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Song from the Saturation Zone (78 RPM)

from Quality Items by Eric Blowtorch and the Inflammables

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lyrics

Song from the Saturation Zone (lyrics: T. Pynchon, music: E. Beaumont)

Oh, don’t let it get you – it will if they let you
but there’s something I’ll bet you can’t see:
it’s big and it’s nasty and it’s right over there
It’s waiting to get its sticky claws in your hair

and the dustman is tying his tie
and it all goes along to the same jolly song
with a peppermint face in the sky

With a peppermint face in the sky
and a withered old dream in your heart
you’ll get hit with a piece of the pie
with the pantomime ready to start

Oh, the tommy is sleeping in the snowbank tonight
and the jerries are learning to fly
We can fly to the moon, we’ll be higher than noon
in our polythene home in the sky

Pretty platinum pins in your hand
Oh, your mother’s a big bad machine gun
and your father’s a dreary young man

Oh, the manager’s sucking on a corncob
and the bankers are eating their wives
All the world’s in a daze while the orchestra plays
So turn your pockets, get your surprise:

There was nobody there after all
and the lamps up the stairway are dying
It’s the season just after the ball

The palm trees whisper on the beach somewhere
and the lifesaver’s heaving a sigh
Those voices you hear, Boy and Girl of the Year,
are of children who are learning to die

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from Quality Items, released May 21, 2022
E.B.: vocal, guitar, piano
Eric Jacobson: trumpets
Dave Cusma: trombones
Juli Wood: tenor saxophones
Juli Wood: baritone saxophones
Matt Krajewski: upright bass
Michael Koch: drumkit

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Eric Blowtorch Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Singer/guitarist/songwriter Eric Blowtorch sings, plays, and writes reggae, ska, rocksteady, soul, rock 'n' roll, funk, Latin, disco, hip-hop, Anglo-Afropop, and jazz songs with rhythm, melody, passion, and original comic timing. E. B. plays solo, in small combos, and with a band, Eric Blowtorch and the Bodyguards. ... more

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