1. |
Tied to the Mast
06:22
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TIED TO THE MAST
Jump jump jump jump!
Now she jumps up and starts to spin
Now she jumps up and starts to begin
Now she’s wound up, she’s wound up fast
She’s tied up, tied to the mast
It’s just the apocalypse it isn’t the end
It’s just an apocalypse it’s not the end
It’s not the end
Look at her now hey look at her now
She’s riding the panther she’s herding the cow
Take it easy take it easy take it easy my friend
It’s just an apocalypse it isn’t the end
Jimmy and Zulu and her main man Ray
Shakin’ like lizards they drop by to say
They’re in love with the lady with reversible eyes
Hearing a voice from deep down inside
Now look at her cryin’, she’s all in a rage
[Why are you talking are you talking to me?]
They’re takin’ her down in a 2-tiered cage
[I’m having a breakdown is it that hard to see?]
Discharging its panthers till it gets round the bend
Spinnin’ in circles, just like John Glenn
Is this the end? Is it the end?
This is how it is. You’re on this ship. And you’re bound to the mast. And the damned thing is goin’ down.
She’s tied, tied, tied, tied to the mast.
Man Ray’s on the prow, he’s havin’ a blast
It don’t matter to Ray that the ship’s sinkin’ fast
We’re goin’ goin’ goin’ goin’ down fast
God Good Almighty we’ve been hit!
God bless Captain Vere!
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2. |
Social Climber
03:09
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SOCIAL CLIMBER
Well she’s climbin’ up Manhattan
She’s scorchin’ everyone below
She’s climbiin’ up to heaven
To a club called Yes and No
Rich woman you don’t care about NObody.
He finds a stain on his Valentino sweater
He wants a thing who will put out
Of her mind any deep down thoughts
Dress as his lady or his baby
“Pick up my suit on the way home, darlin’?”
She spread her smile for Glamour, spread for glamor
She’s perfect for him jerkin’ in a magazine
Wriggles like a half dead eel
Wind-up doll, slot machine, money money
What’s the score score score score
He won’t touch you now, swimmin’
In your baby blood
Ah slick as butter
Kick that sucker
Hang on to that ladder
Social climber
She mauls the budget for sweaters
Colors have such symmetry
“I like cooking and acting and yoga!”
“What a geometric canvas!”
“I love art art art art art!”
“I’m a neon giraffe, caress me!”
But what to be, who who?
Go go go go to Limelight Limbo Area
Caviar in the cemetery, beef up those veins
“We are caviar on your grave, darlin’”
Agh she’s so gorgeous and pale
She takes liberties with the statues in the garden
Bad tomatoes made her sick
The maid maid maid the Minute Maid makes her sick
Vomit on the costume, jewelry gone — stolen!
Write me a check dear roll me a line
Bet my horse horse horse horse
Cop a feel in the ladies room
“Hey honey would you mind going
for a walk and getting me some soap?”
You don’t know what’s going on do you?
You don’t know what’s going on in this world.
I know you and I know you don’t have an idea.
Slick as butter
Kick that sucker
Hang onto that ladder
Because you’re going to get to the top
Social climber
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3. |
The Wrong Tack
05:39
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THE WRONG TACK
Disconnected, not given enough slack
Blinking lights, how many, you’ve lost track
Cable, cable, cable, cable snapped
Emergency, you don’t know how to react
Groggy, exhausted, you don’t move very fast
But you can’t turn the clock, the clock, the clock, the clock back
Can you?
Staggered, stinking, smoke turns your face black
Information, you couldn’t leave it intact
Faced with your own, your own, your own, your own lack
Commitments, take them back
Arguments, no command of the facts
You took the wrong, the wrong, the wrong, the wrong tack
You took the wrong, the wrong, the wrong, the wrong tack
All personnel all personnel
Report directly to stations
C through D
This is not a drill
Repeat
This is not a drill
Emergency emergency
All personnel all personnel
Report directly to stations Repeat
This is not a drill repeat this is not a drill!
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4. |
Radiant Bozo
01:28
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RADIANT BOZO
Oh, now I’m REALLY BIG!
Ah ha ha ha!
I still like you [unintelligible]
Ha ha, I like you
Recording Engineer!
I still like you, Art Director!
Ah ha ha.
Oh wife! Oh wife! Come here!
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5. |
Hatred
01:11
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HATRED
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
You’re a vulture, you’re a weasel
Your smile makes me cringe
Oh oh oh oh
Force me to dream of
Castrating you with a dull blade
No no no no!
No I can’t stop
Hating you
I can’t stop
Hating you
Help me stop
Hating you
Help me stop
Hating you
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6. |
The Grind
06:07
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THE GRIND
How does it feel, how does it feel, how does it feel to be you?
How does it feel, how does it feel, how does it feel to be you?
I went down to this meat packin’ plant
I went down to this slaughterhouse
And I saw this guy over in the corner
Swingin’ on a hook
I said
Hey Joe Jerk
I said
Hey Joe Jerk Jerk Jerk Jerk Jerk Jerk Jerk Hey Joe Jerk
Tell me tell me tell me
How does it feel to be you?
(Livin’ inside a wall!)
I went up to Paradise Lost
I went up to Paradise Lost Retirement Village
And I saw this lovely old dame
She was breakin’ all these vases
She was cryin’, “Fire!… Pain!”
I said
Hey Gladys Night
I said
Hey Gladys Night Night Night Night Night Night Night Night
Hey Gladys Night
How does it feel to be you?
I’m just another Joe
She’s just another Jo
It’s just another blow
It’s just another blow
It’s just this daily grind
I knock and knock on my apartment door
But the door’s open
So I walk in
And I see myself
Sound asleep in an armchair
Bandages around my head
Blood drippin’ from a pen in my hand
And I said
Hey now man
I said
Hey now man man man man man man man man
Hey now man
How does it feel to be you?
How does it feel to be ME?
I went down to my sugar’s house
I went down to my honey’s house
I went over to my sweetheart’s apartment
And I sat down on her steps
And I walked up the steps
Into her kitchen
And she was throwing all the biscuits on the floor
And she was crawling up the wall
I said hey now honey
I said hey now hon hon hon hon hon hon hon hon hon
How does it feel to be you?
I’m just another Joe
She’s just another Jo
It’s just another blow
It’s just this daily grind
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7. |
Hotel California
08:34
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Hotel California
Intro:
Recitations from “London” by William Blake and “I Saw Her Standing There” by The Beatles.
“Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains, they’re getting ready for the feast.” Bob Dylan, “Desolation Row”
“Actin’ funny, but I don’t know why, ‘scuse me while I kiss the sky.” Jimi Hendrix, “Purple Haze”
“All last night I sat on the levee and moan.” Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie, “When the Levee Breaks”
“Standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona… seven women on my mind.” Glenn Frey, Jackson Browne, “Take It Easy”
Song body:
Lyrics by Don Felder, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, available wherever you get your lyrics
Outro:
We stab it and we stab it and we stab it and we stab it
But we just can’t kill the beast
I love you I love you I love you I love you
God it’s beautiful here, it’s so serene
Coca Cola, Coca Cola
Stab it stab it
Kill ‘em kill ‘em kill ‘em
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8. |
Tightrope
05:22
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TIGHTROPE
Dancin’ down the tightrope, you discover that it’s been greased
With the blood of the kid and the fat of the whale whose cries never cease
It’s a shame when things don’t work out, you were more than halfway there
But you can’t give no interviews when you’re fallin’ through the air
Down, down, down, down
Don’t, don’t look down
Sorry says the mechanic there’s not much that I can do
There’s a dead beast in your driver’s seat and he just refuses to move
No, no, no that’s just my relative you shout back above the din
But the moment you touch the crowbar, nausea closes in
Now these party people have their problems, but they don’t mean to be unkind
I know that they have their problems yeah well certainly I have mine
But they talk about their cocktails and they chat about the bomb
They discuss the kind of chemicals that they spray upon their lawn
Well it seems they’re a little uncertain tonight, who must they impress
They ain’t sure who the owner is, “Is now the time to undress?”
Their cheap thrills make me shudder, the kitchen is full of blades
There’s a river out that window
Hey whaddya say you and me we go find some shade, let’s go find some shade
See I keep having this recurring nightmare [repeat] that I keep having this recurring nightmare [repeat]
that I keep having this recurring nightmare
that I’m standin’ up on this balcony and I’m lookin’ over,
and I’m trying not to fall, I don’t wanna fall down there
and then David Rockefeller comes up behind me and he gives me a push
and I fall down hundreds of feet and I’m lyin’ there
all these bankers start comin’ up to me and they start handin’ me these bills
these 5 dollar bills 10 dollar bills 25 dollar bills 80 dollar bills
I know they’re counterfeit
I said get that money
get that money away, get that money away from me, get that money away!
So then I take all these bills and I throw them as far as I can
and where they land a tree grows up, a giant tree
standing over me….ugh ugh ugh TIMBER!
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9. |
Stay Calm
04:19
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Stay Calm
Be! Be!
Stay calm, stay calm, stay calm.
Just be. Just be. Stay calm. Stay calm.
Why don’t you just stay calm?
Stay calm!
Don’t wanna panic now!
Stay stay stay stay stay!
Watch me now! Watch me
just be!
Stay calm.
Don’t move.
Don’t get carried away.
Relax!
Be. Be.
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10. |
Oh, I See
04:15
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Oh I See
Oh I see, oh, oh, oh I see, you want me to go down that hill, right? You look like a nurse but I know you’re a soldier! American soldier! “Hey, American soldier!” Whaddya got, a war wound? A direct result of nothing as far as I’m concerned. I’m standin’ out on this porch. You know he’s down there. He’s got a gun. Nothin’ to worry about I guess, but I’m not goin’ down there. Not me. Other guys go down but you know my head is a radio. I hear these kinds of things. I don’t hear ‘em, other people hear ‘em, I guess.
Walker’s down there. He’s… uh… sittin’ in that chair. I didn’t do nothin’ with his wife. She looked kiinda funny in those stockings though — must admit, must admit! Saw it in a headline or something. Well, Chase Manhattan Bank, you know, you go everywhere with these people, they don’t know what to tell ya. They say, “It’s not me, it’s them!” I say, it’s kind of a result of… nothing, or something like that.
Oh oh oh, no, no! Not going down there! Nah, nah! Wait, wait! Wait, something hurts! Oh, oh! Oh I see, oh I see! You want me to go down the hill, oh I see! You buggin’ out? You buggin’ out? You buggin’ out? You buggin’ out?
Oh I see you want me to, nah, not like that, it’s somethin’ I read in the papers. I saw it in a cinema, backing out, he’s got a gun! I’m not goin’ down there, I got this thing, you don’t wanna see it! Hey, hey you look like a, like some kind of bicycle messenger…
I I I oh oh I see you want me to go down the hill huh? I see! You want me — forget it! I ain’t goin’ down there, oh I see. Get in there. Walker’s wife, black stockings. I’m not Rockefeller, you know. Andrew Carnegie, what’s that, withdrawal, 500 miles. Oh I see, dispose of it huh? Bughead! BUGHEAD! My hands are kind of stumps. Ha! Blood type zero! Hit the road Jack! Hit the road Jack. Come on, get a move on! Ah come on. I been to the bank.
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11. |
Like a Slob
03:52
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Like a Slob
I watch the ladies dance
I watch the ladies dance
I watch them dance
They’re drunk on Love
They’re Phantoms of Love
They look so good
They look so good
They’re Phantoms of Love
Oh they look so beautiful
They look so fine
Then I fall to earth
I’m livin’ in this hotel
Livin’ like a slob
I don’t have a job
I don’t got a soul
Memories are cold
With my little ice pick
I chip away my days
Now I’m livin’ here
Livin’ in this hotel
Livin’ like a slob
I don’t have a job
I don’t have a soul to come home to
Memories are cold like oatmeal in a bowl
With my little ice pick
I chip away the days
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12. |
Doggonit
02:00
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Doggonit
Dog eat dog dog eat dog
Dog eat hog and hog eat dog
Dog eat hog hog eat dog
Hog eat frog frog eat frog
Dog eat frog frog eat dog
Dog on dog dog on frog
Frog eat dog
Dog dog
He killed her dreams with a blind cc
He said, “She’s got no balls”
Her name, it tumbled from the heights
And crumbled in the hall
Climb up the ladder
Through the smog
This world is dog eat dog eat dog
Rat rat rat eat cat
Rat eat rat rat eat rat
Rat eat cat rat eat cat
Cat eat rat rat
Rat rat eat cat
Cat eat cat cat eat cat
Rat eat rat feed on that
Feed on gnats gnat on rat
Rat on rat
Rat rat rat
She killed him with a letter knife
She always had some class
She said as she watched the blood spurt out
“I kicked your ass!”
Climb up the ladder
Through the smog
Leave behind this dog on dog kills dog
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13. |
Living Hell
06:34
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Living Hell
These walls are too fuckin’ thin
I can’t let it get to me
I know she’s in there with him
And they’re rollin’ around on the floor
I can’t let it get to me, I can’t it get to me
Someday you’re gonna pay, we’re gonna pay
Someday we’re gonna pay
Because I can hear you moan
I can hear you moanin’ and squirmin’
Doesn’t make me happy
Doesn’t make me happy at all
Not yet
Not yet
I can’t let it get to me, I won’t let it get to me
Everything we’ve said and we done
Everything is fucked
But I’m gonna end it
I’m gonna end it all
You’re gonna feel it
I’m down in hell
I’m livin’ down in hell
Someday you’re gonna feel it
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14. |
The Burning Ladder
04:08
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The Burning Ladder
Readin’ the road like parchment, readin’ signs
I got to feel under skin, something movin’
I come across her on a curve, disappearin’
Bare shoulder, stone sepulchre, instant healin’
Yeah we live half a million years until we know
That it will never change
Eternity
Eternity
Each night we climb the burning ladder
Reach so high we’ve lost the ground
You must beware the striking adder
Striking fangs bring you down
Look over there a jealous godhead
Evil gaze beneath the palms
There is no way I’d let you suffer
Secret cave a gnostic calm
What can we do, we’re shadows scattered
Across the desert half-deranged
Beneath the sun we rush through eons
Until we know
It can never change
Never never change
They’ll cut you up in pieces, laughing jackals
The jumpin’ demon’s laughter, bitter shackles
They put the curse under skin and leave it burnin’ there
As in a dream, I have to fly out of my skin
Through the burning burning burning air
This road to heaven passes through a land of plagues
My lover leads me to her heart in the next world
And it will never change
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15. |
Econoline
02:32
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Econoline (Straight to Your Heart From Mine)
I need a place to go
I need a place to land
I’m feeling really helpless
I need a helping hand
I’m just a roadsick cowboy
I’m just a candle Christ
I need you here beside me honey
I’m getting really psyched
I’m gonna climb on your back
Comin’ up the freeway
Comin’ up the turnpike
Comin’ down the exit
Comin’ home to you
Comin’ up the alley
Comin’ up the stairway
Comin’ down the hallway
Comin’ home to you
Open your door
Open your eyes
Open your vault
You know I’m comin’ home
Open your eyes
Open your arms
Open your heart
You know I’m comin’ home
Comin’ home [oh-om!]
HONEY I’M HOME
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Ritual Tension New York, New York
Ritual Tension began in 1983 in NY as part of the downtown scene. After a long hiatus the band reappeared in 2018 and
released a new album in 2020.
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