Hidden Gems Chapter 2
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Isles Of Sopholore
01:57
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Sopholore so bashtulay
Pleesha du lu vee nu faramo
Come ahh colom
Shah lee somba vay
Purée oh vamma rume
Kutiii kaltdamay
Nanto nadir por padam
Kreesha la di shan di laminoo
Shpella pu-tah
Nam isha saday
Foree a elokon
Sabeer im potay
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Circus Of Morality
05:01
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Everybody’s got a version his or her reality
Dare you enter the circus of your own morality
Where nothing that you’ve ever thought was ever really grown
A billion thoughts you rented got handed down or loaned
We’re fixed into the saddles of the tallest unicycles
What once was thought periphery is now seen as vital
With a worker Bee intensity the tightrope walkers eyes
No safety net below us can one sneeze whilst paralysed?
The bearded lady looks upset more than just a trifle
It seems I have not yet outlived the usefulness of that title
In conversation with a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
Who speaks in different accents and has a thing for shoes
Is being good as good as it’s made out to be
Altruism or validation is such a thin line don’t you see
For thinking one is better is thinking others worse
I think this not a blessing but deem it as a curse
We’re slapped across our bottoms come out screaming it leaves traces
Seen upon a variety of grown up adult faces
We shallow breathe for breathing deep subconsciously they say
Might return us to the way we came out on that fateful day
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Uniforms
05:31
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I try so hard to be different
To a new bright allegiance I'm sworn
But it seems in our need to be different
We all wear the same uniforms
This ones saying I fit in
This one is saying I don't
This ones saying you know that I will
And this ones demanding I won't
This ones saying I'm mighty
This one says I don't care
But when you're carefully playing at not fitting in
With that anarchic rebellious stare
We try so hard to stand out
Whilst maintaining the need to fit in
It's a game just a game don't you know it's a game
A game that nobody wins
Some uniforms are better than others
Oh Annalise in your paprika dress
A sartorial elegance and a Dickensian gentility
With such a fiery prowess
This one says I'm a player
Clever and oh so precise
Should I care to digress and shall confess
That clothing is my greatest vice
Put em on put em on put em on
What is it you're trying to say
Manicured and polite so politically right
To neutral colours I sway hey hey hey
It's just another still from a movie
Just another page from a book
What worked for you then
Don't work for you now
You're ashamed and you say you won't look
Put em on put em on put em on
What is it you're trying to say
Manicured and polite so politically right
To unimagined colours I stray hey hey hey hey
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Brain
02:09
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Dr Dr will you do more than Dr Dr do little
A procedure it seems that no one dare tackle
Sir would you care to tickle?
It's my brain brain brain brain brain brain brain brain brain
It's my brain
It's got a mind of it's own and it's clear that it's prone
To being quite savage
I've come for a partial lobotomy
Just leave me the heart of the cabbage
It's the brain brain brain brain brain brain brain brain brain
It's the brain
If it was an app it's always turned on
My battery low or it's flat
And I'll go along you happy with this?
No he said now he wants some of that
Most of all though I guess he don't ease up on pleasure
I say that we're rich he can't see any treasure
I see it simple he says that he's bored
How much attention? Complains he's ignored
Says I'm the problem he is the cure
The most arrogant organ inside me for sure
It's the brain
It lives on adrenalised fixes and highs
A gambler not scared of the odds
When I want to sleep it says open your eyes
For I'm bigger than Jesus and God
I'm the brain brain brain brain brain brain brain brain brain
I'm the brain
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Berlin Between The Wars
05:26
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Dr Zeegilash Fin Schlip Shklee Porrell Fontaine
Wore poppy red lips
And a grey charcoal complexion
But the snow queen appeared
Should you ever mispronounce her name
A gargantuan mind she concluded
That I doth possess
No boundaries found
In this orgy of strangeness
Decadent thoughts that wildly digress
It’s like Berlin
Between the Wars
Czechoslovakian scholars
Would discuss my case
With slug furrowed brows
Un enlightened intentions
Exotic and creased the map that nobody's shown
It’s like Berlin
Between the Wars
The red vineyard at Aries
The only one Vincent sold whilst alive
What are you trying to tell me
Don’t let these unbridled thoughts be your guide
Untethered unmeasured given five star service they will grow
She delivers all of this to me
In the shape of a brooding arthritic lamppost bending down low
Dearest Dr Zeegilash Fin Schlip Shklee Porrell Fontaine
Wore Powder blue eyes
Full of ghostly deception
And a corset that might fuel her superior glare
It’s like Berlin
Between the Wars
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Drifting
03:49
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I drift I'm a drifter
It is something that I do
I never cared much for routine
Or discipline like you
If you're born to drift
Then driftings what you're gonna do
Some of us we choose to drift
A lifetime through
Or do we choose ah that's part of it
Decisions come and go
No rigid expectations
The only thing a drifter knows
And all the things they said I could have done
I’ll never get to do
Cos I was born to drift
Do you like drifting I’m a bit like you
I drift I’m a drifter and it’s really nothing new
I was the Lesser Spotted Drifting Bird
Way back when in school
Chase a new horizon faces strange and magic
Some are filled with comedy some are extra tragic
Some are making no plans
And they’re the best at what they do
I knew I was a drifter
Without knowing how I knew
We come in a variety
A multitude of shapes and sizes
We’re generally not driven
By your money trophies prizes
As natural as breathing
And it's my default setting too
I was born to drift
Do you like drifting
I’m a bit like you
Aimlessly going where no one is showing
Meandering we slip into the pauses and the gaps
Digress until we know we might be more than what we lack
These tides that we’re riding and look nobody is driving
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January
06:25
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May I introduce myself
I'm the month that they say they most fear
They call me January
I'm the Monday it seems of the year
I'm announced with disdain
For unlike the weekend
Monday holds nothing but dread
So many just do the only way through it is through
More than simply implied it is said
My siblings are wild and gregarious
July and August just constantly sneer
Well they cackle in droves
And December's all show
I'm the short straw that always appears
It's like following Elvis The Beatles
Why would anyone do such a thing?
At the height of their fame everyone's screaming their name
And no one here wants you to sing
No one here wants you no one here wants you
No one here wants you to sing
Yes I confess that I'm January
Not the month that you want me to be
I'm uninteresting and bare
And would anyone care
If the year started with February?
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Mr Hollywood
02:38
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Are your ears open
Cos I'm about to change your day
With all the things I've done
I'm marvellous astounding some might say
I know you'll look on sheepishly
Agog but never bored
For the kind of things I've done
They simply cannot be ignored
I've climbed mountains in Atlantis
Wrestled big foot to the ground
I'm the man in emergencies
You'd always want around
In fifteen languages I'm fluent
Horse whisperer I am too
There's not a thing you dare imagine
That I've not done or cannot do
More Hollywood than Hollywood
That's what I hear them say
More Hollywood than Hollywood
I guess I'm made that way
More Hollywood than Hollywood
I'm sorry yes it's true
If I make you feel inadequate
You'll just have to join the queue
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9. |
Hating Hate
03:40
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If hating hate was hates intention
Hating hate hates greatest plan
Like a maggot melody
I slowly furrow
Til only hate you understand
If hating hate was hates desire
For after all it’s what you’re designed to do
What they’ve done the whole world over I dare say now they’re doing that to you
Hate the greatest storyteller
In our dramas leading actor starring role
Until your cup shall rise then spilleth over And now it’s only hate you know
Hate says can’t you see?
They’re talking cursing criticising
Putting you down
You can’t just let that be
So I’ll do what can’t be done
For by hating hate
Tis only hate that I become
So hating hate shall not release us
For through her blind spots
Hate chooses to see
I will not hate you my sister brother
It matters not if you hate me
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10. |
This Boat
05:27
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Sleeping beauty arises
Your pulse and intentions are strong
The medicine man summarizes
In the mestizo mermaid song
Where a Spider Monkey is master of more
Than just body linguistics and dance
And everyone here arrives not a moment too late or indeed
Came by chance
You are the north star children
You are the snow hare sleeping on the ground
You are the Magdalena equally lost and found
Ready to leave the world that you know
The dry ones you made in your head
The model's a crumbling wreckage
It's your time now to lead not be lead
You are the north star children
You are the snow hare sleeping on the ground
You are the Magdalena equally lost and found
This boat will sail it's been lost at sea
And there is no place I'd rather be
You are the ocean angel
You are a prism of sight and sound
You are the Magdalena
And the seeds that you planted
Were all on higher ground
Elephants sitting aloof and cross legged
For hours as they stare at the walls
As magistrates say here's to justice
Not just for one but for all
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11. |
Earworm
06:00
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Attention attention disclosure
An announcement that might make you blue
I was employed by the music police
And I hid so much more than a few
I worked for the men who decided
what everyone else got to hear
I was a detective who proved most effective
In making some things disappear
But a spell it is said should you find it
Tis thirty three syllables long
You must smile as you bellow dear ladies & fellows
For this earworm inside you is strong
It reverses your domestication
You become virginal new
Be proud that you might not be
One of the many but get to be one of the few
Yes there be songs that help us
Maybe help us to unlearn and undo
Those things that the most scary of Uncles
And parents in this so so so society put us all through
The tortoise says it’s easy
You don’t need to go along like the hare
Him that’s in front is often the runt
In the commercial litter that’s frightfully nauseous and Scared
I’ve been domesticated my friends and so have you
I’ve been domesticated oh what's a man to do
Pia lo may
Coo ree ar lune
Zambala jaine
Shan falidee vor me a mala taka way
Shim peera hey
Alayah zu hoo oom
The depths of the tides that you wade in
Oh the muddy hippopotamus roars
Reversed domestication you will now be fresh and Virginal too
Lives unimagined so unimagined
Are now being imagined by scary uncles parents Teachers lawyers and high society’s creepers
But most of all are now being
Imagined by you
I've been domesticated my friends and so have you
I've been domesticated but reversed it so can you
Here's what we do
Pia lo may
Coo ree ar lune
Zambala jaine
Shan falidee vor me a mala taka way
Shim peera hey
Alayah zu hoo oom
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Pantomime
06:16
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So oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh achingly unfashionable the words I choose to use
Unlike the ones they never do
There is no one below or above you
Getting in to getting out of this I call myself
If I'm the someone no one knew
So don't forget
Who have you have you been all of this time?
Life's a pantomime
It will happen right when it's supposed to
Another true contender for the master of disguise
Tell me would you cross it wherever I draw that line
That line
The DJ puts a record on
His eyes like flying saucers
They begin to fly
Said it was his favourite song
Say hello hello hello
Then wave goodbye
Wave goodbye
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Orange Puddle Soup
01:58
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A bowl of Orange Puddle Soup
On Warning Tongue Lane
A shiny cardboard suit that keeps out the rain
UFOs that appear through a tear in the clouds
Like a giant amalgam or a wisdom so proud
Olive skinned lovelies with raven black hair
She's Sophia Loren with a thousand yard stare
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released March 15, 2022
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The Captain is a troubadour, storyteller and free thinking renegade. His musical offerings are inspired by the great songwriters and philosophers of yesteryear. This is visceral music for the mind and body, full of dreamy verses, life affirming choruses and sheer audacity. Where melodic invention meets alternative folk, progressive, world and ambient sounds. ... more
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