Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish Lyrics

Lucid tentacles test 'n sleeved
'In joined 'n jointed jade pointed
Diamond back patterns
Neon meate dream of a octafish
Artifact on rose petals
In flesh petals 'n pots
Fack 'n feast 'n tubes tubs bulbs
In jest incest injest injust in feast incest
In specks in speckled speckled
Speckled speculation
Fetlocks waddlin' feast
Archaic faces frenzy
Ceramic fists artificial deceased
'n cysts rancid buds burst
Dank drum 'n dung dust
Meate rose in hairs
Meaty meate rose in hairs
Meaty dream wet meate
Limp damp rows
Peeled in felt fields 'n belts
Impaled on 'n daeman
Mucus mules
Twot trot tra la tra la
Tra la tra la tra la
Whale bone fields 'n belts
Whale bone farmhouse
Cavorts girdled 'n latters uh lite
Cavorts girdled 'n latters uh lite
Uh dipped amidst
Squirmin' serum 'n semen 'n syrup 'n semen
'n serum
Stirrupped in syrup
Neon meate dream of a octafish
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bluewaves On Apr 23, 2006
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Cover art for Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish lyrics by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

Fedlocks: shouldn't that be "fetlocks"?

Meate rose in hairs: meat [noun] rose [verb] in hairs Meaty meate rose in hairs: meate [adj] rose [noun] in hairs

Cists -> cysts

Peeled in felt fields 'n belts: He's undressing her. Whalebone: a component of a corset.

Cavorts girdled in ladders o' light: dances in the sunbeams

This is all imagery from a wet dream. I love the expression "stirruped in syrup." Yeah.

@futatorius Yes all that - and note the sunken artifacts - the tentaclesare feeling about the human statues and ornaments of a sunken civilization. "Limp damp rose" ,- very Dali Watch! The consciousness of a neon LITERALLY in a "stream"!

Cover art for Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish lyrics by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

Ha! Man this is just so well done. One of my personnal favorites. Futatorius is right about the wet dream and everything.

Cover art for Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish lyrics by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

It's interesting to hear the band rehearsing the backing music on the Grow Fins album. You can hardly hear the guitars and drums on the finished take - once Don had overdubbed the horns. Namely: the "shenai"/"simran horn" (that's the thing which sounds like an organ, fed through a Leslie speaker) and the musette (that's the solo at the end)

 
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