Vic Chesnutt and Mr. and Mrs. Keneipp - Merriment Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:55:52 +0200 "Gunnar Hedlund" "Hans Settler" Thanks to Gunnar!!! @ARTIST: Vic Chesnutt and Mr. and Mrs. Keneipp @ALBUM: Merriment 1. Merriment 2. Fissle 3. Feather 4. Sunny Pasture 5. Preponderance 6. Haiku 7. Mighty Monkey 8. DNA 9. Deeper Currents 10. Merriment Reprise @SONG: Merriment an old woman in a wig and a mule eating a fig caterpillar on a twig, shouldn't flitter fella hanging from a clock, someone falling from a dock little ripple showing shock and then we titter chubby kid upon a trike opened up the dyke she nearly lost her water heals a haggard soul reflex to cajole bust your ass to soothe his cancer then the tragedy within gets the audience to grin so you stop to start again but then it's ending shooting one's self in the foot catch one's self with a fishing hook elementary textbook comic devices for the common good take a little nug who's to say we should or should not giggle bless the idiot that makes us split a gut roses for the butt of our merriment @SONG: Fissle (Vapor And Soot) theorize and postulate screw it up to get it straight fissle, every one spooning with a sweetie pie as solid as a twist-tie fissle, every one equal but opposite reduced to vapor and soot equal but opposite reduced to vapor and soot carbon ends up carmelized in the perforated sky fissle, every one Issac & Abraham the larder and the little lamb fissle, every one equal but opposite reduced to vapor and soot @SONG: A Feather At A Wall chaos or is it preordained glorious glockenspiel or vain hideous game party, such a lonely host playing with paperdolls no nothing approaching a peer group fill us full of wonder a feather at a wall mixing the miasma almighty alchemist wholly self-serving arty but hardly a victimless stunt forming so spontaineous all alone and eager to show the converted who's boss really, oh so rather sad all that trouble gone to for just a puppet put on the back fill us full of wonder a feather at a wall arty but hardly a victimless stunt @SONG: Sunny Pasture I am heading toward sunny pasture and shade got it made what is waiting on me I been waiting my whole life for working towards I guess I lost my way guess I got sidetracked all those forks and roads never ever find my way back I was floundering but now I'm pondering down the homestretch I'm so set I'm a lucky man and I been handed new lease on life grip it tight I guess I let it slip away ooh, lost touch I don't even know anymore if I was ever in control all that much lost my way ... @SONG: Preponderance preponderance ... she shot me a bird and everything blurred she opened her mouth and I was trounced she likes to drink juice, smells like a mousse cut the crap you're spoiling my frappe she's humming, so cunning and stunning in her mother's blue dress preponderance ... she fluttered her lids and I hit the skids she wiggled her nose and everything froze she shook her head and my innards bled cut the crap you're spoiling my frappe she's humming, so cunning and stunning in her mother's blue dress preponderance ... she learned from the best and I was the test she ace the exam and now I'll damned she just had to kneel to get a book deal cut the crap you're spoiling my frappe she's humming, so cunning and stunning in her mother's blue dress @SONG: Haiku @SONG: Mighty Monkey smell the mighty monkey, trainer is a junkie and the tightrope walker has one foot in the grave invited to inspect what is a trainwreck you don't even have to check it's evident, so evident, evident, so evident dancing bear is full of worms, see the puny pachyderms lion tamer wrestles with ghosts from his past invited to inspect what is a trainwreck easy to detect it's evident, so evident, evident, so evident clowns have herpes and hepatitis C the chick who runs the pony ride we call her Catherin the gross invited to inspect what is a trainwreck you don't even have to check for it's evident, so evident, evident, so evident alcoholic acrobats, MC smokes crack last week the human cannonball blew his brains out invited to inspect what is a trainwreck you don't even have to check for it's evident, so evident, evident, so evident @SONG: DNA you're in a battle with your DNA you'll wrestle Mother Nature 'til the end you don't accept the judges decision it's gonna take and take total annihilation they preach to you and they speak the truth but truth is only in the understanding only when all parties can agree to the terms does it count on every star you see in the sky it ain't all the options what is called for often is called improvisation commandments that they passed along to you encoded what and not to do but the law is full of loop holes its contradictions causes short circuits in human hands the struggle expands till every mother is mutating daughter repeated simply sequential if'n you care to count on every star you see in the sky it ain't all the options what is called far often is called a term you gotta define, a term you gotta define a term you gotta define through improvisation @SONG: You May Not Be Interested of course I am prepared for anything why should it happen to everyone else and not me you may not be interested but let me assure you it sure is you may not be interested but let me assure you it sure is of course l am prepared for anything accept the stranglehold, accept the stranglehold go ahead and be sarcastic now while you've got such an adept lookout you may not be interested but let me assure you it sure is you may not be interested but let me assure you it sure is go ahead and be sarcastic now long may you wave, long may you wave tender beauty is precarious sweetness and joy illuminate the darkness individauls influence in complex ways the deeper currents individuals influence in complex ways the deeper currents tender beauty is precarious hard to insulate and fully embrace hard to insulate and fully embrace