Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

My eyes are burnt and bleeding and all that looks like a monkey on a silver bar … big poop hatch with a cotton hatch – hatch-holes that the light shows in and the light shows out … and the little red fence … and the wire and the wood … and the barbs and th...

Got (a letter) up this morning how do you reckon it read? Red blue and green whoooo all through my head Licked the stamps saw a movie dropped the stamp I ain't got no blues no more I said Put me up thinkin' a postman's groovy I ain't I ain't got the blues...

apes-ma, apes-ma your cage is too dirty, apes-ma remember when you were young, apes-ma? and you used to break out of your cage? well you know that you're not strong enough to do that anymore now and apes-ma, the little girl that named you years ago has died no...

You used me like an ashtray heart Case of the punks Right from the start I feel like a glass shrimp in a pink panty With a saccharine chaperone Make invalids out of supermen Call in a "shrink" And pick you up in a girdle You used me like an ashtray hea...

Bat chain Puller Bat chain puller Puller, puller A chain with yellow lights That glistens like oil beads On its slick smooth trunk That trails behind on tracks, and thumps A wing hangs limp and retreats Bat chain puller Puller puller Bulbs shoot...

Beatle bones and smokin' Stones The dry sands fall The strawberry mouth; strawberry moth; strawberry caterpillar Strawberry butterfly; strawberry fields The winged eel slither on the heels of today's children Strawberry feels forever Yeah, roosters, ol'...

Parapliers the willow dipped Rolled roots gnarled like rakers This hollow hole don't hold no jokers or fakers Don't fall by no jokers or fakers Puller down to the stirrin' hay acres Parapliers pinches uh levy 'n pulled way thru the toe Foothills, locomot...

Brickbats fly at my fireplace Upside down I see them in the fire They squeak and roast there Wings leap across the floor Fold up the wall shadows The window curtain ghost Throws my heart and dusts my throat My mind caught by the corner Gradually decide...

Candle shy Candle weep Fly hot candle leap Candle roll Unfold and ball Candle large Candle small Your threads of fire are burning up Your feathers of fire are winning night And turning light And turning light Light deepest night for me And steer f...

you hardly know a day goes by in the cardboard cutout sundown the moon popped up like a gallery duck sipped up gold from the sunny cup and longhorns sawed the buggy grass and a cowboy blew a harp sitting on his chapped ass and the prairie flowers didn't look a...

The shiny beast of thought If you got ears You gotta listen Old woman sweat Young girls glisten The extract you thought Is the extract you got Pop in a thought Ex-extract D'you hear me? Hope these are hard [?] drops Grooves you away Drop by drop...

Mama, mama, here come Doctor Dark Horse clippin', clappin' 'n his ol' hooves makin' sparks Black leather lady Lord carried her bags The hell horn, hell horn, hell horn Horn rim crimped Glasses look out on the pale hell bent Moon milk run O' lady go home...

don't think big, man i can't think little won't let that end catch me up in the middle now, my whole life has been the toss of a dice done another girl gone out of my life out of the frying pan into the fire anything you say, they're gonna call you a lair go d...

Harry Irene were a couple that lived in the green Harry Irene were a couple that ran a canteen Ran a canteen Ran a canteen Two people Harry and Irene like you never seen The floor was made of oak, the door was smoky grey Their tuna sandwiches would turn...

well, you came and now you're gone but our life it will go on i miss you so, but only for your return please come back to me tomorrow you would ease this pain and sorrow please try to understand my heart is in your hand baby, please don't take our love in vai...

hey Garland i dig your tweed coat I'll trade you a domino this size mothballs scented the woman silk nude tie painting his chest one celluloid stay, exposed through his nibbled collar feet speckled the sidewalk faces gurgled through windows passing cars gum ru...

She can burn you up in bed Just like she said Cos she's a Hot Head, Hot Head, Hot Head She can throw uh pot t'show (?) She can start a fire aglow Cos she's a Hot Head, Hot Head, Hot Head She puts her head into the fire Makes you red hot perspire Cos...

Love has no body I love you, you big dummy No body has love Love has nobody Breathe deep Breathe high Breathe life Don't breathe ah lie I love you, you big dummy 

I wanna find me a woman who'll hold my big toe till I have to go I wanna find a blue swirl plastic ocarina About five miles long And play with them sweet potatoes all night long 'cause them yams have all them eyes that yawn 'yearn down yonder below the gr...

It's so hot looks like you have three beaks crow the moon's so full white hat on a pumpkin you know there's something the moon was a stone's throw stop the show I need to say hello to the crow light the fire piano the moon showed up and it started t...

Rather than I want to hold your hand, I wanna swallow you whole 'n I wanna lick you everywhere it's pink 'n everywhere you think Rather than I want to hold your hand, I wanna swallow you whole 'n I wanna lick you everywhere it's pink 'n everywhere you t...

Woman like long neck bottles And a big head on her beer I don't like to talk about my women But I hold that woman dear Well, one night she go to drinking Got out and shot up the town I'll be damned if she didn't Bring an airplane down I don't like t...

stopped by your house saw your lamp lit not a sign of you in it where could you go at this hour? has all our love lost its power? i said i would be here with our flower street lamps flutter like fireflies i wished i hadn't told you all of those love lies [repe...

Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee The pond shined dry like a ladies compact Lilies leaped like flat green hearts with white hearts Squirting yellow pollen...cocks... Ferns ran like cool spades.. fossils. ..away from rocks Bees echoed dark...

moonchild moonchild moonchild on the night she was born the lightning flashed and the thunder roared but when they heard her cry the clouds rolled back and the full moon filled the sky shining down in her eye and it made her cry can you hear her cry? moonchil...

We're all brothers of tomorrow (we won't have to talk) we won't need to talk We won't need to walk on tomorrow Rush comes the love shapes to share shapes Love love love on tomorrow baby spring son yellow wings red skies showing on Lively ivy growing on t...

A thick cloud caught a piper clubs tail The match struck blue on a railroad rail The old puff horse was just pullin' through And a man wore a peg leg forever I'm on the bum where the hobos run The air breaks with filthy chatter Oh, I don't care there's...

Stupid heart, cupid heart Where will you go from here? Magnetic ring, magnetic draw Ooh, what you got me into? I'm a wolf, chrome craw Leavin’ you now I’ll write ya, ma Takin’ a putt up to Carson City Well, if you hear me howlin’ Well hell, sittin’...

Human Bark Beautyless hide from beauty Bow your eyes 'n heads to the duty of the dead's Suck the ground Breathe life into the dead dinosaurs Let the past demons rear up 'n belch fire in the air of now The rug's wearing out that we walk on Sonn it will f...

Run paint run run Run paint run run Run paint run run Paint hears this and he begin to run Electric black shadow runs 'cross the sun Run paint run run Run paint run run Hold holes in the world The sun goes down, we'll be done You hoped And you hop...

Well my cigarette died when I washed my face Dropped some drops in an ashtray hit a wrong place Woman at my blinds to see spiders spinning lines Its a safe as milk it's a safe as milk I never heard it put quite that way The shape I'm in is a gone a way T...

She always shows up when I'm up But she never shows up when I'm down But she's under arrest 'cause I might guess The Sheriff of Hong Kong Then she goes up in a flash I bite the end of her sash Then I'm long gone To Hong Kong Kong She never makes a ta...

Mirror mirror mirror (repeat) mirror man mirror me( repeat) mirror man mirror than mirror man follow the band farther than you oh farther than me mirror mirror day mirror way mirror man mirror me mirror man farther than mirror man mirror me mirror man fa...

Space-age couple Why don't you flex your magic muscle? Space-age couple Why do you hex your magic muscle? Space-age couple Why do you hustle 'n bustle? Why don't you drop your cool tom-foolery 'n shed your nasty jewelry? Cultivate the grounds They're...

Chills quick you Voices pick you Crows hex you Delightsome postal avion Wizard kiss and all be gone Seems, dreams, boat to forever Bolted ether Creep thu ether feather Sue egypt Sue egypt Boing Pong Hocus pocus avion I think of all those people...

Paper and wire killed my brother and my sister too And if you don't watch out You know they're going to get you too And if I don't watch out You know they're going to get me too Telephone Telephone Telephone Telephone Well I strangled the cord Rippe...

Oh that buggy boogie woogie sweeps me off my feet What this world needs is a good retreat What this world needs is a good two dollar room 'n a good two dollar broom One day I was sweepin' down by the wall I bumped a mama spider 'n the babies begin' to fal...

The clouds are full of wine Not whiskey or rye 'n the sky is full of bluebrains, Bluejays, mermaids Bluebrains, bluejays, bluebirds, mermaids bluejays, bluebirds, rainbows 'n the night is full of rhinestones, Pinecones, telephones 'n the sky is full of...

The floppy boot stomped down onto the ground The farmer screamed 'n blew the sky off the mountains Eye sockets looked down on the chestbone meadows 'n the sun dropped down, 'n the moon ran off, His heels 'n elbows pale as chalk 'n all the comets collided...

Why, not even a rustler'd have anything to do With this branded bum steer world This pirate flag headlong disaster course vessel Misguided charted this nautical numbskull hull Sink in silence smoke - blow your chest out in hope Sits spread-eagle on poor m...

The past sure is tense they're heading up for the main event all those people seem to be hell-bent see those people up on top of the fence and the man down there selling knotholes through the fence the little shoe generation man I found your print on a...

Come on down t' the big dig Come on down t' the big dig Come on t' the big dig Singin' the Smithsonian Institute blues Singin' the Smithsonian Institute blues The way it's goin' La Brea tar pits I know you just can't lose The new dinosaur is walkin' in...

The thousandth and tenth day of the human totem pole. The morning was distemper grey, Of the thousandth and tenth day of the human totem pole. The man at the bottom was smiling. He had just finished his breakfast smiling. It hadn't rained or manured for o...

when the witch doctor life throws his silent bones some are crowned kings while others lose their thrones when the witch doctor life throws his silent bones small 'o' mouths scream and run to mama kangaroo insecure pouches wherein hide beggars and drones and b...

Tropical Hot Dog Night Like two flamingos in a fruit fight Ev’ry colour of day Whirlin’ around at night I’m playin’ this music So the young girls will come out To meet the monster tonight Tropical Hot Dog Night Like two flamingos in a fruit fight I d...

The path is the mask of love a way a way The flow is the task above today there is no other way (repeat) You gotta trust us when you need a friend To find us you gotta look within You gotta trust us (repeat) before you turn to dust (repeat) You gotta see...

I cry but I can't buy your Veteran's Day poppy It don't get me high, it can only make me cry It can never grow another son Like the one who warmed me My days after rain and warmed my breath My life's blood Screamin' empty, she cries It don't get me hig...

oh woe - when i see mommy i feel like a mummy i feel like a mummy i feel like a mummy gonna wrap her up every time i see her every time i see her i want to grab her pull her up to me till i look through her but she moves so fast that i can't even see he...

Wild life along with my wife I'm goin' up on the mountain for the rest of my life Fore they take my life Fore they take my wild life Fore they take my wife They got my mother and father And run down all my kin Folks I know I'm next Wild life along wit...

Woe-is-a-me-bop Om-drop-a-re-bop-om Everbody's doin' it Please don't let them ruin it om 

ah, you know you're a man yeah, she makes you understand yeah, you know you're a man yeah, you know you're a girl about the same time yeah, about the same time i know I'm a man you know you're a girl oh, when we're starting to deep down in your heart...