peter blegvad and andy partridge – the devil’s lexicon lyrics
first build a body
start with a pulse
surround a pulse with matter
to form a solid body:
earth
mercury
ink
sulphur
steel
glass
venom
blood
chalk
straw
rubber
molasses
aspirin
sperm
coal
honey
mica
oil
uranium
tears
opium
turpentine
salt
nitrogen
tin
cheese
milk
dust
while there’s still time
stack matter
where sp+ce & time intersect
at the crossroads
cobalt
coal
iron
stone
iodine
gold
spit
b+tter
gasoline
whiskey
diamond
glue
silver
cotton
sweat
glass
kerosene
coffee
drum
lead
tea
drum
succotash
a storm is brewing blue
drum
wine
a lightning rod
paper
and voltage
drum
volts
a pulse
sugar
it lives!
it lives!
the body walks!
the blues are abroad in the land!
while there’s time still
between two ticks of a stopped clock
chains of unlikely matter
substance, stuff —
preacher in the pulpit
lays his bible down
in the devil’s lexicon
every word’s a noun
begin with the basics for a body:
meat, bone, hair, fur —
lemme hear ya!
meat bone hair fur
hair bone fur meat
from fur go further
smoke & clay, say
linked by a spark in the dark
iodine & bacon, kerosene & ice
linked only by the dark in a spark
yet these unlikely matters
make the body
& the connection sparks the pulse
the antidote
wch animates it
it lives!
whiskey glue road nickel
coffee backdoor crown
in the devil’s lexicon
every word’s a noun
first build a body
the body built of matter nouns
is naked
naked matter nouns
naked nouns matter
then clothe the body
dress the naked matter body —
meat fur bone hair —
in object nouns
in compound noun metaphors unknown till now
shod its meaty matter feet
lightning suitcase valley
in gasoline smokestack lamp ladder shoes
city sk!llet pocket shotgun rose
on its furry back
a cotton lily smoke rope shirt
on its hairy head
blue head!
a coffee backdoor medicine crown
cypress sweat honey cloud doctor
iodine traintrack harmonica corn
the whiskey glue road nickel body of the blues
the cypress sweat honey cloud doctor of its moan
crying steel beans dynamite matchbox tears
for the loss of its city sk!llet pocket shotgun rose
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