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Music for the Head
(2:42)
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Jupiter Island
(6:12)
Jupiter Island is full of pleasures Glowing gardens holding hidden treasures Luminous flowers of yellows and greens Glittering petals that have to be seen Here's your chance don't let it pass you by Take my hand and we'll fly
Jupiter Island is surrounded by oceans Majestic ballerinas with graceful motions Magenta forests on a crimson sea The electric clouds ar as vivid as can be Scarlet moons in a domino sky Take my hand and we'll fly
Come on let's fly to Jupiter Island Just take my hand and we'll fly
Jupiter Island is full of mountains Ruby rivers and sapphire fountains Chessboard lawns bible black and white The pink and blue trees are incredibly bright An orange sunset painted on the sky Take my hand and we'll fly
Jupiter Island is full of people But you can't see them unless you want to Lying in the hay on a hot sunny day Everyone's happy so no-one's gay Laughter from the children dances way on high Take my hand and we'll fly
Jupiter Island is full of meadows Fertile pastures for growing rainbows Illuminated portraits from strange orchestrations Lost in a collage of its own creations Never a chance to wave goodbye Take my hand and we'll fly
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Third Eye Surfer
(2:50)
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On the Sunday of Life
(2:07)
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The Nostalgia Factory
(7:28)
A Caterpillar crawled to me one day and said "Oh what the hell goes on inside your swollen head? I don't believe that you can see as much as I Now close your eyes and tell me what do you say?"
"I watched nine cats dance on the moon A flamingo stalked into my room It bowed its head to me and knelt To reveal the cards it had dealt An ace, three jacks, two queens, four kings Then turned them into burning rings The flames jumped out and chased four mice Caught by their tails they turned to ice
A cloud appeared outside my door And through the window saw four more And on the back of each cloud sat Two rainbow smiles in wizard's hats They threw five clocks down on my bed The chimes danced out on golden threads And turned to footprints on my wall Sequined tears began to fall"
The caterpillar gasped at me and said "My god if that's what's going on inside your head You can see so much more than I I think it's time to turn into a butterfly."
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Space Transmission
(2:59)
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Message from a Self Destructing Turnip
(0:27)
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Radioactive Toy
(10:00)
Run through forests on a hot Summer day Trying to break down walls of numbing pain
Give me the freedom to destroy Give me radioactive toy
Taste the water from a stream of running death Eat the apple and cough a dying breath
Feel the sun burning through your black skin Pour me into a hole, inform my next of kin
Run through graveyards on a dusty Winter day Spit the dirt out and try to say...
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Nine Cats
(3:53)
The butterfly sailed on the breeze Past a field of barbed wire trees Where golden dragons chased around Pampered poppies on the ground Two silver trout sat way on high And watched a royal samurai Plant two black orchids in a box And strap it to a laughing fox A minstrel bought a crooked spoon He gave it to a blue baboon Who filled it full of virgin snow And watched it in the afterglow
Fat toad stood in his ballet shoes Teaching sixteen kangaroos How to skip across a lake They found it hard to stay awake A pharaoh played a merry tune And watched nine cats dance on the moon I didn't know what all this meant I didn't know why I'd been sent.
The Insignificance version of Nine Cats has the following additional verse at the end:
I threw 5 clocks down on my bed The chimes danced out on golden threads And turned to footprints on my wall Sequined tears began to fall
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Hymn
(1:14)
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Footprints
(5:56)
I saw her footprints on the sea I knew her eyes were watching me So I ventured further in my mind In the hope that I would find:
"Tangerine Trees and Marmalade Skies and Plasticine Porters with Looking Glass Ties"
My mind had formed a mental prison I cried aloud no-one would listen Then floating through the heavy mist My vision took a sudden twist
Empty people stood in grey Children laughing far away An empty courtyard wept alone Rain lashed down on darkened stone
A crystal glove points to the door A threshold I had crossed before On turning back all I could see Were her footprints on the sea.
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Linton Samuel Dawson
(3:04)
Linton Samuel Dawson Lives in inner space He hangs around with a circus troupe Outside the human race
Linton Samuel Dawson Has just reached 25 Artists travel from outside time Just to see his rainbow jive
He's bored, He's bored.
Linton Samuel Dawson Yields his knowledge in a phial A vivid play on an emerald day I s experienced in his smile
Linton Samuel Dawson Visits many open minds He aids escape to tranquility From the boredom of mankind
Boredom. From the boredom. From the boredom of mankind.
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And the Swallows Dance Above the Sun
(4:05)
I'm sitting in the concrete I'm listening for a heartbeat I'm sitting in the painting I promised I'd be waiting I'm sitting in the window I'm listening to the wind blow I'm sitting in an hour glass I'm waiting for the march past
I'm sitting in the doorway I'm wishing for a new day I'm choking in the landscape I'm cutting through the red tape I'm sitting in the concrete I'm listening for a heartbeat
And the joke has crossed the line And the final word is mine And the mist has touched the wood And the words are understood And the sand has drifted high And the blind man gave a cry And the swallows dance above the sun And the swallows dance above the sun Yeah
I'm sitting on the ceiling I had to know the feeling I'm sitting in the shelter I'm going down helter skelter I'm sitting in the concrete I'm listening for a heartbeat
Every time I turn around There's another face watching me Every time I turn around There's another voice calling me Every time I turn around There's another fool reading me Every time I turn around There's another silence drowning me
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Queen Quotes Crowley
(3:48)
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No Luck With Rabbits
(0:46)
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Begonia Seduction Scene
(2:14)
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This Long Silence
(5:05)
A systematic killer Returning from Madrid Murdered Mozart in his garden Mussolini ran and hid He was chosen by his elders Sitting on the shelf They passed his heart to Satan Who showered them with wealth
A Purple Haze crawled on the lawn Where lonely angels played And Shakespeare wrote of Vietnam While a president decayed Hollow laughter from below Cracked the sky in two As Manson dance inside the flames And the yellow changed to blue
Swinging from a length of rope Ruth Ellis blew a kiss Merlin spoke to Norma Jean And granted her a wish Mark Chapman stared at fantasy Bare wires burned his brain As Sergeant Pepper led the band Playing through the rain
The third eye on the surface Opens up my mind Twin visions in production This long silence you will find
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It Will Rain for a Million Years
(10:51)
I locked myself inside the capsule And watched the planet slowly turning blue The lights before me flashed and sparkled Holding keys to lives I've wandred through Circuits buzzing, visions passing Mysterious and cold upon the screen Glowing, flowing with the currents Yet never knowing where I've really been
The floating seeds of timeless travel Come to rest in planes that don't exist Visiting worlds of crystal beauty Offering dreams so very hard to resist I've seen the past, I've seen the future Beyond dimension and into empty space Finding questions, never answers living time behind another face
Mostly compiled from two prior cassette releases "Tarquin's Seaweed Farm" (1989) and "The Nostalgia Factory" (1990). CD reissued in repackaged and remastered form in November 1997, and then again as a digipack in September 2004. Also issued on 2LP.
-
Music for the Head
(2:42)
-
Jupiter Island
(6:12)
Jupiter Island is full of pleasures Glowing gardens holding hidden treasures Luminous flowers of yellows and greens Glittering petals that have to be seen Here's your chance don't let it pass you by Take my hand and we'll fly
Jupiter Island is surrounded by oceans Majestic ballerinas with graceful motions Magenta forests on a crimson sea The electric clouds ar as vivid as can be Scarlet moons in a domino sky Take my hand and we'll fly
Come on let's fly to Jupiter Island Just take my hand and we'll fly
Jupiter Island is full of mountains Ruby rivers and sapphire fountains Chessboard lawns bible black and white The pink and blue trees are incredibly bright An orange sunset painted on the sky Take my hand and we'll fly
Jupiter Island is full of people But you can't see them unless you want to Lying in the hay on a hot sunny day Everyone's happy so no-one's gay Laughter from the children dances way on high Take my hand and we'll fly
Jupiter Island is full of meadows Fertile pastures for growing rainbows Illuminated portraits from strange orchestrations Lost in a collage of its own creations Never a chance to wave goodbye Take my hand and we'll fly
-
Third Eye Surfer
(2:50)
-
On the Sunday of Life
(2:07)
-
The Nostalgia Factory
(7:28)
A Caterpillar crawled to me one day and said "Oh what the hell goes on inside your swollen head? I don't believe that you can see as much as I Now close your eyes and tell me what do you say?"
"I watched nine cats dance on the moon A flamingo stalked into my room It bowed its head to me and knelt To reveal the cards it had dealt An ace, three jacks, two queens, four kings Then turned them into burning rings The flames jumped out and chased four mice Caught by their tails they turned to ice
A cloud appeared outside my door And through the window saw four more And on the back of each cloud sat Two rainbow smiles in wizard's hats They threw five clocks down on my bed The chimes danced out on golden threads And turned to footprints on my wall Sequined tears began to fall"
The caterpillar gasped at me and said "My god if that's what's going on inside your head You can see so much more than I I think it's time to turn into a butterfly."
-
Space Transmission
(2:59)
-
Message from a Self-Destructing Turnip
(0:27)
-
Radioactive Toy
(10:00)
Run through forests on a hot Summer day Trying to break down walls of numbing pain
Give me the freedom to destroy Give me radioactive toy
Taste the water from a stream of running death Eat the apple and cough a dying breath
Feel the sun burning through your black skin Pour me into a hole, inform my next of kin
Run through graveyards on a dusty Winter day Spit the dirt out and try to say&
-
Nine Cats
(3:53)
The butterfly sailed on the breeze Past a field of barbed wire trees Where golden dragons chased around Pampered poppies on the ground Two silver trout sat way on high And watched a royal samurai Plant two black orchids in a box And strap it to a laughing fox A minstrel bought a crooked spoon He gave it to a blue baboon Who filled it full of virgin snow And watched it in the afterglow
Fat toad stood in his ballet shoes Teaching sixteen kangaroos How to skip across a lake They found it hard to stay awake A pharaoh played a merry tune And watched nine cats dance on the moon I didn't know what all this meant I didn't know why I'd been sent.
The Insignificance version of Nine Cats has the following additional verse at the end:
I threw 5 clocks down on my bed The chimes danced out on golden threads And turned to footprints on my wall Sequined tears began to fall
-
Hymn
(1:14)
-
Footprints
(5:56)
I saw her footprints on the sea I knew her eyes were watching me So I ventured further in my mind In the hope that I would find:
"Tangerine Trees and Marmalade Skies and Plasticine Porters with Looking Glass Ties"
My mind had formed a mental prison I cried aloud no-one would listen Then floating through the heavy mist My vision took a sudden twist
Empty people stood in grey Children laughing far away An empty courtyard wept alone Rain lashed down on darkened stone
A crystal glove points to the door A threshold I had crossed before On turning back all I could see Were her footprints on the sea.
-
Linton Samuel Dawson
(3:04)
Linton Samuel Dawson Lives in inner space He hangs around with a circus troupe Outside the human race
Linton Samuel Dawson Has just reached 25 Artists travel from outside time Just to see his rainbow jive
He's bored, He's bored.
Linton Samuel Dawson Yields his knowledge in a phial A vivid play on an emerald day I s experienced in his smile
Linton Samuel Dawson Visits many open minds He aids escape to tranquility From the boredom of mankind
Boredom. From the boredom. From the boredom of mankind.
-
And the Swallows Dance Above the Sun
(4:05)
I'm sitting in the concrete I'm listening for a heartbeat I'm sitting in the painting I promised I'd be waiting I'm sitting in the window I'm listening to the wind blow I'm sitting in an hour glass I'm waiting for the march past
I'm sitting in the doorway I'm wishing for a new day I'm choking in the landscape I'm cutting through the red tape I'm sitting in the concrete I'm listening for a heartbeat
And the joke has crossed the line And the final word is mine And the mist has touched the wood And the words are understood And the sand has drifted high And the blind man gave a cry And the swallows dance above the sun And the swallows dance above the sun Yeah
I'm sitting on the ceiling I had to know the feeling I'm sitting in the shelter I'm going down helter skelter I'm sitting in the concrete I'm listening for a heartbeat
Every time I turn around There's another face watching me Every time I turn around There's another voice calling me Every time I turn around There's another fool reading me Every time I turn around There's another silence drowning me
-
Queen Quotes Crowley
(3:48)
-
No Luck With Rabbits
(0:46)
-
Begonia Seduction Scene
(2:14)
-
This Long Silence
(5:05)
A systematic killer Returning from Madrid Murdered Mozart in his garden Mussolini ran and hid He was chosen by his elders Sitting on the shelf They passed his heart to Satan Who showered them with wealth
A Purple Haze crawled on the lawn Where lonely angels played And Shakespeare wrote of Vietnam While a president decayed Hollow laughter from below Cracked the sky in two As Manson dance inside the flames And the yellow changed to blue
Swinging from a length of rope Ruth Ellis blew a kiss Merlin spoke to Norma Jean And granted her a wish Mark Chapman stared at fantasy Bare wires burned his brain As Sergeant Pepper led the band Playing through the rain
The third eye on the surface Opens up my mind Twin visions in production This long silence you will find
-
It Will Rain for a Million Years
(10:51)
I locked myself inside the capsule And watched the planet slowly turning blue The lights before me flashed and sparkled Holding keys to lives I've wandred through Circuits buzzing, visions passing Mysterious and cold upon the screen Glowing, flowing with the currents Yet never knowing where I've really been
The floating seeds of timeless travel Come to rest in planes that don't exist Visiting worlds of crystal beauty Offering dreams so very hard to resist I've seen the past, I've seen the future Beyond dimension and into empty space Finding questions, never answers living time behind another face
