SEVERED HEADS--Come Visit the Big Bigot
Released 1985.
File collated by Dave Watson/SHLF, from the lyric sheet handwritten by Tom Ellard in the Bigot Booklet, with a few changes gleaned by close listening to the CD, and the lyrics to "Strange Brew" that someone e-mailed me (sorry I forgot your name, mate).
All songs written by Tom Ellard (except where indicated), whose quotes after the songs are taken from a lyric file he sent to Abraham Heward. Thanks, lads.
Please send any corrections to me here, and I'll put them in.
Samples are in ("round brackets and quotation marks.").
SONGS:
Twenty Deadly Diseases
George the Animal
Army
Phantasized Persecutory Breast
Casey's Ion
Propellor
Confidence
Sam Loves You
Strange Brew
Harold and Cindy Hospital
Legion
Twenty Deadly Diseases
Hot coals in firelight (It can't hold my fancy)
Swirl black in streetmarch (It can't hold my fancy)
Tasty morsel in afternoon (You'll see!)
You'll see large hands
Purse snatch in nightclub (It can't hold my fancy)
Tete-a-tete in Tel Aviv (It can't hold my fancy)
Gargoyle in soldier booth (You'll see!)
You'll see large hands
He'll see large hands
I'll see large hands
"Bits and pieces of a big American city, only seen on television at that stage."
George the Animal
CHORUS:
("You'll say, 'I can't stand it, I'll go crazy.'")
("'Make a bed, make a bed, make a bed, make a bed,' she goes on like that for an hour.")
("You'll say, 'I can't stand it, I'll go crazy.")
("Loud as it'll go.")
("But the average teenager doesn't have a daddy who's that strong.")
("Daddy's afraid.")
("Loud as it'll go.")
("He's a sissy when it comes to making a kid [go for a haircut?].")
("Oh, the kid is a [...]. He'll go to a rock party or a rock festival and they'll turn, the music's up so loud that it about drives him crazy. And then he comes home in the car and he turns on his tape deck or radio as loud as it'll go, to a rock station, and then he gets home to his house and he goes into his bedroom and he closes the door, and he turns on the hi-fi or radio again as loud as it'll go.")
("Loud as it'll go.")
("Loud as it'll go.")
("Loud as it'll go.")
("They're constantly at each other's throats. They tear each other's hair, they scratch each other, they bite each other...")
("They bite each other, and they practically kill each other.")--CHORUS
("Loud as it'll go.")
("Loud as It'll go.")
Army
I've got a friend who joined the army
She broke a wish we made on blood
We saw the fighting in a movie
I walked out before the end
CHORUS:
In a field of snow she holds her rifle
In the hills below the enemy hide
I've got a letter from a friend
She's got a husband and a family
When we were young she had told me
she would fight for her country--CHORUS
"Two women with opposing ideals and memories. I was thinking of revolutionary Iran for some reason."
Phantasised Persecutory Breast
I got a photograph says
You ruined a perfect day
I got 33 days and 33 ways to make waves
I am a High Court judge
Says you got 33 seconds
We have a piece of paper
33 pages to turn
I am a superintendent
says you got 33 seconds
We will go direct to jail
33 years to serve
"True story about a looney met in a welfare centre."
Casey's Ion
K.C.K.C.I.O.U.
At every turn a helping hand
A world of Casey's ion in the past
A message written on the wall
A turn and turn and turn again
An echo in the dark
K.C. Casey's eye on you
"This is about KC and the Sunshine Band."
Propellor
Here's my odds on Southern Belle (Everybody meet my maker!)
She's a ghost from coast to coast (Everybody meet my maker!)
Daughter figure in the Sunday roast (Everybody meet my maker!)
Swish of skirt in the immaterial (Everybody meet my maker!)
CHORUS:
Long time no see, burn your bridges
Took a plane to Mozambique (Everybody meet my maker!)
Lost the luggage in territorial (Everybody meet my maker!)
Squeeze my girl in wildlife romp (Everybody meet my maker!)
She's a ghost from coast to coast (Everybody meet my maker!)--CHORUS
"About a guy who falls in love with a race horse and rebuilds her in human form. Last seen in flight to parts unknown."
Confidence!
("Snuka now--")
("--twisting away on the ayayamio...")
Tear my teenage confidentially
Sing my black-edged telegram
I've a hurt that bends me double
that burns in my heart
Tell me teenage confidentially
Do I have a passing chance?
("Oh yeah! Ahmda! Ahhmdaa!")
I've a life that brings me pain
that burns in my heart
("Oh yeah! Ahmda! Ahhmdaa!")
CHORUS:
Snake my fate
Rend my flesh
[Repeat verse (with Ahmda sample throughout)]--CHORUS
"An Archie cartoon. Real teen years are disgusting."
Sam Loves You
1--("Letakahtakahtakeh--lah lah lah lah
Leteteteteteteh--lah lah lah lah")
2--("Eyey eyey eyeyey eyeyey howaye eyeyey oiyavoice oiyavoice")
3--Sam loves you
You can hear it in his voice
Sam loves you
in a meaningful way
Sam loves you
and he hopes you will be good
4--("Ahyeh ahyeh--spite! Ahyeh ahyeh--spute!")
(2,3,4)
"This computer eats small children."
Strange Brew
(E. Clapton/G. Collins/F. Pappalardi)
She's a witch of trouble in electric blue
In her own mad mind she's in love with you
With you--whatcha gonna do?
She's some kind of demon dusting in the flue
If you don't watch out she'll stick to you
To you--what kind of fool are you?
CHORUS:
Strange brew, killing what's inside of you
Strange brew, killing what's inside of you
In a boat in the middle of a raging sea
She will make a scene for it all to be ignored
and wouldn't you be bored?--CHORUS
Harold and Cindy Hospital
Harold and Cindy Hospital trod on a photograph
Look at Doc's face count 36
Look at Doc's face catch bullets
I tried slapping my right with my left
Left hand one, right hand another
Harold and Cindy Hospital trod on a photograph
Look at Doc's face count 36
Look at Doc's face catch bullets
I tried slapping my right with my left
[Last two lines in original version:
"Look at Doc's face stare at the wall
I bit 36 bullets a day"]
1--Millions of fans all around the world
[Doubled with--Travelled the world in a 3-for-1] (Oh! Sweet everything)
2--Caught 36 in a single lunch break (Oh! Sweet everything)
3--I tried slapping my right with my left
Left hand one, right hand another (Oh! Sweet everything)
4--Millions of fans all around the world (Oh! Sweet everything)
(2,3,4...)
"Two articles in a woman's weekly, one about a travelling showman who caught bullets and the other about split brain research."
Legion
1--My name is Legion
I'm to work with you
We've much before us
Hungry to begin
O don't you doubt
The best of everything is held in one man's gaze
The best of everything is held in one man's gaze--1
2--We'll fly the nights! (We'll fly the haunts!)
We'll gash the haunts! (We'll gash the caul!)
We'll knife the caul! (We'll knife the nights!)
We'll jump the fire! (I'll work with you!)
O don't you doubt
The best of everything (Oh it is!)
is held in one man's gaze (Oh it is!)
The best of everything (Oh it is!)
is held in one man's gaze (Oh it is!)
(Oh it is!)
"Tribute to the guy who made Exorcist 2, Zardoz, Excalibur, etc. John Boorman, isn't it? What a talent."
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