What Went Wrong
She's No Rocket Scientist
What's in the Cuckoo Clock?
I Don't Get It
Zero
Pig Latin
Parasite
I'm Breaking Out
So Long, Sucker
A Weekend in Hogboro
Psycho Girl
The Girl Who Still Lives at Home
Send Me a Postcard
Untitled Spoken Word Piece
Now We Are Twenty-One
Danny Partridge Got Busted
Marine Recruiter
Slagbag
Velveeta
A Zillion Years
The History of the Concept of the Soul
Flying Jelly Attack
I thought I knew what you were thinking for so long now I know that I was mistaken wonder what went wrong wonder what went wrong now babywhat went wrong I wonder what went wrong and how we got along All my plans for world domination were premature you pushed me back to the border and I'm good and sore yeah I'm good and sore now baby that's for sure tried as a criminal 'cause I lost the war What went wrong, what went wrong Made you into my own creation, victim of my mind you don't meet with my expectations, you don't run on time ad I wonder why now baby why you even try you know I wonder why I take the time What went wrong, what went wrong.
Well she's no rocket rocket rocket rocket scientist but she's just like the Second Law of Thermodynamics cause when I see her walking by me I wanna do the twist a little bit. I gotta getta getta getta getta strategy to communicate the endless possibilities so we can understand each other we can live in peace and harmony It's all right yeah baby it's ok hey cause she's so unaware and I'm so I don't care yare and that's the secret of my success yes it's a formula for happiness but she's no rocket scientist I'll never figure out what's going on behind those eyes it may be far beyond my competence to analyze but it'll take a lot of energy and exercise and school supplies but still I'm getting so excited about a new romance though I know she's part human being and part potted plant and when I meet her at the mall there'll be an avalanche of holding hands it's too late yeah baby it's too late hay cause she's so come and go and I'm so I don't know woe so don't confuse stop confusing me with the facts yaks cause you know that pretty soon she's gonna get herself a scooby snack but she's no rocket scientist.
Cover SongInside a clock, we find, to our surprise, a little toy singer. Assuring us that he is not a figment of our imagination, he boasts of his ability to prophesy, indulging in a lighthearted wordplay. Apparently unaware that the eighties are a closed book, he predicts a decade of joy. Looking more closely, we see a microcosm of Akron, Ohio, correct to the finest detail. However, there is a sinister element: unnamed evil entities, with the power to influence purchasing descisions. We recoil. We urge the singer to reseal the clock; to put an end to the nightmare. To our chagrin, the plea has come too late. We must watch helplessly as the seeds of our destruction leap from the clock to work acts of unspeakable mischief. The singer, exhausted, exhibiting signs of an impending mental breakdown, demands payment -- which we can ill afford -- for his services.
There's a picture of a little kid no one noticed what he did there's a background just can't remember what's the point and what's the center there's this feeling it's part of who you are supposed to tear you apart but I don't get it and I don't have it I don't know anything about it life slides right by me and I'm like no reaction, just a shrug and I don't know why I can't find my can't imagine I don't get it I don't get it and I'm locked out of Sunday school and hanging out in the vestibule and waking up in the crying room next to you but that stuff never made any sense I can't connect and you're not impressed and when it's back to the present tense it's meaningless meaningless there's this picture it's part of what you are supposed to tear you apart but I'm not in it I'm just out of it I don't know anything about it you think through everything I think no reaction just a bug and I don't know why I can't get throught I don't get it I don't get it.
See the people playing the punk game. Now it's over ain't that a damn shame. Like a brick that smashed through the window get a gun and show them what they know. Zero, that's what it means. Talk about the girl with the blond hair wake up one day and she's not there. There's one looking just like her but it's the wrong part of the picture.
Parts in italics are the translations of the pig latin parts.Lost a lot in college, never got things straight,
I grew up all used up, toys for tots,
it was a pious fiction, now I'm giving you this benediction
aeve one uiie urie ite unuve ue itedtre ime aecle urtde enve ive irve idsce aune aemve onage etge uiie
I know you, you're the one, I knew when I was young
I'm speaking pig latin, got myself in a jam.
I don't understand.
She speaks ubby dubby, she's so cute and chubby.
hubi frubiends thubis ubis thube ubend isies onage ilce ire elphse isies onage ecte ime iteruve
Hi friends, this is the end. She's going to kill herself. She's going to take me with her.
She speaks ubby dubby, she wants to take the blame. That can be arranged.
You're nothing but a parasite thorn in my side and you're bugging me every night you think that I'll be dumb enough to pick it up just so you can suck my blood but you're not gonna get an answer I'll let it ring you don't get a free drink and you don't get another chance you're on your own you don't get to come back on my next show. Yeah you're a megalomaniac leader of the pack with a brain like an almanac you try to slap me on the back but you're out of practice give me a heart attack and now I'm in intensive care thanks a lot thou shalt rue what thou hast wrought and you don't get another chance to get it right cut you out you parasite so get out you parasite serves you right. Now you're gonna step into your role wise wonderful nice smile kind to animals but you're not fooling anyone it's overdone swiss family robinson.
I was up all night she said bay bay bay bay baby what's in your eye well that's storm and that's stress and that's my my my my my migraine I'm such a mess I see the vultures of doom saying, "Dr. Frank, I presume." Wehn you presume you make a pres out of you and me I guess I can't suppress every little thing I can't calm down I don't know how I'm breaking out. Don't touch don't probe and lead me not into temptation 'cause I might explode Don't do anything cause I'm just way way way way waiting for a tragedy oo oo what's going on you don't belong girls can ride boys bikes but boys can't ride girls bikes facts of life and different strokes are coming on at midnight I can't calm down, I'm breaking out, I don't know how.
You're mean to me and i'm so sick of it you can't fire me cause I'm gonna quit and I'd just like to say that you're so lame. I need to know that you will always be the same old someone that I knew but I know that you won't so just go home. So long, sucker sucker so long we'll miss your lies and your bad advice and droning on and on. Bye bye baby seeyou in church see you around when I'm in town but not if I see you first. So long, sucker, this is the end we'll miss your lies and your bad advice and jokes at your expense bye bye baby see you in church see you around when I'm in town but not if I see you first.
Instrumental
She held me by the hand she said don't criticize what you don't understand she showed me her butcher knife said it taught her a lot about life. I'm stuck with the psycho girl I think I'm gonna get hurt psycho girl touch her lose touch with the world psycho girl psycho girl she scared me half to deathsaid she'd die of loneliness psycho girl had a psycho dog and they growled at me when they took a walk psycho girl, touch her lose touch with the world psycho girl psycho girl it's a psycho world oh woe, oh woe woe woe as if that weren't enough her life was really fucked up psycho girl just opened her mouth a whole lot of interesting stuff came out.
Something pretty bad happened to her long ago. She clams up, she lost it, she'd rather be alone lying on the bed with those stuffed animals at home. Her old high school friends had all moved away. When they see her now they don't know what to say. They're so different now and she is practically the same. She's the girl who still lives at home she's left out and she's all alone working at the taco stand, fighting with her mom and dad. I can see her sitting in the living room thinking of all of the things that she can't do not as long as she is living underneath their roof She's the girl who still lives at home mom and dad sent her to her room when they saw what she had done now she's just a skeleton. They say she's wasting away, she just stares into space everyday And you know she'd like to move away be on her own and she says it everyday she has plans to move away but you know she's gonna stay that way she's talking to her mom, she needs some help in the kitchen they're watching LA Law and cable television she says it's not so bad, you save a lot of money and she heard what you said but she's staring at nothing.
Cover SongA postcard becomes a symbol of lost romance for two separated lovers. Adult themes. No nudity. **1/2
Before loneliness will break my heart,
send me a postcard darling.
How can I make you understand?
I wanna be a woman.
Here, here I'm waiting for a little sign,
waiting 'til the end of time.Send me a postcard darling.
Send me a poscard now.
Send me a postcard darling.
Send me a postcard now.I can't take the lonely night,
I need someone I can turn to.
Look out the day I see a little sign,
even though you're on my mind.
Yeah, oh please don't let me down.
There ain't no lover like me in town.Send me a postcard darling.
Send me a poscard now.
Send me a postcard darling.
Send me a postcard now.Before loneliness will break my heart,
send me a postcard darling.
How can I make you understand?
I wanna be a woman.
Yeah, I'm waiting for a little sign,
waiting 'til the end of time.
How many flies does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Two, but don't you wonder how they got in there?
liveNow we are 21
Now we have to get things done
We can't watch Brady Bunch
We can't eat Captain Crunch
Aaaah!
When I was 17
I used to watch TV
but now I'm 21
I have to
get things done
every day we have to take
everything seriously
I just can't handle it
I still feel like a kid
When I was 10 years old
I didn't drink at all
But now I'm 21
and I drink way too much!
21 Now we are 21
We try but it's no use
Just lost our last excuse
And we'll be on the run
Now that we are 21
21 Now we are 21
live
includes a punk rock version of the name gameI just read the news in the paper yesterday
Danny Bonaduce just got busted in L.A.
He used to be 10 years old now he's 25
busted for narcotics and he's facing 10 to life
"Danny Partridge Busted"
it happened just the other day
"Danny Partridge Busted"
now they're gonna lock him away
we'll never see his freckled face smiling anymore
they're gonna put him in a cell and doublelock the door
Shirley, Keith, and Reuben, I wonder where you are
next time you see Danny he'll be safely behind bars
and he got busted
it never happened to me
poor Danny
little Danny Partridge wasn't as innocent as he seemed
he finally found an outlet for his moneymaking schemes
I just can't believe it 'cause it seems so strange to me
the kid that we grew up with is a pusher on the street
liveSgt. Smiles, marine recruiter
teach you to program computers
teach you all the skills you need
you can die with dignity
I got a phone call from the sergeant yesterday
he had a message from the good old U.S.A.:
"Good grades, high I.Q., you're one terrific guy
we'll let you push the buttons while the other people die."
no way, that's what I say
I don't want to be a marine today
Sgt. Smiles, marine recruiter
teach you to program computers
teach you all the skills you need
you can be a fucking pig
and that's why the sergeant smiles
everyday in high school when I got home
marine recruiters called me on the phone
oh god, never thought it would come to this
I get cards I get calls now I'm on the mailing list
Mom I'm not home if they call me on the phone
liveThat girl is fucking crazy
She's so god damn amazing
words are not enough
you know her from the paper
she comes in forty flavors
makes me want to throw up
You can say "but seriously folks..."
you can write her nasty notes
but you know you're gonna choke
anyway
After all you know she's just a SLAGBAG
Look at yourself, you know you're a SLAGBAG
How many times have you called her a SLAGBAG
What would you do if I called you a SLAGBAG
She thinks she's really something
but she is less than nothing
and there is no doubt
they said I should've known her
how she would fuck me over
but it's too late now
you could say she's good in bed
you could say she gives good head but you know that you'll regret
everything
liveSugar-coated girlfriends don't mean anything to me
This song's about a girl who's soft and warm and cheap
when I held her close to me she melted right away
Velveeta was her name
Velveeta, Velveeta, Velveeta...
All my friends keep telling me
"Frank, you must be sick.
How can you have fun with a gooey processed chick?"
But she's much more than that
she's got a heart of gold
and she does what she's told
Velveeta, Velveeta, Velveeta...
I want to tell her that I'll never go away
but she keeps showing me her expiration date
Girls may come, girls may go, but I know one thing for sure
they stock Velveeta at the local grocery store
and she'll be on the shelf until the end of time
when we have to say goodbye
Velveeta, Velveeta, Velveeta...
liveIt'll take a zillion years
that's a long time
we'll all be dead, past our prime
it'll cost a zillion dollars to pay the debt
and a zillion other details
that haven't been thought of yet.
A zillion years. I won't be waiting
A zillion years, that's a long long time
A zillion years. What are you waiting for?
A zillion years, that's a lot of lies.
It'll take a zillion years
that's over-kill
nothing ever changes, nothing ever will
a zillion cups of coffee in a zillion shaking hands
a zillion alcoholics, a zillion hardcore bands
You can take your quaaludes
you can drink your beers
you won't feel better in a zillion years
a zillion cups of coffee
a zillion bags of drugs
a zillion tubes of toothpaste still won't be enough.
liveHomer didn't have a comprehensive word for mind.
the psyche and the conscious self had not yet been combined.
He understood events as repetition of the past,
and individual consciousness was not a part of that.
But early Greek thought played a role in the complicate history
of the concept of the soul.1
By the time of Plato these ideas had taken shape.
The Phaedo and Timaeus are works which demonstrate
the consious separation of the knower from the known
and the dual nature of the body and the soul.
Modern thought was possible:
the complicated history of the concept of the soul.
Whoa!
Pythagoras and Orphic doctrines all came into play,
because Plato was a mystic in his own Platonic way.
The pre-Socratic Naturalists saw things in terms of "stuff".
But Plato's metaphysics showed that this was not enough.
This is the incredible complicated history of the concept of the soul.
Rock and roll.2
1For an interesting discussion, see E.R Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational, Berkeley, 1953, pp. 45-150.
2ibid.
Cover SongI'm gonna eat jelly jelly jelly jelly
Jelly jelly jelly jelly beans
You're gonna eat cherry cherry cherry cherry cherry
Cherry cherry cherry cherry drops
I'm gonna eat jelly jelly jelly jelly
Jelly jelly jelly jelly beans
You're gonna eat cherry cherry cherry cherry
Cherry cherry cherry cherry dropsOoh, flying jelly beans, throwing them to you
Ooh, crashing cherry drops, breaking right in twoWhen it gets dangerous
Call out for a rescue
Somebody might hear you calling
And come to help you soonOoh they crash into each other, jelly beans
Eating them and throwing them
forever cherry drops
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