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Perfect Child
05:00
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I've taken the teeth
From a crocodile's smile
And I've stolen the brain
Of a rich man
I've torn the tongue
From the snidest witch
I've threaded my needle
And now I must stitch
Stitch me my perfect child
The bodies I found
Left out in the cold
The breathless, The senseless
The corrupt and old
My hands shall move quickly
While flesh I fold
To make me, to make me
My perfect child
No breast feeding monkeys round here
No dirty nappies in sight
No plastic toys
No sleepless nights
Just neat stitching, high voltage and moonlight
And when he has life
He'll understand
We left nothing here for him
In this ruined land
I shall reject him
And you shall neglect him
For that is the fate
Of my perfect child
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2. |
Laboratory Equipment
04:19
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Laboratory equipment
With all it's sights and sounds
Can make a mad professor
Feel like a million pounds
Or several cups of coffee
Or like a guinea pig
Or like a what d'you call it?
A whatsit thingyme jig?
Laboratory equipment
With all its lights and knobs
Can make a mad professor
Feel like he has three jobs
Two heads and half a pipe full
Or like he needs a drink
Or wants to flick the switches on
And make the whole world blink
Laboratory equipment With all it's ins and out
Can make a mad professor
Doubtless doubtful of his doubts
And of his many theories
And some which aren't yet his
And one or two that might be yours
And maybe one that is
Laboratory equipment
With all it's bangs and flashes
Cam make a mad professor
Start twirling his moustaches
Or madly tugging at his beard
Or twiddling with his thumbs
Or telephoning takeaways
And professional chums
Laboratory equipment
When all is said and done
Can make a mad professor or break him
Or someone
Or someone said it somewhere
Someone summed it up
When he or she said some such thing
Now where's my coffee cup?
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3. |
Like Magnetism
04:18
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Cambridge to Paddington
There's a man on the train making the most appalling noises with his mouth and nose whilst
eating ... constantly. I hope he gets off soon. Do I need another cup of tea? He just doesn't stop eating
and sniffing! Bought myself some big red fake eyelashes... For tonight. Ugghh! That smell
again, always at the same spot in the journey.
I killed man, it was me,
I remember, I remember
For the pleasure
For the fun
Because he was there
Because I needed something to do
Because I had a knife in my hand
Because it felt a strange attraction to his back
How embarrassing! I just went to the toilet and discovered I have a large hole in my trousers,
around the bum area. On the way back to my seat I'm sure people were laughing at me and
pointing. There's a girl opposite me. Plump in very tight trousers, but I bet her trousers
don't split around the bum area in public, if not why not?Im quite thin...
I killed man, it was me,
I remember, I remember
For the pleasure
For the fun
Because he was there
Because I needed something to do
Because I had a knife in my hand
Because it felt a strange attraction to his back
Like magnetism
My ex-boyfriend Garry was a very violent man, Im a bit worried it might be him, turning up
drunk at my flat. Sort of thing he'd do. Things in his life take a turn for the worse and he
decides to blame it all on me some girl he went out with years back. The neighbour said the
drunk said he was my boyfriend, that he'd had to go away for a while but now he was back f
or me.
I killed man, it was me,
I remember, I remember
For the pleasure
For the fun
Because he was there
Because I needed something to do
Because I had a knife in my hand
Because it felt a strange attraction to his back
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4. |
Bird In My Gutter
02:17
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There's a bird in my gutter
Feed it my lover
There's a bird in my gutter
Feed it my lover
I don't want you anymore
I don't need you anymore
I just want you to feed my bird
There's a bird in my gutter
Feed it my lover
There's a bird in my gutter
Feed it my lover
Now I want you back again
And I want you by my side
Now I need you back again
I just want you to
Be my bird
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5. |
The Taxidermist
03:55
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The Taxidermist stuffs
The beautiful and the rare
The tiger
And the Wildebeest
The dancing bear
The Taxidermist stuffs
The beautiful and the rare
The unicorn
And the cyclops
They're all there
The Taxidermist stuffs
Through fleshy holes
The young
The old
The beautiful
And the bold
Politicians and musicians
Doctors and bureaucrats
Cyclists and MPs
Guitarists, drummers, bassists and fiddlers
And physicians
That he keeps in glass cabinets
At the top of the stairs
Placed in position
Lines up each pair
The beautiful and the rare
Tear out that tongue
Before it speaks another word
Tie down those hands
Before they write another line
That brain better
In a bottle...
All listeners beware
Of this sordid affaire
For one day
You may
Find yourself trapped there
Fixed with a grim stair
And I
Won't care
The beautiful and the rare
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6. |
Fishy Mutants
04:34
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To the surface they arrive
Bulging their unblinking eyes
Blueish green light organs glimmer
Luring any late night swimmer
To his agonising death
(Or even hers)
By some gruesome evolution
Certain monsters of the ocean depths
have sprouted fins and fingers
Bristling fangs and deadly stingers
And an appetite for human flesh
(And candyfloss)
From the shallow waters creeping
Whilst the lifeboat men are sleeping
Creatures from the gloomy deep
Catching their breath in stinking heaps
Like bin bags strewn across the sand
(But somewhat worse)
Rudimentary Lungs inflating
Whistling, wheezing, watching, waiting
breathing in the seaside pongs
of fish and chips and sweaty thongs
Cornish pasties, carps and mud
Phhhoah what a smell!
How their nostrils flare and quiver
Oily bodies shake and shiver
Photophores grow ever brighter
As they note to their delight
The stench of human kind
Nightmare mermen from the deep
Fishy mutants slowly creep
Across Britannia's sandy strands
On webby feet and scaly hands
Towards the ice cream shop
Of course it's shut
We shall fight them
On the beaches
Armed with Winston Churchill's speeches
And perhaps the birdy song
That should make them move along
Unless they somehow know the moves
Well they might
Or we could try interbreeding
One might grow into a leading
Politician or the Mayor
Or another Leo Sayer
Right, thats settled
Here's the plan
We'll mate with them them
Because we can
Presuming our organs are compatible
Well are they?
Could somebody please find out...
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7. |
Vicar of St Martin's
03:41
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Mother
Loved The Milkman
Father's secretary
Went like a dream
There's and odd child
From the suburb
Where the vicar keeps
A small harem
On Sundays
After service
He gives sexual concealing
To the converted
Shows porn films
To the deprived
During the week
He shags their wives
(Miss Roberts preaches to the gathered congregation)
Oh lover
He'll sell our secret
He'll piut your por collection
On eBay
Oh lover
He'll undermine you
He'll ten time you
Then throw you
Away
Oh vicar!
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8. |
Sin Eater
03:06
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What happens to the Sin Eater
Once he's eaten all your sin?
What happens to the Sin Eater
Once he's eaten all your sin?
Does it leave a bad taste in his mouth
That he simply cant get out?
Does it give him indigestion throughout
The following night?
Does it interrupt his thinking
Or corrupt his sight?
What happens to the Sin Eater
Once he's eaten all your sin?
Do you love him for saving you?
Do you hate him for tasting
Your sin?
Is sin acidic
Does it taste of gin
Or has it more the flavour of bile
Does it taste better Left overnight
Marinaded for a while?
What happens to the Sin Eater
Once he's eaten all your sin?
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9. |
Behemoth
02:46
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Behemoth, Behemoth where do you go now?
Sky all cracked ope, the depths all counted
No hole large enough for your shaggy carcass
No road wide enough to drag yourself down
I went to the hollow land to visit the straw
I went to the ocean to meet the leviathan
Both were empty, both were deserted
neither wide enough to drag myself down
So I'll go to the high place, find the thin air
Where dying is easy no fie needed to
Evaporate disperse no cant speeding
Slowly fading leaving no carcass
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10. |
Wednesday's Child
05:05
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11. |
Automatic Priest
03:28
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How much is your afterlife worth?
A lifetime of prayer?
Years of self flagellation?
How does 99.99 sound to you?
That's right - install an Automatic Priest into your loft
Jet, private lift or submarine
And you get an express pass through St Peter's gate
Anytime, anywhere
Install an Automatic Priest
Hook it up to your vital signs
Accidentally cause your
And watch it go...
Ashes to Ashes
Dust to Dust
As I walk through the valley
Of the shadow of a mess
You know I'll stick to you
Ive got a large erection
Ive got a huge conviction
I've got a strange suspicion
And I am the light
So don't delay
Pick up an Automatic Priest today
How much is your afterlife worth?
For just 99.99 and its yours
Call now 666 Miss Roberts 66
You won't be disappointed
Ashes to Ashes
Dust to Dust
As I walk through the valley
Of the shadow of a mess
You know I'll stick to you
Ive got a large erection
Ive got a huge conviction
I've got a strange suspicion
And I am the light
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12. |
Wolfgang
03:34
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Is there anybody there?
Is there anybody... over there?
Is there anybody called Wolfgang?
Wolfgang?
Is that you?
Tell me, have you enough to do?
Are you OK for food?
Your collection of lamps?
Or your myriad of stamps?
Are they all up there with you?
Wolfgang are you there?
Have you climbed the stairs?
Or have they sent you down... You know... Down there?
What's that Wolfgang? You want to possess me?
Oh Well, only if you are sure, I don't want to start a quandary but with just one thing I...
(Wolfgang possesses Miss Roberts)
Hello me dears
How are you down there?
Is that you Clare
What you done with your hair?
What about them mobiles and techno jungle chip files You'll never guess who I saw the the day
Bloody Greta Garbo
it was her I swear
Looking a little the worse for wear
There were fish in her heir
And her blouse had a tear
And I swear
She came up to me
And said it ainf alf cold in here
and I
I said
I know
I could tell
With her Coca
And she said I know I know
What about them mobiles
And she said I know
I know I know I know
And she said I Know
Something something something
I know.
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The Art-rock inspired Rude Mechanicals has been compared to The Tiigerlillies, early Roxy Music, Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart, and Can. Creating a music that been described as “wild, wicked weirdness... a little bit Flying Lizards, a little bit Native Hipsters and a great deal like nothing you've heard before..." (Tom Robinson BBC6). ... more
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