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Sparklehorse Vivadixiesubmarinetr. Lyrics
1.Homecoming Queen

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 decayed

Homecoming queen, homecoming queen

Teeth what were sharp
Is ground down and dumb
My crooked spine becoming more brittle
What once grew straight
And tall t'ward the sun
Is absorbing back down
To dirt like a sponge

Homecoming queen, homecoming queen
Homecoming queen, homecoming queen


2.Weird Sisters

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 the backs
La la la, la la
Scream cross 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
The dark wolves fell upon me
Wools and 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

'ten to one piston
Two-ninety-two to five-o-one camshaft
The heads at two er two fourteen one-eighty-one valves
Bronze cast
They've been er 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'


4.Rainmaker

Well, shit, yeah!

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
Sometimes he awakens with spiders on his eyelids

Rainmaker's coming
Rainmaker's coming
Rainmaker's coming to soak us with water

Sometimes 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 can show up at your, your back door in the deep
Trace him back before he was born
Inquiring about an honest days work for a decent meal

Rainmaker's coming
Rainmaker's coming
Rainmaker's coming to soak us with water

Sometimes he's hitching a ride in a freezer 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
'cos i know i reckon, he will come when he's beckoned for

Rainmaker's coming
Rainmaker's coming
Rainmaker's coming to soak us with water
To soak us with water


5.Spirit Ditch

I want my records back
And that motorcycle gas tank
That i, spraypainted 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 will rise with such
Horse laughter
It's dragging pianos to the ocean
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

(mum on answerphone interlude)

I woke up in
A burnt out basement
Sleeping with
Metal hands
In a spirit ditch


6.Tears On Fresh Fruit

Just when you've found your way to
The boiler room
They come and dig you out
With picks and shovels and
Acetelyne torches

I couldn't do nothing but watch as her tears fell on fresh fruit
Behind the boney 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
All our lungs
Full of water

I couldn't do nothing but watch as her tears fell on fresh fruit
Behind the boney 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


7.Saturday

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 horses' 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


8.Cow

Saint of barges
Queen of nails
Sparkling drumsets
And 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


9.Little Bastard Choo Choo

(instrumental)


10.Hammering The Cramps

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 knew this must've been a dream
'cos you're mother would never let me in her house

You are the most beautiful widow
You are the most beautiful widow
You are the most beautiful widow in town

Many years later
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
'cos i knew you'd be wearing a smile
That'd be too painful to look upon

You are the most beautiful widow
I bet you are the most beautiful widow
I bet you are the most beautiful widow in town


12.Heart Of Darkness

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 lot

Oh yeah, i, i got a heart of darkness
Oh yeah, i, i got a heart of darkness

Then she woke up
Into the fire
And the flames kept
Dancing higher
Satan would laugh at her screams
Then she woke up from her dreams

Oh 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)


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
Something going on around here

I left my baby on the side of the highway
She just couldn't see things my way

Someday i will treat you good
Someday i will treat you fine
Someday i will treat you good
You know i should

Everything 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 morticia now

I left my baby on the side of the road
I left her with a heavy load

Someday i will treat you good
Someday i will treat you fine
Someday i will treat you good
You know i should

Something going on around here
I could not crawl back if i tried
I left my baby on the side of highway
She just couldn't see things my way

Someday i will treat you good
Someday i will treat you fine
Someday i will treat you good
You know i should


15.Sad & Beautiful World

Sometimes i get so sad
Sometimes you just make me mad

It's a sad and beautiful world
It's a sad and beautiful world

Sometimes i just won't go
Sometimes i can't say 'no'

It's a sad and beautiful world
It's a sad and beautiful world

Sometimes days go speeding past
Sometimes this one seems like the last

It's a sad and beautiful world
It's a sad and beautiful world


16.Gasoline Horseys

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

They charge forth
With firey manes
And bellies full of clocks
Four ton
Deaf and dumb
We poor old dogs of god

Yes your hair smells like sunshine today
Gasoline horses will take us away