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Introduzione
01:44
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We both know why you were sent away
Guilty of a crime once known as being really fucking gay
You called me God and I agreed
Touched our empty pockets and we both hoped that was all I'd ever need
But you took something that was mine
How did you know I'd come to claim it?
Hid it so high up in the clouds
I've spent a thousand years dragging my own feet back to the ground
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Mvt. I - Morning Lasagna
04:53
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CHOIR
Forty percent vegetable or twenty percent casserole
I must eat up all my dinner to become well (x4.5) //
I wanna leave I wanna leave I wanna leave I wanna leave
Take me home // A hot beverage won't count in your percentage to salvation (2.5)
(chamber intro)
VERSE
Once Upon A Time
you crawled under your bed in golden furs to hide
we read that you had died in the papers
and when nobody laughed you cried
CHORUS
when I get out of here
(and she waits for me)
you motherfuckers will laugh long and loud
(no matter how long)
I'm gonna show you how
VERSE
Red was the sun on Christmas morning
when you tied your waist
tighter and tighter until your stomach
swelled up in your face you told me
CHORUS
when I get out of here
(and she waits for me)
we'll be as thick as thieves
(no matter how long)
mhmm like we were meant to be
BRIDGE
bit did you forget me baby where did you go
you seem so sure of yourself but dont you know
you're gonna miss me when I'm
you're gonna wish that I was
I'm just not feeling myself this morning
(spoken) oh mom, don't worry about me, I'll be fine I've got so much fucking potential
(instrumental break)
VERSE
You came to me in blue
God himself had cleaned your eyes
I saw that it was
true you died in 1992
CHORUS
But when I get out of here
I know where I want to be
wherever I am where you're
right there next to me
NARRATOR:
Not long before, Cheryl went down to the hospital store
The doctor said: "why are you here?
Is it mould in the teeth? Do you bleed from the ear?"
Cheryl said "No, not that or the other.
I just can't remember my favorite color -
red is quite nice, and I do love blue, and yellow is yellow...
but which is true?"
"Tut tut," said the doctor, "its worse than I thought.
You're gonna have to stay right here in this spot.
We'll bring you lasagna three times a day.
But until you remember your favorite color,
this is where you're gonna stay."
(orchestral crescendo and finale)
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Mvt. II - Danza Gialla
02:47
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Cheryl looked at the creature and said
‘What big yellow eyes you have!’
‘The better to see myself’, it replied
And then it started to crack
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Mvt. III - Danza Rossa
04:18
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Perfectly round like a drop of mercury upon your finger tip
Carry me about in your pocket i will whisper what to say
When you’re tongue-tied you see
The word of God comes easily to
Those with certainty like your little friend in
Happy times or sad ones you can be sure that
I will never change I’ll stay exactly this way
When I wake up I pick out my favorite clothes
I have never had a problem finding those
It’s like one two three
getting dressed is so easy
NARRATOR:
"AHHH!" Cheryl said
Then she turned and she fled
From the awful red beast
with three beautiful heads
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(CHOIR)
Forty percent vegetable or twenty percent casserole
I must eat up all my dinner to become well
Forty percent vegetable or twenty percent casserole
I must eat up all my dinner to become well
A hot beverage won’t count in your percentage to salvation
(x2 softly under the following:)
The witch in the garage next door
Bought you diamonds at the mall
Mom and dad told you
That you somehow lost them all
Now mommy’s in the pink room and daddy’s in the blue
And little baby Jesus with a red kazoo
Going “zoo do do do do do” in the hall between the two
(instrumental)
Beethoven sat at the the piano all day
While James and sally went out to play
And they made up a song that you never will hear
About sally fixing the ozone layer
With a big red airplane she was gonna fly up in the sky
And drop a big bucket of water down through the layer of pollution
(spoken) Or something like that - was it a hole that needed to be sewn? I’m not sure, good luck bitch
CHOIR
Forty percent vegetable or twenty percent casserole
I must eat up all my dinner to become well
Forty percent vegetable or twenty percent casserole
I must eat up all my dinner to become well
My mom is blue / Gold and rose too
Now daddy’s in the blue room and mommy’s in the pink
And little baby Jesus by the bathroom sink
Is practicing a face that says “who’s buying me a drink?”
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Mvt. V - Danza Blu
03:26
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NARRATOR:
said Cheryl 'I knew it! i knew it was true:
the color i chose is the color of blue!'
but as she watched him skip away down the road,
she saw that he had no shoes
'If blue is a shoeless beggar,' she thought-
'well then that can’t be the color i chose'
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Mvt. VI - Help! Help!
06:04
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My mom is blue
Gold and rose too
Roses that no longer bloom
When I am well
I promise I’ll be
The man in this lullaby
Maybe one day you will see me as I am
Just a man rationing mid-shelf cigarettes
Will your hair come out then like
The yarn i’ve spun for you
Kneel before me so that i can look you in the eye
And feel tall like you were
On the day that i knocked you out
And became the baddest bitch in this town
I love you but if you surpass me I will kill you
I will drag you back by your ankles into my circle of hell
Maybe one day you will see me as I am
No Jesus, just a man golden in your eyes
But who gave who’s life for who?
Kneel before me so that i can look you in the eye
And say thank you
for giving it up so that i could be absolutely nothing like you
NARRATOR:
And thats how she felt ten years ago
But shes been in the clink ever since you know
Scratching her skin and biting her toes
Mommy mommy where are my clothes
My mom is blue
Gold and rose too
Roses that no longer bloom
When I am well
I promise I’ll be
The man in this lullaby
I wanna leave
Take me home
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Mvt. VII - Home
05:21
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LYRICS--
All in good time you’ll bring me home
All in good time you’ll bring me home
The people said to St. Francis "Why are you crying?"
Said St. Francis "I'm so fucking tired i fear i will die"
And just like that the birds and the beasts and the wild dogs descended upon him
And as they tore his body to ribbons we screamed "Why God why"
Well one of those doggies still dripping with Frank
Ran off westward towards the north pacific ocean
Till she breathed in her very first sight of that sparkling sea
And she drank from that big sky whatever a dog calls emotion
Feeling just like you did when you gutted your favorite stuffed dog for me
She barked into the wind:
I will not edit creation
I will not inherit the earth
I won’t heal every scab on this body
before I’m returned to the dirt
But I praise the shit on my feet Lord
And I praise the salt in my eyes
Regardless of my bad behavior
I will still have the privilege to come on home
Walter put down his pencil and gazed at his creation
He said "Mortimer baby we’re never ever ever ever ever ever gonna die"
Then he climbed in the ice box clutching his new legislation
To wait for a world without jews or labor standards or non-villainous queer people
But somewhere some other man picked up some other pencil
And drew a picture of mickey mouse with an erection saying
'fuck the vietnam war'
And all the kings horses and all the kings men
Smashed down his kitchen door
And as they dragged him outside by the ankles he solemnly swore
As they marched through the streets / as he came to the stand
he was pissing himself / as the judge banged the gavel he said
'order in my court boy / what the hell are you laughing about
do you think this is some kind of joke?' / He said 'man don’t you know:
I will not edit creation
and I will not inherit the earth
I won’t heal every scab on my body
before I’m returned to the dirt
So take from me all I’ve acquired
Take from me my view of the sky
Regardless of my most heroic behavior
I’ll still be required to come on home
I know I’m gonna come on home
oh mama I know I’m coming home to
You gave me my face and I’ve lost it a little each day
You gave away the best years of your life for mine
And I can’t repay you that time
No I can’t repay you at all
But I didn’t ask to be born any more than the next motherfucker
Still I’ll shoulder your burden and carry it up the next flight of stairs
Till I rot like a skeleton in some pirate movie
for the next brave kid to discover
And nobody can tell me that that isn’t perfect and that isn’t fair
Hell if I know where I’m going but I’ll see you there
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NARRATION:
‘It’s time for your supper!’ the doctor cried
And so Cheryl, with nothing to do, went down to her supper -
Where who should she find but Yellow, Red, and Blue!
‘Oh thats right’, said cheryl, ‘now I remember:
i like it best when we’re all here together!’
‘Tut tut!’ said the doctor. Then he gave her one more
Big old slice of lasagna, and showed her the door
And as for this story their ain’t any more!
When I am well I promise I promise I’ll
Be the man in this lullaby
My mother / she sleeps on silken sheets in chambers of gold
My mother / she’s doing very well or so I am told
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Ember Knight Los Angeles, California
Ember Knight is a recording artist, film maker, and comedian based in Southern California. no joke at the end.
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