Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
August 1995
[Apple Music / iTunes]-
A horse, a horse
My kingdom for a horse
Rattling on magnetic fields
Yes I did use up
The last box of sparklers
Before they went bad
Got wet or decayedHomecoming queen
Homecoming queenTeeth what were sharp
Is ground down and done
My crooked spine becoming more brittle
What once grew straight
And tall toward the sun
Absorbing back down
To dirt like a spongeHomecoming queen
Homecoming queen
Homecoming queen
Homecoming queen -
The parasites will love you
When you’re dead
La la la la la
Hiding all the rattles
In the bed
La la la la la
Come crawling in
With bulging eyes
Now I can see
There’s a bad moon on the rise
Raking all the gravels
From the tracks
La la la la la
Forget about the daggers
In my backs
La la la la la
Scream across the lawn
With fire in her hair
Millionaires come tumbling
Down the stairs
A big wind spitting female
Rain and teeth
La la la la la
Dark wolves fell upon me
Wolves in fleece
La la la la la
Come crawling in
With bulging eyes
Now I can see
There’s a bad moon on the rise -
3. 850 Double Pumper Holley Holley
Ten-to-one piston
Two-ninety-two five-o-one camshaft
The heads at two-fourteen one-eighty-one valves
Bronze cast
They’ve been bow ported
Eight-fifty-double-pumper-holley
Eight-fifty-double-pumper-holley
Eight-fifty-double-pumper-holley
Eight-fifty-double-pumper-holley
And a three-sixty single plane intake
What about your bass guitar?
Same -
All you’ve got to do is look in the sky and wish
You might see his face in the clouds or relaxing in a spirit ditch
He’s been known to sleep on piles of dry leaves
Abandoned on October lawns
And sometimes he awakens with spiders on his eyelidsRainmaker’s coming
Rainmaker’s coming
Rainmaker’s coming
To soak us with waterSometimes you feel just like a stone tossed into the deep
All you gotta do is touch a woman’s face that’s warm with sleep
And he could have shown up at your back door in the deep
Preachin’ back before we was born
Inquiring about an honest day’s work for a decent mealRainmaker’s coming
Rainmaker’s coming
Rainmaker’s coming
To soak us with waterSometimes he’s hitching a ride in a diesel or appears as a mist
He’s also been known to introduce himself as a scientist
He could be the retarded son of an old woman with
Seven fingers on each hand
All’s I know I reckon he will come when he’s beckoned forRainmaker’s coming
Rainmaker’s coming
Rainmaker’s coming
To soak us with water
To soak us with water -
I want my records back
And that motorcycle gas tank
That I spray painted black
The owls have been talking to me
But I’m sworn to secrecy
I woke up in
A burnt out basement
Sleeping with metal hands
In a spirit ditch
The moon it rise with such
Horse laughter
It’s dragging pianos to the ocean
And if I had a home
You’d know it’d be in a slide trombone
I woke up in
A burnt out basement
Sleeping with metal hands
In a spirit ditch
I woke up in
A burnt out basement
Sleeping with metal hands
In a spirit ditch -
Just when you’ve found your way
to the boiler room
They come and dig you out
With picks and shovels and
Acetylene torches
I couldn’t do nothing but watch
as her tears fell on fresh fruit
Behind the bony walls of my skull
There was playing a lullaby
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
We’re just trying to be free
Of our bodies
Our stomachs full of liquor
Or our lungs full of water
I couldn’t do nothing but watch
as her tears fell on fresh fruit
Behind the bony walls of my skull
There was playing a lullaby
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la -
You are a car
You are a hospital
I’d walk to hell and back
To see you smile
On Saturday
You are a star
You are a sea of air
I play great keyboards
Of horse’s teeth
On Saturday
On Saturday
I’d like to tell you
How I feel
I’ll probably keep it
‘Til Saturday
Oh Saturday, Saturday
Oh Saturday, Saturday
Oh Saturday, Saturday
Oh Saturday, Saturday
Oh Saturday, Saturday -
Saint of barges
Queen of nails
Sparkling drum sets
Murders of crows
Metal teeth of
Carousels
Lighting cigars on
Electric chairs
Buildings are rooks
Nature’s a vice
Rattle of diesels
Snakes eating their own tails
Pretty girl, milkin’ a cow, oh yeah
Pretty girl, milkin’ a cow, oh yeah
Pretty girl, milkin’ a cow, oh yeah
Pretty girl, milkin’ a cow, oh yeah -
(instrumental)
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Hey little dog can you fly?
Hey little dog can you fly?
Hammering the cramps
Hammering the cramps
Hammering the cramps
Hey little car can you fly?
Hey little car can you fly?
Hammering the cramps
Hammering the cramps
Hammering the cramps
Hammering the cramps
Hammering the cramps
Hammering the cramps
Captain Howdy’s here but
We can’t see him
We can’t see them
Hammering the cramps
Hammering the cramps
Hammering the cramps
Hammering the cramps
Hammering the cramps
Oh yeah -
11. Most Beautiful Widow in Town
We were both standing
in your mother’s living room
Sweating up a storm in that
terrible month of June
And the sweat rolled down your cheek
and into your mouth
I know this must’ve been a dream
’cause your mother would never let me in her houseYou are the most beautiful widow
You are the most beautiful widow
You are the most beautiful widow in townMany years later
in the glassy month of December
I stood with my hands in my pockets
trying to avoid
A shiny wedding portrait hanging on that old woman’s wall
‘Cause I knew you’d be wearing a smile
that’d be too painful to look uponYou are the most beautiful widow
I bet you are the most beautiful widow
I bet you are the most beautiful widow in town -
She laid her head
On my chest
As the sun burned
Down the west
There’s one thing we still got
This one last dance in this parking lotOh yeah I
I got a heart
Of darkness
Oh yeah I
I got a heart
Of darknessThen she woke up
Into the fire
And the flames kept
Dancing higher
Satan would laugh at her screams
Then she woke up from her dreamsOh yeah I
I got a heart
Of darkness
Oh yeah I
I got a heart
Of darkness -
13. Ballad of a Cold Lost Marble
(instrumental)
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14. Someday I Will Treat You Good
There’s something going on around here
I could not crawl back if I tried
I couldn’t wait around
I couldn’t wait another second
There’s something going on around here
I left my baby on the side of the highway
She just couldn’t see things my waySomeday I will treat you good
Someday I will treat you fine
Someday I will treat you good
You know I shouldEverything that’s made is made to decay
Well I’m shrinking bones in the sun
Won’t you tell me why that
The beautiful ones are always crazy?
She’s whispering like a mortician now
I left my baby on the side of the road
I left her with a heavy loadSomeday I will treat you good
Someday I will treat you fine
Someday I will treat you good
You know I shouldThere’s something going on around here
I could not crawl back if I tried
I left my baby on the side of the highway
She just couldn’t see things my waySomeday I will treat you good
Someday I will treat you fine
Someday I will treat you good
You know I should -
Sometimes I get so sad
Sometimes you just make me madIt’s a sad and beautiful world
It’s a sad and beautiful worldSometimes I just wanna go
Sometimes I can’t say noIt’s a sad and beautiful world
It’s a sad and beautiful worldSometimes days go speeding past
Sometimes this one seems like the lastIt’s a sad and beautiful world
It’s a sad and beautiful world -
The flowers of evil
You left at my door
Set ‘em in a broken glass
And tasted my own blood
Yes your hair looks beautiful today
Gasoline horses will take us away
And charge forth
With fiery manes
And bellies full of clocks
Four ton
Deaf and dumb
We poor old dogs of God
Yes your hair smelled like sunshine today
Gasoline horses will take us away
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