Dandy In The Underworld

Marc Bolan & T Rex Dandy In The Underworld Lyrics
1.Crimson Moon

T. Rex
Dandy In The Underworld
Crimson Moon
Marc Bolan- guitar and vocal
Herbie Flowers- bass
Tony Newman- drums
Dino Dines-keyboards
Alfalpha- additional vocals

The beat of bondage stalks on

Hey little girl you move so fine
All I want to do is melt your mind**

Under the crimson moon
Under the crimson moon
I wanna feel your heat under the crimson moon
I wanna feel your heat under the crimson moon

You can shake your torpedoes
You can shoot your gun
You can mix your martinis
From the blood of the sun

* Repeat

I'm a chartreuse lover
I am an indigo man
In the black of the night
I'll hold your lily white hand

* Repeat
** Repeat
* Repeat twice


2.Dandy In The Underworld

T. Rex
Dandy In The Underworld
Dandy In The Underworld
Marc Bolan- guitar and vocal
Herbie Flowers- bass
Tony Newman- drums
Dino Dines-keyboards and synthesizer
Steve Harley- vocals

A Bolanic revision of Orpheus Descending

Prince of Players, Pawn of none
Born with steel reins on the heart of the Sun
Gypsy explorer of the New Jersey Heights
Exalted companion of cocaine nights **

'Cos he's a Dandy in the Underworld
Dandy in the Underworld
When will he come up for air,
Will anybody ever care *

At an old eighteen exiled he was
To the deserted kingdoms of a mythical Oz
Distraction he wanted, to destruction he fell
Now he forever stalks the ancient
Mansions of hell

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Now his lovers have left him
And his youth's ill spent
He cries in the dungeons and tries to repent
But change is a monster and changing is hard
But he'll freeze away his summers in his
Underground yard

* Repeat
** Repeat
Repeat twice


3.Groove A Little

T. Rex
Dandy In The Underworld
Groove A Little
Marc Bolan - guitar and vocal
Dino Dines - keyboards and synthesizer
Herbie Flowers- bass
Tony Newman- drums

To groove is to lubricate your imagination

You can call somebody captain
Under pressure you can flip
You can be a rock commando
But you can't pilot the ship

Groove a little baby, groove a little now
Groove a little baby, you might know
what you want
But I'll show you how *

You can trip the light fantastic
Become a space grotesque
You can fossilize your thought dreams
Behind a rusty desk

* Repeat

You might know what you want
But I'll show you how

You can read the works of Shakespeare
In the Academy of Life
You can punk the skunks of freedom
With you jeweled Etruscan knife

* Repeat twice


4.Hang-Ups

T. Rex
Dandy In The Underworld
Hang-Ups
Marc Bolan - guitar, vocal, maraccas and tambourine
Dino Dines - keyboards
Herbie Flowers- bass
Tony Newman- drums

Play in a loud cloud

When I'm down you bring me up, babe
When I'm up you bring me down
When I'm down you bring me up, babe
When I'm up you bring me down

I'm such a contradiction- I'm just hung-up *

Get off my back and leave me
Oh shit, let's get it on
Get off my back and leave me
Oh shit, let's get it on

I'm such a contradiction- I'm just hung-up
I'm such a contradiction- I'm just hung-up

Everything is sweet babe
Then everything is the pits

Everything is sweet babe
Then everything is the pits

You love me then you leave me
How come you always pick the hits?

* Repeat


5.I Love to Boogie

Lyricist:Marc Bolan

We love to boogie, we love to boogie
Jitterbug boogie, Bolan pretty boogie
We love to boogie on a Saturday night

Belinda Mae Fender's got a Cadillac Bone
Jenny's lost her cherry walking all the way home
The passions of the Earth blasted it's mind
Now it's neat sweet ready for the moon based grind

We love to boogie
We love to boogie on a Saturday night
We love to boogie
High school boogie, jitterbug boogie
We love to boogie on a Saturday night

You rattlesnake out with your tailfeathers high
Jitterbug left and smile to the sky with your black velvet cape

We love to boogie, we love to boogie
Jitterbug boogie, Bolan pretty boogie
We love to boogie on a Saturday night

And your stovepipe hat
Be-bop baby, the dance is where it's at

I love to boogie
Yes, I love to boogie on a Saturday night
I said, I love to boogie, I love to boogie
Jitterbug boogie, I love to boogie
I love to boogie on a Saturday night

I love to boogie


6.I'm A Fool For You Girl

Lyricist:Marc Bolan

A fool's lament is the Wiseman's milkshake
I'm standing winding staircase, seven eagles long
Misty planet creature, how could I kiss you wrong?

The Poet wished upon a star
And dazzling bright is what you are
I'm a fool for you girl, I'm a fool for you girl
I'm a fool for you girl, I'm a fool for you girl

Dripping dancing diving, lipstick of the brave
Sullen Garbo siren, your body's all I crave

I'm a fool for you girl, I'm a fool for you girl
Sullen Garbo siren, your body's all I crave
I'm a fool for you girl, I'm a fool for you girl
Hot baby, I'm a fool for you


7.Jason B. Sad

T. Rex
Dandy In The Underworld
Jason B. Sad
Marc Bolan and Miller Anderson- guitars
Herbie Flowers- bass
Tony Newman- drums
Dino Dines - keyboards and synthesizer
Bud Beadle- baritone sax
Chris Mercer- tenor sax
Marc Bolan- vocal

A distant friend of Johnny B. Goode

Jason B. Sad was a lonely lad
His head was a bed for everyone
His clothes was his life
but his heart was a knife
Inscribed on it was 'rock 'n' roll is cruel'

Take me to school, boy
Leave me alone, boy
Slice me a bone of the Universe
Take me to school, boy
Leave me alone, boy
Slice me a bone of the Universe *

Jason got weird and he pierced his ears
A gypsy alone in his gallantry
He met Shaky Sue, who wore only blue
And they shared in their teenage misery

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Then Jason read books and wore hard looks
He swapped Sue for an artisan
His winters were long and a fantastic song
Grew from his head like a marigold

* Repeat


8.Pain And Love

Lyricist:Marc Bolan

We have traveled pain and love
To call ourselves high born
Living in a maze so crazed
Lunacy is legend
Lunacy is legend

Words I fear that clutch my crutch
And drive your senses crazy
Men or women, too get blue
So don't make living hazy
No, don't make living hazy

Once in youth the wisdom crouched
Deep inside my bedroom
Visitations now are scarce
Winter life is lonely
Now winter life is lonely

Temples that are bleak and bleached
Are bleached up on the highway
God of truth returned just once
And made my prison homely
Don't make my life so lonely


9.Teen Riot Structure

T. Rex
Dandy In The Underworld
Teen Riot Structure
Marc Bolan - guitar and vocal
Dino Dines- keyboards
Herbie Flowers- bass
Tony Newman- drums
Bud Beadle- baritone sax and flute
Chris Mercer- tenor sax

Teen riot structure, ankle deep in fear
Babies lost in bellies and the oracle can't hear
A demon angel demi-god blasted
through the night

Me and Lucy Lightning holding on real tight
An ancient Lord in wonder rung upon my bell

I fed him with my nightmares
And he ate my dreams as well
All London was in blazes burning to the sound
Of deep galactic tragedies
In stereophonic sound

A tempest teen of stature in
Gatsby hat and cloak
Licked upon my lollipop,
but I didn't get the joke

As devastation mounted
my wardrobes almost burned
The teens held hands on shifting sands
and wonder what they learnt

Repeat in toto

Structure

Teen riot structure

Repeat


10.The Soul Of My Suit

T. Rex
Dandy In The Underworld
The Soul Of My Suit
Marc Bolan - guitar and vocal
Dino Dines - keyboards
Herbie Flowers- bass
Tony Newman- drums
Alfalpha- additional vocals

Well you damaged the soul of my suit
You pulled my love out by the roots
But I'm not such a bad boy- oh no *

You ravished the runes of my tunes
You put on the gloves of my loves
But you're not such a bad girl- oh no

Rock and rolled it even strolled it, baby
Rock and rolled it, yeah
Rock and rolled it even strolled it, baby
Rock and rolled it, yeah

* Repeat

I love you, yeah


11.Universe

T. Rex
Dandy In The Underworld
Universe
Marc Bolan- guitar and vocal
Steve Currie- bass
Davey Lutton- drums
Dino Dines- keyboards
Chris Mercer- tenor sax
Gloria Jones and Colin Jacas- additional vocals

Interplanetary Waltz

Hey there sister
Let's face the Universe and dance
Hey there sister
Let's face the Universe and dance **

We'll bop over the galaxies
We'll stroll over to Mars
We'll romance on Jupiter
Make love among the stars *

If you really love me sister
Let's face the Universe and dance
If you really love me sister
Let's face the Universe and dance


* Repeat
** Repeat x3


12.Visions Of Domino

Lyricist:Marc Bolan

Her love is hot but mine is not
This woman is a perfumed breeze
Greek Gods recline on her knees
I'd freeze the sun to kiss her ear

It all makes up the visions I call Domino
It all makes up the visions I call Domino

Right now

A suit of doubt she gave to me
In return I cried a sea
Of poet's tears and something more
I camped outside her velvet doors

Right now

Love's a freak and it moves fast
My marble dream it could not last
Now every time this girl I see
She tries to chain me to her tree

Right now