(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether Lyrics
Just what you need to make you feel
Just what you need to make you feel better
Just what you need to make you feel
And your thoughts won't fit together
So you sleep light or whatever
And the night goes on forever
The your mind change like the weather
Your in need of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
'Cause the livin' is free and easy
See the rat race in a new way
Like you're walkin' up to a new day
It's a wise thing if you're clever
Take a lead from Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Fly wherever the winds blow
Laugh at life like a sideshow
Just what you need to make you feel better
Guaranteed by Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Fly wherever the winds blow
Laugh at life like a sideshow
Just what you need to make you feel better
Don't start havin' a showdown
Keep on handin' the jug round
All that you need is wine and good company
Another one from Alan Parson's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination", which adapts the works of Edgar Allan Poe to music.
Basically, the story is about a doctor who travels to a French mental asylum to learn of a revolutionary technique used on patients. Invited to dinner, he eventually learns his host has gone insane and the guests at the dinner are the inmates who have taken over the asylum. The "system of tar and feather" is how the inmates deal with the original staff.
With it's repetitive "just what you need", the song doe succeed in producing the feeling of being at a party of the insane. The question is of course, is where insanity lies.
This is such a cool song. I love the way its done.
It is kind of obvious, though, that it was meant to be a radio hit. A good start for Parsons, but nowhere near the mastery seen on I Robot.
so cool how it goes into the 'thus quoth the raven' music at the end of the song
Theres also a musical callback to 'The Raven' when these lyrics play: Find the end of the rainbow Fly wherever the winds blow Laugh at life like a sideshow Just what you need to make you feel better
Theres also a musical callback to 'The Raven' when these lyrics play: Find the end of the rainbow Fly wherever the winds blow Laugh at life like a sideshow Just what you need to make you feel better