Pope's rubber robe.
I said, 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.
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 masochist, she's ready to confess,
All the things that I never thought that she could feel and,

Hey Jupiter, nothings 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 breath you in, and I know you know.
And sometimes you take a swim, found your writing on my wall.
Well if my hearts soaking wet, boy your boots can leave a mess.


Hey Jupiter, nothings 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.
Who... ho, who... ho, who...ho, yes.


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.
Who... ho, ooh... ho, who... yes. Who... who... who... yes.


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 things I feel and,


Hey Jupiter, nothings been the same.
So are you gay, are you blue?
Thought we both could use a friend to run to.
Hey Jupiter, nothings 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 after glow, 'cause I'm with a band you know.
Don't you hear the laughter on the way... down.
Yes, I am the anchor-man, 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.
The way... down, the way... down, she knows- let's go.
The way... down, the way... down, the way... down, she knows.






Little Amsterdam
Little Amsterdam in a southern town.
Hominy, get it on the plate girl.
Momma keep your head down.
Momma, it wasn't my bullet.

Don't take me back to the Range, back to the Range.
I'm just comin' out of the cell in my brain.
Don't go and take me back to the Range, back to the Range.
'Cause girl you've got to know these days, which side you're on.


Hmm... hmm... naha-nana-neha-neh. Nana-nana-no...non...
Momma got a shit, 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 they are cold pressed.
And her best friend is a sun dress.
But Momma, it wasn't my bullet.


No... hon... Don't take me back to the Range, back to the Range.
I'm just commin' out of the cell in my brain.
Don't go and take me back to the Range, back to the Range.
'Cause girl you've got to know these days,


Nana, nana-nana, nana, no... nana-nana, no... no... nana-nana-
All alone got a girl in the city.
Hey, got a room and a place for two.
Got a coat and a phone. I said, boy, a you are my Fifth Avenue.
Round an around an around I go. Round an around this time for keeps.
(Say, you weren't too long then for me my baby.)
Round an around an around I go. Round an around this time for keeps.
(Say, you weren't too long then for me- me my baby.)
Father only you can save my soul,
And playing that organ must'a count for something, something...
Girl you've got to know these days.


Little Amsterdam shut down today.
They buried her with a- a butter bean bouquet.
And Sheriff now can't ride away.
Like he said into the sunset.
And I won't say that he shouldn'a paid.
But Momma, it wasn't my bullet.






Talula
Congratulate, you said you had a double tongue.
Balancing cake an' bread.
Say 'goodbye' to a glitter girl (hee).

Talula, Talula, you don't want to lose her (hee).
She must be worth losing if it is worth something (hee).
Talula, Talula, (Sugar...)
She's brand new now to you (hee). (Sweet love...)
Wrapped in your papoose, (Softly...)
Your little Fig Newton (hee).


Say 'goodbye' ha-na-no, my baby.
Glitter girl, well,
Say 'goodbye' ha-ha-ha, my baby,
To the old world... yeah.


Ran into the henchman that severed Anne Boleyn (hee).
He did it right quickly a merciful man (hee).
She said one plus one is two,
(Maybe I'm a happy man. Maybe I'm a honey dew.)
But Henry said (hee) that it was three.
(Maybe it's a bad job.)
So it was, here I am (hee).
(Maybe it's a what you are.)


Talula, Talula, don't want to lose you (hee).
It must be worth losing if it is worth something (hee).
Talula, Talula, (We are slaves...)
She's brand new now to you (hee). (In here...)
Wrapped in your papoose, (Soft is...)
Your little Fig Newton (hee). (Cheaper...)


And Jamaica... Do you know, do you know what I have done?
Mary M. weavining on, said, "What you want is in the blood, Senators."
Said, "What you want is in the blood, Senators..." yes.
I got the big bird on the fishing line with a bit of a shout,
A bit of a shout (hee), a bit of a angry snout.
He's my favorite hooker of the whole bunch (hee).
And I know about his only bride, and how the Russians die on the ice (hee).
I got my rape hat on, honey, but I always could accessorize (hee).
And I never cared too much for the money, but I know right now (hee),
Honey, that it's in God's hands, oh, but I don't know who the father is (hee).


Talula, Talula, I don't want to lose you (hee).
It must be worth loosing if it is worth something (hee).
Talula, Talula, (No one's...)
He's brand new to you (hee). (Good girls...)
Wrapped in your pappose, (Travel...)
Your little fig newton (hee). (She will, someday...)
Your little fig newton (hee). (Some where tonight...)
Your little fig newton...






Talula (The Tornado Mix)
He's chasing tornadoes. I'm just waiting calmly...
Chasing her... hey... (hee).

Talula, Talula, you don't want to lose her (hee).
She must be worth loosing if it is worth something (hee).
Talula, Talula, (Sugar...)
She's brand new to you (hee). (Sweet love...)
Wrapped in your pappose, (Softly...)
Your little fig newton (hee).


Ran into the henchmen that severed Anne Boleyn (hee).
He did it right quickly, a merciful man (hee).
She said one plus one is two, (Maybe I'm a happy man.)
But Henery said (hee), (Maybe I'm a honey dew.)
That it was three. (Maybe it's a bad job.)
So it was, here I am (hee). (Maybe it's a what you are.)


Talula, Talula, I don't want to lose you.
It must be worth loosing if it is worth something (hee).
Talula, Talula, (We are slaves...)
She's brand new to you (hee). (In here...)
Wrapped in your pappose, (Soft is...)
Your little fig newton (hee). (Jewelin'.)


Waiting... And Jamaica...
Do you know, do you know what I have done.
Mary M. weavining on, said, "What you want is in the blood, Senators."
Said, "What you want is in the blood, Senators..." yes.
I got the big bird on the fishing line with a bit of a shout,
A bit of a shout (hee), a bit of a angry snout.
He's my favorite hooker of the whole bunch (hee).
And I know about his only bride, and how the Russians die on the ice (hee).
I got my rape hat on, honey, but I always could accessorize (hee).
And I never cared too much for the money, but I know right now (hee),
Honey, that it's in God's hands, oh... but I don't know who the father is (hee).


Talula, Talula, I don't want to lose you (hee).
It must be worth loosing if it is worth something (hee).
Talula, Talula, (No one's...)
He's brand new to you (hee). (Good girls...)
Wrapped in your pappose, (Travel...)
Your little fig newton (hee). (She will, someday...)
Your little fig newton (hee). (Some where tonight...)
Your little fig newton.
He's chasing tornadoes, I'm just waiting calmly...






Not The Red Baron
Not the Red Baron. Not Charlie Brown.
Think I've got the message figured.
Another pilot down.
And are there devils with halos in beautiful capes,
Taking them into the flames, taking them into the flames?

Not Judy G. Not Jean, Jean, Jean with a hallowed heart.
I see that screen go down in the flames,
With every step with every beautiful heel pointed...


Hey... said not the Red Baron I'm sure.
Not Charlie's 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 ribbons,
The prettiest red ribbons.






Agent Orange
Ah ah ah umm... Ah ah ah umm...
Gotta tell you what I heard from Agent Orange-
Mister Suntan, Mister Happy Man,
Mister I-know-the-girls-on-all-the-world-tours,
Mister Agent, yes. He's my fa'rite.
And they don't understand he's got palm-oil fans.
Yes, he's down an there and everywhere.
He's gettin' A to Z that underwater city,
Where she swims and swims.





Doughnut Song
Had me a trick and a kick and your message.
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.


Hey... you...
And southern men can grow gold, can grow pertty.
(You can tell me it's over, it's over.)
Blood can be pertty like a delicate man.
(You can tell me over, over your shoulder.)
Copper to steel to a hinge that is faltered.
(You can tell me it's over, it's over.)
That let's you in, let's you in, let's you in.
(Come in Houston.)


And if I'm wasting all your time this time.
I guess you never learned to take.
And if I'm hanging on to your shade.
I guess I'm way beyond the pale... hey, hey, heh...


Something's just, something's just ke-eping 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 suns too many, too many able fires, hey, yes.


And you've been wasting all my time this time.
(You can tell me it's over.)
I said you never learned to take.
(You can tell me over, over your shoulder.)
And if I'm hanging on to your shade.
I guess I'm way beyond the pale.
I guess I'm way beyond the pale...


Had me a trick and a kick and your message.
You'll never gain weight from a doughnut hole.






In The Springtime Of His Voodoo
Hey, yes, hey, play, play, yeah.
Kyean, hey you, sweet, sweet, sweet a to my a loo, yes.
Hey, hey, yeam,
Hey, such a wang strang while you're up, yeay.
You keep a-walking, keep a-walkin' boy, yeah.
Hey, mmm, sweet.
Well, let with me wash you. Yeah, walk down.
Huh, just keep on boilin' at me. Watch it, yeah.
Hey, hear me and me, yeah.
Sure. Who... Who...

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,
"Oh honey we're Recovering Christians."

In the Springtime of his voodoo.
He-he-he was going to show me spring.
Who... who who...

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, girls you know what I mean,
When swivelin' that hip doesn't do the trick.
Me pureed sanitarily, Mister Sulu a warp speed, a warp speed,
A yeay, yeay, yeay, yeay, hey...


In the Springtime of his voodoo, hey.
In the Springtime of his voodoo, hey, yow.


Every road lead back to my door.
(And right there for a minute.)
Every road I follow. (I knew you so well.)
Every road leads back to my door.
(And right there for a minute.)
Got all your crosses loaded. (I knew...)


A-and I know she's not that 'foxy' boys, yes.
I said I know she's not that 'foxy' but,
You gotta owe something sometimes.
You gotta owe boys 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 voodoo, oh hoh, on these prunes.
Sure, who... who...


In the Springtime of his voodoo, heya.
In the Springtime of his voodoo, yes, he,
He-he-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 wishin' for my best impression,
Of my best Angie Dickinson.
But now I've got to worry 'cause boy you still look pretty,

When you're putting the damage on, yes.
When you're putting the damage on.
Take it I, hi, and why hi-hi.


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 impression of my best Angie Dickinson.
But now I've got to worry 'cause boy you still look pretty,


When you're putting the damage on, pretty.
When you're putting the damage on.
Take it I, hi, and I, yi, heh an I ,hi, and hi...


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 platoon.
I never seen a light move, like your's can do to me.
So now I'm wishing for my best impression,
Of my best Angie Dickinson.
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...
Said 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, and,
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 she twinkles.
'Cause I sure can, that means I sure can.
That means I sure can... mmm... so hard, so hard.


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