Radar

Earthling Radar Lyrics
1.First Transmission

I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am

I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am

I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am

I know who i am

I'm rock
I'm roll
Nat king cole
Schatzakovic drowning in a fish bowl
Earthling something you can never get a hold of
Baby took a load off
And then she strolled off
Whistling
Hummin'
Thumbin' a ride
"driver won't you take me to the other side?"
I'm a book
A poem
By leonard cohen
Son of the dice man
And i won't stop throwing
I'm boris karloff
The man they could not hang
I'm a ruffneck romantic
Talkin' that slang
I'm jesus christ superstar
Driving around in an old yellow car
I'm jumping on the balcony
Landing on a bigger man
I can fly
I fly to japan
Hail stones falling on my dreads
Reminding me of something hendrix said

Tunes from the room
Come back on many levels
Sounds from the earthling swing and dishevel
I'm pollyana in the way that i portray
Poo poo
La la
I kiss you on a good day

Hey little beetle
Sliding in my bath
When you flip on your back
You really make me laugh
I used to kill worms when i was a kid
Like mr. mclaren, someday i'll kill sid
Crazy how my girl wants a simple life
She's a simple schizophrenic but we get along fine
I'm a young parisian,
Maybe i'm mistaken
Maybe i'm cuban
Maybe i'm jamaican

I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am

I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am

I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am

I know who i am

I never say "never"
I always say "more"
I know the score
I know what to look for

I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am
I know who i am

Kickin' like a kung-fu shakespeare
Another girl another planet
On the corner, just wasted
Oh gosh
Oh gosh
Oh juliette binoche
I'm on my way to babylon, by bus

I'm a big bloke
When i smoke, i don't choke
"hi malachi" let's talk about hope
In the beginning
Head spinin' make me dizzy
I'm the mirror man
So don't ask who is it
London is my city
Jamaica's my country
Africa's my history
It ain't no mistery
How i came to be
Earthling-free
Sitting in ilford watching tv

Where's uhura
On an adventure
Did she touch your sexual centre?
Cursing
Never seen an earthling
Never seen a microphone
Microphone
Now i'm all alone

Lost in my head
On the road until tomorow
I'm double demented
Like william burroughs
P to the i to the m p
Pimp
Sako urinocho reading iceberg slim

I'm marcus garvey
I'm harvey keitel
I'm the ghost of a dog chasing edie brickell
It's crazy perplexing
I'm hexing like a haitian
I'm an arowak indian
Picking pockets like fagan

I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am

I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am

I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am

I know who i am

I never say "never"
I always say "more"
I know the score
I know what to look for

I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am
I know who i am
I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am
I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am
I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am
I know who i am
I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am
I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am
I know who i am
I'm not who you think i am
I know who i am

I'm michelangello working on a totem pole
I'm gallileo studying shinto
I'm the rest of the earth giving birth to a baby
Grasshopper, tell me about slavery

I'm in a sauna, watching television
Yeah, tripitaka gave me permission
I'm that man in 1686
Saying black people come from venus
Yeah

I saw her reading poetry
Practising verses
What's the meaning of 33 degrees in the morning ?
It ain't easy man
It ain't easy


2.Ananda's Theme

I'm on the end of it
I pretend a bit
To be a misfit
So simplistic
Spend my days voyeuristic
It ain't real
Premeditated for the feel
I'm a plastic thief with no belief in what i steal
I starve myself and of course
It's just a sea of hunger

I want it and i want more
I want it and i want more

I saw the empty frame
Just hanging down my wall
Dehydrated screams be coming from the hall
Someone's accupuncturing themselves
With insecurity

I want it and i want more
I want it and i want more
I want it and i want more
I want it and i want more

I'm on the end of it
I pretend a bit
To be a misfit
So simplistic
Spend my days voyeuristic
It ain't real
Premeditated for the feel
I'm a plastic thief with no belief in what i steal
I starve myself and of course
It's just a sea of hunger

I want it and i want more
I want it and i want more
I want it and i want more
I want it and i want more


3.Nefisa

Mirror boy, rhyme with dada convention
Psychoanalysis didn't mean anything
Pvc costumes, letters to castro
Show me what you're reading, freaky girl with the afro

Franz fannon, yeah yeah i get it,
All that curiosity with something to offset it
Diagrams and plans, drawn in secret locations
Scientific babies, they be peddling information

The queen, she's smoking prozac, we be smoking napalm
The verbal countries, they be smoking atom bombs
I wrote a book in the year seven-ten
By nineteensixty-nine i had written more

If you're feeling insecure,
Cause you're living in a storm
If you find them, you can burn them,
If you burn them you can keep warm

Them winds of change, they be bringing change,
Especially now there's prostitutes on ilford lane
You see, it's kinda like, but no, it's not the same thing
See there were men on the moon, but they killed them

Bearing in mind, my mind's soul food
Bearing in mind, my mind's aquarian
Bearing in mind, my mind's mine
Times being what they are, radar

Bearing in mind yes yes, y'all
Bearing in mind, there's nothing in it
Bearing in mind, my mind's mine
Times being what they are, radar

Aeroplanes in my room,
And i don't know who's flying them
They're playing that tune
It's okay, i got my eye on them

They're making their messages out of them smokes
Words evaporate, i can't read what they wrote
Their language is so strange, i never seen it's kind
The smell of them vapors be taking my mind
Combined with that melody, them engines be humming
I pick up my mike, i put it down

See now i'm outside in, i don't know where i'm going
I gets in my car, i starts rowing
But like the water is seeping
It's getting in through the bottom

I tickle them fish
Swallow them whole, now i got some
Bones, sticking in my throat
Has anybody seen my universal antidote

Bearing in mind, my mind's soul food
Bearing in mind, my mind's aquarian
Bearing in mind, my mind's mine
Times being what they are, radar

Bearing in mind yes yes, y'all
Bearing in mind, there's nothing in it
Bearing in mind, my mind's mine
Times being what they are, radar

Don't even think 'bout it
Don't even contemplate
Before the funk goes to your head
You better stop and wait

Don't even think 'bout it
Don't even contemplate
Before the funk goes to your head
You better stop

Don't even think 'bout it
Don't even contemplate
Before the funk goes to your head
You better stop and wait

Don't even think 'bout it
Don't even contemplate
Before the funk goes to your head
You better stop

And still it's cool, like they does it in egypt
I say come to that river man, but nobody's seen it
Believe that, cinematic, atmospheric
Panasonic my headphones, ain't nothing on it

Bonnets on cars, magazines, girls on harleys
We's sneaking up on babies, and we's eating thems farleys
I don't know where my girl is, oh well, somebody took her
Fixing those strings as she sings mr hooker

Spikey hair my head, since i cut off my dreads
I got the green fishs tail, set sail on a moped
Jean of arc's on the back, trying not to fall off
Valentines park, hip hop, set it all off

It's like i'm on a solitary exhibition
It's like you see me everywhere, but you still know that i be
missing
Pissing in the wind as i'm lookin' for them answers
In seventies movies and topless dancers

Bearing in mind, my mind's soul food
Bearing in mind, my mind's aquarian
Bearing in mind, my mind's mine
Times being what they are, radar

Bearing in mind there's nothing in it
Bearing in mind yes yes, y'all
Bearing in mind...
Times being what they are, radar


4.Instrumental

(i want you to know this)
(i want you to know)
(i want you to know this)
(i want you to know)
(i want you to know this)
(i want you to know)

I want you to know sometimes
It feels like the last time
The last time i'll take you for a ride

Have you ever
(gone by?)
Did you reap the experience?
Ten out of ten?
Ten out of
Ten

Would you ever
??
To the desert
To forget yourself
To forget your

(i want you to know this)
(i want you to know)
(i want you to know this)
(i want you to know)

I want you to know sometimes
It feels like the last time
The last time i'll take you for a ride

Time trickles
Through your fingers
Cup your hands, try and hold some
A second
Is gone

Another second
Is gone
Sted the tide
? like you
Take our love out of context
To protect my self

(i want you to know this)
(i want you to know)
(i want you to know this)
(i want you to know)

Reaching out
Thought that you were mine
Reaching out
Thought that you were mine
Reaching out
I thought that you were mine
Reaching out

And i still
Want you to know sometimes
It feels like
This is the last time

(i want you to know this)
(i want you to know)
(i want you to know this)
(i want you to know)
(i want you to know this)
(i want you to know)


5.Accident At Injured Strings

Instrumental


6.Soup Or No Soup

Like down in ? man oh man
Things be getting stupid
Took everything
Smoked it, looped it
Hundred people speaking
At a hundred miles an hour
At the room at the top
We nearly jumped to the tower
Scenes changing
Nanosecond after nano
We were in a time machine playing the piano
Colors pouring from our heads into the atmosphere
They were going everywhere
Getting there without a care
I swear we weren't enjoying it
See it was out of control man
We were destroying it
I swear we weren't enjoying it
See it was out of control man
We were destroying it
We'll end this demolition with precision
With no more collision
This time we be on our own mission
See we the man
Yeah, got rid of the other kids
And just about only we can live the way we live
We'll take you to the max
Plus a tax and jacks(?)
I'll be back with an ? means you can laugh

Soup or no soup
Sing your own halleluyah
(halleluyah)
Soup or no soup
Sing your own halleluyah
(halleluyah)
Soup or no soup
Sing your own halleluyah
(halleluyah)
Soup or no soup
Sing your own
(halleluyah)

Flicking out my blue tounge and catchin' flies
See i was mesmorized by the alphabet
A surprise
So many stories
So enticing
It's like i got out my scizzors
Cut em out like ?
We got out my scizzors
Cut em out like ?
We tend to be more polaroid than paranoid
Tend not to follow decoys
We living in an episoid
Dazed and confused
Came to do anything thats there
Like peter selles man
We just like being there
So bring it on
Everything you speak of
There ain't nothing that we gonna keep off
Couting like ?
? ? ?
We drove to san fransisco in go-karts
More flesh than golden
? ? ?
? ? ?
But by the evening we were off again
Lost again
Stuck on a ship a rasta man

Soup or no soup
Sing your own halleluyah
(halleluyah)
Soup or no soup
Sing your own halleluyah
(halleluyah)
Soup or no soup
Sing your own halleluyah
(halleluyah)
Soup or no soup
Sing your own
(halleluyah)

I hear my girlfriend
Is my girlfriend and earthling?
Are we rehersing?
Oh man
Could this be the worst thing?
Was it the time that we played the vegas circuit?
I got all shook up
Yo man, it wasn't worth it
I played a litle black jack in the casino
The man dealing cards, looked like brian eno
I ran to tell my bad-bone crew
But by time i got upstairs
They had vacated the room
My newspaper curled across the floor
Dived through the window couldn't take it no more
I pondered for a while in the pain of his torture
Then i ran a bath with the warm water
Saying things like "yeah yeah, fine fine we know"
But time don't go slow when you are living in a peep show
Oh yeah, we know

Soup or no soup
Sing your own halleluyah
(halleluyah)
Soup or no soup
Sing your own halleluyah
(halleluyah)
Soup or no soup
Sing your own halleluyah
(halleluyah)
Soup or no soup
Sing your own
(halleluyah)

N.a.d is eating concrete with his teeth
Fucking up the street yet he's having a good week
I drinks a dragon and starts braggin' like im crazy large
So mad drunk, even i dont know where i are
I think im in an aerosol canister
We be dem cowboys falling over banisters
Starting them bar-room brawls
The harder them come, the harder them fall
See just like the movies man
We be like zooming man
We in the room and our microphones be booming
We be tuning
Looking at a loon and swooning
Oh man! i'm even talking to the birds
There's a girl in high-heels standing on my wheels of steel
Saying something about "life can be so real"
She's spinning on a 45
I switch to overdrive
And watch her do a stage dive

(she's got a beautiful smile on her face now
Look at that halleluyah!)

Soup or no soup
Sing your own halleluyah
(halleluyah)
Soup or no soup
Sing your own halleluyah
(halleluyah)
Soup or no soup
Sing your own halleluyah
(halleluyah)
Soup or no soup
Sing your own
(halleluyah)


7.God's Interlude

Instrumental


8.Echo On My Mind

Well now you're always in my mind
(thats the power)
And now you're always in my soul
(in the depths of the ocean lie)
And how you always undo what you told
No matter what you see before you
(its a dream too)
It's just ? ? ?
(help yourself)
No matter what you want to be, its yours
'cause when you're loving ?
We will be forever
(we will be having these two needs)
Holding on to the last
We will be surviving
Going to a violent lie
(if you listen to your heart and glisten)
And always shining red bright
Fire like the loving you will never know
(if there's something you will like me to know)

You will be the starlight when i'm blind
You will be the echo on my mind
(you will be sorrow)
You will be the starlight in my eye
(all on my own)
(oh i'll have nothing to live)
'cause it will be something we cannot do without it

If you want to leave
(wake me now)
You'll just have to wait
And you may pay-back every night
And you may harbor to the light
And you may give back to the force
And you were wanting to belong
And there'll be mountains to disguise
And maybe thousands realize
And there'll be instance to deny
But it will always be there 'cause
History will recall
The blood we shed
History will recall
The feelings that we made
Fade into light
And it would be some sacrifice
(repeat)


9.Infinite M'

You said that it's fantastic being telepathic
You said you read my mind
You said that things are drastic
I was looking for a shrine
Whilst you were looking for a rock
And we were living on the same block
With that hip-hop
You're a little reptile
Only no-foot high
You've got those four strong legs and the pretty purple eye
You hypmotise me with your hypmotising ways
So much that i forgot to say
Sorry about the day than ananda hurt you in the hand - ah
You had so much detail, he could not understand ya
Mau listen to it sing
He said "it's dread" as he held you by the hand
I couldn't hear a song
I could only hear a scream
Slow down little reptile
I dont know what you mean
Maybe she meant she was in pain
Maybe
I'm an earthling doesn't mean i'm insane
When i'm playing them games with little spiders
Sometimes i'm spraying the trains with the dope outsiders
These days i'm hiding in my crazy lies
These days i'm searching for my reptile

She said promise you won't tell
But i had already told
About the girl on my road who gives pure gold
They said like "where does she live?"
It's like she lives where she's at
They said like "where can that be?"
Your black i can't tell you that
"so what can we do?"
Well you can do what you will
What do we usually do when you've got time to kill?
It's like these things they be sounds
And them sounds they be big
And we go walking around the boundary taking little swigs

When we were out there
On the perpendicullar
We wasn't really looking for anything in particular
Tell me, was it the way that you were handled?
We know ananda, he held you at those angles
It's like he wasn't exactly in control of his actions
Neither of us were we were just
Panning for distractions
The radio would talk and i would stare at its mouth
I prayed it wouldn't stop as it just let it out

You said it's easier to tell your secrets to someone that you
can't see
So why you telling this to me?
(repeat)

See like with emma, she sent me a letter
Written on a shark
I went to open it up
He tried to bite my fingers off
I wonder what it said
See, i ain't got around to read it
Threw it in my neighbours pond
Yesterday i saw him feed it
Believe that
No one of your predictions has come true
I thought it was your thing to get me through
Opposite over hypotenuse
I'm hanging at a tangent
Concept-less, i digress on a random
My force ain't balanced my means of beams
See nothing's as it seems in a mongianic dream

You said it's easier to someone that you can't see
So why you tell this to me?


10.Planet Of The Apes

And now the little girl is a teenage wild child
She knows the game
And she plays it with a wild style
She only smiles when she's sticking the knife in
'cause he chose the world that she spends her life in
Washing her body in a blood bath
The only sound she can hear is the dirty mans laugh
Six years old and she was told to keep a secret
Ten years on she was ? and she keeps it
Planet of the apes was her favorite program
Her grand daddy was her favorite
Oh man!
Who would have known the old man was sick?
Come on over baby let me show you a magic trick
Close the door
We'll play on the floor
Did grand daddy's games turn baby to a whore?

Quetions spinning and ringing like a bell
The living ain't easy when you're living in hell
Quetions spinning and ringing like a bell
The living ain't easy when you're living in hell

Grand daddy died five years ago
And baby turned into a full blown hoe
Her momma and poppa they still don't know
Because the whole ? scene is a freak show
The name ergo makes her go crazy
Town to town
You better slow down baby
Hazy days and hazy nights
And getting into fighs with people that bite
Every day she wonders what to do
Mixed up memories as she grew
Nightmare years and then she knew
So just like a bird, she went when she flew
Working streets and working avenues
Don't open your eyes and you wont see who's having you
Grabing you
Stabbing you
Dragging you down
Baby's so lost, she won't never be found

Quetions spinning and ringing like a bell
The living ain't easy when you're living in hell
Quetions spinning and ringing like a bell
The living ain't easy when you're living in hell

Sun shines bright
Baby's high as a kite
Today her name is pretty, but she ain't a pretty sight
Same old stilletos and dodgy looking fellows
Same old whistles
Same old hellos
Bars
Scars
Scars
Bars
Cars
Baby sees stars as she wonders who you are
Was the magic really real in the dreamer genie show?
And if so, where did her genie go?

Quetions spinning and ringing like a bell
The living ain't easy when you're living in hell
Sweet sixteen ain't never been kissed
But she been drugged up, and sliced her own wrist
She missed the vein
She missed the shame
She's dying of shame
She's dying of pain

Quetions spinning and ringing like a bell
The living ain't easy when you're living in hell
Quetions spinning and ringing like a bell
The living ain't easy when you're living in hell
Quetions spinning and ringing like a bell
The living ain't easy when you're living in hell
Quetions spinning and ringing like a bell
The living ain't easy when you're living in hell

She only wanted to watch planet of the apes... x19
Planet of the apes x5


11.By Means Of Beams

I dont know if you believe
In everything you see i mean
When the moon is full of blood
And the stars are full of tears
I'll be near
In the passion
I'll be near
In the traction

I dont know if you belive
The future's what it used to be
When they put a mirror on the moon it didn't shatter
'till they took ? for the leader
And i was there
For an after taste
And i was there
My tounge slipped down
'till i saw clear through the hourglass
The hourglass

She wanted me to take the elevator to the basement
It's amazing the hurricanes that were chasing
She wanted me to take the elevator to the basement
It's amazing the hurricanes that were chasing

And then in a thousand years
If we come through, reappear
Will i realize that he was always you
Will you be there in a hundred years
Will you be there to tell me that you dont care
Will you be there
To tell me that you dont care

They came to me
By means of beams
X7

They came to me
By means of beams
They came to me
By means of beams
They came to me


12.Freak Freak

(whisper:yes yes)
(whisper:freak freak yall)
(whisper:yes yes)

Yes yes yall
Freak freak yall
Yes yes yall
Looks like im freakin' some more
Yes yes yall
Freak freak yall
Yes yes yall
Looks like im freakin' some more

Now esoteric lyric
I'm a spirit
See im looking at my bed and my body's still in it
Like in a minute sixty seconds
I reckon
Like i be floating, not stepping
But checkin' out the mad levitation
Immitation b-boys
Corduroys
Gazelles
Kangols
Fhem fuckers, man them dont know the slang though
Not like saxon road to ash burton
Spit mad styles
So much our fuckin' brains be hurtin'
For certain
Were drawing the curtains on pretenders
Mad mao(?) will send you on a frantic agenda
Transport ya like an astronaut
I caught you
Skinny, ninenty pounds, ?
I sought you out
With the outer body experience
Transcend space and time
I'm leaving you delirious
This shit is serious
Mysterious like pyramids
It's stronger than that crack shit
And that be killing kids
We educated ? our poison is potent
Like a regular trojan?
Lee perry ? we floating
Leave your mike open, ill freestyle till its broken
I'm spoken
I'm floating
I'm fucking...

Yes yes yall
Freak freak yall
Yes yes yall
Looks like im freakin' some more
Yes yes yall
Freak freak yall
Yes yes yall

Looks like im spider man
Spider man
I does whatever a spider can
Spins them webs
Any size
Flies in your eyes, you cant see the flys

(whispers: oh yes)
Oh yes


13.I Could Just Die

I'm so relaxed
I could just die
I wanna move my head
But i'm too relaxed to try
The moon be dancing in the sky
Can you see the black doves fly
Is it true what the trees said
Is freddy krueger really dead
Oh no i better tread softly
Somebody get this rhino of me

I'm so relaxed
I could just die
I wanna move my head
But i'm too relaxed to try (try)
I could just die

Take a sip she kept saying
I licked my lips took a sip as the beat kept playing
I looked around as it went down
All the way down
I didn't hear a sound
Until about half an hour later
I got myself a job as a translator
For a man from mars
He was on earth wanted to buy some stars
There was a wolf on the dancefloor
He was dancing trying to roar
Like a lion
The wolf kept trying

Let's roar
Yeah, let's roar

I'm so relaxed
I could just die
I wanna move my head
But i'm too relaxed to try
I could just die (die)

Me and the sea had a long conversation
Hallucination, no this was real
So real you never reach this
There ain't no teacher can teach this
Rough, smooth, tip that im on
By the time you get here i'll be gone
And when i come back
I'll be back in a flash
A brain attack
Another one for the slaughter
Please control your daughter

I'm so relaxed
I could just die
I wanna move my head
But i'm just too relaxed to try (try)
I could just die

She pulled that face the one that i had never seen
She got me running to the place where i ain't never been
Looking around
Miracle town
A big green man jumping leaps and bounds
I saw the tree soaring through the air
The golden platforms falling down the stairs

I'm so relaxed
I could just die
I wanna move my head
But i'm too relaxed to (but i'm too relaxed) try
I could just die

Driving now i'll be touched by the morning
A feeling coming on like a new dawning
I know what it's like
To wanna die
If only for a second
It's like many say
I could just die

I reckon