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Uncanny Eyes

by The Peculiar Pretzelmen

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1.
6 Volt Car 05:02
couple of bucks fills up the tank step on the gas make her rattle and clank she growl just like a tiger and pull just like a mule a wolf in sheeps clothing wearing chain mail wool. hit Oxnard straight from Costa Mesa five miles out, someone's taken my place forget the faces drive on hard don't need nothing but a six volt car just keep going drive on hard don't need nothing but a six volt car ran out of gas going up the hill if it weren't for Bob and little Bill we'd be stuck there still she's a mean machine a tough old pill the baddest bunch of bolts on four wheels ain't got no plan for tomorrow ain't got no map to follow she's my baby chrome rubber and steel ain't got much but she got that feel don't know where we're going but we're gonna go far driving around in a six volt car can't squeeze me where i don't belong me and modern technology just don't get along give me an old angine with the purr and the growl roll the windows down and together we howl she's just nuts bolts and screws i got wrenches drivers and some fuses there's a bible in the glove box a flask under the seat registrations been out since seventy-three don't know where we're going but we're gonna go far driving around in a six volt car old am radio transmission four speed she's ninety-nine percent rust free extra correct steering column, ignition switch oh the smell of gasoline give me pedal foot twitch just keep going drive on hard don't need nothing but a six volt car don't need nothing but a six volt car
2.
Sing Along 05:31
I'm better at goodbye than just ever being good, You know I'd saw off my whole leg just to spite the better foot I've got a satchel full of sorrows, and I've carried my share of crosses I'm not exactly proud of all the times I've cut my losses Nothing in this world is easy, and nothing comes for free Long time gone I stopped believing I could predict whats in for me I've crawled cross town to meet you, in this little bar And all you do is laugh at me and stare up at the stars I don't think I understood a single word you ever said but the sound your little voice had made just rang inside my head Just because it ain't alright, That don't make it all wrong, You don't have to know the words But I love it when you sing along.... I don't believe I can be trusted, I'm not sure of your real name I'm positive that I don't care if it all ends up the same. Nothing in this world is easy, and ain't nothing come for free But I don't believe I ever earned the kiss you gave to me I'd have followed you right out the door, and on across the sea but something wicked in my way, I guess, for you to up and leave. Just a whisper left against my flesh, ringing out like a church bell resonating up my spine from your unspoken spell Just because it ain't forever That don't mean you just let go, We don't have to be more than just you and me, drifting where the wind may blow... Just because you ain't all right, that don't make me all wrong You don't have to know the words, but I love it when you sing along... Tattooed there upon your hips, were two opposing battleships sailing for the war that launched out from your lips How can you really know once the time has gone, You just dwell upon the silence or fill it up with song It's nothing but a moment as short as it is sharp performing without warning no way to know our part follow what we've got to lead us and down the road we go the futures always dark and the past is all we know. You won me in the battle and i lost a little more than I can bare in dark and starry nights i hear you singing in the air I gave a little of myself away, more than i meant to share And all i've got to carry now is what this shattered simple prayer Just because it ain't alright That don't make it all wrong You don't have to know the words but I love it when you sing along. Just because it's now or never, Don't mean its nothing or forever You go the way the cold wind blows And sometimes you need some shelter from the weather Just because it ain't all right That don't make it all wrong You don't have to know the words But I love it when you sing along.
3.
he's there in the dark the back of the room sipping on whiskey licking his wounds the laundry's out the gangs all here it burns just a little when the bar room cheers well its not his song and the story's all wrong got a metronome heart ticking like a timebomb a year and change a fistful of pounds and he quietly curses that he can't stand the sound he's gone he's gone he's gone where the scars won't show well he's gone where the flowers won't grow well he's gone where the boat won't row i said he's gone to jericho he's gone to jericho two time Tami gonna whisper down the wind i'll play forgetful and you confess your sins sitting in the dark drinking overpriced wine when you ain't exactly paying, you don't exactly mind wine kept coming til the sun was almost up the silence punctuated when the dog throw up somethings are best kept close to the vest give what you will and just bury the rest she's gone she's gone she's gone where the scars won't show she's gone where the flowers won't grow she's gone where the boat won't row i said she's gone to jericho she's gone to jericho met him in saint Patrick's asleep in a pew he left Cincinnati when he blew his cool there's a cop down there can't walk anymore but if you ask little Eddie he'll say he earned it in the war poor saint Linda in a pub downtown spilling cheap tequila on her wedding gown somebody asked how'd you end up like this she raised up her glass and blew us all a kiss she's gone she's gone she's gone where the scars won't show she's gone where the flowers won't grow she's gone where the boat won't row i said she's gone to jericho she's gone to jericho I paid for my breakfast with pocket change saw a bit of jesus in each coffee stain you can't go home when everythings changed i held up my cup and asked for more of the same i got a ten dollar suit and a rest room shave i got to get moving while i've some soul left to save gonna go somewhere where i'll carry no blame i won't have no baggage and i won't need no name i'm gone i'm gone I'm gone where the scars won't show I'm gone where the flowers won't grow I'm gone where the boat won't row i said I'm gone to jericho I'm gone to jericho
4.
he's africanizing his colony of bees cooking down chemicals in the deep deep freeze don't go knocking on the garage door he's reconnecting the parts of a salvaged boar dead animal skin sewn to aluminum tin its only a matter of time til she's running again only a matter of time til she's running again He's making improvements in life He's making improvements in life got an intelligent design for the perfect wife just need a little more time some road kill and butcher's twine a lawn mower motor she'll run just fine she smells like diesel but she's patient and kind smells like diesel but she's patient and kind he walks with sort of a hobble carries around a little unmarked bottle the contents of which he's never disclosed but just ask around everybody knows its a horrible volatile combustible chemical poisonous explosive above all dependable top secret private recipe fourth generation its the pride of the family pride of the family its the pride of the family he's always down at the post talking to little stanley he's got packages coming daily but he don't speak candidly keep your voice down don't get him angry keep your voice down don't get him angry remember the last time consider the gravity remember the last time consider the gravity he'll come and he'll go without event when the mail collects no one knows where he went he's out of the country studying his craft might strike you as strange but we'll see who laughs last he might strike you as strange but we'll see who laughs last. he's making improvements in life he's making improvements in life slowly constructing the perfect wife sharp as a tack loyal as a hound comprised of items from a local lost and found don't look like much but she cooks real good got six cylinders under the hood polish that chrome see her smile and shine she smells like diesel but she's patient and kind smells like diesel but she's patient and kind smells like diesel but she's patient and kind
5.
Undertaker 07:42
Undertaker undertaker who you burying today? what little soul done left us looking for some better place? when they laid them in the ground what's the last thing they did say? not exactly spoken but just whispered across the grave was it a cry of broken sorrow, a sigh of great relief or just the sound that fatal weapon made when pushed back in its sheath? undertaker undertaker who you burying today? what name upon that tombstone has you shaken in this way? Esmeralda Tempranillo she was the jewel of this whole town her smile could stop a thunder storm for several miles around. undertaker undertaker, i ain't one for the rumor mill but i heard she had a cheating heart and that heart it got her killed she was married to the governors son as rich as he was mean and though the bells tolled out for her today he's nowhere to be seen undertaker undertaker what was that pretty girl's name? the one i saw you with just weeks ago, she was sweet as sugar cane you were sticking to the shadows as you weaved across the square stealing kisses away from streetlamps her face hidden in her hair. undertaker undertaker, just how do you suspect a pretty girl like Esmeralda should end in such distress? her husband was a jealous man took to drunken rage the whole town knew to turn around when he would walk their way i heard he saw her lovers note written on a hymnal page found out she'd gone to church for more than just to pray as she bled to death he swore he'd have revenge but she took with her her lovers name when from this world she went undertaker undertaker who you carrying those flowers for? are they for that pretty girl i don't see you with no more? whatever happened did you hold her hand too tight? sit a bit too close in that cool dark summer night? i guess you're just too busy putting bones down in the ground to let yourself get caught out there dancing around with pretty girls on moonlit nights who never say their name who disappear with fearful eyes when the hour gets too late undertaker undertaker nobody thinks its right the husband was caught that very night still carrying the knife but the constable and council absolved him of all guilt right there in the courthouse that his father's money built undertaker undertaker think we'll ever know the man? that set Esmeralda's heart so free and proved to be her end? undertaker undertaker who harbors the most blame? the one who killed to keep her or the one who lured her away? spirits don't tend to slumber gently when tucked in before their time there's no ghost that loves a haunting more than one born in violent crime maybe she'll be back someday she'll point and she will stare disappearing in the shadows as she weaves across the square disappearing in the shadows disappearing in the shadows as she weaves across the square
6.
Oh you New York girls, pretty and fine I've gone down past the bottom and I've run out of wine Oh you New York girls pretty and good, You know I loved you all a little more than I should Well it was Monday the subway welcomed me in By six in the evening we were all sheets to the wind Somebody asked where'd all the money go? She laughed like broken glass and watched the filthy floor show Nobody saw so I called it a draw we snuck out the back way I heard somebody fall But the sirens were on and we were in no mood for small talk So I guess that someone did the blue brigade walk Oh you New York girls, pretty and fine I've gone down past the bottom and I've run out of wine Oh you New York girls pretty and good, You know I loved you all a little more than I should With eyes like that there's questions you don't ask Just smile and nod and tug on the flask when she wanted to know where I was sleeping that night I tipped my hat to the boys and slipped out of sight The sun showed her face blood was all I could taste Empty bottles were ringing as I stumbled out of that place Woke up with no wallet and a pocket full of rings So I just spit in the street and started to sing Oh you New York girls, pretty and fine I've gone down past the bottom and I've run out of wine Oh you New York girls pretty and good, You know I loved you all a little more than I should Couple of days I found St. Deivel's Pub Played for my drinks and stayed til they shut She grabbed hold of my hand and her other held a drink We took off into the night without bothering to think I was drunk and I was hungry but I still couldn't care Trapped in the tangles of her wild black hair Out through the city we stumbled as we went Heard the subway roll around I thought here we go again Oh you New York girls, pretty and fine I've gone down past the bottom and I've run out of wine Oh you New York girls pretty and good, You know I loved you all a little more than I should Took off in the morning headed out west and all i could think of was the way that she dressed She smelled like fine wine, and tasted like rye I swear she was a bottle that would never run dry It was more than a horse that could take down old Troy The devil goes picking the men from the boys Watch your back and you mind your right head Take the wrong door they'll be raking your bed. Oh you New York girls, pretty and fine I've gone down past the bottom and I've run out of wine Oh you New York girls pretty and good, You know I loved you all a little more than I should
7.
Pretty Eyes 04:51
pretty eyes oh those pretty eyes pretty eyes oh those pretty eyes pretty eyes oh those pretty eyes they open just a little too wide deep inside great ships collide the sailors shipwrecked upon her shore live not to tell the sirens alure they just vainly gaze at the open sky and mindlessly mutter pretty eyes oh those pretty eyes pretty eyes oh those pretty eyes like jewels that sparkle in the sand torches burning in distant lands crossing rivers and braving seas clawing at locks which have no key climbing walls wearing hangmans ties for those pretty eyes oh those pretty eyes pretty eyes oh those pretty eyes pretty eyes oh those pretty eyes open just a little too wide wide enough to fall inside forever there the remains may hide usurped in whole by an irised tide those pretty eyes those pretty eyes beware young lads adrift and lost each treasure has its equal cost and those precious gems that stare back at you make take their fill well before you do many a man damn his demise on those pretty eyes oh those pretty eyes pretty eyes oh those pretty eyes pretty eyes oh those pretty eyes open just a little too wide well within we live and die disappear in the fog never to return follow the light that slowly burns when the fire goes out there'll be no surprise another soul lost to those pretty eyes oh those pretty eyes pretty eyes oh those pretty eyes
8.
Confess! Confess! For these sins and more sweet Jesus he wept but the tears were all blood for the eyes had been cut decisions silently made behind doors locked and shut precision incisions have enhanced all our vision its the methodic mechanics of exacting division times running out, the bloods draining away the tumor must go that the organs may stay Screaming bloody murder, just push it on a little further Out! Out! Wicked Spot! Drain the infection and don't spill a drop Some were lucky enough and many more were not The saxon's will sound when the clocks have all stopped Til then we keep digging and we don't dare stop c'mon boys now follow me its us against the great unseen keep scrubbing and scrubbing til these hands are clean Crawling through the mud and stained with the blood stumbling in the dark his eyes sealed shut Watch yourself no-eyes, stay away from the roads but five men alive that know what he knows all the Knives all the needles, all the doctors and nurses each body an effigy of riddles and curses The deeper the digging the condition worsened carving and slicing the ivory gates have all opened drilling the holes and releasing the demons without reason the legions committed to treason the bodies were dusted the evidence disappeared Keep scrubbing the floor and pretend you don't hear... screaming bloody murder pushing it on a little further
9.
This towns like a ship that was built to sink, Taking on water while they pass around drinks, Too busy to notice the whole structures unsound wearing their delusion like a dislodged crown The band's on the deck playing boldly on, Waters hell on a cello, but you've got to finish the song. Our song is over, baby, I'm through with this crew, When the horse has broken both legs, well you know what to do..... Chop, Chop cherie, Pass the Kerosene, The engines are turning and we're picking up steam Tonight's the night, we'll set the town alight, The towers will tumble and we'll dance by the light Its them or us if you know what I mean And here's to us, baby... Now pass the kerosene The carnivals marked the games are all rigged, the banker, the broker, the mayor the pigs, Not so much a town as a broken merry-go-round She keeps on twisting and drilling herself right into the ground we're all on the ride, and we're running out of time i'm stopping it here its the end of my line you can stay on the tracks she's going straight to hell i'll kiss you goodbye, i'll be ringing the bell Chop, chop, cherie, Pass the Kerosene, The engines are turning and they're picking up steam TOnight's the night, we'll set the town alight, The towers will tumble and we'll dance by the light theres only one way out when you've seen what i've seen So here's to us, baby... Now pass the kerosene

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The Peculiar Pretzelmen's first full length album released in 2007

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released August 16, 2007

All songs written and arranged by Kevin Incroyable

Peculiar Pretzelmen on this recording are:
Kevin Incroyable, Deacon Marrquin, Party Paul Pate
with the talents of:
Jason Riverboat Gonzalez, Adam Zygmunt, and Anna Graves

Recorded and mixed in assorted apartments and empty spaces around Los Angeles by Kevin Incroyable

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