SEVERED HEADS--1983-1984 (Assorted lyrics)
All songs written by Tom Ellard (except where noted) and published by the authors and composers of the recorded works.
File collated by Dave Watson/SHLF from a lyric sheet handwritten by Tom Ellard in the Bigot Booklet, and proofread/corrected by Tom.
Samples/tapes are in ("parentheses with quotation marks.")
SONGS:
From the album Since the Accident (released 1983, re-released in Canada in 1990):
Houses Still Standing
Dead Eyes Opened
Exploring the Secrets of Treating Deaf Mutes
Brassiere, in Rome
Wasps
From the Album City Slab Horror (released 1984, re-released in Canada in 1990):
4WD
Now, an Explosive New Movie
Houses Still Standing
(Garry Bradbury/Tom Ellard/Simon Knuckey)
I must away
There are things to be done
Bridges crossed
and houses still standing
Of course you know that I'd rather stay with you
But the devil finds work for idle hands
So keep a chair on my return [3X]
I must away
Oh no
On the job again
Oh no...
Dead Eyes Opened
[Edgar Lustgarten reading from "Death on the Crumbles (1924)", from the BBC Radio show Scales of Justice. Reproduced by permission of Ivan Berg Associates.]
("By strange coincidence, a thunderstorm had been brewing when Mahon, doing his grisly work at the bungalow, was dealing with the most grisly job of all--the head, the woman's head. He had severed it from the trunk, built a huge fire in the sitting room, placed her head upon it, then (I owe a debt here to Edgar Wallace, who edited the transcript of the Mahon trial), then the storm broke with a violent flash of lightning and an appalling crash of thunder. As the head of Emily Kaye lay upon the coals, the dead eyes opened, and Mahon fled out to the deserted shore. When he nerved himself to return, the fire had done its work.")
Exploring the Secrets of Treating Deaf Mutes
(Garry Bradbury/Tom Ellard)
GARRY BRADBURY:
Under the bridge tonight
Squeezing a wormy horn
I played with Simon Brooks
Exploring the secrets of treating deaf mutes
Olio globular foetid Louisa pizza
Who wants to buy a pimple fat squeezer
from Chris Marshall's Organ Warehouse?
TOM ELLARD'S MOTHER:
7 yowies babe ram it up ascheemic organ pieces a TV dinner ill shove it up your immolate religion who have blocked up my cannula 5 times 7 trampolining on 11 to punch kick break bone philosophiku all very good games.
Brassiere, in Rome
(Garry Bradbury/Tom Ellard)
("Brassiere, in Rome.")
("Lord, we praise you.")
("Lord, we praise you...Lord, we love you.")
Wasps
("High in a tree, the colonies come upon a wasps' nest. I have heard that wasp larvae make choice food for the ants. The wasps offer little resistence, and the ants ignore them and empty the nest of a whole generation of unborn wasps. I suppose that the ant offers too small a target for the wasps' sting, and rather than fight a battle, they must lose. They concede the field. The ants empty the nest of larvae quickly, carrying back the delicacies back to feed their own young. As the raids go on, workers laden with food--")
4WD
In four-wheel drive
Cut my heart in automobile
Tear the bones make way
Drive a path through flesh
Seed the Earth take steps
In four-wheel drive
Cut my heart in automobile
Make a place for my self
Come to conclusion
Strive for good
CHORUS:
Blue sky red land
I hold in my hands
I give as my gift to you...
[1st verse]
In four-wheel drive
Catch my breath in transit
Make a place for my self
Come to conclusion
Strive for good--CHORUS
Now, an Explosive New Movie
These burns
This head under water
This mass grave
Now, an explosive new movie
Calipers
Crutches tucked under
these useless legs
Now, an explosive new movie
This head
bent in submission
These scars
Now, an explosive new movie
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