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3. |
Overture - The Mantra
03:16
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Went down to the market
To get my fortune read
The guy at Tenzing Momo
Well, this is what he said:
He said, "You got to have a New Age mantra,
To keep yourself alive.
You gotta get yourself some (Clunks from the band)
Joe: So I started in to singin' it
And oh, so soon
My head turned heavy
Like a time-bomb tomb,
Inside out,
Upside down, Oh
All:
Mantra mantra kundalini ya ya
Yoga Mat Gucci do a chakra cha cha
Latte, Latte soy stigmata
Feng Shui, dada, soul, oy! lambada!
Nuc, nerf, revelation, chrystal raga
Ding dong dairy deus machinata
Baba Yaga burn pichuli rasta
What you say bounces off me, na na na
Na Mioho Renge Kyo yo
Shivananda hopscotch vegananda
Coca cola wicca hari kari mata
She sews seashells on a square piñata
Joe:
Llama, llama, pizza rama
Vishnu wish you peaceful manna
Yin Yang paddywack hari hama
This little piggy went to Market, Mama
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4. |
Joe Bean
03:55
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Joe, Joe Bean your the luckiest guy we've ever seen
Joe, Joe Bean, You're the happiest, luckiest, mellowist, friendliest, wealthiest, funniest, sickeningly modest, stable, religious guy we know
Joe: Well I'm not really that religious
I'd say I'm more spiritual
My wife's the religious one in the family
She's pretty old testament compared to me
All: How do you do it? What's your secret, Man?
Joe: Faith in the Universe, I guess
If I lost it all tomorrow
I think I'd make it back, back again
Because there's nothing that people can't do
If they put their minds to it
All:
Joe, Joe Bean
He's the coolest guy we've ever seen
Joe Bean, Joe Bean, Joe Bean
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5. |
Last Summer's Flowers
00:44
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Last summer's flowers have gone to seed
The winds from the north like a day in fall
I play in the leaves like a ghost from spring
Kiss the earth so cold, it sings
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6. |
Afraid
03:24
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Last night I dreamed a dream that had no color
The wind reached in and found me in my head
The icy tears spilled softly to my pillow
And I could see the darkness spreading there
The spirits stared, they did not even whisper
And I could tell they wanted more
And I knew then, that they were hungry
For the sweet blessings that I adore
I’m so Afraid—
Afraid that God will take it away.
I’m so afraid these blessings aren't really mine,
I’m so afraid at any moment that the sky will tumble
Yes, it's true that I'm afraid
These dreams of loss will shatter me in time
I know this life will someday fade away
And then, it won’t be mine.
And visions of all I love will disappear.
This is the dream I fear:
Tomorrow, when He wakes us
I pray He won’t forsake us,
And life will roll surely by,
Without you I’ll surely, surely die.
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7. |
The Wedding
02:57
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LEADERS
Shiva, Isis, Gaia, Jesus, Baal
Mother Earth, Father Sun, welcome one and all!
Pantheistic, Atheistic, Muslim, Jew and Christian
Fitting you in is our theologic mission
DEVIL
It looks like the house of God is subdivided
Condos for rent, all utilities provided
Aryabhatt, wine, Breaking bread, wedding cake
and The Grateful Dead It’s all right here and it’s all just fine.
ALL
Welcome brothers, Welcome sisters
Buddhas, Buffalos and holy cows, Mrs. & Misters
LEADER I see that my man Mohammad’s in the house!
We pray to the 4 directions North, East, West & South. North! East! West! South!
DEVIL
Oh my god,
I’m bored already
I hate weddings, don’t you Freddy?
GOD
Mirna , Mirna, I do to,
But if we’re lucky they’ve boiled it down
To a concentrated brew
2nd LEADER
Oh, God, your light’s so bright that sometimes we are frightened
ALL
Oh, God, your light’s so bright that sometimes we are frightened.
2nd LEADER
Give us all your gifts, so we may be enlightened
GUESTS Give us all your gifts, so we may be enlightened!
ALL Free us oh free us, free us from desire
Meditate, medicate and dance around the fire
SARA BEAN
The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in
JOE BEAN & MEN Mazeltof, Heichka, Sala malekum, The petals they are many but the flower is just one!
Catch the Moon and ride the sun
ALL Tara tara Tara Tara
JOE plus MEN
Hallelujah Heya Ho
ALL Heya Heya heya!
JOE PLUS MEN The water and rivers Flow!
ALL Heya heya Heyo!
JOE plus MEN Starchild do not fear the spaceship when you go.
LEADER Who’s got the wedding ring?
BEST MAN I do, I do.
LEADER Do you take this bride to be your lawful wedded wife?
GROOM Yes
LEADER And do you take this guy
here in sickness and in strife?
BRIDE Yes!
LEADER I now pronounce you muja mu
Flippin dipity dipsy doo.
You may now kiss the bride.
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8. |
Wax & Wane
03:16
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LEADER
There’s a chapel on a seaside coast bleak as mid December
Where seagulls slice the air in the Country of Remember,
There’s a wide open window where the curtains flap with wind
And dark creatures scurry and scuttle deep within,
There’s an altar of ancient oak obscured by smoke,
Three words gouged on its surface, once he spoke:
JOE
I love you.
CHORUS
I love you.
I love you.
SARA
I love you.
[All the guests hoot and clap]
GOD
We were all born to breathe
and also born to doubt.
We were destined to come in, and all must go out.
Life is a mix of dreams and despair.
Nobody, no, nobody, ever said it was fair
ALL
We rise and fall and wax and wane,
And suffer love, suffer pain
And memory’s both
our foe and a friend
Our way of beginning
is our way at the end.
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9. |
War
03:48
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WaR
© 2003 Music & Lyrics by Mark Nichols
GOD
It’s time now to lift a hand and set the plot in motion
Tragedy has a way of testing man’s devotion
For he who in his daily life might never ever pray
Will say Hail Mary if a bomb is coming his way.
GOD and DEVIL
It’s time to raise the stakes
It’s time to raise the stakes
Give our theater piece some legs
It’s time to make the stage
It’s time to build the set.
We’re talking ‘bout WAR!
CHORUS and JOE (as part of a sarcastic protest)
War! War! War! War!
Give me a lovely war (Repeat)
Let the fun and games begin
It’s always best to start a war
That neither side can win!
Come on all you atheists
Get in your foxholes now!
Fatcats sit in penthouse pentagons
Dreaming of toys t
heir boys pull triggers on (repeat)
It’s good verses evil
It’s black versus white
I love against anger
It’s wrong verses right
If neither side will bend,
They should fight until the end
It’s war! War!
JOE
I heard the big explosion.
A blinding flash of melody
And then I got the notion
That this would be a T-T-T-T-Tragedy
Don’t need no records in the shelter
To hear a radiation Symphony
A psychedelic smelter. Blister me with
CHORUS and JOE
Har-mo-ny.
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10. |
Repo Man
01:34
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Mr. Repo Man...He’s here to take it back again.
Mr. Repo Man...Mr. Repo Man
REPO MAN
Now I’m here to take it back
I’m here to take it back again.
I’m here to take it back
I’m here to take it back again.
Never had it to begin again.
Sometimes you lose,
sometimes you win
Sometimes you have
to go broke to begin, again!
[While they sing the chorus he sings…]
REPO MAN
We’re slashing half off everything.
Get it while it’s hot, hot.
--Diamond ring. Sure thing!
Can you sing?
Get it for a song!
Bankruptcy is just a hiccup, see!
We’ll have you back on your feet
--Credit card within a week.
But for now
we’ll take the SUV,
It once belonged to you
and now belongs to me.
THUGS and REALTORS
and COLLECTORS
Things things thing-a-ma-jigs
Things they’re only things.
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11. |
I Hear
01:16
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CHORUS
I hear The Bean family is out on their ass!
I hear he lost it all.
A Bomb took out his whole building.
Nothing left but a hole
Everything he owned was invested right here
Didn’t he have insurance?
He didn’t believe in it
Said he had faith in the system!
Didn’t expect to be bombed
JAUNDICE
I heard they’re sleeping
in a shelter.
A NEIGHBOR
I’d take him in but his
pride won’t let him
CHORUS
It’s a shame.
It’s a damn shame
It’s a cryin’ shame
It’s a cryin’ shame
He said they could take
the shirt off his back
And he’d bounce right back.
EDWARD
I don’t know
A NEIGHBOR
I don’t know
ANOTHER NEIGHBOR
I don’t know
JOE
I just don’t know.
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12. |
Down at the Bar
00:41
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JOE:
OK, I lost this round
But I’m standing here now with my feet on the ground
They were trinkets and jewels
Worthless crap put here for fools
Life sets us up and traps us in
To thinking that our ship might not be sinking’
JOE with BUMS
But isn’t that the story we are in?
JOE
OK, so let them take it all away
You got to die to be reborn
You got to revolt before the reform
You burn like the Phoenix in ashes
You suffer the thorns and the 39 lashes
You know it’s true.
You got to get up to get down
JOE with GIRLS and BUMS
You gotta get down to get up!
JOE
So, now I’m a poor man
But my soul’s got plenty more man
And even though I’m all burned and dampened
Soot blackened.
I’ll be damned if I slacken
I’ll find a new way to pay off the rent
I won’t give in to livin’ depressed.
I’m gonna get myself out of this mess
My wife’s a gift
My family’s the bow
It’s all I really count on
It’s all I really know
You got to get up to get down.
And you got to get down to get up.
Got to get down….You got to get down to get
CHORUS Up! Up! You got to get down to get
Got to get down Got to get down Got to get down, up.
Joe Bean, Joe Bean, He’s the coolest guy you’ve ever seen.
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14. |
Rich Man
02:07
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15. |
Lucky Mugsie
04:01
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16. |
Only a Mother
02:01
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A MASKED CHARACTER
Only a mother can tell this story
Only a drum can sound this scene
Blind tragedies of time and space
And now the deaths begin
Begin with the son in a foreign place
Begin with the Beans, happy but lost
Begin with ignorance and end with fact
Start the blows of the golden axe
The soldiers don’t know that the Beans don’t know.
The mother believes that the son still lives
What was living will die
What was cherished will not survive
Filaments of love bind this story
So fine we might not see them
So frail we might not find them
Only a mother’s grief and glory
Her heart beats like a drum
In the pulse...
The eternal story.
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17. |
Friendly Fire
02:53
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SOLDIERS
Yo! This is the white house mix,
So come on up and get your fix
Back from K.P.
We were just chillin’ ‘till duty.
Took his back, pulled the slack,
While Scud went lookin’ for some booty
Saw a Sari Girl. This is the 3rd world
He got adrenaline
He got his glory in the end, Yo.
SOLDIERS & ANGELS
We’re so sad,
Mrs. Bean,
we’re so sorry,
we’re so sorry
Not a lot
we can say
“Friendly fire”
that’s the story
Black smoke,
Stop Scud!
Couldn’t see,
burning tires.
Scud got pop popped
It was not
our desire-ire
SOLDIERS
We had the hummer doing muckus
It was ruckus
We were shootin’ at the Sheiks
And they were shootin’ back at us
We got the order not to shoot
And to dispatch
With the chemical suits
Scud was preachin’ to the choir
When a round of friendly fire
Came across the dunes
It was from our own platoon
The Chaplan got us all to pray
And Scud told us what to say
He didn’t mind,
he didn’t mind it that way
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18. |
The Worms
02:51
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JOE and SARA
A Mother’s arms
Can’t be there in the end,
Let go your fears
And loves you might defend,
No worry for the life
You may intend
The worms will be
No comfort in the end
So sleep that long, long sleep
And dream
that long dream
And row your boat
Gently down the stream
Row your boat
Gently down the stream
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20. |
Faith
02:18
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CHORUS and JOE
I heard upon his heap of dung
A man cry out of crusted lung
If God is Good and Man is God,
Then everything is as it should be
Take the good; take the bad,
He who is happy must be sad
And take the world for what it is,
And love the gentle breezes blowing.
JOE
*Faith is here in desperation
In the twilight of my darkest night
I do not know why fear should strike,
But fear is what is stricken, stricken.
(*This stanza by Archibald MacLeish from “J.B.”)
DEVIL
Wow, he’s coming back for more
I’m impressed.
I thought by now we’d be doing
curtain calls for sure.
GOD
Oh, Faith leads to faith
This bean man going to give it all he’s got.
That’s why we put him on the spot.
GOD and DEVIL
These bugs were born with will
They snap their mothy little wings
Outside the window sill
They-- [Snap, snap, snap]
Sucked in by the light
They beat their bones against the glass
DEVIL
Then die back to the night.
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21. |
Skin for Skin
01:10
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GOD
Why can’t we just end it here? You know how this story goes.
DEVIL
No! That isn’t possible
We’ve got to push him some more.DEVIL
Skin for skin, yea all that a man hath
He will give for his life
But put forth a hand now
And touch his bone and his flesh
He will curse thee to thy face.
ALL (Repeat Chorus)
That’s how the story goes.
That’s how the story goes.
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22. |
It's Time to Go
04:01
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SARA
It’s time to go,
It’s time to go, now, Joe
I can’t stay. Can’t stay with you.
I can’t live. Can’t live with you.
So what else can I do?
What else can I do?
I know the feel of leaving all things bright,
This place where shadows twist to conjure night
Where once my heart protected peaceful light
My soul is broken and my chest is tight
Now I’m alone. Adrift with no desire.
My heart’s a lonely house that’s been set on fire.
CHORUS
It’s time to go, It’s time to go now, Joe.
SARA
I have tried and tried and tried
And shed my blood in tears, you know I cried.
There is nothing left for you.
A mother’s arms must let her children go.
A mother’s arms must let her children go.
And now my man won’t cry or scream!
Where are your tears my love?
Where is your dream?
I can’t love a man who lets the world walk on him.
CHORUS
It’s time to go,
It’s time to go, now, Joe! (Growing more intense.)
SARA
I know the feel of leaving all things bright,
This place where shadows twist to conjure night
Where once my heart protected
My soul is broken and my chest is tight
Now I’m alone
[It becomes deadly quiet.]
It’s your fault
It’s your fault
It’s your fault
I think our children were betrayed by you.
Betrayed by your strong, silent dirge.
Man of faith. Faith in what?
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23. |
Don't Despair
02:30
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JOE:
Praise the sky, Praise the Universe
Praise the whales, Praise all the suffering creatures
I do not know where this wind will take me
Or if it will break me but I go on, I go on
Like a battered boat on an insane sea
The only choice: to be, to be, to be.
CHORUS
Don’t despair!
JOE
I don’t have health, I don’t have wealth
I barely have my self. But I have hope
And I still care
And no matter how down...Down and out I might be
The universe takes care. Takes care of me
Oh Hallelujah
This old world seems so unfair
I got two words to tell you, Brother:
“Don’t Despair”
They all talk about the worms just waiting there
But still my brothers and sisters
Don’t despair. Don’t despair
When you’re alone. All the prophets are there
So don’t despair. Don’t despair
Like Jesus, Buddha, & Mohammed too
This is the message, they gave to you
Oh don’t despair. Don’t despair
Just keep your heart-coal burning, don’t despair
If they take your faith, and leave you in fear
Take the even take the odd and don’t despair.
ALL
Don’t despair! Keep your heart-coal burning
Don’t despair!
[At the end of the song Joe collapses and is taken to a hospital.]
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24. |
Rick from Silverdale
00:33
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25. |
Joe Bean's Been Seen
02:02
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ERLICK: Joe Bean’s been seen
Straying through wind
Riding the weightless air of aware
Scaling the Avatar past dreams, past hopes
Past lives, past deaths.
EZEL:
Joe Bean’s been seen
Peering down a chasm
so steep it does not lean
To a scene so small and sharp
It can cut and slice an angel’s heart
You may have seen him
Just at the edge of your eyes.
And turning to look,
you surprised the shape
That wreckage takes
CHORUS
Breathe once, Breathe twice,
And praise the night
that bears the weight
Of a coming day, and stars
that score our stumbled way.
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26. |
Sufferin' Joe
01:56
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This place, it’s so sad. Sad place for a bum.
He’s lucky though, that’s Joe. “Lucky Joe”
I hear they pulled him off the street, ‘ya know?
--Starved to death. --So weak and he don’t speak.
Or maybe he just won’t --hasn’t spoken since
he’s been here. Tried to get him to, but he don’t.
How many weeks now? How many weeks now?
Who is he?--Just a bum, right? --Just a bum off
the street, right? Picked him up by a streetlight?
--Just a bum off the street, right? Don’t be dumb.
Nobody’s just a bum. Everybody got to be
from somewhere. Everybody got somewhere
they come from.
Hey yo, Why you suffering Joe?
Don’t you know, you got to let the pain go.
You’re like the frog, climbin’ up a log,
One jump two slips back, hey Jack. Have a bowl
of chicken split pea soup for your soul.
Doesn’t really seem like enough for someone
who’s had it this rough.
I saw it on TV, This guy’s
had a bad year. His whole family, his wife, his
money All of it gone, And he don’t even shed a tear.
That’s a bad year. Why Joe? Why won’t you speak
Joe? Do you think it’d make you look weak Joe?
Why Joe? Why won’t you speak Joe? Do you think it’d
make you look week Joe?
Don’t worry Man! No
one would give you any flack If you just went off and
blew, Blew like a smokestack.
Hey Joe. He’s
suffering, He’s suffering Joe. Hey bro’…why’re you
suffering so? Hey bro’ What’d you do to deserve
this bro? Hey suffering, Joe. Hey Joe! Just let it go
Just let it go, Joe. Just let it go. Just let it all go,
Joe. Just let it, Go (Joe starts crying.)
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27. |
Wide Space Between Words
03:52
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EZEL or maybe SARA
There’s a wide space between words
where the world can rise and fall
a time when the tongue fails
and the throat clenches
There’s space so immense between suns that
There’s a gap between people so small that
There’s an instant before danger so quick that
There’s a millisecond before love so brief that
And only the eyes stop us like anchors
Slam us to silence
Stun our hearts close to break
Or billow like a seagoing sail
On seas yellow crazed stung by salt
Plowed with foam.
And the wind takes us like toys
Into the future, even on our knees
Away from ourselves
Into eternal see.
Even the air is enough
Even the heart that beats
The flowers we throw away
The lions that we tame
I want to be an arrow that flies
Through disaster
Seeing without sight,
Hearing without sound
Standing without ground
When we cannot stand,
We must fall down
When we cannot speak,
Our words melt the air.
There’s a wide ...
Space ...
Between words.
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28. |
Sufferers Anonymous
03:28
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SUFFERERS
Llama llama Pizza Rama
Vishnu wish you peaceful Manna
Yin Yang Paddywack Hari Hama
This little piggy went
to market Mama
Na Mioho Renge
Kyo yo Shivananda
Hopscotch Vegananda
GROUP LEADER
Welcome to the weekly meeting
of Sufferers Anonymous….
I’m glad you’re here.
Jaundice, would you like to begin?
A WOMAN
Hi, I’m Jaundice
ALL Hi Jaundice.
JAUNDICE
I’ve been free of suffering for 6 weeks and everything was
going well and…my daughter has joined a rock band!
I just don’t know if I can do it anymore.
LEADER
Remember, pain is mandatory, suffering is optional,
Jaundice. Edward?
EDWARD
Hi, I’m Edward
ALL
Hi Edward.
EDWARD
Well I’ve been doin’ pretty well,
But lately, man work has been hard,
There’s this guy in the cube next to me, see
Who’s got me on the edge. I’m tellin’ you man…
I don’t know but I think I’m gonna go postal real soon
If he doesn’t quit clickin’ that thing he’s always--
LEADER
-- Edward! Thank you. That’s excellent.
And someone new this week. Joe Bean?
JOE
Hi I’m Joe.
well…my children are dead, and my wife left me.
I lost millions in a bombing incident.
My son was killed on the first day of the war
By friendly fire.
My littlest girl is missing and presumed dead.
And I guess I have a horrible skin disease…
and I still have hope, I’m doing much better...
…Really… I’m really, really sad.
[All sit stunned for a moment]
LEADER
O.K. This may be more than we are equipped to
handle here in our little group.
He needs some heavy healing
--Some good holistic healing.
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29. |
The Herbalist
01:02
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I have treated many patients like you in my time,
It’s Certainly conflict of the body and the mind.
How’s your spleen?
How’s your Colon?
--Sphincter?
I’m going to snap right here and here
What do you think of
when I say the word “peanut?”
Did you ever try on your mother’s panties?
I’ve made a tea of foxglove, chamomily,
Calla Lilly, Penny Royal and Molasses.
It’ll kick your ass.
Pain… seems to me an insufficient reason
Not to be content.
Being dead is quite painless
But we don’t want that,
now do we?
The whole person.
Quick, turn him on his side,
whilst I draw a sample of his life force.
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30. |
The Acupuncturist
01:50
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This ancient Chinese healin’ has been passed around for years.
Unfortunately, in the States it’s quite new
But I’ve taken two semesters at the tech school here in town
And I can’t wait to get acupunturin’ you.
Most people haven’t heard yet of the acupuncture/rolf combination. It’s sort of East meets West with some Tai Chi thrown in the stew
Big needle, yes, but I know that you’ll suffer less you see
Because the smaller needles are less familiar to me.
Feel that? I bet that doesn’t feel to good, huh?
Well, you know what they say Buckaroo,
“Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional”
Now how ‘bout a little rolfin’?
Ha! Ha! AAAAHHHHH! Yeah...
You’ll be in agony for a few weeks
And throwing up in a hundred different ways,
But that’s normal when you’ve been studying
Ancient Chinese medicine for only fourteen days.
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31. |
Everything
04:01
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SARA
Everything
Everything speaks of you.
Everything smells like you.
Everything turns me to you.
Dark birds streak through cancelled skies
Like a lost girl, lost as my young girl’s eyes.
My children gone like straws to the wind
Whispers believe
Whispers believe
“Never again”
In this dream, the end of the stream:
I see us all on a beach in June
Where blue herons stand like statues of doom.
What do I do now? Just tell me how now...
What do I do?
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32. |
Take it to the End
03:27
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SUICIDE GOD
I was wondering if I’d get a chance
To have a little chat
You seem depressed
I often feel like that.
Sometimes it’s hard to know
Where to begin
But why not take it to the end, and
Do yourself in.
You know, sometimes
How do I put this…
Life just “ain’t worth livin’” ahhah?
And as hard as you try, Well sometimes your tryin’
it ain’t hard enough.
Makes you feel like dyin’
I know you think it’s a sin
But maybe it’s time to do yourself in
You know maybe, they’ve all been a foolin’ you
Joe, Foolin’ you into thinking you got to stick it out
--That there’s something wrong with goin’ your own way.
Well don’t pout. We got it figured it out.
No one really knows, where you’ve been
No one really knows, where you’ve been
So take it to the end buddy,
And do yourself in.
How hard have you tried?
It’s been a while since you thought of suicide
It’s only a suggestion
But maybe all them people lied
To be or not to be, what was the question?
Was it meant for me?
You know I know you think it’s a sin
But maybe it’s time to do yourself in?
Have you considered pills?
A little cyanide goes a long way, Buddy
Have you thought about pulling the car into the garage
For a Sunday drive to nowhere?
For a Sunday drive to nowhere?
Sometimes it’s hard to know where to begin
But why not take in to the end
And do your self in.
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33. |
Why
03:20
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JOE
Everyone walk me hand in hand
To a place you think I might crack
Everyone push me into the well of despair.
And take the shirt off my back.
And leave me there
Have the shirt off my back.
Want the ending to begin.
Send down an angel.
Send down a God.
A burning bush to welcome
Why? Is all I wonder.
Why... me? Why me?
Should I not try to forget what I had?
We all know good things happen to the bad.
Cheers! Here’s to them, cheers!
If all things are equal,
Equal is equal in tears
Why... me? Why me?
Just tell me why.
Send me a message. From the sky
Send me a message. From the sky
Feel the pain burn through me.
Feel the sadness on my skin.
Feel the whisper in my ears.
Want the ending to begin.
Send down an angel. Send down a God.
A burning bush to welcome
Just give me a nod.
Why? Why? Why?
[God and the Devil appear in a “whirlwind”.]
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34. |
The Whirlwind
00:30
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35. |
Where Were You?
05:17
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Where were you?
Where were you?
Where were you?
When I created all this for you.
Remember Mendel and Aristotle,
Tell me who was at the throttle?
Where were you? Where were you?
Kepler and Einstein, boy,
Lifted my beerstein, Oy! The universe is simply mind unraveled. You know the helix double but don’t see it’s a bubble baby!
Of all that I’ve created lately, still it goes, goes undated bated breath
All related...‘Till the end of time…
‘Till I lose my mind…Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!
Seeds and spores, sex galore. Exponentially divide, multiply…collide
Here’s a clue, here’s a clue I give to you: Where were you?
When hell and earth met for the great divide!
Were you inside? That’s where I abide!
Where sea snails glide and tides elide!
That’s where I abide! Sea of green, sky of blue,
wild blue Where were you? Stone and matrix,
Womb and pod. That’s God…
In my trillion days,
The only truth
Is itch when you’ve
Been scratched
You’ve met your
Match; more than
Your matchThe great
Unknown, eternity, The trumpet of theocracy,
The architect of leaf,
The carpenter of belief.
Or to put it a little more simply
While you grovel there limply,
The earth is a pebble I flicked from
My thumb, It’s chained to a star and
You’re indelibly dumb.
Na Na Na Na Na Na. And now
You come to rest and ask me “Why?”
And says I…Where were you?
Everybody’s asking me,
Where they come from.
Everybody’s asking me, what to do.
Think about me, think about you-hoo
Where were you? Where were you?
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36. |
Finale
06:45
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JOE
Where were you?
Where have you been?
SARA
I’ve been wandering to and ‘fro on the earth.
SARA
I thought there was a way away
From bricks and stone and steel,
But the heart can heal
I’ve washed with the ashes,
And I’ve slept in grime and muck.
I’ve considered the weeds and I’ve counted all our...luck.
I heard you down in the silence of my grief
And I felt your hope wrap around me in the dark
And my heart opened, and I saw you
As you reached for me
Through this maze of despair
And the dream we made still lives
There’s a coal in my heart that will not die.
There’s a coal in the heart that’s for you.
There’s a coal in the heart that’s for you.
Just blow on the coals of my heart and we’ll get by,
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37. |
Why - Bradley Dean Vocal
02:38
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38. |
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