Mental
blocks for all ages
Click
on the songs title below to listen to them in RealAudio format
Recorded at ADM's Koeienverhuurbedrijf, Mai
1991 by Dolf
Punjabi
monster beat
TOP
Fortune
Fortune
has a double edge
Sometime I think it cuts
Today you've got enough
And others not too much.
The
early signs of scars
Are gifted on the poor
who draw the sortest straw
And
in the hospital
the sink fills up with hair
The women check for hotes
More than before
She
has what I have not
He has what I have never
We wish the body whole
TOP
Suppressa
Once
again the office floor
Some decision making by the Men-in-suits
"and do we consult the girls ?"
Girls are pushing 40 in the typing pool
Treat us like a herd and we are cowed
- relegated to a basic usfulness
Girls are pushing 30 on the till
Girls are pushing 40 in the typing pool
You
did not even see her
You did not know her second name
She just had always been there.
If
you think it does not count
I could pick a couple sharpest names for you
Naming is what marks us down
Girls are pushing 40 in the typing pool
Even though the woman is your mother
you would cut experience from under her
Girls are pushing 30 on the till
Girls are pushing 40 in the typing pool
TOP
Astronaut
My
mother was an astronaut
She spent all her time away
Only ever came down for the births
My father was her husband
Sometimes
we'd get to watch her on the TV
with our dinner
She was circling circling
My father would sometimes cry a little
and call his brother
to come and comfort him
The
Russians did it also
But much earlier - out of curiosity
At first they sent up empties
and then silkworms
and then a monkey
and finally their most efficient women
These
women were my mother's friends
their meetings were at first absurd
and then commonplace
My
mother had no weight -
Historical or otherwise
They
would experiment
On where cress grows best
Or how to build a sky net
Or how
in a normal way
to make life more
than the sum of its parts
When
she got very old
She retired there
and was gone
I
only had a picture of her
and was always a little shocked
because she was not glamourous.
A true story from might have been
the alternative space race, also for anyone who saw the film
'The Right Stuff'.
TOP
Bhopal
I
don't know what hangs round there
now the air is once more air
Death leaves no stain
Only on the memory
Everything
is as it was
All in the grip of the heat
Water comes slow from the pump
Man with his last cigarette
watches the last of the day
Children dig holes in the ground
Wait for the siren to blow
deep in the Union Carbide
Workers break off from the shift
cluster the bicycles out
Punch through the clock at the gate
Home and it's home for the night
Town that exists on its knees
Never woke up to the day
Gas from the Union Carbide
poisoned the people in sleep
And for the children unborn
Still they are dying today
When will the company pay
Seems like no never no not
Buried the case in the court
Everything is as it was
All in the grip of the heat
Water comes slow from the pump
Man with his last cigarette
TOP
The
running man
The
man ran
as things were getting bad
He ran to a wall
The wall was the law
The law hit like a block
The man could not stop.
Draw
the curtains
There's one citizen less
Draw
the curtains
Neatly.
TOP
Body
strategic
She's
not a blonde
She sings and exchanges things for songs.
If she's a cartoon
I must be real life
Oh
my darling what have you for me?
(This
is the current notation for passion.
These are the signs of love
These are the signs of love)
It's
quite an art
the body strategic
We watch in awe
Her legs snip bits out the air
She's
only playing
She plays passion for us
She plays passion for us
Fuck without touching
But
TOP
In
a row
In
a row
they lie
People say
People say
there but for grace go I
Not so
In a row
In
a row
they lie
People say
People say
there, but for god go I
Not so
someone else
In
a row
they lie
On screen
somewhere else
People say
there, but for grace go I
Not so
Not so
they lie
they lie
TOP
From
the top of the mountain
I
have a flower -
it is my right hand -
With this I can.
Inspiration and respect due to the
Kurdish singer, Shivan Perwer.
TOP
It's
time
That
was our time
It's over
Was easy
I hope to miss you
When you're gone.
TOP |