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Monkey's Paw

by Lurking About

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On the riverbank wrapped in plastic she's dead Enter the agent with thoughts of Tibet in his head He sees a little man dancing in a red room, an aging agent, and a girl revealing her doom Is this real or is it a dream? Look close, 'cause the owls are not what they seem Cousin lookalike must be one of the damned Because she can the parasite with stringy grey strands on his head Giant hovers over perforated agent who bleeds Offers a triple revelation and hopes he believes Is this real or is it a dream? Look close, 'cause the owls are not what they seem Fire walk with me Dream souls walk, wander far away, one has gone astray Searching all around town for the man with one arm He's got a parasite but not the one causing the harm Now the giant says it is happening again On the riverbank wrapped in plastic she's dead again Is this real or is it a dream? Look close, 'cause the owls are not what they seem Fire walk with me Daddy's dead, hit his head, just blame Bob credits
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[lyrics pending]
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I could hear the widow hiss Beckoning from overhead I, the fly, could not resist When the widow spun her web Forward first, going round and around and around and around Then in reverse, back around and around and around and around That was the worst, going round and around and around for second time Going round and around and around for second time The tarantula was old And no threat, or so I thought I stepped into his parlour boldly And in no time I was caught Spinning me all around and around and around and around Then shaking me up and down up and down up and down up and down He said to me: Come around come around come around here again if you dare This isn't the amusement I imagined I would find In the future I'm refusing to ride Inside out upon the ground You go on and have your fun I just want to go lie down And regain equilibrium I see the trees going round and around and around and around It seems to me going round and around and around and around's my destiny, going round and around and around to the spiders' delight Going round and around and around to the spiders' delight
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Sickened by the sight of the site where I sit all day Sad to see what used be sanity go away Tired of the screen of green emptying out my brain Sorry to discover that tomorrow is the same There has got to be a better way Than living this identical day Over and over again until I'm dead inside It's contagious, it's been there for ages, it's the air It's the lair of the Albino Pear, get out of there! It you don't you could end up that way Living in an identical day Over and over again until the day you die. I'm up to my knees in corpses of trees Buried by reams of rectangle leaves There's an oasis, chase it, it fades This place erases you till you're Faceless, tasteless, shapeless, shapeless, tasteless, faceless, fade Living Insincerity's too near I grab his throat I squeeze and squeeze until his eyes pop out and explode He should have known that I'd react that way He created this identical day Now I feel better, should have done that long ago
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[lyrics pending]
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[instrumental]

about

Items resurrected from cassettes made during the Lurking About epoch...but probably best left dead and buried...

Includes:
- Some old songs that rocked a little more than the originals:
[Spiders, Just Blame Bob]
- Some songs that were never recorded in the studio:
[Sunshowers (Evan sez: 'Yeah, so, the backing vocals are way off key. What of it?'), Identical Day, Very Liked Ike]
- Some favorite covers:
[Road Runner, Einstein's Day]. The interruption in the latter was the result of the person recording the radio show having to get up and flip the cassette...
- And an unfinished song from a latter day rehearsal:
[Ice Cold Brewski]

credits

released June 1, 2021

Tracks 1-5 recorded live on WBRS, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Track 6 recorded live on 'On The Town With Mikey Dee', WMFO, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
Thanks to whoever it was who took the time to record the radio shows.

Guitar, voice - Dan Jordan
Bass, voice - Evan Mulligan
Drums, occasional voice - Chris Jackson

All songs by Jackson/Jordan/Mulligan, except:
'Spiders', by Gaudette/Jordan/Mulligan;
'The Road Runner Show Theme', by Barbara Cameron;
'Einstein's Day', by Roger Miller.

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Lurking About Boston, Massachusetts

A band, from Boston, early '90's.

Dan Jordan, guitar and vox.
Evan Mulligan, bass and vox.
Chris Jackson, drums and vox.

(James Gaudette, drums for the first year.)
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