Mama's Drowning - Johnny Pulp and the Lemonheads
Sleeve Notes
mephistopheles drove the uber past the building block tower an old woman with a feather in her hat recruited by the hour young women who had beauty and the facts that sell someone barked like a dog into his phone and cast a new spell carry me in your mind until the sun it slips away below the horizon in the west at the end of the day and if you ever have the thought you can always find me hereI'll never lose your memory and my love for you and tearsa naked man walked like in a funeral towards a bath drummers were drumming along another beaten path and souls in red robes flashed by the post office door and one dropped her coffee and another one swore the sunlight turned in triangles of sound and life the news was of war and oblivion and of trouble and strife carry me in your mind until the sun it slips away below the horizon in the west at the end of the day and if you ever have the thought you can always find me hereI'll never lose your memory and my love for you and tearsI was laying down bets and keeping my eyes on the road you could see it in her eyes she was carrying a real heavy load there were tears and there were cries but muffled by the time and some people say it as it is even when they think they're lying What was messed up in hell was the same up here on earth's groundall that toil and strife in silence is no better when there's a rumbling sound carry me in your mind until the sun it slips away below the horizon in the west at the end of the day and if you ever have the thought you can always find me hereI'll never lose your memory and my love for you and tears carry me in your mind until the sun it slips away below the horizon in the west at the end of the day and if you ever have the thought you can always find me here I'll never lose your memory and my love for you and tears you catch your breath and then decide you'll go but by the time you've left you've forgot who told you so and the ribbons and strings and files and information tie you up in knots as you wait anxiously by the stationsee the great clouds hanging there in the great open sky you send a message to a friend but its not the truth its a plain lie how cold it is even though the sun is beating right down your head is spinning and your heartaches and you frownand take the letter from your pocket and once more read what it saidand you feel less like the living and more like the undeadcarry me in your mind until the sun it slips awaybelow the horizon in the west at the end of the dayand if you ever have the thought you can always find me hereI'll never lose your memory and my love for you and tearsa crocodile passes you there on the late night street this is a desolate town and there'sno telling who you'll meetcock robin's been killed by the morning its all the newsbut you have nothing to say and when they ask you refuseso the day is just a day and this was just a thingI'm sitting on my own and when I thought of you was just wonderingcarry me in your mind until the sun it slips awaybelow the horizon in the west at the end of the dayand if you ever have the thought you can always find me hereI'll never lose your memory and my love for you and tearswondering where you were and what you might be doing nowit doesn't really matter sure but i guess I'm daydreaming howwe might have done things differently and turned out to be rightthat we might have found a way to stay but I guess you did that nightwas what had to be done in the circumstance so its okI don't blame you for nothing and have nothing else to saycarry me in your mind until the sun it slips awaybelow the horizon in the west at the end of the dayand if you ever have the thought you can always find me hereI'll never lose your memory and my love for you and tears ahhh spinning ahhhh spinning and spinning and spinning I'm spinning and spinning ahhhh un spun its that kind of drinking that kind of end of days thing ahhhhh ahhh spinning ahhhh spinning and spinning and spinning I'm spinning and spinning ahhhh un spun its that kind of drinking that kind of end of days thing ahhhhh she was spinning out she was spinning and spinning ah like trying to keep up with the circles the circles of the planet she was standing on ah we're all spinning spinning spinning round how does time come in through the door from inside or out from the street like time was just walking by just walking by walking by walking by I see you I see you yea walking by walking on by sheesh ahhh spinning ahhhh spinning and spinning and spinning I'm spinning and spinning ahhhh un spun its that kind of drinking that kind of end of days thing ahhhhh its like the rain will never come and she talked about things from before she was even born like a waterfall of ghosts a waterfall a waterfall a waterfall a waterfall a waterfall of ghosts like who the fuck was haunting her and who was she haunting who yea was she haunting was she haunting was she haunting ah so many ghosts and there she was drinking and talking and then the sky seemed to fall to fall down fall down all fall down, yea the whole of the jim crack scene falling and she was spinning round and round and round and wow wow wow what the hell was this I couldn't raise my head no my head heavy like a block of granite from the dark insides the insides from insides from the inside out ahh from way way inside and what with all the spinning and the falling and time crouching now ready to leave looking for the exit I kept my eyes on him I said I got my eyes on you and I pointed at my eyes and then straight at him straight at him my finger pointing through the space between here and time between here between me and time and she was spinning and spinning slow slowly slowly spinning ahhhh ahhh spinning ahhhh spinning and spinning and spinning I'm spinning and spinning ahhhh un spun its that kind of drinking that kind of end of days thing ahhhhh spinning slower and slower and slower and slower spinning ahhhh ahhhhh spinning and the sky falling down and time walking on by and me pointing and she s spinning spinning and spinning ahhhh well we were all unspun all unspun like sleeping beauty I mean how did that really happen? huh? Sleeping beauty all the sleeping beauties all the sleeping beauties in a row ahhh spinning ahhhh spinning and spinning and spinning I'm spinning and spinning ahhhh un spun its that kind of drinking that kind of end of days thing ahhhhh ahhh spinning ahhhh spinning and spinning and spinning I'm spinning and spinning ahhhh un spun its that kind of drinking that kind of end of days thing ahhhhh ahhh spinning ahhhh spinning and spinning and spinning I'm spinning and spinning ahhhh un spun its that kind of drinking that kind of end of days thing ahhhhh ahhh spinning ahhhh spinning and spinning and spinning I'm spinning and spinning ahhhh un spun its that kind of drinking that kind of end of days thing ahhhhh ahhh spinning ahhhh spinning and spinning and spinning I'm spinning and spinning ahhhh un spun its that kind of drinking that kind of end of days thing ahhhhh I'm still watching time he's out the window and gone one sat to the side with her head perched like a chaffinch on her shoulder and the night was young but was fast getting older and older there was talk and a lot of words being spoken and heard and there were clowns and fairies yet nothing as strange as that birdone sat to the side with her head perched like a chaffinch on her shoulder and the night was young but was fast getting older and older there was talk and a lot of words being spoken and heard and there were clowns and fairies yet nothing as strange as that bird ahhh yeaIn was early and then late felt a lot like fate at the gate like fate at the gate mumbled something and then stayed quiet like a funeral dogs he went the whole damn hog like all she did was a fog you know the sort of thing you can't quite know and it moves about in a peculiar way neither fast nor slow and leaves you wondering should i stay or go should i go go go should I go or stay in the flowone sat to the side with her head perched like a chaffinch on her shoulder and the night was young but was fast getting older and older there was talk and a lot of words being spoken and heard and there were clowns and fairies yet nothing as strange as that bird tables were turned inside out the talk was unsure of itself got full of doubt then things changed once again and the time was really late real late like it happens and you start to think of think think of fate ahhhyesone sat to the side with her head perched like a chaffinch on her shoulderand the night was young but was fast getting older and olderthere was talk and a lot of words being spoken and heardand there were clowns and fairies yet nothing as strange as that birdone sat to the side with her head perched like a chaffinch on her shoulderand the night was young but was fast getting older and olderthere was talk and a lot of words being spoken and heardand there were clowns and fairies yet nothing as strange as that birdone sat to the side with her head perched like a chaffinch on her shoulderand the night was young but was fast getting older and olderthere was talk and a lot of words being spoken and heardand there were clowns and fairies yet nothing as strange as that bird well now we all do we all do don't we oh well yeadown town taking it in turns between here and therewe all do we all doit don't we ah yea yea yea hmmmwell now we all do we all do don't we oh well yeadown town taking it in turns between here and therewe all do we all doit don't we ah yea yea yea hmmmyour thoughts kind of spilled over like milk likemilkall over my face all over oh what a messand was I supposed to be even there? was this really for me?ahhh who knows when any of these things happen and if we get that straight well are they anything like we imagine them to have been are they? huh ? come on let's just think of the past it'll last it'll last there back in the past heard any good jokes lately I have a few oh boy I guess I'm in something with you yea in something with you. well now we all do we all do don't we oh well yea down town taking it in turns between here and there we all do we all doit don't we ah yea yea yea hmmm well now we all do we all do don't we oh well yea turned left on. a road I never knew went to see. a movie but I didn't like the characters so couldn't really feel what it wanted me to feel hmmm i rarely know what my feeling really means do you know do you know what you mean do you know whether its true or just what it seems? ahh well what are we speaking to when we speak just to language rather than whatever is there, on the other side of language ah well that's philosophical haha well now we all do we all do don't we oh well yea down town taking it in turns between here and there we all do we all doit don't we ah yea yea yea hmmm well now we all do we all do don't we oh well yeaso now I try not to think about anything too much its all too much too much too much too much and i'm on the loose like I lost a chain and now well did I need that did i need to be held tethered to the post and if i asked you if i asked what i really wanted what i really needed what do we really need ahhh maybe i'd ask you to kill kill kill kill me darling ahhhhh oh hmmm well now we all do we all do don't we oh well yea down town taking it in turns between here and there we all do we all doit don't we ah yea yea yea hmmm well now we all do we all do don't we oh well yea well now we all do we all do don't we oh well yea down town taking it in turns between here and there we all do we all doit don't we ah yea yea yea hmmm well now we all do we all do don't we oh well yea black dove in the sky ahhh there's a strength and a suffering thing strange sights bring ahhh black dove in the sky ahhh there's a strength and a suffering thing strange sights bring ahhh black dove in the sky ahhh there's a strength and a suffering thing strange sights bring ahhh black dove in the sky ahhh there's a strength and a suffering thing strange sights bring ahhh black dove in the sky ahhh there's a strength and a suffering thing strange sights bring ahhh black dove in the sky ahhh there's a strength and a suffering thing strange sights bring ahhh black dove in the sky ahhh there's a strength and a suffering thing strange sights bring ahhh black dove in the sky ahhh there's a strength and a suffering thing strange sights bring ahhh saw the pool turn to dark black red and the palm trees quivered on the road she turned aside and all you could hear was this strange faced idler going on about how hitler wasn't so bad and another disaster I could tell was coming along from way inside him jeez black dove in the sky ahhh there's a strength and a suffering thing strange sights bring ahhh black dove in the sky ahhh there's a strength and a suffering thing strange sights bring ahhhI said nothing and said it again ha I said nothing and said it again ha I mean well, what can you say what can you say when the conversation starts like that I mean you have to watch this space watch this or hot his face hit his face ahhh black dove in the sky ahhh there's a strength and a suffering thing strange sights bring ahhh black dove in the sky ahhh there's a strength and a suffering thing strange sights bring ahhh everyone it seems is a loser and that's a very disturbing situation ahhhh black dove in the sky ahhh there's a strength and a suffering thing strange sights bring ahhh black dove in the sky ahhh there's a strength and a suffering thing strange sights bring the water drips from the tap faucet and is a monotonous beat and summer comes with its deathly stillness and unbearable heat and he's drinking wine and feels somehow like a fly at a window pane whilst she refuses to look at him and some dark feelings cameI passed her on the street, in some of the bars,in shops and the parkI crossed paths in the holy day and the devilish dark and each time life seems to be a mourning time and what's precious is sad and love's more than a line ahhh yea, more than just. aline ahhhand she walked out through the door and went out onto the street and she's broken by the bright light and she's in pieces and incomplete smokes a cigarette slowly and knows the lines are straight and clearwatches a wasp as it hovers by some dead thing and everything's too nearand in her mind there are scenes and stories and a kind of dread and she glances up to the window and wishes he was deadI passed her on the street, in some of the bars,in shops and the parkI crossed paths in the holy day and the devilish dark and each time life seems to be a mourning time and what's precious is sad and love's more than a line ahhh yea, more than just. aline ahhhlate afternoon and everyone is moving to and fro and her desires are from the highest heights and yet she feels so low and she wishes she could pray that she had a god or something that she could lay flowers somewhere that somewhere there was a meaningI passed her on the street, in some of the bars,in shops and the parkI crossed paths in the holy day and the devilish dark and each time life seems to be a mourning time and what's precious is sad and love's more than a line ahhh yea, more than just. aline ahhh she listened to some music but all she felt was even further away from herself and if she tried to speak well she had nothing real to say and her silence wasn't really silence but more like a resolution carried to the end of her time like a kind of cruel solution and days and then years it was time running away like water and she wondered once what she really was what kind of daughterI passed her on the street, in some of the bars,in shops and the parkI crossed paths in the holy day and the devilish dark and each time life seems to be a mourning time and what's precious is sad and love's more than a line ahhh yea, more than just. aline ahhhher face carries with it so many hours and her eyes lie somewhere but there's a sense that after all this time she's not really there a blackbird in a tree in a garden sings into the great open air when they find her one evening at the bottom of the stairI passed her on the street, in some of the bars,in shops and the parkI crossed paths in the holy day and the devilish dark and each time life seems to be a mourning time and what's precious is sad and love's more than a line ahhh yea, more than just. aline ahhhI passed her on the street, in some of the bars,in shops and the parkI crossed paths in the holy day and the devilish dark and each time life seems to be a mourning time and what's precious is sad and love's more than a line ahhh yea, more than just. aline ahhh his back arched as he bent down washing the car and the water in his bucket glistened bubbles like stars her face was caught in the glassy mirror of the shopstorewhat are you wanting and have you enough to get even more walking through the supermarket aisle rows everyone's a strange no one really knows and when I dream out loud it seems so confusedI find it strange and sad so many are refused ahhhI heard a singer singing his holy and forlorn song the road sweeper was smoking and watching everything going ona dog on a red long leash pulled the bearded man some angry words flashed from a bald guy driving his white vanwell in the cafe there's a couple of lovers but they are still and she refuses his story and its clear he's not enough she's not fulfilled walking through the supermarket aisle rows everyone's a strange no one really knows and when I dream out loud it seems so confused I find it strange and sad so many are refused ahhh the waitress moves like a bird between all the tables and the spacesher mind is on a trouble that she hides from these strangers facesits a trouble that won't disappear and she feels she can't escape from makes a call later that makes no difference ah hope she needs some the laughing youth in his suit seems cruel and full of hunger and the waitress touches her face and knows she's not getting any younger walking through the supermarket aisle rows everyone's a strange no one really knows and when I dream out loud it seems so confused I find it strange and sad so many are refused ahhh pigeons eat crumbs that have fallen from the table they make do with whats available and do what they're able and when the day comes to the end there's a sense of regret in the waitresses soul and it feels like the future now is set and where will she go and what will she decide to do well her heart skips with fear and her chances seem too few walking through the supermarket aisle rows everyone's a strange no one really knows and when I dream out loud it seems so confused I find it strange and sad so many are refused ahhh shadows on the wall and monsters on the stair she's haunted by a sense of disaster waiting for her there her hand is trembling as she uses the key in the doorand its the silence and the emptiness that covers the floorthat bows her head down and makes her shed a little tearshe watches some tv film but all she knows is fearits just an ordinary day where everything happens and is true as serious and trivial as truth can be well thats just my point of view walking through the supermarket aisle rows everyone's a strange no one really knowsand when I dream out loud it seems so confusedI find it strange and sad so many are refused ahhh walking through the supermarket aisle rows everyone's a strange no one really knows and when I dream out loud it seems so confusedI find it strange and sad so many of us are refusedare refused , yea, are refused let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hang in the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang born just a little off you know the kind of offbetween a word and a cough between a word and a cough you don't make sense nothing makes sense everythings tense yea everythings tense let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang come sit for a while make me crawl i'll crawl the whole land to understand hmmm down below there's where they all go the beaten and confused the lost and refusedall down below down and down they go so let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang mix and match theres a price on your head dont care if you're alive or dead was what you said and it was early in the weekI have so many things to speak, feel so weak these are all creeps these are all creeps they're all creeps let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sangi watch you by the hour that's unbelievable a sort of square root of power gone wrong wrong song walk the land til you understand yea walk it til you drop see the dragon under the earth this is the place of your burial and rebirth you being buried then being born words all ripped and torn give me something give me something I'll be running on saw them with a ring and a buckle and a ribbon of blood bleeding from the mouth into the mud crouch on all fours by the trees move like a dog on your knees on your knees well let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hang in the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hang in the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang everything went dark and it was clear that there was nothing here but old bits and bobs you'd held in your mind i'm not wanting to be unkind not wanting that at all but you're so small and useless to me now i wouldn't know what and I don't know how let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang let me linger let me hangin the field where the devil sang on the road the circus comes to town all their faces covered in pain tone is a devil one a fortune teller ones a lover another a saint and did you ever sell your dream come meet me by the stream let me take your hand let's flee from this land ahhhh on the road the circus comes to town all their faces covered in pain tone is a devil one a fortune teller ones a lover another a saintand did you evr sell your dream come meet me by the stream let me take your hand let's flee from this land ahhhh night stretches towards its breaking point placesome place behind the eyes somewhere not quite your face ahhh the moon is bursting open across the skyoh me oh my tonight might be the night we diehand me your soul hand me whatever you have thereI want to listen to your heart beating and stroke your hairis that a warning call from the wood down by the creekI here the universe talking whenever you speak and the fox is a murderer has a scandal or two the blackbird stays out of reach sounds sad and bluethe train takes the haunted people into the city square I don't know anyone who wants to be left there there's a dragon living way down at the bottom of the dark dark lake the man with the great dogs is cautious doesn't want to make any mistake on the road the circus comes to town all their faces covered in paint one is a devil one a fortune teller ones a lover another a saintand did you ever sell your dream come meet me by the stream let me take your hand let's flee from this land ahhhh on the road the circus comes to town all their faces covered in paint one is a devil one a fortune teller ones a lover another a saint and did you ever sell your dream come meet me by the stream let me take your hand let's flee from this land ahhhh he listens to the sounds in the air and those in the ground he knows when a prayer is forlorn and how it should sound comes down the thin trail through the thorny bush holds a staff and wears sandals and a robe and everythings hushed well well there goes the dragon slayer some old woman thinks she continues to smoke her weed and hardly even blinks miles away the sky is full of circles going round and round and gods are falling into the sacred grove with a terrible sound ahh who saw them come and who saw them go gods and devils in the carnival show well I'm going home going home to feed my cat all things are passing I guess well yea, that's a fact hmm on the road the circus comes to town all their faces covered in paint one is a devil one a fortune teller ones a lover another a saint and did you ever sell your dream come meet me by the stream let me take your hand let's flee from this land ahhhhon the road the circus comes to town all their faces covered in paint one is a devil one a fortune teller ones a lover another a saint and did you ever sell your dream come meet me by the stream let me take your hand let's flee from this land ahhhhon the road the circus comes to town all their faces covered in paint one is a devil one a fortune teller ones a lover another a saint and did you ever sell your dream come meet me by the stream let me take your hand let's flee from this land roll on round the house feel hunted like a mouse wonder where it is what it means to be missed who was in the closet room and whether time will happen before the days of doom ooooooooooooooooooooooooo llllllllllllllllllllllllll zazazaz mama's drowning throw her a rope give me a drink let's go smoke dubdub dub dub mama's drowning throw her a rope give me a drink let's go smoke dubdub dub dub and why is there milk no sugar who mugged her who did that did that who as a matter of a matter of matter of fact hugh suddenly the tables turn nothing is earned you were lucky to be honest and dirty deals made you oblivious even to her kiss wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooshshshshshshshshssgive me a drink let's go smoke mama's drowning throw her a rope give me a drink let's go smoke dub dub dub dub ahhhhhh shhhhhhhhhhh rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr mama's drowning throw her a ropegive me a drink let's go smoke mama's drowning throw her a rope well now miss what have we here and was the price too dear and after all is said and done there's nothing worth winning nothing to be done that couldn't be elsewhere and with another one overhead the night sky is read and then full of sounds i don't like to hear sounds of frenzy and fear gagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagagahohohohoh ahahahahahahahahmama's drowning throw her a rope give me a drink let's go smoke mama's drowning throw her a rope give me a drink let's go smoke dub dub dub dub give me a drink let's go smoke mama's drowning throw her a rope my anxiety makes me say stupid things fortune brings dead tongues and blind eyes and fearful curses and cries everythings so hard i cried and cried and cried and cried and cried and cried and cried and cried shhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhh life's a struggle feels like a muddle feels numb like nothing at all feel useless fell small so ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nothing then nothing and worse than that, like a rabbit from a hat a magicians trick and fantasy of words nothing more time to fall down and hide and blow blow blow blow blow away all this and rest down in the deep give me sleep sleep sleep yea letme sleep shshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshshsh hahahahahahahahahahohohohohohohohohooooooooo mama's drowning throw her a rope give me a drink let's go smoke ahhhhhhhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhhh click your fingers and sleep ahhhhhh clickclick click and sleep ahhhhhhhh shhhhhhh give me a drink let's go smoke mama's drowning throw her a rope roll on round the house feel hunted like a mouse wonder where it is what it means to be missed who was in the closet room and whether time will happen before the days of doom ooooooooooooooooooooooooo llllllllllllllllllllllllll zazazaz mama's drowning throw her a rope give me a drink let's go smoke dub dub dub dub mama's drowning throw her a rope give me a drink let's go smoke dub dub dub dub mama's drowning throw her a rope give me a drink let's go smoke dub dub dub dub