Friday, September 11, 2020

Flamed trees lie in the streets

Higgs Boson Blues
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Can't remember anything at all
Flamed trees lie in the streets
Can't remember anything at all
But I'm driving my car down to Geneva
I've been sitting in my basement patio
Aye, it was hot
Up above, girls walk past, roses all in bloom

Have you ever heard about the Higgs Boson blues
I'm goin' down to Geneva baby, gonna teach it to you
Who cares, who cares what the future brings?

Black road long and I drove and drove
Came upon a crossroad
The night was hot and black
I see Robert Johnson
With a ten dollar guitar strapped to his back
Lookin' for a tune

Well here comes Lucifer
With his cannon law
And a hundred black babies
runnin'
from his genocidal Joe


He got the real killer groove
Robert Johnson and the devil man
Don't know who's gonna rip off who
Driving my car, flame trees on fire

Sitting and singin' the Higgs Boson blues
I'm tired, I'm lookin' for a spot to drop
All the clocks have stopped in Memphis now
And in the rain motel it's hot, it's hot
That's why they call it the Hot Spot
I take a room with a view

Hear a man preaching in a language that's completely new, yeah
Making the hot cocks in the flop house bleed
While the cleaning ladies sob into their mops
And the bell ho-hops and bops
A shot rings out to a spiritual groove
Everybody bleeding, to the Higgs Boson blues

And if I die now
Bury me in my favorite yellow patent leather shoes
With a mummified cat, and a hat
That the Caliphate forced on the Jews
Can you feel my heartbeat, can you feel my heartbeat

Hannah Montana, does the African savannah,
as the simulated rainy season begins
She curses the cue with the Zulu
And moves onto Amazonia, cries with the dolphins
Mau mau ate the pygmy, the pygmy ate the monkey
The monkey has a gift that keeps sending back to you

Look, here comes the missionary, with his smallpox and flu
He's saving them savages, with his Higgs Boson blues

I'm driving my car down to Geneva
I'm driving my car down to Geneva

Aw, let the damn day break
Rainy days always make me sad
Miley Cyrus floats in a swimming pool in Taluka Lake
And you're the best girl I ever had
Can't remember anything at all

Monday, September 7, 2020

Alright
Electric Light Orchestra

The gold verandah in the dark has gone
down to the metal man.
No better time to leave the ground
And maybe try to understand.

You gotta hold on to somethin' that you believe,
Hold on to somethin' that makes you feel alright.

And through the darkest times of your life
You always tried to be the one,
And now the times have made you wonder
If you ever knew what was goin' on.

You gotta hold on to somethin' that you believe,
Hold on to somethin' that makes you feel alright....
Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright.
Alright ... alright ... alright

No use thinkin' about what you ain't got,
Just makes you bitter.
And as you speak, everything that you say
Goes out on the big transmitter.

You gotta hold on to somethin' that you believe,
Hold on to somethin' that makes you feel alright....
Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright.


You gotta hold on to somethin' that you believe,
Hold on to somethin' that makes you feel alright....
Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright.
Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright.