[The Zion Egg]: Lyrics

Nightfreak And The Sons Of Becker

  1. Precious Eyes
  2. Venom Cable
  3. I Forgot My Name
  4. Song Of The Corn
  5. Sorrow Or The Song
  6. Auntie's Operation
  7. Why Does The Sun Come Up?
  8. Grey Harpoon
  9. Keep Me Company
  10. Migraine
  11. Lover's Paradise

 

01. Precious Eyes

This little girl, all work no play
October grey, makes the hangman's day
Hotel TV, silent movie
Her precious eyes gazed back at me.

From the beach, to the sea
While the count and the countess they cry
For the ruins the world left behind
What a beautiful night
For her precious eyes

The pubs are closed, the streets are cold
Billy Casper buries the bones
Of a boy that cried, learned to despise
I'll make them mine her precious eyes

From the sand to the sky
While the gargoyles and dragons they sigh
For the sake of Saint Serpentine
What a beautiful night
For her precious eyes

Her precious eyes
Her precious eyes
Her precious eyes
Her precious eyes

 


02. Venom Cable

(Have you ever heard of a great punk band from the 80s called the Shaven Cocks? They're great...)

Venom cable, wicked tongue
Zoo keeper, iron lung

Venom cable, poison pie
Tarantula, burning blouse

Venom cable, emergency
Magnetic simplicity

Venom cable, maggot brain
Wrap the world in cellophane

(Ooooh, Tchaaah)

Venom cable
Venom cable
Venom cable
Venom cable
...

 


03. I Forgot My Name

I can see through you!
I can see through you!
I can see through you!
I can see through, I can see through!

I forgot my name
I forgot my name
On memory lane
I forgot my name

I forgot my name
I forgot my name
This is not a game
But I forgot my name

I can see through you!
I can see through you!
I can see through you!
I can see through, I can see through!

I forgot my name
I forgot my name
Isn't that a shame
But I forgot my name

I forgot my name
I forgot my name
On memory lane
I forgot my name

I can see through you!
I can see through you!
I can see through you!
I can see through, I can see through!

(Microwaves are just like light waves but with a frequency of the order of only ten thousand million waves per second)

I forgot my name
I forgot my name
I forgot my name
I forgot my name
I forgot my name

(As a science
The secret of the universe

Bella Lugosi
...
At the Bus Stop
Down by the canal
...
Can I change that order of... err... pastrami bread to rye bread?
and I just gotta get a side order of... err... pastrami mustard please mate!)
I forgot my name

 


04. Song Of The Corn

Out in the field
When the first has been born
Folks sing a song
Song of the corn

Late in the day
When the secrets are sworn
Folks tell a tale
Tale of the corn

I heard a commotion one late afternoon
Someone was singing a funeral tune
As I lay watching them hoist up the cross
Something was burning
Something was lost

Could you believe what the scarecrow had seen?
Folks come to fall down to their knees
Rumours of strangers being buried alive
Black belts and barnyards chills up my spine

 


05. Sorrow Or The Song

In the beggars house of wasted thoughts
I saw you, you took my hand
Led me to another land

Down past the old picture house
We wandered
With no time to be proud
I'll have to decide now

If I should follow the sorrow or the song
Where do I belong?
The sorrow or the song?
The sorrow or the song?

How the thought of you clings to me like
How the thought of you clings to me like

A haunting school yard memory awaiting
I'll have to wait my turn
Sit and watch them burn

The prison wall, the music hall
The tower clock
Is watching over town
I'll have to decide now

If I should follow the sorrow or the song
Where do I belong?
The sorrow or the song?
The sorrow or the song?

 


06. Auntie's Operation

Auntie's operation
Auntie's operation
Auntie's operation
She's coming around

Auntie's operation
Auntie's operation
Auntie's operation
And you're going down

She'll want your sympathy
She'll never let you be
She's sniffing at your food
Before it's even chewed

Auntie's operation
Auntie's operation
Auntie's operation
And you're going down

She thinks she's world renowned
With a plaster of Paris crown
Before you think ahead
She'll be sleeping in your bed

Auntie's operation
Auntie's operation
Auntie's operation
...
And you're coming around

 


07. Why Does The Sun Come Up?

What's that Daddy?
That's government property son
But why?
Why does the sun come up?

 


08. Grey Harpoon

Please don't let the light though my window
Keep the curtain shut
It brings me good luck

Please don't let the light though my window
Don't wanna see the day
Don't need it anyway

Please don't let the light though my window
Don't wanna see the shop or the wet bus stop

Please don't let the light though my window
The bells ring out for doom
On this sunday afternoon

Please don't let the light though my window
Please don't let the light though my window
...

 


09. Keep Me Company

Over the hill and far away
Down the valley and past the lake
Through the trees beneath the shade
In this place that's where I'll wait

For you
To keep me company
Like an old memory

An hour or two has just flown by
Took the sun out of the sky
Stained glass shadows they have been cast
A Ghostly gaze forgets my past

But you
Can keep me company
Like an old memory

Oh no, here it comes again
Oh no, here it comes again
Can't stop the pain

I've come so far I can't get home
There's no one there, am I alone?
Here and now I must confess
This is potential loneliness

 


10. Migraine

Migraine
Doctor, doctor, won't you help me please?
Migraine
Doctor, doctor, I'm down on my knees
Migraine
I feel it running from my toes to my brain
Migraine
Tried every potion but it can't be tamed
Migraine

Migraine
Doctor, doctor, tearing my hair out
Migraine
Doctor, doctor, what's it all about?
Migraine
I feel nervous and I'm feeling sick
Migraine
My body's shaking and I'm shittin' bricks
Migraine

Migraine
Doctor, doctor, can't you find a cure?
Migraine
Doctor, doctor, should I stay indoors?
Migraine
I go to parties and I just freeze
Migraine
Think I'm infected with a social disease
Migraine
Think I'm infected with a social disease
Migraine
Think I'm infected with a social disease
Migraine

(Yeah these things just happen .... caused by a calcium deficiency there's not a lot you can do about really yeah. Try eating some apples or something yeah? Apples or something...)

Migraine
Migraine
...


11. Lover's Paradise

Oh come with me
To a lovers paradise
Where all the stars shine bright
Oh won't you come with me?

Oh come with me
Your carriage awaits my dear
A million miles and we'll be near
Oh won't you come with me?

Oh come with me
To where the button bows the fancy ties
Something special in your eyes
Oh won't you come with me?

In the winter or the summer time or fall
We'll have a ball
Just call and fly to a lover's paradise
Call and fly to a lover's paradise