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Haikus - Part 1
02:17
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What's Best...?
04:06
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Fun Without Trouble
01:54
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I want a beer that won’t go flat, make me hungover or get me fat
I want fun, but without the trouble
I want the slide without the climb, the loot without the crime
I want fun, but without the trouble
I don’t want a fancy job, just the salary
The tasty food but not the calories
And to go like curt cobain but without the fatality
I want the good stuff but not it’s trouble
I want my outfit to be cool but completely practical
Cos I want fun but without the trouble
The face-lift without the surgery, the acquittal without the perjury
I want the fun but without the trouble
I want to be a fitter person but without all the exertion
Play a cracking gig without any rehearsing
And if I have to choose I never loose and end up cursing
I just want fun, but without the trouble
I want every door half open, every ‘what if’ to be spoken
I want fun but without the trouble
To be together but apart, with every girl that crossed my heart
I want fun but without the trouble
Drift in endless dreams of party time distractions
Have a laugh and go down every path to new attractions
And be exempt from any consequences of my actions
I want fun but without the trouble.
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Destination Planet X
02:15
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It’s destination Planet X
where everybody just has sex,
where it’s all fun that’s just begun,
and there’s no guilt and no regrets!
It’s destination Shangri-La
where no joke ever goes too far,
and everyone’s a movie star
playing Beatles’ songs on Gretsch guitar!
We’re gonna hang where porn stars bang
where beer is cold and no one’s old.
Where nothing has no consequences
its all cool – and there’s no fences…
It’s destination El Dorado
where I just nob Nelly Furtardo
in the pink and in the stink
with chicks with dicks and Brigitte Bardot!
It’s destination masturbation
where life is one big long vacation;
where freedom is just free for me
and selfishness is liberty.
We’re gonna chill with time to kill,
where there’s no pain and there’s no blame
and there’s no war and no one’s poor
and all of the people is really equal.
It’s destination Planet X
where everybody just has sex,
where it’s all fun that’s just begun,
and there’s no guilt and no regrets!
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Marry Money
02:19
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Your meditation’s much too transcendental,
your quest for happiness too existential.
If you’re seeking meaning in existence
first you need some financial assistance!….
If you ever want to be happy, you’ve just got to know one thing:
find some dunce that’s loaded, and get them to wear your ring!
Marry money child of mine and the rest is a turkey shoot,
just mouth those vows and then your spouse will have to part with loot….
…now I’m going to tell you about Aunty Mary….
Aunty Mary she was prone to serial bed-hopping.
If you saw the things she did your eyeballs would be popping!
For a lovely pair of shoes her draws would soon be dropping,
she doesn’t love her husband….BUT SHE SURE DOES LOVE THE SHOPPING!
So marry money child of mine and the rest is a piece of cake.
(Once that home is half your own you don’t need no career break)
and have some lazy selfish kids that do less work than bums on skids
and make it clear they’ve got no brains by giving them real dopey names…
…(like Harper Seven?)
…next I’m going to tell you about Uncle Fred…
Uncle Fred was prone to wed cunning little schemers,
once he walked em up the aisle they took him to the cleaners!
He was working day and night until he looked beat up,
now he takes it up the flue but he can put his feet up!
So marry money child of mine and the rest is a Sunday stroll,
you get more cash than those who work and you live like you’re on the dole.
So make that fund your husband and make that home your wife.
Get married…
…and then get divorced…
...and then get on with your life!
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7. |
Passing Through
07:41
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Haikus - Part 2
03:18
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We Came From the Seas
04:58
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(bloop bloop)
We came from the seas.
We climbed from the trees,
and it was so neat – we stood on two feet
looked at the stars and scratched our fleas…
We made us some tools,
laid down a few rules
about how to behave, then we walked from the cave
where we’d painted on the walls…
A few centuries later
things could not be greater.
We made civilisation, took a vacation
we even flew to some lunar crater.
From appalling barbarity
to enlightenment clarity;
from the swamp to pomp and circumstance
rationality!
I attend to my grooming.
Progress is consuming.
I heard somebody say there’s a crash on the way
and disaster is looming…HA!
The opera’s divine my dear,
the ballet is sublime my dear,
but let’s me and you take a trip to the zoo
this time my dear…
And so as we strolled,
what did we behold?
But such funny creatures…peculiar features
my – how we have evolved!
They have no civility.
They have no nobility,
they just mindlessly breed,
should they not be freed from their captivity?
What astonishing things we’ve done!
What problems we’ve overcome
since the day we made our way from the seas…
…So why the shadows?…
…still the shadows…
in the corners of my mind?
…those maddening saddening echoes
of what I thought was far behind…
We came from the seas.
We climbed from the trees.
We crawled from the pit
on our hands and knees.
I am an amphibian.
I am a mammal,
the Green Man, a pagan…
…an animal
We made us a fire.
We built an empire.
We worshipped false gods,
and the buildings got higher…
We mapped the constellations,
made all of the animals tame,
did endless calculations,
and gave everything a name.
But I just want to swing among the trees,
and sit and scratch my fleas,
and dive back into the seas…
…from whence we came.
(bloop bloop)
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Sebastian Handley London, UK
All lyrics can be found here:
theblueanchor.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/the-complete-
lyrics/
All guitar chords can be found here:
theblueanchor.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/the-complete-chords-2/
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