Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) songs and poems.
Lyrics for today……….(changed occasionally)…….

Skeleton Makes Good

There’s so many things
to feel and see while you’re awake
they’re just out of reach
out of grasp
yeah out of reach
and just as many; maybe more
the minute that you sleep
so I got to throw my preach
skeleton breath
scorpion blush
I have a crush on your skeleton
watch out unsuspecting stranger
you’ll fall off the log
headfirst into dreams
end up screaming
this will comb the wolf
and that will comb the fog
what will peen the rain
what will preen the hog
oh you mean earth
and hell over you
and laugh at your tire tracks
if you get up
skeleton makes good.

Son Of Mirror Man – Mere Man

Mirror mirror mirror (repeat) mirror man mirror me(repeat)
mirror man mirror than mirror man follow the band
farther than you oh farther than me
mirror
mirror day mirror way mirror man mirror me
mirror man farther than mirror man mirror me
mirror man farther than
you’re a me and you’re a me and you’re a me……..
oh mirror man oh mirror man mirror me mirror me mirror me
(bop bee boo bop do-be-do)

Space-Age Couple

Space-age couple
Why don’t you flex your magic muscle?
Space-age couple
Why do you hex your magic muscle?
Space-age couple
Why do you hustle ‘n bustle?
Why don’t you drop your cool tom-foolery
‘n shed your nasty jewelry?
Cultivate the grounds
They’re the only ones around.
Space-age couple
Why don’t you flex your magic muscle?
Hold a drinking glass up t’ your eye after you’ve
Scooped up a little of the sky
‘n it ain’t blue no more.
What’s on the leaves ain’t dew no more.
Space-age couple
Why don’t you jus’ do that?
Why don’t you jus’ do that?

Steal Softly Thru Snow

The black paper between a mirror breaks my heart
The moon frayed thru dark velvet lightly apart
Steal softly thru sunshine
Steal softly thru snow
The wild goose flies from winter
Breaks my heart that I can’t go
Energy flys thru a field
‘n the sun softly melts a nothing wheel
Steal softly thru sunshine
Steal softly thru snow
The black paper between a mirror breaks my heart that I can’t go
The swan their feathers don’t grow
They’re spun
They live two hundred years of love
They’re one
Breaks my heart to see them cross the sun
Grain grows rainbows up straw hill
Breaks my heart to see the highway cross the hill
Man lived a million years ‘n still he kills
The black paper between a mirror
Breaks my heart that I can’t go
Steal softly thru sunshine
Steal softly thru snow

Sue Egypt

Chills quick you
Voices pick you
Crows hex you
[You love some?] post-’em avion
Wizard Kiss and all be gone
Scenes
Dreams
Boats to forever
Boated ether
Creep to ether feather
Sue Egypt
Sue Egypt
Boing pong
hocus pocus avion
I think of all those people that ride on my bones
I think of all of those people that ride on my bones
That nobody hears
That nobody sees that nobody knows
Sue Egypt
Sue Egypt
I think of all
I think of all
I think of all those people who ride on my bones
That nobody sees, that nobody dares
That nobody hears, that nobody cares
I think of the dust that collects on the chairs
and under her eyes
and through her eyes
and out her body
and in her body
and in her ha[ir/fa]ce
Big smoke fingers wave
Come here Come hear
“Bring me my scissors”
and those are waters [?]
The moon was a
wisdomatic
pristocratic
vagabond
Bad vuggum
a pitcher of red-hot juice
a picture of red garnet juice
Chills quick you
Voices pick you
Crows hex you
[Elects-some postem?] avion
Wizard Kiss and All Be Gone
Scenes
Dreams
Boats to forever
Boated ether
Creep the ether feather
Sue Egypt
Sue Egypt