Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black Teenager Of The Year Lyrics
1.Whatever Happened To Pong?

My brother and me used to play it
Down at the bar
Taking money from guys
More used to the playing of cards

Paddle the paddle to the side to the side
To the side to the side to the paddle the paddle
Paddle the paddle the side to the side
Pong
Ball in the machine

Now virtually everyone's singing
A popular song
But i still believe in
In the excellent joy of the pong

To the side to the side to the paddle the paddle
To the paddle the paddle the side to the side
To the side to the side to the paddle the paddle
Pong
Ball in the machine

Now if they take it h.g. wells
Well, i'll be on the first flight
To a time before the kong
Whatever happended to pong?

Paddle the paddle to the side to the side
To the side to the side to the paddle the paddle
Paddle the paddle the side to the side
Pong
Ball in the machine


2.Thalassocracy

Wait
It isn't so great
Since you learned karate chop
You're walking machs
And i'm just swimming in the slop
You wave your wand at me
And make me dance flip-flop
I want to sing for you
And make your head go pop

The inuit man
Had not so much a caesar
He had provision
Say

You're spraying in the windy
And i'm just pissing off
I'm literally deaf down here
From your canned philosoph
Softly can you hear me
Through the sucking of your quaff
I'm thallasocracy
And you're just romanov

The inuit man
Had not so much a caesar
He had provision


3.I Want To Live On An Abstract Plain

I've had it with this town
I never saw those shifting skies
I never saw the ground
Or the sunset rise
I want to live on an abstract plane

I'm building a frame
A place to put my ten-yard stare
Thinking of that paint
Painted in plein-air
I want to live on an abstract plane

I need a new adress
I want some new terrain
Is it north or south?
I want to live on an abstract plain

I could sit on the roof
On top of that abstract house
See my abstract view
An abstract mouse
I want to live on an abstract plane

I need a new adress
Tell me i'm not insane
Is it up or down?
I want to live on an abstract plane


4.Calistan

I took three days to drive down one street
The radio on, tuned to the big fleet
Invisible planes are cracking the concrete
That's just what some people say

I put down my blanket on cigarette butt beach
I saw the old man, he was doing ok
He's making his last stand
On old bottles and cans
'round there, calistan way

Used to be sixteen lanes
Used to be nuevo spain
Used to be juan wayne
Used to be mexico
Used to be navajo
Used to be yippy-ay-i-don't know

Went in from the weather when i got wheezy
I play some pachinko i play pachisi
And st. anne is still making it breezy
In the valley of tar that once was l.a.

And my best friend he's the king of karaoke
He struck up a chord and he took it away
Out of the pan
And into japan
'round there, calistan way

Used to be sixteen lanes
Used to be juan wayne
Used to mexican
Used to be espano nuevo
Used to navajo
Used to be yippie-ay-i-don't know


5.The Vanishing Spies

The vanishing spies
Just something i read
A couple of eyes
From out of the head
And all that was said
Was that's just how some things don't materialize

Could be they broke
And swam like a bird
Fear of spooking the folk
With talk of the third
Or maybe the third
Played a joke

Give me a blip
And i'll totally flip
Say it's nothing but sky
And i'll be a lonely guy

The vanishing spies
Just something i read
Now there were two eyes
Sent out from the head
And all that was said
Was that is just how some things do not materialize

Give me one little blip
And i'll totally flip
Say it's nothing but sky
And i will be one lonely guy


6.Speedy Marie

Had a bit part
An endless reel
It always played in slo-mo
But now it's fast
A spinning wheel
I know the dynamo
My heart
Is cast

Speedy marie
Ahead of the now
She's better built that's how
She's built for speed
Speedy marie
Speedy marie

Oh, yes indeed
I said to me
And so i sing this romaunt
It's not enough
My liberty
There is a thing i want
I need
I love

Speedy marie
Ahead of the now
She's better built that's how
She's built for speed
Speedy marie
Speedy marie

Juxtaposed in each moment's sight
Everything that i ever saw
And my one delight
Nothing can strike me in such awe
Mouth intricate shapes the voice that speaks
Always it will soothe
Rarer none are the precious cheeks
Is the size of each sculpted tooth
Each lip and each eye

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought
And softest neck where always do i
Lay my clumsy thoughts
She is that most lovely art
Happy are my mind and my soul and my heart


7.Headache

This wrinkle in time, i can't give it no credit
I thought about my space and i really got me down
(got me down)
Got me so down, i got me a headache
My heart is crammed in my cranium and it still knows how to
pound

I was counting the rings
And i fell me into sleep
I peeked to see if you were way back when
I was counting the trees
Until a day when there was one
I'd hoped beneath, asleep is where that you had been

This wrinkle in time, i can't give it no credit
I thought about my space and i really got me down
(got me down)
Got me so down, i got me a headache
My heart is crammed in my cranium and it still knows how to
pound

Well, i found you
Maybe you can help me
And i can help you

This wrinkle in time, i can't give it no credit
I thought about my space and i really got me down
(got me down)
Got me so down, i got me a headache
My heart is crammed in my cranium and it still knows how to
pound
Got me so down, i got me a headache
My heart is crammed in my cranium and it still knows how to
pound
This wrinkle in time, i can't give it no credit
I thought about my space and i really got me down
(got me down)


8.Sir Rockaby

You've got a sad face
You don't show it
And you're smiling it, too
Even in deep, deep outer space
There's something for you

I'm sir rockaby
And rockin' i am
I'm sir rockaby
And rockin' i am

The world is a rock that's
Spinning so fast
It'll give you jim-jams
I'm just a real love diplomat
Won't give you no flim-flams

I'm sir rockaby
And rockin' i am
I'm sir rockaby
And rockin' i am

How many stars girl
Can you both count
And then classify?
I'm standing here in this big swirl
Singing this lullaby

I'm sir rockaby
And rockin' i am
I'm sir rockaby
And rockin' i am
I'm sir rockaby


9.Freedom Rock

My name is chip
And i'm different
I don't conform
I wear a different uniform

I'm out of the blue
And so you are, too
Let me sing about one thing that's clear
That nobody owns
The pleasure of tones
That belongs to a guy with no ear

They tried to give me advice
Down at the record shop
I said sit down boys
This may come as a shock
What's all i listen to
It's all freedom rock
When i'm free?
I am free

My name is chip
And i'm different
I don't conform
I wear a different uniform

I'm out of the blue
And so you are, too
Let me sing about one thing that's clear

That nobody owns
The pleasure of tones
That belongs to a guy with no ear


10.Two Reelers

A lot of people love that jerome
Did you know he missed his comb?
All his life was in pain
Made us laugh he never did complain
Brother sam was more than ok
Returned once more to save the day
Slicked-back hair he did keep
Making a heep, heep, heep, heep, heep

If all you see is violence
Then i make a plea in their defence
Don't you know they speak vaudevillian?
And for what it is hear what my theory is
Some gibberish it is so serious
What we need is more silly men

Though underrated all the time
Louis was so very fine
Without him, imagine
Did you know he could play the violin?
Most important was brother moe
He was the one who made it so
He got a joe and another joe
He would not quit, he would not quit

And mr. white heard bad report
And so it ends the two reeler short
Cause you cannot do what you can't
And mr. white heard bad report
And so it ends the two reeler short
Cause you cannot do what you can't

If all you see is violence
Then i make a plea in their defence
Don't you know they speak vaudevillian?


11.Fiddle Riddle

once stood a man on my face
Ooh yeah, on my face
Gobbled him up 'cause my taste
Leaves nothing to waste
Hear the riddle that i say
Hear the riddle that i say
What is fair is fair
That is fair and square
To me

Piano it marks the good pace
Ooh yeah, the good pace
Don't know if it's right, but i like the bass
So turn up the bass
Hear the fiddles as they play
Hear the fiddles as they play
What is fair is fair
And the guitar player

No metal, no brick, was no trace
Oh, no, was no trace
But machines moved on and still chased
No particular place

Hear the riddle that i say
Hear the riddle that i say
What is fair is fair
That is fair and square
To me

What is fair is fair
That is fair and square
To me


12.Ole' Mulholland

Hey, sleepy monster in the sand
Time to get up and have a drink
Pacific rim has a tank that thinks
That she is really something grand

Let me tell you about
When i was hanging out
Just in my dothi
Running in the dawn
Right across my lawn
I saw a coyote

Ole', ole', ole' for mulholland
See the water fall
And hooray, hooray the sky is falling
Down on bradbury's mall
Ole', ole', ole' for mulholland

All waxed in pride
I've got a comfortable ride
And man, she could take us
Out across the salts
Right out of these faults
And on into vegas
So slept a monster in the dune
Woke him up and then he drank
Pacific rim has a think tank
But does she have iq for the moon?

The concrete of the aquaduct
Will last as long as the pyramid of egypt
Or the parthenon of athens
Long after joe harriman is elected major of los angeles

Ole', ole', ole' for mulholland
See the water fall
And hooray, hooray the ants are crawling
Down in bradbury's mall
Ole', ole', ole' for mulholland
Yeah, it's quite a sprawl
And hooray, hooray the sky is falling
Down on bradbury's mall
Ole', ole', ole' for mulholland
Ole'


13.Fazer Eyes

Staring on into night
Complete synapse
I switched on something i did not see
May i leave? i believe i might
This sweet collapse
Baby, i cannot get me free
When you've got your fazer eyes on me

Driving on into where i do not know
Shores that once were by the sea
I'm seeing something that is not there
It's so fast it's slow
And it's playing with my memory
And you've got your fazer eyes on me
Accustomed to the frequency of glow, oh yeah
You won't be frightened of the real thing after the show


14.I Could Stay Here Forever

See the scheming behemoth
Licking salt in their cave
Being together is their zenith
It's how they behave
Now we're hanging in tandem
Six trillion miles a year
How can direction be random
When you are so near

And i'm never bored with this all aboard
I could stay here forever

We've got some bills to pay
And when we pay them off
Maybe we'll get away
But if not, so what?


And i'm never bored with this all aboard
And i'm never bored with this all aboard
I could stay here forever


15.The Hostess With The Mostest

As fluorescents do
They blink o'er the floor
Of her majestic halls
Yeah, they do
I hear surf on kazoo
I march with the militia of the mine
Malicious are the times
Malicious

In the doors we all flew
To see the great indoors
Of her majestic stalls
Yeah, we flew
Waves break on the shore of the zoo
And i see how
Laurasia sure has changed
Imaginary planes
Imagine

I hit the mall on every friday
When it was biggest in the world
The hostess with the mostest


16.Superabound

You heard the sun today
There she blows, there she blows
You saw the wind a'shining
You don't know, you don't know
You felt a tree that does fall
You don't know, that's ok
You don't have much taste for bouquet

I'm bored with the valleys and bored with the peaks
So i bought a ticket to the freaks
I saw a chicken with two heads
Saw something else that was headless
Then p.t. said see the egress
'cause you move when the salesman speaks
I superabound
But i still got nothing to do

A space is made by telephone
They thought time would be overthrown
And they compiled a wish list
From mars duels to a dish kissed
I tried to talk to the ishist
But he was debating with his clone
I superabound
But i still got nothing to do
Well, they thought it was a coup
But they still got nothing to do

You must see my domicile
I had it built in decastyle
The other day at the potlach
Come visiting was a sasquatch
He said although i'm a mismatch
Could i stay just for awhile?
'cause the likes of us are few
And we still got nothing to do
I superabound
But i still got nothing to do


17.Big Red

Have you heard about big red?
They even bought a beebread rig
To help the flowers in mean space
They're trying to make that place green

Don't know how this whole thing started
There was a crowd and then we parted
Don't know if i'll ever go back
It's a long way across all of this black
Here i am in my bucket today
In the middle
Here i am in my bucket today
In the middle

They got a mule they call sal
Bulldozing up canal walls
They're gonna tap that icecap too
When they do they're gonna make that green map blue
The weather is finally getting warm
And the weather is really getting warm

Don't know how this whole thing started
There was a cloud and then it parted
Don't know if i'll ever go back
That's how i felt when i left that tarmac
Here i am in my bucket today
In the middle
Here i am in my bucket today
In the middle


18.Space Is Gonna Do Me Good

The islands of phoenix
In 2016
Are making it up with hardihood
I'm done with adult matters
I'm doing the catapult
I've been meaning to get out of hollywood

Space is gonna do me good
Space is gonna do me good

It's not you i don't like
No, the boy is the same
I'm taking the turnpike
There's no point in to blame
Oh yeah

Space is gonna do me good
Space is gonna do me good

It's not you i don't like
No, the boy is the same
I'm taking the turnpike
There's no point in to blame
Oh yeah

Words of the man ray
If you want to stay tan
Better to do it with a toy or a game
Oh yeah


19.White Noise Maker

You know i hear a lot of talk
So i'm headed for the stereo store
To get a white noise maker and turn it up to ten

Or maybe the interior
Of somewhere like siberia
Yeah, the yak is back again

Like harvest moon o'er my head
Yes, it was
That billboard prose shining on me
And it shines because
It's been so long since my telstar
I hope it crashes in the sea

Or maybe the interior
Of somewhere like siberia
Yakety-yak is back again

You know i hear a lot of talk
So i'm headed for the stereo store
To get a white noise maker and turn it up to ten

Like harvest moon o'er my head
Yes, it was
That billboard prose shining on me
And it shines because
It's been so long since my telstar
I hope it crashes in the sea


20.Pure Denizen Of The Citizens Band

I want to ask you fellows
Why do you shut me out?
When i've driven every place that they call land
I talk plain talk
I've seen the moon sitting on the road
And i don't eat no chateaubriand

And i drive my car
Under same stars
Where the miles are
Come back i demand
Dear gentlemen
Please let me in
I don't know how i can
Make you understand

Hey friend you know what i'd do
If i was making the bucks
I'd move into a place
Where all they had was trucks
'cause there's one thing i can't stand
There's one thing that i cannot stand
One thing i cannot stand
Can't stand
Cannot stand
Can't stand


21.Bad, Wicked World

Bad, wicked world
Bad, wicked world
They are about dressed to deceive
Conquistadores that have been sent
Bad, wicked world
Bad, wicked world
Some sell him out, some won't believe
An architect named david vincent

A man too long without sleep
He took a wrong turn and people just laughed
A ship that is not there
But he knows that it was
It made a light and a buzz
He's really hurt because
People don't care
People think he's a creep
He will not stop, he keeps on talking
Just a tie and a suit
He's a lonely persuader
Fist-throwing crusader
Against invaders
Won't be mute

Bad, wicked world
Bad, wicked world
Some sell him out, some won't believe
An architect named david vincent

Bad, wicked world
Bad, wicked world
They are about dressed to deceive
Conquistadores that have been sent

About once a week
Another story has leakes and he's on it
Just a suit and a tie
Will it ever end?
He hasn't got a friend
Pinkies that won't bend
He really must try

Bad, wicked world
Bad, wicked world
Some sell him out, some won't believe
An architect named david vincent


22.Pie In The Sky

It takes photon power
And eight minutes of an hour
To make it to our sun
And i know it sounds weird
But it'll take you four years
To make the next one

Expanding border
That's the sauce
Of chaos
And that's an order
That's an order

So stomp your feet
And clap your hands
Get out of your seat
And do a little dance
Lift up your voice
And sing with glee
Now listen carefully to me

Desert your quarters
Behold the pie in the sky
And that's an order
That's an order