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Ssydarthurr
02:51
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You may travel very far in a psychedelic car
Mental mushrooms growing mold clog your life as it unfolds
Ssydarthurr! Ssydarthurr!
And deep inside a German book
A princely price to have a look
Your friends could never spell the name
But you came out just half insane
To wander dazed through muddled years
Awash in desperate, happy tears
You earned yourself the third degree
Who told you you're too old to spree?
Dripping from a garbage can, once you thought you saw a plan
You've still got dreams piled in heaps - not awake and not asleep
Ssydarthurr! Ssydarthurr!
And every place you try to go
Mad hucksters still put on a show
With squawking horns and shiny things
To tickle all the human beings
Who push and shove amid the glare
For love and sex and plastic ware
And push through clouds of wobbly goo
That screaming sound is probably you!
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Weirdoz Everywhere
02:46
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Hey heh heh heh
Where I come from you'd never know
Like moths attracted to the glow
You know just what I mean - soul-sucking suburban scene
Weirdoz Everywhere
Hey heh heh heh
Some sort of truth is what I sought
A school of knocks is what I got
Feel like a leper clown - can't get arrested in this town
Weirdoz Everywhere
So I say - hey hey heh heh
Here come the weirdos - look at them all
Here come the prefab messiahs
So help us all
Here come the weirdos - can't count them all
God bless the prefab messiahs
So help us all
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Orange Room
02:32
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He lives in an orange room so you don’t have to
He lives in an orange room just to upset you
He lives in an orange room - don’t look inside there
He lives in an orange room - you cannot hide there
Squirrels in the wall, Drunks down the hall
Useless college degree
Dead-ender jobs, hated by snobs
Dread what the future will be!
He lives in an orange room - that’s what he’s after
He lives in an orange room - ignore the laughter
He lives in an orange room amid the clutter
He lives in an orange room - what does it matter?
What does it matter?
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College Radio
03:18
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You're a rebel in a dorm, thinking just outside the norm
Digging records from the local swarm
Hear the DJ seldom seen, google eyes and skin of green
In the basement of the
College radio, college radio, basement radio
And if you get on the air, you might feel sort of like a star
Careful not to touch that dial, 'cause the signal can't reach very far
In a triple decker town where the sky is like a frown
And the factories and dreams are falling down
Cut some classes, take a chance—buy an amp and strike a stance
You'll be heroes on the
Underground radio, underground radio, basement radio
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Booshwa Sally
03:12
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Don't go out with Booshwa Sally
She'll take you and she'll water you down
Don't go out with Booshwa Sally
She'll take you where you'll never be found
It's so easy to be swayed by her charms
She'll buy you bracelets that will rip off your arms
Booshwa Sally
Booshwa Sally
Booshwa Sally
Booshwa Sally
Don't go out with Booshwa Sally
She'll take you where you'll never be found
Don't go out with Booshwa Sally
She'll take you and she'll water you down
It's so easy to be swayed by her charms
She'll buy you bracelets that will rip off your arms
Booshwa Sally
Booshwa Sally
Booshwa Sally
Booshwa Sally
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Bobb's Psychedelic Car
03:12
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When your harvest of dreams has grown a crop of only weeds
Starved and shriveled up and dead
When all the people pushing carts amid the parking lots
Are just voices in your head
Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car
Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car
Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car
The empty stores that line the butchered streets so sad so gray
Watch you skidding in the rain
The winking signs along the interstate announce the news
Every place is now the same
Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car
Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car
Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car
Behind the wheel just push that junk right off the vinyl seat
Give my rusty door a shove
My breaks are shot, squeeze right on in, there's half a tank of gas
Hear the tires squeal the love
Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car
Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car
Hitch a ride in Bobb's Psychedelic Car
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Sip a cuppa coffee from your daily grind
It's a full time job not to lose your mind
You gotta do what you gotta do
Gotta do what you gotta do to survive
Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive
Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive
Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive
Never mind the answer - what's the question again?
Hide out in your garden 'til you cash it in
You gotta go where you gotta go
You gotta go wherever to escape the hive
Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive
Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive
Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive
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Prefab Flashing
00:29
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[sound collage]
Ee, ee, ee
Heh heh heh heh heh
Nice headband ya got there, honey!
What...?
Heh heh heh heh heh heh
What, what...?
What does it matter?
What, what, what, what...?
Don't tell me what to do!
Ssydarthurr!
And yer done!
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The Prefab Messiahs
Micro-legendary DIY Garage-Pop-Psych provocateurs! Evolutionary genre grinders practicing art-damaged power pop, rock, crunch, jangle and general mynd-massage.
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