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[intro]
00:52
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Poem for Alice
03:23
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In the psychopath ward there is a girl
the other inmates don't care to relate
Doctors think she'll never be released
mad as a hatter they write on her list
But every morning she cries
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS
She's blond and good-looking but terribly pale
she likes eating nuts because she is a nutcase
Rumour has it that she thinks she is the queen
of a far-away place no one has been
But every morning she cries
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS
At night she counts rabbits to sleep in her bed,
but every morning she cries...
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!
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Poem for Lin
03:42
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I wanna tell you about Lin!
I wanna tell you about Lin
a normal girl with a faulty spread of skin
While others can wash stains from their hands
She can't erase its own marks
Once she painted her nails ruby red
Chipped but coloured they're still today
She's lucky to put mascara only once
not to mention lipstick and a dose of pink blush
But Lin is happy and adores her skin
cause it's a map of the places she's been
At the back of her neck yellow dirt from the day
when she dyed her hair in the colour of clay
A blue semi-circle lie on her wrist
made by a best friend at the age of six
Dots of plastic paint decorate her feet
from the day her house looked kind of shit
Finger painting still to remember
the bunny she drew when she was only seven
But Lin is happy and adores her skin
cause it's a map of the places she's been
Tattoos she liked but never thought of having
would have been disastrous to do body painting
Mention these one may think Lin is afraid
to keep herself close to the dangers of stains
of stains of stains of stains
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Poem for Jane
03:29
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Baby Jane is eighty years old
but her body and face are those of a three year old
Doctors diagnosed the minute she was born
a syndrome that arrests all normal growth
At nursery she had to recycle those rhymes
she's been doing this all through life
She still wears the diapers, doodles on the walls
her mum and dad have died long time ago
her brother he prepares her meals every day
she plays with his grandchildren on sunny days
At nursery she had to recycle those rhymes
she's been doing this all through life
Determined she is to put an end to all this
by swallowing the small pieces of a dangerous toy kit
So this Christmas from Santa she'll ask for
a Lord of the Rings Gandalf with a removable staff
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Poem for Ricky
01:56
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Ricky is stinky
this you can tell
when she is next to you
you wish you were dead
At school she has been
alone in the class
her teacher had to wear
a full-face gas mask
Of course she has no boyfriend
She's never been kissed
her smell is something
that makes you feel sick
A perfume she tried
to cover her stench
in the event of when
her odour prevailed
Ricky is stinky
Ricky, the stinking girl
Ricky decided
to live for a while
in the Amazon jungle
to get lost in the wild
After a while
she came across
a flower that smelled
like a rotten human corpse
Amorphophallus titanium
that was its name
a gigantic penis
with a stench from the grave
Ricky took her clothes
off and they made love
Couple of days
of a vomit embrace
This resulted in
Ricky to lose
the terrible stench
of her body and hair
Now she is back
completely unscented
sad and distressed
that the smell has faded
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Poem for Julie
03:29
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Julie is the tallest girl in school!
She reminds me of a lamppost or a really high stool
Birds rest on her shoulders and clouds circle her neck!
She wears a pair of red boots when the weather is wet
Although she's the most awkward creature in town
Julia is loved by everyone around
She can't fit in a lift, she never takes the bus!
She can't go to the bathroom without bending in half
Her room is so special, not to mention her bed!
They are custom-made to fit her spaghetti arms and legs
Although she's the most awkward creature in town
Julia is loved by everyone around
That was because...
Her height helped her to spot this piece of grey rock
in time before it crashed on their houses at lunch
Fortunately saved from an impact of flame
City council thought of putting Julie at work
Now she is the employer of the month
at the local meteorological station
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Poem for Someone
02:36
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There is a girl that i met once
can't remember her name or face if you ask
strange thing about her i think is
that she looks like everyone you have ever seen
Her features are so common
they melt in your head
and this makes it easy for people to forget
Her features are so common
make you to forget
if once you were lovers, roommates of friends
That day she decided that this had to end
make herself known for a great big event
she bought a shotgun and walked into a bank
she cried THIS IS A ROBBERY and smiled at the guard
Her features are so common
they melt in your head
and this makes it easy for people to forget
Her features are so common
make you to forget
if once you were lovers, roommates of friends
That night she waited in front of the TV
for her face to appear in a sketch by the police
but that never happened, no wonder why
cause no one remembered how she looked like
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Poem for me
03:43
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My mood swings back and forth
i'm the chameleon girl
My palette is infinite
i'm the chameleon girl
My black is black
my white is white
but in between colours fight which will get me for a while
City-dressed i wear my urban make-up
i am a highway
I am a highway
a dead end in an open space
a supermarket
a dead end in an open space
but if you rest with me i promise
i put an end
i put an end to all this poetry
no more, no more,
poetry no more.
Undisturbed i lie in my bed
i'm the octopus girl
see me now you can't
i'm the octopus girl
decorated with junk, up for betrayal
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 my tentacles grab
whatever is there
City-dressed i wear my urban make-up
i am a highway
I am a highway
a dead end in an open space
a supermarket
a dead end in an open space
but if you rest with me i promise
i put an end to all this poetry
poetry no more.
i'm the chameleon girl
i'm the elephant girl
i'm the octopus girl
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Poem for Sofie
02:53
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Sophie can't help falling in love
but this is something that has to stop
as whenever she thinks someone is cute
she actually falls on his feet like a fool
So far she has been down a couple of stairs
covered in bruises her body aches
her greatest fear has always been
falling for someone on a plane over Crete
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Poem for Duffy
02:45
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Duffy the fatty
spends days with nothing
today as she eats (her favourite sweets)
she thinks of the days when she was slim
that was the summer (of thirteen years ago)
recall the promise: get fat of love
when she met Mike (overweight)
from just one melon, that's what he said
Over two hundred (pancakes with cream)
Decide to get married, have a fat kid
Happy they are now, especially with him working
at a steak house that serves the juiciest meat
Large portions, he brings kids for her every day
they adore feeding each other berries in bed
They had a kid but (but she turned out)
incredibly thin
Now she is studying (eating disorders)
for a Master's degree
Duffy the fatty
spends days with nothing
la la la la
la la la la
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Poem for Cathy
04:14
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I really don't know what to say
about Cathy my high school friend
She could remember every bit of detail
as her memory was incredibly great
Oh she suffered from splitting headaches
her neurons were mashed from carrying the weight
She was a person who secretly wished for
degeneration from Alzheimer's disease
A sudden fall was all it took
for Cathy to rest in a hydrocephalus tomb
Then came one day she couldn't walk straight
an effort to stand with such a swollen brain.
Then came the days she couldn't walk straight
an effort to stand with such a swollen braaaaain.
A sudden fall was all it took
for Cathy to rest in a hydrocephalus tomb
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Poem for Mrs Miller
04:24
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Desperate ladies!
She counts her days alone in her cell
Mrs Miller, the lady that was sentenced to death
She's waiting and thinking of what she's done
but she feels no remorse for her hideous crimes
The police had discovered in her dodgy back-yard
twenty middle-aged ladies were neatly stacked
when she was asked the reason for the bloody massacre
"they just wanted their freedom" plainly she muttered
They were all different cases of desperate ladies
married with children and husbands for ages
in supermarket aisles and crowded buses
they had carried their sorrow in false leather purses
Desperate ladies!
In the court angry husbands wanted to lynch her
their sons and daughters were determined to beat her
but in the jury box and on the bench
they were two souls who truly felt for her:
The female judge and a lady in a pink shirt
intermittently cursed their luck for not having met
Mrs Miller when she was still
capable of killing them.
Desperate ladies!
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13. |
Poem for Mini
07:56
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Once there was Mini
who was very skinny
nicknamed the skeleton key
that was because she could fit with an ease
through doors opened slightly
to allow just a breeze
Her mum cried ANOREXIC
it was true she was hectic
as her stomach couldn't bear
to digest more than air
but that was all she had anyway
that was all she had anyway...
But there was something Mini couldn't do
and that was going out when the wind blew
lighter than leaves flying around
she had to find something
to keep her on the ground
Outside she stepped
with stones in her pockets
but the wind was so strong
and her weight was so wrong
and she was blown away
above the deepest of oceans
that was all she had anyway...
When the wind stopped,
she was painfully dropped to the bottom
There she remains, a thin statue of grace
to the bottom
Covered in sea weed that periodically blossoms
to the bottom
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