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Many Happy Returns

by Brett Spivey

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1.
Jesus was a leprechaun dying on the cross Remembering his celtic roots Some place to hold my up lost Jesus was a leprechaun his name was Tiny Tom He tried to have a little fun But now my hands on my venus of lom Jesus was a leprechaun full of trickery But it went a bit too far Now they made a matter of me Jesus was a leprechaun with a twinkle in his eye Always smiling sweetly But I never expected to die
2.
I love you and 'cause I do My sky has changed From grey to blue But blue's not just A color of the rainbow It's shade is not a hazy hue But pure and hard My blue sky blue It's like a Roman candle Coming rosebuds Your words are empty hollow bleatings Of a mental crutch They're open-festered indigestion With a velvet touch An ether-eating Eskimo Would gag upon your sight Convulsed into oblivion From laughter or from fright A coma with a swee t aroma Is your only dream Malignant with the misconception That a grunt can gleam Your lichen-covered corpuscles Are filthy to my fist Infection is your finest flower Mildewed in the mist." I love you and 'cause I do My skies have changed From grey to blue But blue's not just a color Of the rainbow It's shade is not a hazy hue But pure and hard My blue sky blue It's like a Roman candle Coming rosebuds Blue rosebuds
3.
You care for plants and we care for you; You care for plants and we care for you. Upward to the sun we grow, Careful plants, be Careful plants.
4.
Easter Woman 01:12
Down, deep down, I'm down, down down, Down, deep down, I'm down, way down Easter woman came today, And took away my wife, Took her through an open doorway, To the afterlife.
5.
Living In Vain Just a watching the rain I want to get out But I just don't know how I used to have a girlfriend Gave me a Valentine Well first it made me nervous Then I think it made me fine Because I'm Living In Vain Just a watching the rain I want to get out But I just don't know how I used to have a grandma She always called me dear I never knew her purpose I only knew her atmosphere Because I'm Living In Vain Just a watching the rain I want to get out But I just don't know how
6.
Once I lived on a dead end street A little bitty woman with big ol' feet It was always dark, we was always poor The number outside was forty-four One day bad blood creeped in my mind Sucked on my soul and made me blind I thought she lied, so I opened the drawer Pulled out my bullets and my forty-four Forty-four, it was forty-four He couldn't stand that number no more Forty-four, it was forty-four Don't wanna hear that number no more I found her in the store with a preacher man Who laughed when she slapped the gun out of my hand A train went by as I ran out the door The number on the engine was forty-four I rode that train to New Orleans And took my tears to a voodoo queen I couldn't live like that no more It was my birthday, I was forty-four Forty-four, he was forty-four He couldn't stand that number no more Forty-four, he was forty-four Don't wanna hear that number no more Forty-four, he was forty-four He couldn't stand that number no more Forty-four, he was forty-four Don't wanna hear that number no more
7.
Come and see the holy twosome They can heal and they can do some Things that no one ever did before He really loved them, he really cared Silently I stood between them Holding up the crimson gleaming Circle with its ends not quite in line And then I lifted up the cover Softly like it was my lover And I felt them shudder as they sighed As I clamped the metal on it Something like a liquid donut Shimmered by the holy union side Then the people screamed and shouted As the donut grew and sprouted Little bitty dust balls made of fire And then these soon enough descended Down the lines that finally ended At the screams and unbelieving cries For soon the cripples would be walking And the dummies would be talking But no one knew exactly how or why
8.
Fever Dream 01:45
Ever have a fever dream I had a fever dream A real bad fever dream I hate fever dreams I was a ping pong ball A jet black ping pong ball Someone whacked the ping pong ball Another one whacked the ping pong ball Back and forth the ping pong ball Back and forth the ping pong ball Stuck in the air and I noticed that the pair of whacker, looked like me. Ever have a fever dream I had a fever dream A real bad fever dream It repeated like a fever dream It repeated like a fever dream It repeated like a fever dream I Hate Fever Dreams I Hate Fever Dreams I Hate Fever Dreams Except Ohh Sometimes Sometimes I love fever dreams
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Bring back reality Bring it back to you and me Bring back reality Leave it alone I dreamed I was living in a under sea That lived inside of me It said my friend your life will end But you might disagree You just might disagree Bring back reality Bring it back to you and me Bring back reality Leave it alone Leave it alone I asked the sea to answer me And this was his favorite lie There is no truth for people who Cannot afford to lie The cant afford to lie Bring back reality Bring it back to you and me Bring back reality Leave it alone Leave it alone

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I dedicate this album to Philip Charles Lithman and The Residents. Thank you all for being such a big inspiration in my musical life.

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released December 19, 2014

All songs (written by Snakefinger and the Residents) rewritten and deranged by Brett L. Spivey © 2014

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