Globe Of Frogs Lyrics

Tropical Flesh Mandala
Lying out there on the beach was a pleasant growth
in the reach of me and you in the reach of both
tropical flesh mandala, tropical flesh mandala

floating in a moist exotic pool
feeling so good-natured I could drool

So I took a photograph so there'd be no doubt
when I got the pictures back none of them came out
tropical flesh mandala, tropical flesh mandala

underneath your ribcage and your skin
honey there's a new way to get in

it was covered in pink scales lots of tiny feathers
valves that opened up and valves that closed very tight together
tropical flesh mandala, tropical flesh mandala

on the night the creature came ashore
someone told Joanna what they're for


Vibrating
Cross-legged on the bed she gazed across the town
her shadow climbed the wall until the sun went down
she bought a china pug it lay there on the bed
and in the paper bag she could just see its head
She was vibrating She was vibrating She was vibrating

and in an adoring pose he shriveled up and died
until his bones were stems upon the grass they dried
and made an alphabet of white upon the green
and it was beautiful and some would say obscene
she was vibrating she was vibrating she was vibrating

and in the demon's hat discolored flowers grew
and they had fleshy stems and fleshy petals too
to slither is divine to multifoliate
she just lost her watch she couldn't concentrate
she was vibrating she was vibrating she was vibrating
she was vibrating she was vibrating she was vibrating


Balloon Man
I was walking up Sixth avenue when came right up to me
he was round and fat and spherical with the biggest grin I ever seen
he bounced on up toward me but before we could be introduced
he blew up very suddenly I guess his name was probably Bruce
and I laughed like I always do and I cried like I cry for you
and balloon man blew up in my hand

he spattered me with tomatoes, hummos, chickpeas and some strips of skin
so I made a right on 44th and I washed my hands when I got in
and it rained like a slow divorce and I wished I could buy a horse
and balloon man blew up in my hand

I was walking up sixth avenue when balloon man blew up in my face
there were loads of them on Bryant Park so I didn't feel out of place
there must have been a plague of them on the TV when I came home late
They were guzzling marshmellows and jumping off the Empire state
and I laughed like I always do and I cried like I cry for you
and balloon man blew up in my hand, balloon man blew up in my hand

Luminous Rose
Oh the bodies of drowned sailors and dead airmen
flounder upside down beneath the roaring wave
and the fishes eat the flesh from off their fingers
and the sea is so much deeper than the grave
and the pale English stone stands alone over me
oh the bodies rise and fall in slow motion
as the flesh gives way to coral and her charms
if you listen hard you'll hear the sea is breathing
and she's waiting there to hold you in her arms
and the pale English sun shone over me

oh the telegram is lying on the table
you left it there you can't believe its true
God finds you naked and he leaves you dying
what happens in between is up to you
and the luminous rose glows over me over me


Sleeping With Your Devil Mask
I see the birdies in the trees I see the fishes in the seas
and perching on the garden wall I see the man that made it all
I see the sand, I see the stones I see right through into your bones
your skeleton can dance all night and caper beneath the swaying light
sleeping with your devil mask is all I want to do
and when I stop it means I'm through with you
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah

so welcome Mr. Dennis Forbes who's brought along his perspect orbs
and they are full of leather peas that rattle like a slow disease
I've got to have a nasty thought because of all the stuff I bought
from sultry Mr. Garrick Hobbs who does a load of useless jobs
and in the chapel after lunch they used to cluster in a bunch
sleeping with your devil mask is all I wanna do
and when I stop it means I'm through with you
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah

it's all compulsion, there's no choice my mother's second name is Joyce
and once when she was very young she saw a cellist being hung
thirteen men with long black heads all came and stood around her bed
and when the morning light came in she saw their heads had all caved in
their rotting brains fell to the floor and crawled away towards the door
sleeping with your Devil mask is all I wanna do
and when I stop it means I'm through with you
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah

the organism rapes itself as it gives birth upon the shelf
and over where the magpie struts a flower billows from my guts
some things go in some things go out and next time back I'll come back a trout


Unsettled
What can I say to you?

Batter engines pack a swallow piston in you shatter inches bell
bloody glass eruption it embarrassed of the seven druids
muscle-bound instructions over patient forest fire
in the month the dogs expire

helicopter pepper cord I'm ram impatient swallow on patrol
gotta leave her heart plug in her dinner service multiply my
cat a role is friendship easy fear and pattern lease
suddenly the feeling of you leaves

everybody fourteen-points in session buy a rusty pair of clint
should in fact potatoes straddles rockery of hairy mythic
mental dung-heap flurry over shot lasagna breeds
in a hollow shoe the mincemeat seeds for you
everything breathes for you

get a heart exact tomato flourish on a spike of greedy prawns
if a base were dug moussaka Al unwraps the biscuit in you
drummer moral bombs excepted every turning bends away
running off a cross the troubled hey do you what can I say to you
what can I say to you what can I say to you



Chinese Bones
Watching Romeo dissolve I was tempted to join him
by the mirror of the lake where the statues unfurled
I had never seen a man so abuse his reflection
as the light shines through your Chinese bones
watching Juliet unrobe I would hasten toward her
but around her feet I sat that her serpent was curled
and her eyeballs had rolled up so her pupils had vanished
and the light shines through your Chinese bones
as the light shines through your Chinese bones

I met an interesting dwarf and I told him a story
as he walked towards the East then the shadow was right
something Shakespeare never said was 'you've got to be kidding'
as the light shines through your Chinese bones
as the light shines through your Chinese bones
the line between us is so thin I might as well be you
and everywhere I've ever been I know you're going to
Chinese bones


Globe of Frogs {acoustic}
And when she feeds the flowers up they rise their pretty little heads
and when she waters them they glow and smirk and smile in their beds
and in a globe of frogs we're making love and looking on
and in a globe of frogs we're making love and moving on

And when she walks across the floorboards how they creak and ooze and moan
(I want you)
and when she walks across the floorboards they're so glads she's on her own
and in a globe of frogs we lie on sack and moving on
and in a globe of frogs we lie on dark and saying:
"Mrs. Watson all your children have been certified insane"
and I want you

And when the night comes down the houses close their doors and dream of her
their shuttered eyes are closed inside their curtains wrap around her form
and in a globe of frogs we're linking tongues and moving on
and in a globe of frogs you know what's right you know it

Mrs. Watson you've been certified as good as gold
and I want you and I want you


Ain't you never seen a disembodied soul before?
Ain't you never seen a soul seeking incarnation? Information?

And when she feeds the fish they flip and jerk and wriggle in the pond
(I want you)
and when she hands them things they all perk up and nibble on her thumb
and in a globe of frogs the moth unfurls its moistened wings
and in a globe of frogs a soul appears the words made flesh



The Shapes Between Us Turn to Animals
Desires muck and algae were the shadows on the wall
glasses shatter ornaments on to the ground they fall
our hair like anemone's that wave beneath the seas
our fingers are like the fingers of baboons up in the trees
and the shapes between us turn into animals
the shapes between us

The lion is your anger as it smashes up the chair
the zebra is my answers as your pounding up the stairs
that's black and white and yes and no and can't make up it's mind
when you gonna see that love is dumb as well as blind
oh the shapes between us turn into animals
the shapes between us

when the night is over and the dawn comes shining through
everything is smashed to bits including me and you
the animals are snoring open-mouthed inside the cage
waiting for the wine to turn and ache into a rage
'cause the shapes between us turn into animals
the shapes between us

Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)
There's a house burning down on the radio, but
we're in love we don't mind we're as far as I can tell
everyone worries so much about themselves
there's nothing happening to you that means anything at all

there's a plane crashing down on the studio, but
we're in luck we're not there so we're somewhere else instead
everyone wishes so much upon themselves
there's not a thing that you can do that'll make me come again

there's a house burning down on the radio, but
we're in love we don't mind we're as far as I can tell
everyone worries so much about themselves
there's nothing happening to you that means anything at all