Lumpy Gravy I Lyrics by Frank Zappa

Lumpy Gravy I Lyrics

    Theme
    The way i see it, barry, this should be a dynamite show.

    Orchestral


    Surf music
    Bit of nostalga for the old folks

    Dialogue
    I'm advocating dark clothes
    If i'm not alone
    How long have i been asleep
    As long as i have
    Did you ever live in a drum?
    No
    Well then you aren't me
    I only dreamed i lived in a drum
    Ever since it got dark
    Dreaming is hard
    Yea, but with nothing over your head?
    No just light over my head and underneath too
    I don't think i could take it without anything over my head
    M-m - ???
    Well why don't you go out and see what's out there?
    Well i don't know if that's what's out there.
    That's a thought, if you'd like
    Yes but still you can say darker and darker
    I don't know what the outside of this thing looks like at all
    I knew it's dark and murky
    How do you get your water so dark?
    Cause i'm paranoid
    I'm very paranoid and the water in my washing machine turns dark out
    Of sympathy
    Out of sympathy?
    Yes
    Um where can i get that?
    At your local drug store
    How much?
    It's from kansas

    Dixieland music


    Effects
    Bored out .90 over with 3 strong burt 97ths

    Car dialogue
    Almost chinese huh yeah.
    Good bread, cause i was making um $2.71 an hour
    I keep switching girls all the time because if i'm able to find a girl with really a groovy car that i can build up, man, i'll go steady with her for awhile until i can build up her car and blow
    The engine.

    Orchestral (sped up)


    Orchestral (1)


    Dialogue
    I worked in a cheesy newspaper company for awhile but that was terrible, i wasn't making enough money to build anything
    Louie louie
    And then i worked in a printing company and a couple of gas stations. oh at the gas station where i was working my brother had just gotten married and uh, he bought a new car and his wife was ha
    A kid and all this miserable stuff and he needed a job so i gave him a job at the gas station of which i was fired because, you know, he was going to work there. and he had his car on the rack a
    Was lubing it and changing tires and everything all the time. and so then he got fired because he was goofing off, man, and he just kept taking parts and working on his car day and night. so he
    That job and i went to work in another gas station. he took that one, you know, so he could feed the kids and that. then i went to work in a aircraft company, and uh, i was building these plane
    Worked on the xb-70, i was the last welder on there. yea but, it was pretty good bread because i was making um, $2.71 an hour. i was making a hundred and a quarter a week, and uh, yea it was goo
    Ugh money to be working on so
    I got an oldsmobile, a groovy olds. but i was going with this chick at the time. by the time i got the olds running decently, she went out and tore up the engine, and the trans and let her girl
    Ds get in there and booze it up and tare up the seats. they ripped the seats completely out. so uh, i got a '56 olds, which was this one chick i was going with, and uh we used to drive out all o
    He place and finally she got rid of that and uh, i got another pickup.

    Fast rock


    Sound effects


    Sped up drums


    Orchestral
    Oh man, i don't know if i can go through this again.

    Orchestral (1)


    Orchestral (sped up)


    Sound effects


    Percussion,orchestra

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