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Robyn Hitchcock : Ole! Tarantula
2006

  1. Adventure Rocket-Ship
  2. Belltown-Ramble
  3. Ole! Tarantula

  4. A Man's Gotta Know His Limitations, Briggs
  5. Red-Locust Frenzy
  6. 'Cause It's Love (Saint Parallelogram)

Adventure Rocket-Ship

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Adventure rocket ship!
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Inside a head parade
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A message from the future
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You crash upon a star!
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Attention rocket ship!
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A message from the grave
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You rock me like a pharaoh
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I hear you in my voice
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You crash upon a star
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Adventure rocket ship!
E7
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Tallulah having sprung
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I wait for you to come
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Adventure rocket ship
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The lover and the slave
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The skeletons of spacemen
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Unzipper me with love
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I'm coming for you someday
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As faithful as a mummy
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Discovered in a crater
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Hermaphrodite in style
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You crash upon a star
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You crash upon a star
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And who is the moon?
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Who is the sunshine?
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Who is the moon?
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Who is the sunshine?
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Attention rocket ship
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Protected on a wave
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I wish I was the future
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I kiss you in the past
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I'm comin' for you someday
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As faithful as a mummy
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You rock me like a pharaoh
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Hermaphrodite in style
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You crash upon a star...
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You crash upon a star...
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You crash upon a star...
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You crash upon a star...
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Attention rocket ship!

Belltown-Ramble

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And you wanna know what is
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And also what is not
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Don't you, girl? It's an independent life And you want to see your eyes Reflected in the world So you go down 4th to Blanchard And to right on Roq la Rue Past the Crocodile Then you slide down 4th again Where the Claremont used to be CLA-REM-ONT Then you find the Uzbek warlord You collide with Tamerlane His teeth are brown Oh he doesn't speak, he prods you Then he says a burning train Is back in your hometown Then you roll down Denny Way Past the pink rotating elephant EXP And you say well come what may Now I'm in my element I'm where I ought to be But Tamerlane is hot He's mounted on the elephant The coffee's on the boil And he says, what have you got? You say I don't have anything He says you must have oil So you wanna know what is And also what is not Don't you girl? It's an independent life And you want to see your eyes Reflected in the world Look out baby Seven men are on their way Seven sets of appetites Have got to be appeased today Ignorance comes first Then comes Opportunism Greed is third Fundamental Faith Rides in backwards with his eyes shut Listening for the Word In bowls number five He needs a bit of elbow room His name is Haste He fires off a slew of emails And says, Put your hands together, boys For six aka Waste The boys all look around They looked at number seven Reclining in his chair He's got his headphones on His head is full of paradise He isn't there And you wanna know what is And also what is not Don't you girl? It's an independent life And you want to see your eyes Reflected in the world Tamerlane and I went to The Two Bells Back on 4th Ken poured us some wine And we said How's it going Ken? He said it's going north to Canada It's going to Canada You can walk a square You can walk an oblong Even just walk straight You'll still be standing there Though you think you did the job wrong You did it great

Ole! Tarantula

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Out in the trees old tarantula has got me humming Out in the desert the cacti are home Tarantulas cluster in their underground dome
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Ole tarantula Furry black legs and a spicy goatee If you see Gino won't you kiss him for me? Ole tarantula Through the dark windows she squeezes her eggs out they come tumbling on their spindly legs Ole tarantula
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I feel like a three-legged chinchilla Standing on a table so wide
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I can't see over the side
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Tarantula Look at his fingers caressing your keys If he don't please you well you just can't be pleased Ole tarantula Pumping it out through a spiky black fist If she don't kiss you well you'll never be kissed Ole tarantula
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I knew a woman in San Francisco Or maybe it was down in San Jose I don't recall
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Either way (and neither does she)
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Yeah forget about me
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Oh Tarantula All life is sinful the Catholics say Use it up quick And then you throw it away
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Ole tarantula
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Ole tarantula

A Man's Gotta Know His Limitations, Briggs

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A man's gotta know his limitations, Briggs
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Or he will just explode
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You lived in your imagination, Briggs
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You blew up in the road And I'm talking to you And to you over there And to you over there
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You were riding in your car in San Francisco You were riding through the weather and the rain You were riding in your car in San Francisco
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But you're never gonna ride that way again A girl's got to know her situation, Clint Or she will just move on So if you have some information, squint Through the keyhole, or down the barrel of your gun And I'm talking to you And I'm listening too So you've got no excuse I was riding in your car in San Francisco I was riding through the weather and the rain I was riding in your car in San Francisco But I'm never gonna ride with you again A boy's gotta go just where you put him, Mel Or he will turn to steel And if he does you must forget him, Mel Unless you want him crawling through your dream And I'm talking to you I can talk, I can hear Well what more do you want? We were riding in your car in San Francisco We were riding through the weather and the rain Riding in your car in San Francisco But we're never gonna ride that way again
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We've all got a Briggs in us
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Somewhere down the road
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I don't know about you folks but
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This Briggs will explode A man's gotta know his limitations, Briggs

Red-Locust Frenzy

Red locust frenzy oh my love Red locust frenzy oh my love Don't let the dragon come And make it worse for you Don't let the demon come Until you want him to My love My love The Buddha sighs Amid the flames And every leaf pronounced your name My love My love Red locust frenzy oh my love Red locust frenzy oh my love There is no God up here No captain of your dreams It's only me and you It's only what it seems My love My love

'Cause It's Love (Saint Parallelogram)

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Talk to me baby, it has to be "maybe", it's love (love) Each time I see you I just wanna be you, it's love (love) Spreading your pearl to the end of the world, but it's love (love) I could be gauche but it's only a skosh 'cause it's love (love) I could be sad but it's only a tad, 'cause it's love, love, love |
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Run to me baby, it's fun to be "maybe", it's love (love) True to me baby, it's new to me baby, it's love (love) I've got a rose on the end of my nose, but it's love, love, love
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Only you, Saint Parallelogram
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Nothing ever happens |
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Pincers akimbo, my arms are in limbo, it's love (love) Paws on the floor, I adore for some more, 'cause it's love (love) I'm just a crab on a verdigris slab but it's love (love) What can I do? I just want to be you and it's love, love, love
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You, waking up under your hair
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Promising everywhere
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I can believe you were there |
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