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General Deluxé
06:51
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C'mon - we've been us,
C'mon - we've been them,
C'mon - we've been looking,
looking for a gem.
C'mon - we've been none,
C'mon - we've been some,
C'mon - we've been marching
to a different drum.
A still, quiescent feeling sometimes grows
too big and must be given a journey.
We are friends searching for a lost valley.
Lonely Mountains, they guard that jewel, we know.
C'mon - we've been young,
C'mon - we've been old,
giving in to legends
letting them unfold.
C'mon - we've been none,
C'mon - we've been some,
C'mon - we've been marching
to a different drum.
The things I've seen with,
I've seen with my ears,
my mind playing, staying with
the things I've seen with,
I've seen with my ears,
all those places, faces,
over the years.
In a beauteous garden we stargaze,
and hear revelry noises of a feast
from a shimmering distance that's ablaze,
magic fires delight and they amaze.
Odd are flames that dance,
odd are their wild swings,
odd are moving shadows,
odd are songs they sing,
odd are silhouettes,
odd are thoughts they bring,
odd are stars above us,
odd are their playthings...
I have seen with,
I've seen with my ears,
my mind playing, staying with
the things I've,
I've seen with my ears,
all those places, faces,
over all these years.
Your eyes they spin you lies and cheat you,
and tell your brain to keep you all blind.
The quest for Shangri-la is untrue,
till child is father of the man's mind.
Yeah yeah yeaaah!
A
strange garden of a fantastic,
a fantastic house
that is overlooking a river
in a lush, green valley
of the mountains...
Where
everyone you happen upon (repeat * 12)
is ...
(Spoken)
an adventure?
C'mon - we've been lost,
C'mon - we've been found,
C'mon - we've been questing
hi and low for sounds.
C'mon - we've been none,
C'mon - we've been some,
C'mon - we've been marching
to a different drum.
Seen with,
I've seen with my ears,
those who seek, sought the valley.
Seen with,
I've seen with my ears,
all those places, faces,
over the years.
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A lil' big muff and tons of fuzz,
that freaky woman gives me a buzz.
A lil’ bit of love with all stops out,
“organ donor” she makes me shout.
When she walks she really rocks behind.
Ain't that enough to blow your mind?
AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaYEAAAH!
“Tener los huevos de corbata” (“to wear your balls as a tie” =to feel tense/fear)
“Aaaaah… what the hell am I babbling about?
“What what what’s going on?!?”
Hey there she goes ...
(Auuuuuuhhhhhh!!! )
Long black hair, long black car,
long long boots, she looks like a star...
...of a really freaky flick.
Superstar, superstar.
Yeaaaahhhh.
Aahh yeaaahhh.
All right now.
Gimme some tom tom.
That's what I'm talking about.
Now listen:
“For years I was a zombie but she bought me back from the dead
Now I'm a headless body in a topless bar, and she plays me like a ... “
She...she's so far out, almost gone now
yet she turns my bad self on.
On and on and on,
lemme hear it.
Yeah yeah yeah I like her like that,
turning good to bad.
“Just what is it that makes today’s women so different, so appealing?
“Well ...you're married.”
“Oh ... you're really not like the other girls, are you? Where are you from?”
“Satanville”
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3. |
A Morning Beautiful
06:47
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It’s a morning beautiful
for mankind.
It’s a dawning beautiful
for we’ve been blind.
Terra incognita, undiscovered realms, hear their call.
The future is invented, progress for us all.
Who
All those
Who
All Those
Who needs those old kings and queens? They’re useless!
We have electric telegraph and we have steam!
“Annihilating time and Space!”
Young minds’ revolution, let the dinosaurs twist and fall.
The future is imagined, no fable is too small.
“Hail to the red-hot wizards of the west!”
“Hail to the dreamers who invent the future!”
“Hail to the new kings and queens, baby!”
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22nd Century Dandy
05:10
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New
master in town,
poetaster true-bred and born,
odic doodads superbly vain,
plain
nympholeptic swain.
He got corsets,
(corset)
gastronomical suicide tights,
(fit it)
he green lighting bazooka blondes,
(in a)
Mondo Caning place.
(where he stays)
Twenty seconds,
(feels like forever)
randy and hung, /young,
(coming fully together)
twenty second -
(in no time whatever)
he is the century’s dandy.
Toxic nada
(nada)
admission upper snobiety,
(got it?)
box fresh bodies all famous for being so
(famous)
necessary zeros,
(no-ones)
mimetically free,
(free me)
solo gigolos, Ouijas ,
(see me)/(tell me)
live and die by high spying eyes,
(watch me) / (catch me)
flimflam hologram days.
(big mother)
Twenty seconds,
(impress forever)
randy and hung, /young,
(coming fully together)
twenty second –
(no time for whoever)
he is the century’s dandy.
“Give him the crown- give him the crown”
JAPANESE BREAK
“They come in as fine clay and leave as the crowns of creation.
Out of the chaos I separate heaven and earth.
In my atelier I sculpt new Davids.
Buddha grew a mullet to get a fresh cut from me.
Super-Dandy sunrise, looking like a million million yens.
Name your style and I will deliver.
All for a small offering to my temple of groom.”
Head
-master in town,
(master)
astir gravitas pulling all in,
(faster)
suit to suit 40 times a day,
(forty)
he’s ruling with those diffe.....
(different)
sways!
Twenty seconds,
(mad guts whenever)
randy and hung, /young,
(staying vernal forever)
twenty second
(in every endeavor )
he is the century’s dandy.
He’s a perfect object,
a mirror-like lover.
The Cult of self discovers
they're alone with every…
one one one one/none none.
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5. |
Big Fat Woodpecker
03:06
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Bo-bo-bo-bo,
boom - boom goes the big bass drum,
boom - boom and we gonna get some,
boom - boom ra-ka-ta-ka-ta-ka-taa,
boom - bomm a-ling-a-ding-ding-ding.
Big-a-big-a-big-bad-bass,
a-right-a-right-a-right in your face,
boom - boom goes the big bass drum,
boom - boom and we gonna have fun!
Wood peck,
a-peckity-peck,
wood-wood-peck-peckity-peck-fat-check.
Peck-peck,
peck-peckity-check.
Wow!
Jing-jangy,
a cling-clang-bangy,
a-cheek-a-sqeak,
a-ding-dong-sneaky-like-a-freaky,
sneak anotha peeky.
(Repeat)
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Halls of Kalevala
05:29
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Our journey thru the Halls of Kalevala
starts from the northern entrance.
Please follow me!
Ladies and Gentlemen:
this building
is an epitome of architecture;
the art that gives shelter to
and leads
all the other arts
to the future…
and beyond.
We have arrived at a wing housing 36 chambers of innovation;
It’s a stronghold of research for the brightest minds.
Please heed the warning signs!
As we move on, notice the large empty spaces on the walls ;
during the next few hundred years they will all be filled with
tomorrow’s master painters’ frescoes.
And now, the very heart of the building: the Pantheon!
It's time to get down,
down to “Tuonela”, the Underworld,
a crypt of the champions,
the final resting place for the great and the good.
It is believed they will rise from their tombs
when the worst danger threatens the motherland.
Be careful, the stairs are slippery!
This way, please.
Here, on this exact spot where I stand right now, Eliel Saarinen’s visiting colleague Le Corbusier promptly threw himself on the floor and tantrummed: "This monstrous building, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs!"
Fortunately, the possibly awkward situation was averted when Saarinen quickly produced a little packet from his coat pocket: “Charlie, I bet I’m more modern and functional than you are: I drew the first plans of this house on a pack of ‘worker man’ –cigarettes”.
And here we have the original pack - you can take photos but no flash, thank you. Replicas are available at the gift shop.
(Choir) The gift shop!
Now we’ve finally come
to the last section of our tour:
a purgatory of stairs,
404 steps to be precise,
that we need to ascend
in order to reach the paradise at the top of the tower -
a breathtaking panorama,
embracing in one glance
the entire glorious city and its magnificent surroundings.
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Fire Up the Crimson Lion
05:27
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Amore sola mi fa remirare, la sol mi fa sollecita.
(Love only makes me remember, it alone makes me alert)
If everything
is a gateway to
this everything,
better follow thru.
Where you cannot go,
what you cannot show,
you know.
A helicopter,
a diving suit.
An ornithopther,
a parachute.
A robot lion,
a machine gun.
An organista
and rhythms sung.
Strangest daydreams,
playing in the now eternal,
why wait and see;
go where can't be gone
in 4-D.
Boss DM rolls
those devil's bones.
You smell trouble,
deeds in darker tones.
Never lose that smile,
memories will pile
up.
Strangest daydreams,
playing in the now eternal,
why wait and see;
go where can't be gone
in 4-D.
A (*choir note* - other notes wordless)
Drum Machine
(program my)
Michelangelo
(beat)
-ten but not out,
clout,
back in old days Vinci
that's ....
AMORE
"Live at the very heart of true romance."
La la la ooh la la,
lovely day,
for a getaway,
play around,
step off the edge.
GO!
throw yourself in to the fire,
chimera’s pyre,
dive deeper in the vortex of flames,
try catch a spark,
bring light to dark
spaces o’
foolish stuntin’,
treasure huntin’.
EN-LIGHTE-NING-RIDE.
(lead fills): Playing in the now eternal / go where can’t be gone
Amo
RE – SOL – LA – MI – FA – RE – MI
rare,
LA – SOL – MI – FA – SOL
lecita.
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Sommarland
04:13
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“Ficklampa, Fällkniv, Sovsäck, Let’s go!” (Flash light, Pocket Knife, Sleeping Bag, Let's go!)
Sommarland, (summerland)
sommarland, yeah.
Take my hand,
sommarland.
Oooh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
“Tröja, Termos, Metspö, Let’s go!” (Sweater, Thermos, Fishing rod, Let's go!)
Sommarland,
sommarland, yeah.
Close at hand,
sommarland.
Oooh, ye-ye-yeah, yeah, ye-ye-yeah.
Om du vill så kan du och jag, flyga iväg. (If you want, you and I can fly away.)
Först ett dopp sen lyfter vi upp, högt över träden. (First a quick dip, then we lift off, over the trees.)
Vart går den här stigen? (Where does this path go?)
I solen, I ditt sommarland. (In the sun, in your Summerland)
Your summerland.
En glänta bortom tiden, ( To a glade beyond time)
I doften av ditt sommarland. (In the scent of your summerland.)
Our summerland.
Simmar ut i sommarviken, (Swimming away in the summer bay)
ryser lätt håll min hand. (shiver lightly, hold my hand.)
Take my hand, hold my hand.
Somna sött, sommarbrisen, (Sweet dreams, summer breeze)
lugn och varm, sommarland. (calm and warm, summerland.)
And we’ll go back to summerland.
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9. |
Placebo PCB-1
02:00
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Get ready for Placebo PCB-1, the most incredible guitar pedal of all time!
It’s the first ever gadget to fully utilize the placebo effect and it was exclusively designed for the “gimme everything right NOW” –generation.
What you don’t have, you get from this box! Here’s a sample now of the Placebo in action. Let’s start with the “Skills” and “Sound” controls – listen what happens when I add a bit of both:
And “Speed” – let’s turn that all the way up:
Blasting right off to the moon, man!
And now the 3-position “Level” switch: starting with “Normal”…
…stepping up to “Hero”…
….OK get ready: the “God” mode!
Yeaaah! Far our, maaaan!
Placebo PCB-1: it waves goodbye to the archaic 10 000 hours rule, makes tedious practice unnecessary and unleashes your true potential.
Let’s have one more example: listen to the difference when I turn both “Style” and “Soul” down…
That’s beautiful man, beautiful.
Get with it, get a Placebo and get whatever you want with your axe!
“Placebo Rocks!”
“... says Phill Brown, the engineer for Hendrix, Stones, Zeppelin, Floyd, Bowie, Marley, Ellington, Cohen, Meters, Springfield, Eno, Beck, Cocker"
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10. |
Tyger Boy, Rocket Boy
06:51
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Once upon a time
an evil wicked Empire did govern
the world. They invaded
all the countries but one in ten,
and that’s only ‘cause,
*choir*(TIP-PO)
only ‘cause they could not find them,
(TIP-POU)
not even Sweden.
(TIP-PO)
Warlords ravaging lands until they faced ..
(TIP-PO)
Tiger Tiger Boy-oy
Rocket Rocket Boy-oy
A night of desire
was succeeded
by a morning
of its fulfillment.
A rocketing
rise of a star,
of the brightest star…
…of the
constellation of power and
dignity.
Born a son of,
of a soldier
(TIP-PO)
of good fortune.
Fortune made him,
(TIP-PO)
made him a prince
(regal)
and a Sultan,
(TIP-PO)
ruling wisely
(regal)
burning brightly.
(TIP-PO)
Tiger Tiger Boy-oy
Rocket Rocket Boy-oy
It’s …
it’s better to live
(TIP-PO)
a day like a tiger
(TIP-PO)
than one,
one and one thousand years
(TIP-PO)
(TIP-PO)
as… as a jackal.
“Hitting the enemy with the flying plague of Tippoo’s sword-tipped rockets. “
Cruising elephants
and the rockets’ red glare there,
confusing
the evil Empire’s army utterly.
Freedom fighters won.
A home run for the
Tiger of Mysore.
What kind of a monster
takes children as hostages?
Tippoo’s sons were stolen away.
A Judas let the enemy in.
Tiger fighting on on on on on n’ on.
“Dressed in his finest, firing muskets handed him by his servants as if he was at a sporting shoot … but the odds were too great.”
“KING DOWN!”
People crying.
(TIP-PO)
Evil pillaging.
(TIP-PO)
Laughing Tiger.
(TIP-PO)
Tumbling Empire.
(TIP-PO)
Time forgot those men.
(TIP-PO)
The Tiger rules again.
(TIP-PO)
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