by drbadgely » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:54 am
OK, here's what I interpret from "Tube." I didn't read many of the above posts beforehand, but some of them ended up a match. :o
Thanks to Neck's post for the bulk of the lyrics. Listening to 12/7/97, 12/29/97, 11/7/91, 11/2/98 & 8/3/98...
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An asteroid crashed and nothing burned
It made me wonder,
Do tigers sleep in lily patches?
(Doc,) Do rhinos run from thunder?
I got an ache in my left ear
I felt a twinge but I still could hear
It made me think I would not be burned,
But rather give myself to science
I felt that I could help
In science, I felt that I could help
Paranoid the doctor ran,
Shouting his graphic translation
A fortnight of horror,
Gang wars and hells of wretches
Spewing forth their color
He purposely waited till I was done
To knock on the lavatory door
Accusing me of ruining the fun,
He knocked on it some more
The fun, he knocked on it some more.
And knowing soon as we're all inside,
An apple or a grape
Could put forth a cloud of Mercury
If run over by a car
On a freeway in Los Angeles
Once the spraying has been done
There's a sport made from necessity
You're a portrait of your past
There's a mummy in the cabinet
Are there no more arrows left?
What's that rubber bottle doing here?
How's that napkin for a roof?
Ten cents to a dollar now
For a shelf of pregnant hens...
Robert Palmer is a plorb
A gams, a gams, a gams
Are so stupendous, living in this tube
It's so stupendous living in this tube.