HW: Bob's ranting hanky panky terror???

Christian Mumford cannibal at CUTEY.COM
Thu Sep 4 15:35:05 EDT 1997


The live version of "25 Years" on Hawklords Live kicks ass!! (sounds like
The Stranglers on shrooms and speed, fronted by a rambling streetperson).
Anyways, Calvert's rant kicks into (interstellar) overdrive during this 7
1/2 minute of punk rock dementia, and it's hard to make out what he's going
on about except the original Brock lyrics... here's what the Calvert stuff
sounds like to me (what I can pick out after about 3 minutes into the song
when the lyrics seriously start to disintegrate...):

...<something>...Livingroom... <something>...The sky will collapse
Disloyalty to charity <something???>... God in a lantern
destroying to a scraps <?????!!!!>
Fly me end <ale??> now skate mile <my old???> jail
Let the baby freeze
The fastest ever way to grow your own hair
Then conform commited by the dead <?>
<something, something????>
Then a lung speak a tongue secret lung secret tongue secret tongue <???>
How d'ye feel happy cheapskate
High price of factory morphine <something>
Cool brother simmer family tree safety but <??>
Good cause Lordship <?????>
<something something something!!!?????????>
25 Years <X 3>, I been waiting 25 Years <etc.>

---here Brock's guitar solo comes in-----

Elvis <???> being backed by Elvis Costello
Rob <???> scream or shout
limousine or tight <whaaaaaat???>
Concert London Harvey Glasgow hanky panky terror
Easter country festival line-up
off of the record, the eagle (ego?) shivered
Challenged her berry (????)
We been doing this for 25, 25, 25 years (etc. etc.)
(ah oh ah oh etc.)

Then it reverts back to fairly comprehensible interpretations of Brock's
lyrics (followed by the wonderful rant about standing in the street etc...)


Now, can anyone tell me what the hell Calvert is actually saying????
Knut??? Is this deranged babble a mutated piece of Calvert poetry?? I
absolutely *love* this live version, but I go mad trying to figure out what
hell he's going on about (maybe that's the charm...)....

I need to lay down for a bit now,

Christian

PS: if anyone know which cocktail of drugs Calvert was doing in 1978, I'd
love to know so I can be properly prepared for my next job interview.



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