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This Tastes Like a Hotel

from Dog (Deluxe Bandcamp Edition) by Mike Keneally Band

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Oh Bonnie
You’re good
I’ll miss you
I’ll see you over the Alfred Neuman sunrise

But that jewel in the stone
Is the heart of God
And the heart of God
Is a Fleagle smile
And a Fleagle smile
Is a neverending, neverending…

(Barely audible in background:
Someone dragged their thumb along my comb
The melody made me high
Whenever I play with an orchestra it makes the ladies cry
I got a spring in my step mamaquacker
I got a jaw in my knee mamaquacker
Tap the ash away, tap the ash away)

This tastes like a hotel
This gives my friends and me
A dang’rous chill

This tastes like a hotel
This doesn’t happen
Accidentally
It’s a fire to be

Now you will drag me down
Got muck all over me
And your animation’s static
And it’s all primary colors
At seven frames a second
Then it all falls in the water

But that jewel in the stone
Is the heart of God
And the heart of God
Is a Fleagle smile
And a Fleagle smile
Is a neverending, neverending…

(Whispered:
Chlorine moves up
Occupying the outer rim of a hip-pocket magnolia
These are the best days of our lives
Throw it in for me, Bob
I’ll have it up in a snap
Then I promise I’ll nap
These are times that try men’s souls)

Here’s to your rainy day

Hello my heart hello
Swallow Cupid arrow
“We got your back,” they said
and when I said “take it away,”
They took it away

They said “Time is running out.”
I said, “Time is an illusion, and, uh…”
“No,” they said, “not literally,”
I said, “Oh yeah, thank you”

(And your animation’s static
And it’s all primary colors
At seven frames a second
Then it all falls in the water
simultaneously:
We hugged laughing weeping
We sang in the shade)

“We’re into that dynamic”
And their smile grew taller
And a silly little, billy little centimeter longer
You have to be the way you want the world to be
Be grateful you’re alive, don’t kill anybody?

There’s a reason this tastes like a hotel

Why?

Here’s to your rainy day, funk monster

Wild, mild freak of trees
Take your comfort where you please
Work the ink down to the nib
Wash and wear your lobster bib
(simultaneously:
I ain’t wise enough to be a horse
Steak-and-fries enough to be a horse
No No No
Horse, no
Infiltration of the horse)

Tuck into a tumbling motion
On your feet with arms wide open

You don’t know what you got
on your menu, horse

Data, data, data, data

You don’t know what you got
You don’t know what you got

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from Dog (Deluxe Bandcamp Edition), released November 16, 2004

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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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