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The House at Pooneil Corners Lyrics
You and me we keep walkin' around and we see
All the bullshit around us
You try and keep your mind on what's going down
Can't help but see the rhinoceros around us
And you wonder what you can be
And you do what you can
To get balled and high
And you know I'm still goin' need you around
You say it's healing but nobody's feeling it
Somebody's dealing, somebody's stealing it
You say you don't see and you don't
You say you won't know and you won't let it come
Everything someday will be gone except silence
Earth will be quiet again
Seas from clouds will wash off the ashes of violence
Left as the memory of men
There will be no survivor my friend
Suddenly everyone will look surprised
Stars spinning wheels in the skies
Sun is scrambled in their eyes
While the moon circles like a vulture
Some stood at a window and cried
'One tear I thought that should stop a war
But someone is killing me'
That's the last hour to think anymore
Jelly and juice and bubbles, bubbles on the floor
Castles on the cliffs vanish
Cliffs like heaps of rubbish
Seen from the stars hour by hour
As splintered scraps and black powder
From here to heaven is a scar
Dead center, deep as death
All the idiots have left
The cows are almost cooing
Turtle doves are mooing
Which is why a poo is pooing
In the sun
Sun
All the bullshit around us
You try and keep your mind on what's going down
Can't help but see the rhinoceros around us
And you wonder what you can be
And you do what you can
To get balled and high
And you know I'm still goin' need you around
You say it's healing but nobody's feeling it
Somebody's dealing, somebody's stealing it
You say you don't see and you don't
You say you won't know and you won't let it come
Everything someday will be gone except silence
Earth will be quiet again
Seas from clouds will wash off the ashes of violence
Left as the memory of men
There will be no survivor my friend
Suddenly everyone will look surprised
Stars spinning wheels in the skies
Sun is scrambled in their eyes
While the moon circles like a vulture
Some stood at a window and cried
'One tear I thought that should stop a war
But someone is killing me'
That's the last hour to think anymore
Jelly and juice and bubbles, bubbles on the floor
Castles on the cliffs vanish
Cliffs like heaps of rubbish
Seen from the stars hour by hour
As splintered scraps and black powder
From here to heaven is a scar
Dead center, deep as death
All the idiots have left
The cows are almost cooing
Turtle doves are mooing
Which is why a poo is pooing
In the sun
Sun
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what a marvelous song! "I thought that would stop the war, but someone is killing me..."
Another borrowing from A.A. Milne (author of Winne the Pooh). The title is based on the 2nd Winnie the Pooh book - The House at Pooh Corner, and the last verse is borrowed from the poem "Noise". For other A.A. Milne allusions see the Jeffereson Airplane's "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil".
Here is the complete poem.
Oh, the butterflies are flying, Now the winter days are dying, And the primroses are trying To be seen.
And the turtle-doves are cooing, And the woods are up and doing, For the violets are blue-ing In the green.
Oh, the honey-bees are gumming On their little wings, and humming That the summer, which is coming Will be fun.
And the cows are almost cooing, And the turtle-doves are mooing, Which is why a Pooh is poohing In the sun.
For the spring is really springing, You can see a skylark singing, And the blue-bells, which are ringing, Can be heard.
And the cuckoo isn't cooing, But he's cucking and he's ooing, And a Pooh is simply poohing Like a bird.
God bless Marty Balin; he died yesterday. God bless the Airplane, & the Starship. I got news: the revolution DID happen; we the survivors are the proof. The Woodstock nation was always a one at a time thing; a nation in a nation without leaders, always anarchic. This leads me to the line "Can't help but see the rhinoceros around us" which refers to Eugene Ionesco's play wherein the actors turn one by one into rhinos. In 1974 it was made into the the movie "Rhinoceros". Yeah, I know it's supposed to be about everyone becoming Nazis, but check out the cartoon on the back cover of the album Volunteers (and on the back cover, and the back cover of the booklet too, in the cd package). A prismatic ant gets bonked by a head, and is thereby turned into a head. It has the captions; "don't they outnumber us?", "thank you", and "you're welcome friend". Sorta like rhinoceros in reverse. One person at a time turned into new citizens of the Woodstock nation. By means of clear light doses of LSD the way I see it. I digress; Mary Balin and Paul Kantner were probably just singing about Ionesco's type of rhinoceroses (rhinoceri?). This song, "The House at Pooneil Corners", is actually a very sad song about nuclear war, and one we all desperately hope will never come true!
This song rocks my cradle, haha friggin love every second of this masterpiece, along with the album as a whole.
I believe the lyrics follow the album's lyric sheet, but I figured they were really singing: "And you do what you can to get BALLED and high."
@MamboMan ; right on! sex and drugs; not hair club for men.
@MamboMan ; right on! sex and drugs; not hair club for men.
Apocalyptic!
Jefferson Airplane....can you say underated..that is just what this band was in my opinion. I missed the cut by 10 years I should be 67 in age..not 57. Even so I have a great appreciation, respect, and understanding for the sex, drugs, and R and R era or as others maybe would refer to as the Psychedelic Era...whatever your reference it's all good..the music and the time great. Thanks to the The Airplane for making a song in which I can listen to and get high just simply by listening to it.This music will never die ...never whether you smoke caterpillar or smoke air. Thank You
This song has such a dark vibe to it...which goes with the album I think. There's a nuke on the cover, and this song conveys a message of some dark force rising up, so that seems to agree. Anyway, this is just an interesting song compared to some of their other material--still psychedelic, that's for sure, but different--and I love it.