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The third Brain Surgeons release, this album was the Brain Surgeons' first foray out of the garage and into legitimate studios, co-produced, engineered and mixed by platinum-award winning engineer, Paul Special. Guests include indie god Don Fleming, goddesses Felice Rosser, Tara Key and indie group, The Cucumbers. Songs include:

I'm On Fire

St. Vitus Dance

Gun

Date With A Guitar

Tender Was The Night

Laura's Plastic Swords

Donkey Show

Casa Del Sol

Overture (from Imaginos)

SAINT VITUS DANCE

brink of my life

oh hot aching shot

drop a dime

on one fast fox trot

black cat come on

with ya blank page eyes

black ad in the paper

slammed ya sidewise

try to remember

straight back in time

acid and rain

heat and the line

fooling with you in the danger zone

let's rendezvous

we can't do it alone

swing out our little burning quartet

cremate the evening without a regret

for a moment there we almost seemed whole

but we just opened our black hearts of soul

black hearts of soul (12x)

try to remember

straight back in time

acid and rain

heat and the line

fooling with you in the one way zone

let's rendezvous

we can't do it alone

swing out our little burning quartet

cremate the evening without a regret

for a moment there we almost seemed whole

but we just closed our black hearts of soul

black

black hearts of soul (12x)

soul

soul

black

so

what

 

LOCKED UP

i keep you hidden with my secrets

in a very special jar

nobody has to know

that we've

ever gone this far

our love

is a limited edition

you've got the only invitation

to a private exhibition

i keep you stocked up in the storeroom

with the emergency supplies

in the event of disaster

i know you'll keep me alive

our love

is a limited edition

you've got the only invitation

to a private exhibition

i want you like you got me

locked up permanently

i want you like you got me

locked up indefinintly

you got me sewn up tied up

jacked up so fired up

you keep me beat up broke up

can't talk too choked up

you got me

our love

is a limited edition

you've got the only invitation

to a private exhibition

ooo my my my my my my

 

GUN

We all kzow a man who needs protection

Somebody take a swing wanna start with me

An ill wind served my number up

One warm shot then it's over

I copped a piece popped a couple a pills

I couldn't find what I really needed

Oh wo what have I done

Oh Oh Oh

Oh my God why'd I get that gun

Oh Oh Oh

We all know somebody who's got an infection

Maybe they'll find a cure in a million years

So hot and crazy the pressure built up

I only wanted my baby to rock

Oh I got 'cha baby I got 'cha again

I tell you now I don't remember a thing

Oh wo what have I done

Oh Oh Oh

Oh my God why'd I get that gun

Oh Oh Oh

We all know a chick who can't hack rejection

Can't drown my sorrows in a million beers

Give me back my belt lemme hang up my fears

Yea I'm cryin more than 96 tears

All through this night of lonely regret

Don't know how to forgive I can't forget

Oh wo what have I done

Oh Oh Oh

Oh my God why'd I use that gun

Oh Oh Oh

 

'LIL EGYPT

Fetish is the dervish

Perfume of the bizarre

Exploding spice sensation

Cut close you swim so far

There is a little Egypt

Where I remain a slave

Tap out my cryptic message

The ancient bed you made

In this dark cold desert

The bottom of my heart

I'll bury you with pleasure

And you will die again

you will die again

die again

die

again

die

 

EARTHQUAKE BOOGIE

Earthquake boogie

Hear the floorboards rock

Earthquake boogie

Shakin' in your socks

But I ain't worried

it's what I'm livin for

Gonna fall through your ceiling

Through the plasterboard

Your bed be rockin

Till you cry for more

Earthquake boogie (4x)

Earthquake boogie

It's no fault of mine

Earthquake boogie

When I cross that line

Gonna take an earthquake

to get through to you

Ya got me jumpin

off the richtor scale

Feel that earthquake comin

In my seismic soul

Earthquake boogie (4x)

Earthquake boogie

Watch the ground devide

Earthquake boogie

Feel the plates collide

I got my earth shoes

So I'm all prepared

See me crashin

Thru the earthquake air

Your face be crazy

and your clothes all teared

Earthquake boogie (8x)

 

DONKEY SHOW

The greatest show on earth

It ain't no circus baby

Twice the length and twice the girth

at least four times the gravy

You are not going to believe

what he's got up his sleeve

Oh ho donkey show

A bona fide hit wanna see if it's a fit

but everybody knew it from the git-go

True love

donkey show it's

True love

Hee haw hee haw

True love

donkey show it's

True love

Hee haw

Que quiere si Senior

Way south of the border

Mucho mas grande amour

He can fill your order

Whoever said it ain't the size

Is in for a big surprize

Oh ho donkey show

A bona fide hit wanna see if it's a fit

but everybody knew it from the git-go

True love

donkey show it's

True love

Hee haw hee haw

True love

donkey show it's

True love

Hee haw

Gimme some of that there donkey song

Oh ho donkey show (3x)

Oh ho

Hee haw

 

DATE WITH A GUITAR

8 million people in new york

is everybody happy

anybody quite as messed up

as I am right now

another saturday night

I'm not dancing

I'm not on line for the movies

I stumble on the sidewalk

cursin' under my breath

I got a date with my guitar

we gonna talk about you

I got a date with my guitar

we gonna talk

there's a dealer on the east side

you got a deal every weekend

ooh God bless America

Land of the brave home of the free

I got a date with my guitar

we gonna talk about you

I got a date with my guitar

we gonna talk

at the hotel deville

you sell an expensive thrill

you say it's not sex

you pretend you just flex

I got a date with my guitar

we gonna cry about you

I got a date with my guitar

we gonna cry

 

END IN TEARS

Girls you know, how these things start

Hot rush of blood, quick tug of the heart

Feels so nice, It gets to your head

Can't you remember, what your mamma said

This will end in tears

It's not love, there she blows

Just emotion got you on a roll

You're flying so high, never gonna come down

Who's gonna kiss it better when you hit the ground

This will end in tears

Good intentions and the road to hell

All the rest I know so well

But you're running free not hedging your bets

Blind to the danger just round the bend

This will end in tears

 

TENDER WAS THE NIGHT

tender was the night

the night they tried to stop the train

those roomless portals in the rain

reeling minds in hiding

wartime was in sight

the day his kitty kat was slain

I'll say it now and then again

his dad was fighting

european sunday school

upon the prarie green and dying

elephants confined by fools

they put him in his grave for spying

on a thousand sirens

with the code name Jack

tender was his spine

the time they snapped it with a sledge

a hammer heavy like a hedge

is his ghost a-haunting?

fallen were the pines

the sick deceptions of an age

it wrote its name then turned the page

its gore a flaunting

halleiujah holiday

the sandman comes and leves us sleeping

dreams of beverage spiced with cloves

upon awaking birds are peeping

songs of birdy greeting

with their beaks on you

tender was the night

tender was the night

tender was the night

tender was the night

tender was the night

 

OPERATION LUV

I hate my job I waste my life

Got a choice noose or knife

Every day I get put down

Every night I come around

When the world pulls the plug

I operate on my baby's love

When you're in you're in

Ya know what I mean

When you're in you're in

So it's a little obscene

When you're in you're in

Ah it's so sweet I'm poolside at my country club

I yi have somebody's love

I get drunk with out a drink

So filled up I forget to eat

Kilimanjaro is not too steep

There are no red lights they all green green green

When you're in you're in

Girls you know what I mean

When you're in you're in

Boys you know what I mean

When you're in you're in

Ah it's so sweet I belong to an exclusive club

I yi have somebody's love

And I like it

When you're in you're in

Ya know what I mean

When you're in you're in

Stay on the scene

When you're in you're in

Like James Brown's machine

Drop the bomb

pull the plug

Operate on the power of love

 

LAURA'S PLASTIC SWORDS

Take the straight one painted blue

It's in her shoe

And the white one curved to fight one

It's not blue

From her socks an ultimatum

Hold his ears back of she'll hate 'em

Little green swords to castrate him

Little plastic weapons for her to get her guy

He's aware and so are you they couldn't hurt a fly

How many she got? she got a hundred score

She tell him you're a pea brain get off the mountain floor

Unknown to thee, bring it home to me

At your workshop bench there's a pear

See you there

Feed the tarnished underbuckle

Round her neck

Laden with a buzzard dingo

What the heck

From her grassroots came the signal

Take your goat off and we'll mingle

That sure gave his dogs a tingle

Worthy thursty thumb bits lying on a plate

Humpty thumpty trumpets announcing Laura's fate

Loose all her knives just dump 'em in the brine

Goodbye to plastic they're in the turpentine

Unsold to thee offer gold to me

In a Borneo pizza joint

Get the point?

 

CASA DEL SOL

I'm at the Mexican joint

Down at the corner

Reading the Sunday Times

Why try to describe it, I'm just trying to survive it

Waitress please another bee

Here comes that same ole loneliness

Sneakin up on me again

Simple plain ole loneliness

But I would not know a friend if I could find one

Would not know a friend

In the next booth is a rock & roll band

It's written on their shirts

They're playin all the worst songs on the jukebox

And talkin'bout the guitar parts

Here comes that same ole loneliness

Sneakin up on me again

Simple plain ole loneliness

But I would not know a friend if I could find one

Would not know a friend

Seems like everything's been stolen

lost or can't been found

Hope took a little vacation

and charity's not around

Here comes that same ole loneliness

Sneakin up on me again

Simple plain ole loneliness

But I would not know a friend if I could find one

Would not know a friend

 

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