"black dog" - an untrue story
(a staccato children's choir in 14 seconds)
Last night I put the dog to sleep and then I prayed his guts don't stink but then again his eyes did wake and he did come my soul to take so then I ran away real far and then I stole another car but right behind me black dog was he wants to bite me just because I tried to lay him down to sleep and prayed real hard his guts don't stink but then he came back zombified and now I surely die.
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"a ! Toast !" - for skipping home.
My friend ...
Needed a toast and said friend was my host
So toast
and toast
and toast
I did ...
But whenever I toast,
I roast
my bid !
Insi .. dious !
Riding the bus ...
So then I was walking my talking.
Walking and talking and singing my song
The strangers they walked by and stared at me long.
They know
Not why
I walk with my rhyme ...
But how many are walking their talking ?
A ! Toast ! to my friend
Who walks
Her talks.
Even when she
Mismatches her socks,
Around the bend
She'll still be your friend ...
And she'll still
be walking her talking !
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"the hedge maze song" - female in staccato.
Walk into the hedge
Maze and plan on getting lost.
Sometimes you want to live so free and so you start to run.
Running through the hedge
Maze you start to pay the cost.
Sometimes you forget how to breathe and so you just lie down.
Sleeping in the hedge
Maze wonder if your stars are crossed.
Open up your eyes and take a look up at the skies
"Oh ..."
"Look !" a shooting star.
Wishing in your hedge
Maze
...
Dreaming in our hedge
Maze
...
Running through their hedge
Maze
...
Walking out of the
Hedge
Maze.
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(a staccato children's choir in 14 seconds)
Last night I put the dog to sleep and then I prayed his guts don't stink but then again his eyes did wake and he did come my soul to take so then I ran away real far and then I stole another car but right behind me black dog was he wants to bite me just because I tried to lay him down to sleep and prayed real hard his guts don't stink but then he came back zombified and now I surely die.
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"a ! Toast !" - for skipping home.
My friend ...
Needed a toast and said friend was my host
So toast
and toast
and toast
I did ...
But whenever I toast,
I roast
my bid !
Insi .. dious !
Riding the bus ...
So then I was walking my talking.
Walking and talking and singing my song
The strangers they walked by and stared at me long.
They know
Not why
I walk with my rhyme ...
But how many are walking their talking ?
A ! Toast ! to my friend
Who walks
Her talks.
Even when she
Mismatches her socks,
Around the bend
She'll still be your friend ...
And she'll still
be walking her talking !
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________
____
"the hedge maze song" - female in staccato.
Walk into the hedge
Maze and plan on getting lost.
Sometimes you want to live so free and so you start to run.
Running through the hedge
Maze you start to pay the cost.
Sometimes you forget how to breathe and so you just lie down.
Sleeping in the hedge
Maze wonder if your stars are crossed.
Open up your eyes and take a look up at the skies
"Oh ..."
"Look !" a shooting star.
Wishing in your hedge
Maze
...
Dreaming in our hedge
Maze
...
Running through their hedge
Maze
...
Walking out of the
Hedge
Maze.
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"little button red" - a call and return puddle stomp in multiple time signatures.
It's ...
Sal-
U-
Tations ! Sensations and listless creations, the nations at stations we sit,
Our food's in the kit.
So here we are ...
~ With a little button red.
Our food is in the box
~ So we know we will be fed.
Went to work and did the locks
~ Just like our momma said.
If the rabbits chase the fox
~ Just push the button red !
They
Say
If
We
~ Fulfilled their expectations, then
We
Will
Be
~ Free from reservations, and
We
Will
See
~ Worth in declarations, I'm
On
My
Knees
~ And I'm telling you that they Lied.
Don't be surprised !
We all
Just ...
Wore the disguises and won all the prizes
And now.
We hear.
The sound !
... (song)
"Oh,
Little button red
Oh,
How I wonder you.
What happens if I'm pushing you ?
Oh,
Little button red
Now I don't know what to do.
Will you make us all be dead ?
I am fed
And they said
That
You will see us through."
... (song over)
It's ...
De-
Par-
Tations ! Equations make massive libations.
And per-
Mu-
Tations ! Of rabbits do run to their holes.
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"self imposed" - a lost exercise (found)
I forced myself to write this rhyme to exercise my timey lines for lions and tigers and bears.
The lion stares at liar the tiger.
The tiger it stalks the bear, beware.
Good lion the bear
Is hiding behind the house.
...
I made me write
The strangest rhyme
To try to keep
My lines in time.
Every single rhyme is ...
Doing just fine it's ...
Just as I designed it ...
...
So fiddle and diddle and dance to that.
The mouse will dance around the cat.
The bear is fat.
The tiger's a rat.
So the lion must be the mouse.
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"the dancing candelabra" - a waltz, female vocals
Dancing candelabra
Swinging from the roof apex.
Dropping all your candles down
Raining from the earthquake hex.
Hanging candelabra
Bouncing up and down you chime.
Little bits of falling glass
Kiss my cheek - it's so divine.
Slice me and burn me the world it keeps churning whenever I'm dancing with you ...
Jumping candelabra
One last bounce you fall to me
Kneeling down in front of you
I wish I knew what I could do.
I'm bleeding on the floor ...
My house it is on fire now.
I'm crawling for the door ...
Your bubbled glass is popping loud.
Entice me, you turn me my house it is burning whenever I'm dancing with you ...
Crawling crawling falling down
In the fire roll around
Out the door and on the ground.
In the night just one last sound ...
Dancing candelabra
Maybe you can answer me :
"Why did my house just explode ?"
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"on the bedstand"
Wicked sweet witch
What will you do,
What will you do with my roses for you ?
Will you just try
To burn me down ?
I'm already afire, desire has mired
The way sweet things
Once used to be -
Good manners with planners and buying with scanners -
But wicked sweet witch,
You are for me.
I love your green skin, like flowers within.
Beneath the skin
Is where we begin
Devour for hours, the power is ours.
Your flower, sweet poppy -
No secret to me
You are a sweet dream, I've already seen.
So wicked sweet witch
I will see you tonight
To fight and bite and devour the light.
Goodnight sweet you,
I'm leaving now too.
The sweetest deep kiss to see you through.
You'll dream of me too,
You always do,
Someday you'll stop trying to kill me.
Love, Glinda
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"turnstile" - piping bamboo flutes, call and return.
Slip into the night
and dream ...
fall forward not backward, call out for new things ...
three rings
for dreams
the circus does bring
fulfilling your fantasies, dreams of romanticies,
! Bottle the Wyrmm !
now drink it - ! don't Squirm !
and learn
in turn
! some Witches don't Burn !
one ring for your ! Joys !
and two for your ! Tears !
now three for your childhood ! Toys and your Fears !
the rings of the circus will bring you these things ...
so live your most beautiful wonderful dreams.
~ goodnight.
It's ...
Sal-
U-
Tations ! Sensations and listless creations, the nations at stations we sit,
Our food's in the kit.
So here we are ...
~ With a little button red.
Our food is in the box
~ So we know we will be fed.
Went to work and did the locks
~ Just like our momma said.
If the rabbits chase the fox
~ Just push the button red !
They
Say
If
We
~ Fulfilled their expectations, then
We
Will
Be
~ Free from reservations, and
We
Will
See
~ Worth in declarations, I'm
On
My
Knees
~ And I'm telling you that they Lied.
Don't be surprised !
We all
Just ...
Wore the disguises and won all the prizes
And now.
We hear.
The sound !
... (song)
"Oh,
Little button red
Oh,
How I wonder you.
What happens if I'm pushing you ?
Oh,
Little button red
Now I don't know what to do.
Will you make us all be dead ?
I am fed
And they said
That
You will see us through."
... (song over)
It's ...
De-
Par-
Tations ! Equations make massive libations.
And per-
Mu-
Tations ! Of rabbits do run to their holes.
____
________
________
____
"self imposed" - a lost exercise (found)
I forced myself to write this rhyme to exercise my timey lines for lions and tigers and bears.
The lion stares at liar the tiger.
The tiger it stalks the bear, beware.
Good lion the bear
Is hiding behind the house.
...
I made me write
The strangest rhyme
To try to keep
My lines in time.
Every single rhyme is ...
Doing just fine it's ...
Just as I designed it ...
...
So fiddle and diddle and dance to that.
The mouse will dance around the cat.
The bear is fat.
The tiger's a rat.
So the lion must be the mouse.
____
________
________
____
"the dancing candelabra" - a waltz, female vocals
Dancing candelabra
Swinging from the roof apex.
Dropping all your candles down
Raining from the earthquake hex.
Hanging candelabra
Bouncing up and down you chime.
Little bits of falling glass
Kiss my cheek - it's so divine.
Slice me and burn me the world it keeps churning whenever I'm dancing with you ...
Jumping candelabra
One last bounce you fall to me
Kneeling down in front of you
I wish I knew what I could do.
I'm bleeding on the floor ...
My house it is on fire now.
I'm crawling for the door ...
Your bubbled glass is popping loud.
Entice me, you turn me my house it is burning whenever I'm dancing with you ...
Crawling crawling falling down
In the fire roll around
Out the door and on the ground.
In the night just one last sound ...
Dancing candelabra
Maybe you can answer me :
"Why did my house just explode ?"
____
________
________
____
"on the bedstand"
Wicked sweet witch
What will you do,
What will you do with my roses for you ?
Will you just try
To burn me down ?
I'm already afire, desire has mired
The way sweet things
Once used to be -
Good manners with planners and buying with scanners -
But wicked sweet witch,
You are for me.
I love your green skin, like flowers within.
Beneath the skin
Is where we begin
Devour for hours, the power is ours.
Your flower, sweet poppy -
No secret to me
You are a sweet dream, I've already seen.
So wicked sweet witch
I will see you tonight
To fight and bite and devour the light.
Goodnight sweet you,
I'm leaving now too.
The sweetest deep kiss to see you through.
You'll dream of me too,
You always do,
Someday you'll stop trying to kill me.
Love, Glinda
____
________
________
____
"turnstile" - piping bamboo flutes, call and return.
Slip into the night
and dream ...
fall forward not backward, call out for new things ...
three rings
for dreams
the circus does bring
fulfilling your fantasies, dreams of romanticies,
! Bottle the Wyrmm !
now drink it - ! don't Squirm !
and learn
in turn
! some Witches don't Burn !
one ring for your ! Joys !
and two for your ! Tears !
now three for your childhood ! Toys and your Fears !
the rings of the circus will bring you these things ...
so live your most beautiful wonderful dreams.
~ goodnight.