Carnival
In this carnival each one wears a mask
the demons know on who to laugh
The thin are fat the fat are thin
the fallen sinner has no sin
In this carnival the poor rule the estate
the rich their peasants rule their fate
The holy man are now whores
the whores with piety do bore
In this carnival thinkers are unsure
while cretins write books by the score
The angels in the bowls of hell
the healthy now are all unwell
Uniform
Good manners are what a man must have
Restraint discipline we should feel glad
We can’t express what we feel
We must be meek mild and brought to heel
We cannot laugh at the feast of fools
Without our piety become sins tool
Delude ourselves decorums yoke
Our freedom must be choked
Wear your uniform and laugh they fuck you up the arse
The carnival it must be shut
For if we think our throats they’ll cut
Wear your uniform and lie every day until you die
Family in my Mouth
I have a family they live in my mouth
They’re drunk on my booze and shouting out
I want them evicted chuck them out
Squatters from hell the directions south
I got a family in [x3] in my mouth
They shit on my teeth they piss on my gums
They eat my food Vomit on my tongue
They don’t pay rent Argue a lot
They got guns Some of them are shot
Gives me bad breath Their corpses decay
Keep me awake come out and play
They drill holes in my teeth[x2]
The mothers a whore the fathers a thief
I’m going to court to get them chucked out
I want them evicted from my mouth
In my root canal they’ve built boats
On my saliva surf and float
Logic in this World
There’s logic in this world it’s not the same as yours
The bad are the good people good thieves and whores
What you regard as chaos is all ordered here
What you regard as normal here is thought as queer
Everything is opposite to what it does seem
Everything that’s dirty hear it is clean
For here it is simply the world upside down Your logic hear all of it drowns
The actions which appear in your world to all be mad
In this world are all logical rational not bad
So throw away your prejudice what is sane and good
Then this world that you see can then be understood
So rather than on water choke See clearly that this is God’s little joke
When God is feeling a little bored
He turns us upside down the skies now the floor
And twice upside down is back up the right way
Except what’s the wrong and the right whoes to say
So a few times a day or a week month or year
Everything rational turns suddenly queer
How long this lasts of course noone can say
Perhaps for an eon a year or a day
But one things for certain one thing is sure
The world upside down will always endure
Fat Face
Shit and bile pus and puke vicious your bodies rebuke
Diahorea got it bad what was it that you had
Fat face open for business a devouring orifice
Copulating towards death eating your poison breath
Appetite tainted tripe the sewers go on strike
Dribble sweat vomit gab till you’re on a marble slab
Now you fart methane bites you could set yourself alight
Excrement toss it at the crowd profanities scream out loud
After your labours sold one day wake up and you’re old
You’re mother was so fat you couldn’t get out of her twat
An unborn baby you was trapped you was trapped in her twat
World Upside Down
You climb down mountains place the flag in base camp
The town’s dignitaries are all alcoholic tramps
The poor live in penthouses the rich live in the slums
Poor children grade A students rich delinquent bums
Cat burglars leave money and jewelry in your home
Ring for an appointment when they visit your home
Whores give you money when with them you have sex
The rapists ask permission and which positions best
The National Galleries are now all filled with fakes
Original old masters can be bought at garden fetes
The best writers and artists always win the prize
The doctors battle hard to stop you from being alive
At your birth everybody breaks down and cries
At your funeral they cheer that you have died
The sky is blue and sunny you feel down
When it’s grim and gray you’re happy as a clown
The worlds upside down
What have you done with our Baby?
What have you done with our baby what have you done with our child?
Have you put in a mincer and out of her made a pie
Put her in the waste disposal unit giggled as she cried
Thrown her out the window heard the sickening thud
Cut her throat drained her veins and drunk her blood
Drop her on the motorway juggernaughts her smash
Leave her in a dark alley a psychopath her slashed
Did you bury her alive in a shallow grave she lies
What have you done with baby has our baby died
Did you throw her out to sea feed her to the dogs
Throw her on the fire to be consumed by burning logs
Did you sell her for adoption take the ready cash
Beat the life out of her in a temper you her thrashed
Torture her abuse her your mind foul and depraved
Or sell her to a brothel where now she is a slave
Throttle her with your bare hands when she woke you with her cries
What have you done with baby has our baby died
Satan Does You Bless
You wake up the alarm clock
the fan you do fan
Wear high heels and stillettoes
a hairy macho man
Buddha’s are all-uptight
they’re all nervous wrecks
Satan Does You Bless
The angels are all junkies
weapon dealers on the game
The lions in the zoo
their keepers try to tame
You need drugs and weapons
to get through customs check
Satan Does You Bless
You drive your car blindfolded
and always in reverse
You see someone who drives well
at them you do curse
Fall asleep in the morning
wake up and get undressed
Satan Does You Bless
When you meet the Queen
you must always fart
If you make great music
the critics call it art
You wake up your bed is neat
get up and it you mess
Satan Does You Bless
Charities take money
from the very poor
The crowds all boo the player
who a goal has scored
The more nervous the moment
The less it makes you stressed
Satan Does You Bless
If someone is disfigured
at them you must stare
In polite society
now everybody swears [fucking cunt]
The more you clean your teeth
more poisonous your breath
Satan Does You Bless
If you leave your flat too early
you will arrive late
If you’re careful with the crockery
all of it will break
Satan Does You Bless
Franks Crumhorn
Dirty Slut
you don’t believe or have faith to believe is a mistake
Joseph Mary how they fucked Mary was a dirty slut
A man dressed as a woman a woman as a man
The dignitary is a fool the priest now is damned
A pig he shouts obsceneties copulates with a cow
A cat is barking like a dog a dog turns round and meows
Everyone is laughing at the carnival of life
Undertakers having sex with the baker’s deceased wife
Ghosts come from the graveyard dance the night away
Losers win a fortune with the cards they play
Everything is topsyturvey funny upside down
Clowns have taken over the running of this town
Joseph Mary they fucked Mary was a dirty slut
Sermon
Snakes and Ladders
Climb up the snakes down the ladders in this game you play
You win a hand of poker it’s you who’s going to pay
You score the winning goal it’s you who’s going to lose
If you offer beggars money they will all refuse
The good the just the righteous you shall go to Hell
More you wash yourself the more you’re going to smell
The evil are in heaven playing harps all day
Queer bashers have handbags and have all turned gay
Vampires their blood donate whores all give love
If you put a leach upon your skin it will give you blood
Pigs will fly
All science is a fact on logic and data we will act
Holy men are all cracked the truth alone we do back
No I say only faith you’re science will you’re soul break
Cannot hope to know the truth pig flew out of my tooth
A pig had wings it flew about carnival laughs and shout
Scientists filled with doubt hallucination they shout
Pig flew up flashed a smile thought we’ll wake up in awhile
But they all knew it was no dream and now they wonder what’s it means
‘Every thing is possible’ the pig she did say
She flapped her wings and then flew away
Life is simply like a dream nothing here is as it seems
The carnival they’re breaking free of this bullshit you and me
God is here god he laughs then disappears up your arse
All your science all facts just wait in line to be smashed
Save our Souls
This storm is endless it goes on and on
It rips you open unless you’re strong
It carries you up into the stars
This storm is violent this storm is hard
Save our souls
With anger and menace we know it strikes
God’s malevolence will strike us tonight
And in this chaos we stand and frown
We know this worlds gone upside down
In the church on the altar stands the Southern Cross
Jesus and the angels now in hell are lost
God is now clean-shaven and sprouted little horns
They’re all happy up in hell in heaven they’re forlorn
God Satan tries to him tempt
The landlord comes around my house to pay me the rent
The Vatican’s a brothel it’s chief pimp’s the pope
Satan feeds the starving and fills their souls with hope
The mad man of the curtains
The mad man in the curtains has come on you to feed
He wants to rip you open he wants to watch you bleed
He wants each sense emotion in you to denude
He wants each rational thought in you to confuse
The mad man of the curtain wants to fill you with unease
He wants to take your mind and fill it with disease
He wants to fill you with self-loathing and disgust
Abuse every moment of naivete and trust
The mad man of the curtain wants to make a fool of you
Rip out your self-respect and on it stamps and chews
He wants to humiliate beat you black and blue
He wants to pervert and twist each decent thing in you
The mad man of the curtain wants to rip you limb from limb
Leave you a shattered shell bloated with every sin
He wants to leave you disorientated and destroyed
A gaping orifice for girl animal or boy
The mad man of the curtains
The Archa Theatre opens its fall season with the premiere of its new production Zde jsem člověkem! Here I am Human! The new project, a collaboration between the British band The Tiger Lillies, director Jiří Havelka and Irish dramatist Jocelyn Clarke, will have its premiere on September 19 2010.
The Archa Theatre has in recent years become a home stage for The Tiger Lillies. Ondřej Hrab, the artistic director of the theatre, said: “After a series of annual concerts we approached the band with an offer to create an original musical show for the Archa Theatre. The Tiger Lillies accepted the offer and created a number of new songs, which are thematically linked to François Rabelais’s medieval novel Gargantua and Pantagruel. The lyrics of these songs are characterized by the distinctive logic of depravity, the world turned upside down, constant oscillation between “upper” and “lower” social classes and fascination with various manifestations of carnality.”
15 Songs, fold out digi-pack, 12 page colour booklet.
credits:
Music and lyrics: The Tiger Lillies
Martyn: Harmonium, Piano, Uke & Accordion
Adrian S: Uke Bass, Upright Bass & Saw
Adrian H: Drums
Frank Wolf (RIP) to whom we dedicate this album played Crumhorn and cooked pasta
Recorded and mixed by James Locke, Edinburgh. Franks Crumhorn recorded by Stephen Wolf at O Tone Studio, Hamburg
CD Artwork by Bandini
Producer: Ondřej Hrab, Archa Theatre, Prague
Director: Jiří Havelka
Script: Jocelyn Clarke
Sets: Dáda Němeček
Photography: David Kumermann.
The songs were created for Zde jsem člověkem! Here I am Human! produced by the Archa Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic.
