1.Flies
No friend of golden hand
Oiled with rose and smelly then
As your blood burned poppy red
Across your velvet coat
Your deep blue velvet coat
It's there in Montana prairie grass
The suits shot Custard down
His red spot tired, his black boots shine
How beautiful you look to the flies
The happy kingdom of flies
Dear Custard there's a Wal-Mart now
Where once the grizzlies roamed
Mountains of hair spray and cowboys shirts
And everyone has a gun
Everyone still has a gun
But high in the rafters above the lights
Red finches, they hide their nest
And when our cars drive out of sight
They sing symphonies across the night
In that forest of heating pipes
And out past the parking lot along the curb
In the wilds of weed and trash
Prayed on his love, the smallest ants
Fight battles for the glory of the queen
Such a tiny, glorious queen
But even the empress of the ants
For whom ten thousand fall
Makes not a sound beneath the blades
Of our great empire of lords
How quiet is the empire of lords
2.Frogs
Have you ever seen the fish deep up from a quiet stream
Shine a moment in the light？
Then fall away again
Have you seen it, sister？
Will you come outside and see？
Have you ever seen the rain
Turn the earth to mud？
And watch the mud turn gold in the rising sun
Have you seen it, brother？
Will come outside and see？
Will you go with me tonight？
Down to the low land field
To hear the frogs singing
The air so hard and stiff
Will you go, sister？
Will you go with me tonight？
Down in the flooded fields
The earth is wet and dark
Down in the flooded fields
Beneath the falling stars
Lie down in the dirt, brother
Be a mirror to the night
Lie down in the dirt, sister
We are mirrors of the night
3.Eels
(Verse)
They used to think the swallows
Were living under water
All through the winter
When they were missing from the trees
(Verse)
They used to think the geese
Buried from the branches
Each gentle sunny spring
When they came back again
(Chorus)
But the swallows and the geese
They have always heard
The ringing of the bells
That echoed through the earth
(Verse)
The monarch butterflies
In their cloud of orange wings
And all the colder eels
Swimming through the sea
(Verse)
They are following a path
To places never seen
They see the secret map
The moon draws on the sea
(Chorus 2)
The butterflies and eels
They have always heard
The ringing of the bells
That echoed through the earth
(Verse)
But the airplanes over head
Hang heavy in the air
And all the shiny cars
They circle in despair
(Verse)
When might they cry？
Where you were ever
But they will never hear
The bells that ring tonight
The bells that ring tonight
4.Octopus
(Verse)
The octopus has 3 hearts
And lives in caves below the sea
Or in a beer can or a bath tub
Or a puddle in the street
(Verse)
Any fisherman can tell you
When an octopus waves its arms
It hypnotizes stools of fish
All movement stops for miles
(Verse)
Even the waves stand still
All the witnesses have sworn
And it's impossible to resist
The urge to jump overboard
(Pre-Chorus)
That's why I try and stay away
From seashore holidays
(Chorus)
But I know that no one has to know
If I take an evening stroll
Down to the end of the wooden peer
Where the water's deep and cold
(Verse)
If I should see an octopus
Lift its arms out of the sea
Or see its shadow rising up
Cross the rooftops above the streets
(Verse)
I'd follow those dancing limbs
To the spinning edge of the sky
Where all the boats fall off the world
Into the octopus's eye
(Pre-Chorus 1)
That's why I know I shouldn't go
On a cruise across the sea
(Chorus)
But I know that no one has to know
If I take an evening stroll
Down to the end of the wooden peer
Where the water's deep and cold
(Pre-Chorus)
That's why I try and stay away
From seashore holidays
(Chorus)
But I know that no one has to know
If I take an evening stroll
Down to the end of the wooden peer
Where the water's deep and cold
5.Owls
The blue house at the corner
Of twilight instinct
Four stories floor in Terrence
Floors of wood parquet
And now so many owls
Snowy, horned and screech
Thousands of owls
All flapping their wings
How I love the marble staircase
The claw footed tubs
The room of rare orchids
The glass hall for my guns
Statue the pharaohs
20 feet tall
Crystal chandeliers
Rare paintings of clowns
But we have so many owls
I'm never alone
The owls make this blue house
A home
How peaceful it is
To watch them soar
Through the palm tree ballroom
With its gold panel doors
And as I sit by the fire
And slip off my boots
They purge all harpoons
And the stuffed heads of moose
The apothecary closet
Is like my shelves
But deeper than expected
And slammed it as well
How long have I been here？
Searching for my pills
As the ceiling grows upward
And the walls start to swell
Oh the owls, the owls
With their feathers of silk
The owls, they mock me
And have stolen my pills
But the owls, the owls
With their shiny green eyes
The owls, they will save me
If not today, then tonight
6.Caterpillars
Silvia was struck by lightning
While reading in bed one night
She left the windows open
And the storm caught her by surprise
For a day she laid here still as a stone
Clipped to pumps and tubes
Then out her window the street lights flashed
And at last, her fingers moved
She awoke to a cacophony
Of electric radio waves
Pulsing rays of energy
Falling from outer space
High and swaying towers
Down in basements full of dust
She could not escape the sterling
Or the 60 cycle arm
She moved on, tempted spectacles
Several fur lion capes
3 pairs of velvet gloves
A vain of dotted Swiss
But all the earth's vibrations
Still pounded through her ears
So she packed a steamer trunk
And flew a prop plane to Belize
From there a log raft took her
Over raging waterfalls
Deep within uncharted jungle
Where giant caterpillars crawl
The spun their silk around her
A cocoon between the trees
And still she hangs there swinging
Deep within the dripping leafs
Keepin time with every rumble
Every quiver of the earth
And she slowly changes shape
With the turning of the world
7.Glow Worm
Up the snowy spires
Where the air is thick as glass
Once a year the cold mist clears
You can see inside the earth
High in that crystal palace
I've built a sailing ship
Mastered wheel of polished brass
Sails of gold and silk
I pyte the engine steam
I set for long citations
I consulted dusty maps
Said careful, care the glaciers
Never in, we're never in
Hearing through my scope
I sail deep into the hollows
Deep inside the earth
I travelled a boiling river
Through streams of mercury
Under these volcanoes
And the roots of ancient trees
Underneath stalactites
I lit phosphorous lamps
Sparks snapped into the air
And coiled up the mist
I watched enormous birds
Diving through the slate
As I stood upon the ground
In my oil skin cap and cape
At last, my anchor caught
And echoed through the stone
As I climbed and old broke ladder
Pile through the globe
And up above I saw it
A glow worm's little light
And I reached out and caught it
In the center of the night
Tightly in my fist
I held that glowing worm
Deep down in the hollows
I held the center of the world
8.Lizard
Granny Green was stooped as a windblown branch
She lived high in the Bramble forest
Once a fork night if the moon shown right
She came down to her little village
She brought blackberries and willow bark
Mandrake root and mushrooms
And it was said she spoke the tongue of birds
And understood the river's whispers
Now several girls among our town
By a golden lizard they were bitten
And those sweet girls lay stiff in their beads
Like frozen ice upon the branches
Granny Green mixed a tonic for their ills
But it was such a bitter tonic
That all who drink began to dance
And could not stop their dancing
But none would danced one sinful step
If that old crone had not bewitched us
How we leaped in Princeton cackle
The whole town of driving mad men
And so desperate grew some to still their feet
They dove into the raging river
Still we danced all day and night
Til our fine clothes were torn and ragged
I'm crying out Oh Lord, make us stop
We danced naked around the chapel
How granny laughed to see such sin
There's just water, she said, in my tonic
But all cried out she lies, she surely lies
And we chased her deep into the Bramble
But like before wind she disappeared
Though we searched round and round the branches
Rolling in leafs and naked 'neath the trees
We lost the way back to our village
But I swear we were all pure of heart
Til that old crone did bewitch us
And I know we will all go home
When the good Lord returns to save us
9.Woodpecker
(Verse)
Lovely Mary, sweetie
That famous window smasher
Was just a quiet gloom of yodel-eh-hi-hi
From across Wisconsin
(Verse)
She took a pitch of cocaine
But only for her nerves
Was known for trembling hands
A little bottle in her purse
(Chorus)
She was a woodpecker
She couldn't help but free
All the things that had inside
All the pretty trees
(Verse)
At dusk she took the train
Just a hammer in her bag
She went from town to town, yodel-eh-hi-hi
Smashing every plain of glass
(Verse)
Store fronts mirrors, windshields
Shattered in the night
Her hammer through a window's gleam
Filled the air with light
(Chorus x2)
She was a woodpecker
She couldn't help but free
All the things that had inside
All the pretty trees
(Verse)
In a state asylum
The windows caged in bars
The soaked her in a nice cold bath
Til she was seeing stars
(Verse)
Wrapped up in her straitjacket
Her mind still hammered on
Until the glasses that are smashed, yodel-eh-hi-hi
And she flew off into the trees
(Chorus)
She was a woodpecker
She couldn't help but free
All the things that had inside
All the pretty trees
10.Gulls
GullsGood Doctor Brian
He fell in love
With the purple seas
Of such rose and silk
But in what got drove
Away, away
Like the soaring ghost
All the white dove sees
One night he begged
She'd be his bride
But she said 'no'
It cannot wait
Just like gulls
With their hungry tries
I love you less
Than the one got tied
Out he did grew
Oh such cruel words
And although this is
A shiny cell
He took a rock
And threw it high
And hawk a gull
From the wine dark sand
In twilet dust
In a blacky witch
The doctor burned
Warm wood and pitch
And with a fist
Will bring your dirt
Deep in the night
For that one girl heart
And then she came
With those rosy sleeves
To touch his hands
With such a wilder kiss
His black top hat
To the breeze it went
And his flapping arms
Grew feather plan
His face is stretched
To a sharpened way
And now he's strange
To feel the wild dark wind
But all he found
And thought to find
Those rosy sleeves
Held them oh so tight
11.Spider
In the shadows, in the bushes
In the space between the leafs
A spider in the thick it
Crawled up on my knee
I whip my gloves on, whip my hat on
And I'm ready from the trees
But that little glass spider
Came crawling up to me
From the shadows in the bushes
In the space between the leafs
A little black spider
Came a crawling home with me
It crawled up cross window
As I lay me down to sleep
In the morning on my pillow
It waited patiently
And then came the ants
The frogs and the snakes
Slithering and slimy
Through my blue washed sheets
Lastly from the bushes
Creeping from the moves
Every awful creature
Came a crawling over me
I crushed him and killed him
But they came all the more
So I ran in my night shirt
Out to visit the road
But I tripped it on a tree root
And this one from the weeds
A million metals heaf
For a million pieces
In the shadows of the picket
Rain pours through the leafs
And I was scavenging the mud
When he tripped on trees
But from here
And through there
From every tuition
Later voices sang
Longer twigs and mosses
And the swan and the cavern
Under logs and leafs
I crawled and I slithered
Under rotting trees
(x2)
In the tangle of the bushes
Underneath the wet leafs
Lay many and nothing
And I crawl up underneath
12.Wildebeest
When Steven Foster died
In thought this on the bury
His wone and wallward hill
Just a corner in the den
But the crocodile's back to eat
The crocodile's back to eat
He smashed his head on the sink
In the bitter fever of gin
The wildebeest go crazy with thirst
Pull down as he try to drink
But deep down in the smallest street
Even crocodiles dream their dreams
And as the heard galloped off
He may all night fall past 4
Singing Beautiful Dreamer
As the lions begin to roar
But we all have our beautiful dreams
Waiting for us like wildebeests
And when we wait at the river
To cross to that gleaming shore
The river show he's next to feed
As the feed thunders across
But the river has oceans to feed
She has beautiful ocean to feed
And the oceans, they feed the sky
And the sky feeds the earth
And Steven Foster's beautiful ghost
Laid down to feed us all
To feed took vows the songs
Echoing cross the wild plains
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