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Rubber Soul Train

by The Invertebrates

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1.
Molten Blobs Of Cheddar Guess that fryin'll be the death of me At least that's what they say, but nothing pleases like that hot grilled cheese It's got everything you want it bleed When it comes oozin' like a well-oiled train it better make tracks for some mouth, or we'll have molten blobs of cheddar on our chins, and all our vices will come out REFRAIN: Cheddar, I love that cheese [4X] Everybody has some secret sin, or so some people say Whenever they come over visiting you never know which closets they've been When they come oozin' like a well-oiled train we'd better make tracks for the door, or we'll have molten blobs of cheddar on our chins, and wonder what are secrets for REFRAIN
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Love & Ecstasy There was a time I thought I'd never find nobody to share my wakin' thoughts liven up my dreams But now I've given up on all tomorrows I find today's enough to move me down the stream REFRAIN: I just got to tell you what you're lovin' means to me Oh, I never realized how sweet a love could be (that it could set me free) Oh, I'm not the same tonight as the one you've seen Oh, I just got to tell you 'bout all my love and my ecstasy Now every day's the beach beside your body You occupy my thoughts and share this bed with me If only everyone could know this beauty then surely peace would reign in silence utterly REFRAIN REFRAIN
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Dambala 05:47
Dambala Here come the loa [repeats] REFRAIN: Damballa, the good serpent of the sky [2X] Of the world before these troubles began He comes like a snake, and dives in the sea, but then he rise, the source of all wisdom REFRAIN Aida the rainbow arches 'cross the sky World inside a mirror, immortal reflections fly A-a-a-aida, A-a-a-aida REFRAIN He comes like a snake, arched in the path that the sun travels across the sky He is in love with the rainbow, and he can fly He is the maker of these waters, of these heavens which he dominates, and of the springs and of the rivers which his water nourishes REFRAIN Of the world after these troubles are gone Dive in the water Back of the mirror [4X]
4.
The Ballad of Socrates This is a song about Socrates A man who asked a lot of questions He didn't care about the deities or the politics of indiscretion He just sat back and drank the poison He had an interest in Philosophy but all he brought to it were questions Could he be the only one to see that all the answers are reflections[just questions]? The answer of the State was poison Boys of Athens, gathered round his feet, with whom he traded tricky questions they didn't learn to hate the liberty that so frightens politicians They had to watch their friend drink poison The moral of this story is: Don't ask a lot of questions It's too annoying to society if you ask too many questions Unless you dare to drink the poison
5.
500 Guns Well, I almost killed a man the other day I caught him trying to break into my apartment Turned out to be my landlord with something about the health department "Well, I'm tired of this shit," I said "You fuckers are always out for blood I think I'll call me a little rent action" But he just smiled at me and he said, "Go right ahead, son, 'cause I own the Sheriff and he'll be here with a gun to put you out on the street" But was I scared? No, not at all REFRAIN: Five hundred guns could not convince me, make me change or go away Five hundred guns could not dissuade me from the way I feel today Well, sure enough, on the very next day I went down to answer my door, and there was the Sheriff and he had a pistol pointed straight at my heart, and he had two deputies with him and they had rifles pointed at me, and out in the street there were National Guardsmen with bazookas and an M-1 tank and an F-111 Skyhawk and a naval destroyer and it looked just like World War Three But was I scared? No, not at all REFRAIN [2X]
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The People 04:12
The People They tell you that your different from the day your born and then they come to wonder why you treat their world with scorn They never seem to notice the fingers on their feet They think that evolution is impossible to beat REFRAIN: But they're not alright when they're not at home and they're so uptight when they're on their own (when their cover's blown) They never seem to stumble even when they fall They're neither proud nor humble when they're either big or small You ask them what they worship, you bribe them with the truth The answer's disappointing and impossible to prove u that you're different from the day you're born and then they come to wonder why you treat their world with scorn They never seem to notice the fingers on their feet They think that evolution is impossible to beat REFRAIN: But they're not alright when they're not at home and they're so uptight when they're on their own (when their cover's blown) They never seem to stumble even when they fall They're neither proud nor humble when they're either big or small You ask them what they worship, you bribe them with the truth The answer's disappointing and impossible to prove REFRAIN REFRAIN
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Set It Free 03:55
Set It Free It's the closing dispensation, a time of karmic reparation and the sickle's gonna spray those seeds away For whatever it is worth you owe it to your birth, taking up the timelines without fear And your body's in the web with the living and the dead and the salmon knows the way only too clear You gotta jump like hell into the torrent's mighty swell to a higher place to spawn those new ideas Well, you're living for the wild or you're slaving for the deathdealers Give the day to the child or throw away the years Pick up the incantation for a living destination Redefine the situation Save the trees (4X) No, no poison food, your DNA trick and sway ain't my way No technocrack hoodoo, I'll choose my medicine Mother Nature does it best, does it (2X), Mother Nature does it best My body belongs to me Play your sound when it goes down, round and round, round and round (2X) Think about it (7X) Set it free (2X)
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Nourishment 05:48
Nourishment A picture grows upon the wall, telling tales of giants while seasons march right through it all, inconquerably quiet There bellies burst with berries from the first most festive feast of Spring There Summer burns with vital force, and War and Love make fitting kings while Autumn's judgement sits in courts whose sentences the harvest brings and Winter prisons freeze and crack like sharp reports of armed attack and all the dreams of painters die each time one flower blooms again It's fine enough for gods to cry when you and I need watering to tell our tales of giants [4X]
9.
Alchemystery 04:20
Alchemystery On the violet verge of paradise a shining snake from the lion flies and finds refuge in the eagle's nest and with her eggs is thrice thrice-blest and with her eggs is thrice thrice-blest And there their hearts the worm entwines The fire of bliss shoots up their spines and down the eagle, now a dove descends ablaze in fluid love descends ablaze in fluid love The kiss of Nu, the point of Had O Ra Hoor Khu, unveiling god if it be pleasing to thine eye let us that wine of joy imbibe let us that wine of joy imbibe
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One Good Reason My daddy shot hisself to death though he didn't have a reason No, he didn't have one good reason left Now that lead has cleared his head He's found some peace at last and yet he never asked me what I thought, an' he never tried to tell me 'bout the demons that he fought He never spied those tears I cried, the tears that he would never shed My momma worked herself to death though she didn't have a reason No, she didn't have one good reason left Now her grave has freed a slave She's found some peace at last and yet she cain't be happy with the rest 'cause she never took a day off, an' she always did her best t' keep us fed and tucked in bed Right now she's trimming God's split ends My baby drank herself to death though she didn't have a reason No, she didn't have one good reason left Now the booze has cured her blues She's found some peace at last and yet I know we'll never meet again 'less in another lifetime we can recognize old friends But if that's so, well, I just don't know if I would love her once again
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Epic Theater 04:02
Epic Theater In this theater everyone is allowed to state an opinion In this theater actors give a lot of the directions Everything is given a trial Mr. K is asked to insert an occasional grunt in this theater In this theater directors often try their hands at acting Everywhere you look something's being born or just reacting Mr. K looks up with a smile Every pain lasts only a while in this theater
13.
Son Of A Bitch's Brew (The Emancipation Of America) You had to be tough to make it across in the first place crammed in the hot as hell hold and you hadn't even heard of hell yet but if you made it across there'd be someone with a cross to tell you all about hell and eventually it came through "Oh right, hell! I've already been there!" You had to be tough to drink that bitter water and taste those bloody whips you learned to watch and listen and you worked and you worked and into the spaces between being treated like an animal and being treated like an object you packed in all of the humanity which slavery can never repress Your liberation had so much to offer but then fear, and hate and greed, and pride and the will to power sang such a mighty chorus in the ears of rich white folk of all faiths and factions and pretty soon they were singing along to lynchings where there could have been learning and color bars where there should have been land grants and no amount of your striving was ever allowed far beyond mere surviving So how is it that you have overcome? For you have overcome You have overcome to the center to the core, to the marrow You are now the masters and only you can teach us the way to go forward You had to be tough to make it at all in the concrete hall of the disintegrating urban sprawl that leapt out of a world unimagined by your friends or even your greatest ofay No government conspiracy to flood your neighborhoods with crack no evil doctors engineering plagues to depopulate your future no liquor stores on every corner can compare to the devastation you found when you finally won through to the center to the very heart and soul of America and found them broken and lost Perhaps you can redeem this festering miasma repaying injustice with your morality and brutality with your excellence Perhaps you can explain why the euromans should be happy with the lonely, frightened, ugly, dying empire which they have themselves created Perhaps you can invent a rhythm to rap it into my skull over and over, until the beat becomes my reason for living and the voice of the turtle is heard in some imagined land but not in this land with its jury of housewives of every donahue its judges going off like buchanans its just desserts a humble pie served cold and stale, and without a seat at the counter How can you be blamed for shaking your head? How can you be denied the few small snorts of laughter? Why should you pick up the pieces? Why should you save our ass? I don't know, but only you can You had to be tough because we demanded it Now you are the toughest we have and you have earned the right to grasp America and remold it to your will That is what our posterity will call "The Emancipation of America"
14.
Empty-Headed Athenians This is a song about Socrates A man who asked a lot of questions He didn't care about the deities or the politics of indiscretion He just sat back and drank the poison He had an interest in Philosophy but all he brought to it were questions Could he be the only one to see that all the answers are reflections[just questions]? The answer of the State was poison Boys of Athens, gathered round his feet, with whom he traded tricky questions they didn't learn to hate the liberty that so frightens politicians They had to watch their friend drink poison The moral of this story is: Don't ask a lot of questions It's too annoying to society if you ask too many questions Unless you dare to drink the poison
15.
Rubber Soul Train It's a crazy world where you can watch your children starve while other children watch your children on TV And it's a greasy pole that every monkey wants to climb when it's the time for every monkey to compete But if you'll take a look into your history book you will find that everybody must agree We aren't the captains of this ship and any wave might make us flip into the abyss at the bottom of the sea Get on board the rubber soul train (4x) There's no mystery here about just who is in control 'cause rubber soul can rail a road without no tracks And where we're going to is where we've been before although we're never gonna double back A train that keeps on rolling till the end of time is something you might call the Moebius Express It's like a bird keeps flying when all the air is gone never noticing it's nowhere that it gets But if you'll send a spy into the universal mind you will find what everybody must forget We aren't the rulers of our fate and any time we might be late for dates we never can remember having set Get on board the rubber soul train (8x)
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A Life Without F Is A Lie Some dead people have been selected by fate for a very different kind of eternity Tlaloc has made his mark on you if you have been drowned or struck by lightning or died of disease brought about by water Could it be dropsy? It must be dropsy Here in the tropics, green, flowers, and warm rain Not like the corpses devoured by steppes of the north in cold twilight country covered with bones masked by spiders Hoot owl in Mexico Could it be dropsy? It must be dropsy

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released April 8, 2013

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