Flight of the Sea Otter (King of the Firemen)

(This song was supposed to be on the album, and didn't make it ... but we really like it, so here are the lyrics.
It did make the live album ... so there.)

There is nothing you can tell me that you haven't told me
that I haven't told you I don't believe
Only when you say what you don't mean to say is the time
when you say something that I can conceive
All the stories that you tell you tell it all the stories
all seem far too fetched to actually be
I lie here thinking you don't think I think your lying
but I think the story most outrageous to me

Chorus:
(was the) Flight of the sea otter
Pause (Four feet!) above the water
Flight of the sea otter
Feet (four paws) above the water

The orphans they admire that you stopped that deadly fire
and the fireman made you their new king
You kept that trans-Atlantic ship from sinking in that whirlpool
and that's something I would like to have seen
How you won the spelling bee by spelling "bee" it seems
to me to be an unbelievable scene
When you found that Holy Grail and put it back and didn't tell
is almost, but not quite as obscene

Chorus

I don't think you think I know that you don't know I know that
you don't think I find you hard to believe
I can't believe you don't believe I don't believe you when I say
your stories are too hard to conceive
All the stories that you tell you tell it all the stories
all seem far too fetched to actually be
I lie here thinking you don't think I think your lying
but I think the story most outrageous to me

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Elephant Thoughts

(This isn't on the album, but I think there was eventually a recording ... can't remember whether live, or later demo, or both.)

It's so hard, to think important thoughts
When there's so many trivial things to think about

It's so hard, to think important thoughts
Cause thinking them thoughts tends to lead to important things

It's so hard, to do important things
Cause doin' important things means you got to do something

It's so hard, to do important things
Cause doin' important things requires important thoughts

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(Now here's the stuff that's actually on the album)

Say, What Gives?

Chorus
Yo, Bonehead
Say, what gives?

Well batten down the hatches cause here we go
and get ready sucker, you're in for a show
Got our ears pinned back as we barrel ahead
and we're drivin' like we got a foot of lead
Now don't mind us or the way we dance
even though we're funny lookin' at first glance
You never heard nothin' like this sound
but it's guaranteed to make your heart pound

Chorus

Well get up and dance you timid slugs
and wipe that drool stream off yours mugs
Don't care if you think you're a metal-head
no excuse for lying there like you was dead
Come on bonehead I'm not impressed
might as well stay home and not get dressed
Come on bonehead you're not so cool
as the rest of us dancin' round like fools

Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya,
ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya

Get up and dance get up, get up
said life's too short to not get up
Come on. . . . . .
Come on bonehead it's time to get up
Well I know we bounce around like psycho ducks
but we're always good for a couple of yuks
Welcome to the world of Noisepie
Feel free to stop by any time

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Funky Wanda

Funky Wanda, it's a wonder
if your under my spell cause I couldn't even tell if you're mine
Oh Funky Wanda, you're my Chimichanga
will it be any longer, you can't make me wonder my Wanda

Ad lib (variations on Wanda, hair that's blonda, drive a Honda, make me wonda', start to ponda' ...)

Oh my girlfriend, you got me off the deep end
but you just can't leave for another boyfriend
His name is Tony, lippin' like a macaroni*
but you know he's bony, ain't nothin but hony that Tony

More adlibness
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*Ever notice that kissing sounds like stirring macaroni and cheese?

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Best Giraffe

Well it's not the way you move dear (though it is so fine)
And it's not the way you smell
And it's not like you are six feet four (but your legs are long)
And it's probably just as well
Don't think me out of line, I'm comin' clean this time
If I didn't mean it then I mean it now
I'm alone here on the veldt dear (and it's so lonely)
But I'll get to you somehow

Chorus
'Cause you're just like the best giraffe (all alone on the veldt)
You're absence tears my heart in half (wish you knew how I felt)
I get so nervous I just laugh
'Cause you're just like the best giraffe

Your sublime, angelic nature (well it is so fine)
Keeps me hounding on your trail
Gotta mark my territory (cause I know what's mine)
The effort just justifies the fail (ure)
Don't think me out of line, I'm comin' clean this time
If I didn't mean it then I mean it now
I'm alone here on the veldt dear (and it's so lonely)
But I'll get to you somehow

Chorus

(tc's thing)
Just like a bona fide quadruped, a beauty so inviolate
and transcendental qualities I cannot quite elucidate
Change with the weather, the odor of leather
So intense that I can hardly keep it together
It isn't something that I got no recollection
Every animal knows you are an image of perfection
You da one, tain't no other
For the rest of the song I defer to my brother

(geoff's thing)
You're my favorite mammal see
but them long legs ain't for gathering leaves
I never seen nothing like you girl
You the finest beast in all the world
All I do is think about you
All I do is dream about you
Never seen nothin like youuuuu

Chorus

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Inchworm

Well I'm the lucky lover and besides me there's no other
Says I am the hepcat brother that you've been dreamin' of baby
Check me out and you will see there ain't no others hep like me
I like to call it self-aggrandizement baby
I will be your hero and I'd never be like Nero
just fiddlin' away as our Rome burned to the ground
I know you know my name, I'm not sure if you know my title
Did I mention? you can call me Inchworm

So what you gonna say baby, and what you gonna do
when you see that hip hop happenin' (looka lika loo?) . . . .
And where you gonna be baby so we can talk about me baby
Say baby, can I see you tomorrow?
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I start lovin' you tomorrow, you only one day a. . . .
Oh hi, so good to see ya, oh hi, so good to see ya
Did I mention? you can call me Inchworm

Sometimes I think about me and sometimes I dream about me
and I often talk about me, let's continue right now
Well I'm the lucky lover and besides me there's no other
Says I am the hepcat brother that you been dreamin' of
I could figure it out if I put in some more effort
but that would mean more effort so I won't figure it out
I know you know my name, I know you know my name
This weekend only, you can call me Inchworm

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Run

Hey man did you see that movie? Hey man did you see that show?
Hey man, you see that movie? What an episode
The good guy did what good guys do, the good guy he was a hero
The good guy did what good people do, filled his enemies full of holes

You know we worship carnage baby, you know we dig it on the screen
you know that we are violence junkies, jonesin' for more brutal scenes
You know we worship carnage baby, you know we always fills the seats
So first we fill our minds with violence, then wonder why it fills the streets

One of these kids is not like the others, one of these kids ain't so fun
one of these kids is not like the others, that's the kid with the gun
One of these kids is not like the others, one of these kids ain't so fun
one of these kids is packin' baby. . . . Everybody run

One of these kids is not like the others, one of these kids ain't so fun
I said, I said, Everybody Run

When you've seen it a thousand times, it's easy to repeat the crime
When you've seen it a thousand times, it's easy to repeat the crime
So one of these is just like the others, one of these kids is no different
One of these kids, he knows how to hurt you. . . . Everybody Run

So one of these kids is just like the others, one of these kids has watched and learned
I said, I said,
Everybody Run

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Throwing in the Towel

Ah, sit back, relax, take a load off
I'm throwin' in the towel with you baby

We've been playin' this game so long I've forgotten what we started for
been playin' this game so long with you baby
We've been playin' this game so long I've forgotten what we started for
been playin' this game so long with you baby

How you pass me by without lookin'? Ain't no girl pull that trick on me
said what's this power that you gots over me?
Well I knows you digs me I can feel it, still you manage to resist me,
what's this power that you gots over me?
What you thinkin' girl, what you think, I wish I knew the things you think
you've got no idea the power that you gots over me

Chorus
Baby, well the time has come,
for things to change around here girl 'cause the game is over, you have won
And maybe, maybe I'm the one
who could be the big winner here if I can get you to stick around with me girl

Oh the things you do, the things you say
you toss a look my way and I'm putty, I'm putty
Well it's no use I try my best, to play it cool, I'm a mess
you got know idea the power you got over me
What you thinkin' girl, what you think, I wish I knew the things you think
you've got no idea the power that you gots over me

Chorus

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Wiggly Worm

Everybody wiggle
Do the Wiggly Worm
Everybody wiggle
Wacko Wiggly Worm

Mama likes the Wiggly Worm
Dances all the time
Papa likes the Wiggly Worm
Always on his mind

Suzy likes the Wiggly Worm
She also likes Dave
One thing that she doesn't admit
Is the Wiggly Worm's her fave

Wiggle

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The Anger Song

I've been Aggravated
I been Inflamed
Infuriated
Really Enraged
And it looks to me like one of those days

I been Pissed Off and Ranting
Miffed and Upset
Antipathetic
Irate and Incensed
And it looks to me like one of those days

I've been green with envy, I've been white with fear
I've been blue from a broken heart
But the one thing now that looks pretty clear
Is I'm red with anger

I been Rabid and Raving
Vexed and Beset
Agitated and Seething
Acrimonious yet
And it looks to me like one of those days

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Noisepie

Here we come walkin' down your street,
we're the goofiest suckers you're ever gonna meet
when you hear our noise you're gonna say
that it feels like someone slapped you silly, ace
I'm not sayin' we'll make you hip,
but you ride with us and you're on a trip
I'll tell you now it's no disgrace,
when Noisepie hits you like a brick to the face

You never know what's comin' down your way,
(some gibberish)
We try to act cool but we're really squids,
but we're gonna try to fool ya like the others did
You can't understand a word I say,
but you're diggin' to the groovy groove anyway
Can't understand a word I say, you say:
What's that? What'd he say?

Look out below, look out below, look out below, it never stops
look out ‘cause it never stops
when Noisepie hits ya like a brick to the chops
You never know what's comin' down your way,
(more gibberish)
We try to act cool but we've got no clout,
but anyway; check this out

(Wow! what a solo section)

Watch out, . . . . .watch out, watch out man, I said duck
Or Noisepie'll run you over like a goose
You never know what's comin' down your way,
(more gibberish)
Only one thing left to say. . . .
(Is that guy feeling alright?)

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Ayayay

(Lots of la la's)
Said, whatsamatta you, ain't you got a brain?
I know you think you do but you're actin' so lame
Don't you ever listen what your mother says,
doesn't anything get through to your head?
Why you wanna go and act like this
when there's so much trouble that you could miss
On thing that you should know is
you're always gonna reap just what you sow

Chorus
You make me go: Ayayayayayayay

Hey little man what you tryin' to fight?
You don't even know but you're sure that you're right
Goin' against what you've always been taught,
you want to fight the truth but you had better not
Don't do somethin' that you're gonna regret
Do not make a mistake that you'll never forget
One thing that I have found;
what you send around, it comes back around

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Extra Mandy Lyrics

Mandy woulda done almost anything for ya
and all you got to show is your capacity to bore
with your TV on and your popcorn brain
and your shoes off -- black socks

It isn't any wonder you were driving her insane
so there you are
sitting in the airport
ha
dig it

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Blue Day

It's like, waking up in the morning, roll outta bed
oh man, I can't go on like this,
save it till tomorrow
I know I need to move on with my life, gonna save it till tomorrow

‘Cause it's Blue Day, blue day,
don't wanna move don't wanna think don't wanna do nothin'
but do nothin' but do nothin' but starin' at the ceiling
I know should move on, but man, it's blue day

My mother says I should move on with my life
gonna save that ‘till tomorrow

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