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Bleak image that cause you pain.
This palace is Skunk’s domain.
His spirit’s an open sore.
His whimsy results in war.

Maybe it’s a battered childhood
Maybe he could never smile good
Sympathy, he never mastered.
Maybe he’s a rotten bastard.

But he ran his fingers down my spine.
Tried to make his madness mine.

Took me to a distant hillside,
Tried to make my spirit cyanide.
Tried to screw my heart and soul then.
Took a step back and told him:

“No, you won’t be killing my love for life”.
He smile a wicked, his tooth a knife.

He said he wouldn’t let me leave him.
I said I would be glad to grieve him.
He said I do what he shall will me.
I said you’re gonna have to kill me.
He said it isn’t wise to spurn him.
I said I would be glad to burn him.
He said he making my life his life.
Took myself out a buckknife

And I put a cut in his big red eye
Boodehguddadiguddagiddefduuuu fly-hi
I hear him screaming and how he cried
He flying bleeding he by my side
flyin’ to the sun and higher
Bursting in a ball of fire
Falling to the earth and water
In the arms of Neptune’s daughter
Blind and nearly dead I felt her
Offering me food and shelter
Quiet as a naked schoolmouse
Found me an abandoned farmhouse

Then she said to me you must come and hide
I am here for you, come inside
We remaining for seven days
Free from enemy’s poison gaze

A-wakin’ up from our sleeping
We thought we heard a tiny weeping
We took a peek out of the window
Suddenly a massive wind blow

And the whole place is torn to shreds
Skunk laughing with one eye dead
He tried to reach and grab my love
That I won’t hear of

I grabbed the sucker by his collar
Said I’m gonna make you holler
Tore his every leg and arm off
Threw his noggin in the barn trough
Made a stew from his intestine
Safe to say I fully messed him
Then there was a change in weather
Sucker pulled himself together, well

Thank God my lady had run away
Skunk kill me with one foul spray
Bleak image that cause you pain
This palace is Skunk’s domain

(Band plays “I’m Glad There’s Lemon-Freshened Thorax In You”)

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from Half Alive in Hollywood, released August 27, 1996

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Mike Keneally San Diego, California

Mike Keneally has been a lot of things in his 35 year career: stunt guitarist/keyboardist, singer/songwriter, orchestral composer, producer, music director, painter, and more. After getting his start in Frank Zappa’s legendary 1988 big band, Keneally released his first solo album hat. in 1992. Since then he has released dozens more and is working on a new double album.

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