Land: Horses / Land of a Thousand Dances / La Mer(de)

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The boy was in the hallway drinking a glass of tea
 From the other end of the hallway a rhythm was generating
 Another boy was sliding up the hallway
 He merged perfectly with the hallway
 He merged perfectly, the mirror in the hallway
 The boy looked at Johnny, Johnny wanted to run
 But the movie kept moving as planned
 The boy took Johnny, he pushed him against the locker
 He drove it in, he drove it home, he drove it deep in Johnny
 The boy disappeared, Johnny fell on his knees
 Started crashing his head against the locker
 Started crashing his head against the locker
 Started laughing hysterically
 When suddenly Johnny gets the feeling
 He's being surrounded by
 Horses, horses, horses, horses
 Coming in in all directions
 White, shining, silver studs with their nose in flames
 He saw horses, horses, horses, horses
 Horses, horses, horses, horses
 Do you know how to pony like bony maroney
 Do you know how to twist, well it goes like this, it goes like this
 Baby, mash potato, do the alligator, do the alligator
 And you twist the twister like your baby sister
 I want your baby sister, give me your baby sister
 Dig your baby sister
 Rise up on her knees, do the sweet pea, do the sweet pee pee
 Roll down on her back, got to lose control, got to lose control
 Got to lose control and then you take control
 Then you're rolled down on your back and you like it like that
 Like it like that, like it like that, like it like that
 Then you do the watusi, yeah do the watusi
 Life is filled with holes, Johnny's laying there in his sperm coffin
 Angel looks down at him and says
 "Oh, pretty boy, can't you show me nothing but surrender?"
 Johnny gets up, takes off his leather jacket
 Taped to his chest there's the answer
 You got pen knives and jack knives and switchblades preferred
 Switchblades preferred, then he cries, then he screams, saying
 Life is filled with pain, I'm cruisin' through my brain
 And I fill my nose with snow and go Rimbaud
 Go Rimbaud, go Rimbaud and go Johnny go
 And do the watusi, oh, do the watusi
 There's a little place, a place called space
 It's a pretty little place, it's across the tracks
 Across the tracks and the name of the place is
 You like it like that, you like it like that, you like it like that
 You like it like that and the name of the band is...
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 Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes
 Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes, Twistelettes
 Baby, calm down, better calm down
 In the night, in the eye of the forest
 There's a mare black and shining with yellow hair
 I put my fingers through her silken hair and found a stair
 I didn't waste time, I just walked right up and saw that
 Up there, there is a sea
 Up there, there is a sea
 Up there, there is a sea
 Sea's the possibility
 There is no land but the land (up there)
 There is no sea but the sea (is just the sea of possibility)
 There is no keeper but the key (up there is a wall of possibilities)
 Except of one who seizes possibilities
 One who seizes possibilities (up there there are several walls of possibilities)
 Seize a possibilities
 I seize the first possibility, is the sea around me
 I was standing there with my legs spread like a sailor (in a sea of possibilities)
 I felt his hand on my knee (on the screen)
 And I looked at Johnny and handed him a branch of cold flame
 (In the heart of man)
 The waves were coming in like Arabian stallions
 Gradually lapping into sea horses
 He picked up the blade and he pressed it against his smooth throat (the spoon)
 And let it deep in (the veins)
 Dip in to the sea, to the sea of possibilities (it started hardening)
 Dip in to the sea (it started hardening in my hand)
 To the sea of possibilities (and I felt the arrows of desire)
 I put my hand inside his cranium
 Oh, we had such a brainiac-amour
 But no more, no more
 I gotta move from my mind to the area (go Rimbaud, go Rimbaud, go Rimbaud)
 And go Johnny go and do the watusi
 Yeah, do the watusi, do the watusi
 Shined open coiled snakes white and shiny twirling and encircling
 Our lives are now entwined, we will fall yes we're together twining
 Your nerves, your mane of the black shining horse
 And my fingers all entwined through the air
 I could feel it, it was the hair going through my fingers (I feel it, I feel it, I feel it, I feel it)
 The hairs were like wires going through my body
 I that's how I, that's how I
 I died (at that Tower of Babel they knew what they were after)
 (They knew what they were after)
 They moved up
 I tried to stop it, but it was too warm, too unbelievably smooth
 Like playing in the sea, in the sea of possibility
 The possibility was a blade, a shiny blade
 I hold the key to the sea of possibilities
 There's no land but the land
 Looked at my hands, and there's a red stream
 That went streaming through the sands like fingers
 Like arteries, like fingers (how much fits between the eyes of a horse?)
 He lay, pressing it against his throat (your eyes)
 He opened his throat (your eyes)
 His vocal chords started shooting like (of a horse)
 Mad pituitary glands
 The scream he made (and my heart) was so high (my heart)
 Pitched that nobody heard
 No one heard that cry
 No one heard (Johnny) the butterfly flapping in his throat
 Nobody heard, he was on that bed, it was like a sea of jelly
 And so he seized the first (his vocal chords shot up)
 (Possibility) Like mad pituitary glands
 It was a black tube, he felt himself disintegrate
 (There is nothing happening at all)
 And go inside the black tube, so when he looked out into the steep
 Saw this sweet young thing (fender one)
 Humping on the parking meter, leaning on the parking meter
 In the sheets there was a man
 Dancing around
 To the simple
 Rock and roll song
 

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Duration
09:25
Key
9
Tempo
148 BPM

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