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The Aqua Tape Recordings

by dally eek

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1.
I'm ill for the last time Doctor, I'm done with the whole experiment Write me up as an accident, oh please I give myself a year or two Maybe two or three months will do But I'll pull through I'm ill for the last time I've never felt healthier though I know I don't look it I've never felt healthier about to kick the bucket I'm ill for the last time Doctor, slow are the fixes and quick the breaks All bets are better if this bug takes, oh please I give myself a week or two Maybe two or three days will do But I'll pull through I'm ill for the last time I've never felt healthier for all the funny wheezes I've never felt healthier about to push up daisies I'm Ill for the last time Doctor, give me a drag on your cigarette I'll live to have the last laugh yet, oh please I give myself a day or two Maybe two or three minutes will do But I'll pull through I'm ill for the last time I've never felt healthier when every inch I worsen I've never felt healthier about to take a burton I'll write my own obituary Hands off with your handwriting that no one can read I'll write my own obituary Hands off with your handwriting that no one can read I'll write my own obituary Hands off with your handwriting that no one can read I'll write my own obituary Hands off with your handwriting that no one can read Goodbye
2.
Love Amputee 04:18
He has a playful suggestion that comes with a smile and a wink He says, 'Whadya think?' I say that he's made an impression and knock back a stiff drink And then he shows me the skirt that will satisfy his kink I'm a love amputee, you won't see I was a he, and now I'm a she I'm a love amputee, you won't see I was a he, and now it seems he's got a thing for me dressed up as a librarian Wants me to behave with him very authoritarian Treat him with the hands of a strict disciplinarian In a bobbed hairdo, wearing horn rims too He wants to call me Clara because an old actress had the name He says, 'Be that dame' I say I'll be happy to be her without an ounce of shame And then I put on stilettos and I'm not the same I'm a love amputee, you won't see I was a he, and now I'm a she I'm a love amputee, you won't see I was a he, and now it t turns out that a book he borrowed really went and blew his mind He kept it when he shouldn't have, and now he's ready to be fined The punishment should fit the crime if only I would be so kind He is overdue, what's a librarian to do? He says he will treat me nicely, if I treat him thoroughly bad He says I'll be glad I ask what he means precisely and he shows his notepad And then I see the diagrams to turn a sane mind mad I'm a love amputee, you won't see I was a he, and now I'm a she I'm a love amputee, you won't see I was a he, and now my days and nights are written for me in a risque A through z Cause he can't turn off all the thoughts that turn him on inside his head It's time to put the theory into practice now that he's so well read He wants to undo every taboo I'm a love amputee, you won't see I was a he, and now I'm a she I'm a love amputee, you won't see I was a he, and now I'm a she There's a rip in my stockings baby There's a rip in my stockings baby There's a rip in my stockings baby There's a rip in my stockings baby
3.
Without It 01:52
Be my It, I said to It I suited It, so It agreed to it Then I woke today, a castaway, without It This sure feels like it I played with It, laughed with It To look at It, you wouldn’t think it But come to think of it, only I saw It Without It, this sure feels like it Where is It? No, that’s not It For a moment it looked just like It To hell with it, every bit of it When I’m without It, this sure feels like it If you do see It, you are it It’ll be It, that’s the fun of It Why am I the one who has to be the one to live without it? This sure feels like it This sure feels like it This sure feels like it This sure feels like it This sure feels like it
4.
Here come the ants, here come the ants Here come the ants, here come the ants That box of Nerds was our favorite They can't have got to us out of the thin air We'll look and look, move the bed and the chair Here come the ants, here come the ants Here come the ants, here come the ants Winifred was your favorite Not for a minute can we leave stuff alone We'll look and look for each stitch you had sewn Here come the ants, here come the ants Here come the ants, here come the ants Pesticides are their favorite I see them meeting about you and me We'll look and look for a new place to be Here come the ants, here come the ants Here come the ants, here come the ants You were always a favorite The other day what was it that you said? I'll look and look, you might as well be dead Here come the ants, here come the ants
5.
'You're better off without him,' said your mother There's a hole in my shoe that I can see through Through the hole in my shoe I can see you If the hole gets bigger I won't have a shoe 'Mark our words he'll wear a hole through you,' said your family 'You're better off without him,' said your father There's a hole in my sock that I can see through Through the hole in my sock I can see you If the hole gets bigger I won't have a sock 'He'll probably wear a hole through you by eight o'clock,' said your family 'You're better off without him,' said your brother There's a hole in the floor that I can see through Through the hole in the floor I can see you If the hole gets bigger I won't have a floor 'Is that a hole in you that you're covering for?' said your family 'You're better off without him', said you sister There's a hole in you that I can see through Through the hole in you I can see guess who? And as the hole gets bigger, your family do too 'We told you he was going to wear a hole through you,' said your family 'You should have listened to your family,' said your family
6.
Took a dollar in my pocket taking up space Rich as Rockefeller in my imaginary place I guess I could invest it, but it's more fun to spend it I'll buy a pack of gum for you I really like to see you with a mouthful of gum Quite the bad boy hooligan good sons shy away from And the bubbles you pop tie me in a big love knot I'll buy a pack of gum for you At the 7-Eleven they sell Bubblicious There's Bazooka and Bubble Yum, each piece lovelicious But Fruit Stripe's the one I choose 'cause those come with tattoos I'll buy a pack of gum for you Now I've spent my last dollar, and I'm nothing but poor I don't know what you see in me, and I'll tell you something more I wish the gum were a tree house, I hate to see you without I bought a pack of gum for you
7.
I don't know how to stop wearing the bed Why don't you have my brain in your head? But when I hear Daniel Johnston play there's a 'hi how are you' in my day So if the world should end, good Though thank you, Daniel, thank you Shama lama ding dong Shama lama ding dong I don't know why I bother at all Are you just as fed up as me? But when I hear the Beatles sing All the crap fades away to nothing So if the world should end, good Though thank you, Fab Four, thank you Shama lama ding dong Shama lama ding dong I don't know if it gets better than this Do you think that this is all that there is? But when I hear a new Morrissey song I find an extra step to help me long So if the world should end, good Though thank you, Mozzer, thank you Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you
8.
Free books for all at The Hard Luck Bookstore 'You're money's no good' says a sign stuck up on the door Found abandoned, picked out the trash A J.K. Rowling rescued from the ash At The Hard Luck Bookstore On the shelf is a Shirley Jackson Rough around the edges but gives full satisfaction At The Hard Luck Bookstore Free books for all at The Hard Luck Bookstore Give a little love to a world that was done for Broken spines, and dog-eared pages Faded lines, and unread in ages At The Hard Luck Bookstore Clumsy hands dropped her in the bath You'll never find a cleaner Miss Sylvia Plath At The Hard Luck Bookstore Free books for all at The Hard Luck Bookstore Been in business since circa Nineteen Eighty-Four A boy in pajamas took an Alfred Hitchcock Hidden inside a nightmare of a shock At The Hard Luck Bookstore Open weekends if they're not closed I found Ray Bradbury almost decomposed At The Hard Luck Bookstore At The Hard Luck Bookstore At The Hard Luck Bookstore
9.
Or is it just me? Perhaps it is I know what I'll do I'll take a quiz Do you hold me the way I hold you? Or kiss me the way I kiss you? Do you love me the way I love you? No, no, no, no. no It goes to show, I know Or is it just me? Or is it just me? Maybe it is I know what I'll do I'll take a quiz Do you hold me the way I hold you? Or kiss me the way I kiss you? Do you love me the way I love you? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes With this P.S., I guess Or is it just me? Love me, love me not, love me, love me not, love me, love me knot, love me, love me not
10.
Paint Me In 01:59
2 is Cookie Monster blue, I think I'm thrilled I met you, I'm tickled pink I love the way you paint me in Paint me in 7 turned the orange in a sunset Where your brush will land is a fun bet I love the way you paint me in Paint me in You paint me in by numbers Gone are the dreary, grey days of old Now I'm living in color At the end of me you'll find a pot of gold 46 got splashed a purple that's best My days were numbered, 5 would attest I love the way you paint me in Paint me in You paint me in by numbers Gone are the dreary, grey days of old Now I'm living in color At the end of me you'll find a pot of gold 18 and yellow have jumped into bed Let's you & I go paint the town red I love the way you paint me in Paint me in I said I love, love, the way you paint me, paint me, paint me, paint me in
11.
The inappropriate things I say The stones and pounds that I weigh It makes me, me I wouldn't want to be anyone else but me I got spat on walking along I was seen as everything wrong It makes me, me I wouldn't want to be anyone else but me Anyone else but me is your cup of tea It makes me sad Still I'm rather glad, I'm no one else but me Anyone else but me, you've got eyes to see It makes me mad Still it ain't half bad being someone like me The line I draw that ends up a blob The grime that keeps me bit of a slob It makes me, me I wouldn't want to be anyone else but me I've reached the very end of my rope I'm swinging back and forth without hope It makes me, me I wouldn't want to be anyone else but me Anyone else but me is your cup of tea It makes me sad Still I'm rather glad, I'm no one else but me Anyone else but me, you've got eyes to see It makes me mad Still it ain't half bad being someone like me I've saved a place beside for me you I'd like to talk to anyone else but me
12.
I don't know what's come over me I'm usually the first to see it's a wonderful life Suddenly I'm not free wheeling I'm peddling a hilly feeling it's a miserable life It's a miserable life How did I fall out with a wonderful life? It's a miserable life How did I end up with a miserable life? I wrote a letter yesterday I wrote a friend in a bad way, 'It's a wonderful life!' Different as chalk and cheese I wrote back with new ABCs , 'It's a miserable life!' It's a miserable life How did I fall out with a wonderful life? It's a miserable life How did I end up with a miserable life? I've looked around both high and low I've found there is nothing to show it's a wonderful life I think I'll get back into bed For now at least it's better said it's a miserable life It's a miserable life How did I fall out with a wonderful life? It's a miserable life It's not wonderful with a miserable life
13.
Just like the scrub jay with the racket it makes I won't shut up for the world I won't fall in line to fall in love with you I won't fall in line to fall in love with you Odds are that you don't like me, but if you do I won't fall in line to fall in love with you Just like the monkey that's footloose and fancy free I won't be put in a cage I won't fall in line to fall in love with you I won't fall in line to fall in love with you Odds are that you don't like me, but if you do I won't fall in line to fall in love with you Just like the leopard with each and every spot I won't change the way I am I won't fall in line to fall in love with you I won't fall in line to fall in love with you Odds are that you don't like me, but if you do I won't fall in line to fall in love with you I don't like many people, but oh I do like you

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released June 27, 2015

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dally eek San Leandro, California

My songs are are lo-fi, home recordings jam-packed with good stuff for your aunt nells and your lallie tappers.

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