Hophead Treefrog

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50-11
Bittorrent makes me have to open 50-11 ports
My home team stinks in every one of 50-11 sports
I’m 50-11 hours shy of my college education
I put 50-11 lies upon my credit application
Ain’t no number big enough that I’ve found anywhere
I’ve had to make a number up to measure my despair

Fifty ‘leven fifty ‘leven
I got fifty ‘leven things I’ve done don’t make me feel alright
Fifty ‘leven fifty ‘leven
I got fifty ‘leven worries keeping me awake at night

Before my girlfriend shows me love she gots 50-11 tasks
I got 50-11 small requests but I’m afraid to ask
I hate to get up for my job in 50-11 ways
One crummy sick day after 50-11 working days
Ain’t no number &c

I got 50-11 illnesses no doctor’s gonna treat
My 50-11 favorite foods I’m not allowed to eat
I’m 50-11 pounds or tons or kilos overweight
Aw 50-11 is the lucky number of my fate
Ain’t no number &c

50-11 50-11 50-11 50-11

Now 5011 Loser Street is my new home address
50-11 crazy neighbors hating my success
My 50-11 cups of morning coffee’s not so well
50-11 left-hand turns will bring you straight to hell
Ain’t no number &c
Alabammy Bound
Alabammy bound is an uber-oldie, a Vaudeville song from the early twentieth century.  Since we didn't write it,
we didn't post the lyrics.
Cathy Ann
I got an invitation
To go out to a funeral
From the mother of my old girl friend
Cathy Ann died of leukemia
    
I never loved her she died for love of me
I never loved her she died for love of me
She died for love of me
Now what am I supposed to do

I really thought I really loved her
Till I met you my love and off we ran
Found out I’d all along been telling lies
Fell out of touch with Cathy Ann

I never &c.

I never listened to her heart’s love heart’s love heart’s love
And then she sickened in her heart’s blood heart’s blood heart’s blood

I know I’m a conceited asshole
I know the cause of death was cancer
I know I don’t know what effect I had
I know I’ll never know the answer
My friends say I should get outside myself
And try some charitable giving
And Jesus died to save the dead from hell
Who’s gonna die to save the living

I never &c.
Doublemint Cage
What will the market bear
What will the street allow
What is the cost per share
Where does the price stand now

You bartered me in trade
You named a price and paid
You bargained in good faith
You bartered me in trade

What are fresh souls going for today
Everything’s negotiable they say
Gain the world and throw it all away
Throw it away
Throw it away
Throw it away

I bash my head against the wall
These choices ain’t no choice at all
I’m mighty limp with broke-dick rage
I’m in the Doublemint Cage

What are &c.

You bartered me &c.
Fat Man
I used to go to bed early and early to rise
I thought that was how you get wealthy and wise
I didn't drink no wine smoke no cigarettes
I started to say to myself man how sick can you get

Cause I'm the fat man baby
Fat man baby
Since I been living my life for pleasure
Everything's been going right

I like my coffee black I like my gravy white
I like my cornbread heavy I like my biscuits light
I like my collard greens sour I like my iced tea sweet
I like to have some company when I set down to eat

Cause I'm the &c

We're going to have a good time when you step into my kitchen
We'll have a cold glass of wine and a warm glass of whiskey
We're going to fry up a steak we got some chicken on the bone
You'll wonder how you ever made it out there on your own

Cause I'm the &c
Get a Little Buzz On
I know you're trying to get me loaded
I know you won't be satisfied
Until you've certified my head's exploded
You want to see me get all cracked up high

I just want to get a little buzz on
Get a little buzz on
Get a little buzz on
Get a little buzz on

We've been getting high together
Since we met so long ago
And every day the rain it rains rainy weather
But down here in hell it don't never snow

I just &c

Misty mountains love they hopping
The living seas they love to glow
Old mister sunrise love they colors
Old lady moon she love to go go go go go

I just &c

Tune in turn on but I draw the line at dropping out
A good time have fun but don't let my brains roll out of my mouth

I watched in open-mouthed amazement
As the earth fell silently into the sun
I watched the walls the floors the ceilings melting
What time does Bo Diddley go on

I just &c
I Can't Go On
Sleep who says sleep
Someone who gets no sleep says sleep
Peace who says peace
Someone who gets no peace says peace

And it's all I can do
To make peace with you
I can't go on
I can't go on
I can't go on
I can't go on

One who says one
Someone who's got no one says one
Love who says love
Someone who's got no love says love

CHO
And it's all &c.
Knocking to Get Out
In the darkness of the night you're lying wide-awake
Your naked eyes are tortured by a hundred horrid shapes
Ain't no devil-dog or she-goat bearing down upon your breast
It's a living thing inside you not gonna let you take your rest

There's something knocking
Knocking to get out
There's something knocking
Knocking to get out

What makes the painter paint what makes the writer write
What makes the old philosopher study long into the night
What makes the mad dictator send a million to their deaths
What makes the martyr testify up onto his dying breath

There's something &c.

I built a fire I built a fire
I built a fire and an icy wind
I built a chimney out of solid ice
Till the fire rose up my chimney and tore apart the sky

There's something &c
Not Just Any
The dish not just any dish
Ran away with the special spoon
Not just any spoon ran away with the dish
My love not just any love
Ran away with the special guy
Not just any guy ran away with my love

Not just any not just any
You've got plenty you could choose
Not just any not just anything will do
Something special just don't settle
For just any not just any
Not just any not just any

The cat not just any cat
Sat upon the special mat
Not just any mat was sat on by the cat
My life not just any life
Isn't worth the special damn
Not just any damn is not worth my life

Not just any &c.

I not just any I
Feel like I'm fixing to special die
Not just any die I feel like I'm fixing to

Not just any &c.

The end not just any end
Of the song is the special this
Not just any this is the end of the song
Racing to the Red Light
(Lyrics coming soon!)
Salt Marsh
When you've put aside your creamy candies
Follow the forbidden road
Past the crummy asphalt land
To where the salty rushes grow
The web of roots and rhizomes
Grassblood tangle of weeds and palmetto
The slicing sawgrass fingers
Risky region of fish and mosquitoes

Sand will reach each crease and crevice
Sulfur seasons rack your bones
Can’t you see you don't belong here
Can’t you see you're not at home
The wading birds complaining
Moonsong heard where the tides are receding
Ominous sounds of water
Go now leave the invertebrates breeding

Birth and death must not surround you
These extremes are not your call
Fish and fowl and worm deny you
Seek the comfort of your hall
The smell of decomposing
Tread soft here where the bugs are prolific
Boot sucks up marshmud bubbles
Tombgas primitive scent of placenta
Sidetrack Hotel
Come to the Sidetrack Hotel it’s cheaper than free
They opened the joint back in 1903
The black brick was red and the grey windows shined
For 20 a night it’s now the end of the line
At the Sidetrack Hotel the freight trains still roll
Plenty of guests and they all know
The night clerk in the lobby sells some pills on the side
Wash ‘em down right and you’ll take the best ride

When you get a room at the place by the tracks
The people seem fine still you watch your back
A nervous man lives in Room 25
You tell him hello but he avoids your eyes
There’s a go-go dancer stays on the third floor
Sleeps all day works at the lounge next door
But the room by yours always gets in your mind
Are people screamin’ in fits or are they having wild times

If the walls could talk the tales they’d tell  
Of sharps broads and grifters people bonding for bail
The sailor from Macao with a pocket full of cash 
He acts like Robert Mitchum then his head’s in the trash
A broker from Montana who closed a big deal
He bought a sleazy lady didn’t know how it’d feel
You get off the train you check in at the Sidetrack Hotel
It might be good luck or a step into hell

Come to the Sidetrack Hotel it’s cheaper than free
Sprinkler Protected since 1903
Wheatcorn Road
It smells like the country but it looks like the west
It’s flat like the desert might be a field of death
That wheat corn sundown dusty back state road
It was 2 in the morning when I pulled out of town
The farmers in the tavern are getting last rounds
I’ve been drivin’ all night can’t take me no break
200 more miles till I hit the next state
On the wheat corn sundown dusty back state road

I thought I was safe so I stopped at the bar
Grain Belt, Blatz, Lucky Lager, Lone Star 

Don’t want to share my past never tell no one
I guess it’s all back like I left it
Is my secret in the basement or behind the garage well
I don’t know

The girl at the bar asked me to buy her a drink
I said I’m travelling light you know it’s not what you think
On that wheat corn sundown dusty back state road
She gave me a smile and I felt what it meant
But she didn’t know I was oozing with sin
Honey give me a ride to the junction out there
It’s by the county line you know they’re throwing a fair
On the wheat corn sundown dusty back state road

Next thing I knew she was screaming so loud
So I dumped her by the edge of town
I got in my car cranked up Bob Wills and
Head on down.
Wild Guitar
Everybody's crazy living in their homemade worlds
Boys dream of boys girls dreaming about girls
Ready to take on that weird destiny
To be strange for the rest of their lives

It is an unnatural act
It is an unnatural act
It is an unnatural act
To play the wild guitar

Flying eight miles high I forgot to bring the plane
I think I can see my house from up here I believe that makes me sane
Ready to take on that weird destiny
To be strange for the rest of my life

It is an &c

Don't jump for joy when they wash out your cage
They get around to it once in an age
You've got a reason to set your soul on fire
I feel it streaming right down through the wire

Moving microwave ovens dreaming of love and fame
Tasting the blood of strangers seeing they're not to blame
Ready to take on that weird destiny
To be strange for the rest of your life

It is an &c
XYZ
Put on your wax lips baby
Put those horns upon your head
Put on your wax lips baby 
Put those plastic horns upon you head
If you want to have a demon lover
You don’t have to wait until you’re dead

Drink that Kool-aid down honey
Paint some goat’s blood on your door
Drink that Kool-aid down sugar
Paint a little goat’s blood on your door
You might outrun my big machete
But you can’t outrun my 44

We’re gonna rock you XYZ
	What are you trying to pass for
 ‘Cause if you’re passing it on I know
You’re gonna pass it on to me

Put some lipstick on your nipples baby
Put my beard upon your chin
Put some lipstick on your nipples baby
Put my beard up upon your chin
All the lawyers out in Houston
Cannot fix the fix I’m in

We’re gonna &c
Zombie Rock
Dire predictions from the days of old
Prophesying the death of Rock and Roll
They're telling all the boys and girls
To try to act their age
Who're coming out around the world
Rising from their graves

Zombie rock zombie rock zombie rock
See the flesh dripping off a their bones
Rock and roll has up and died
We ain't got God on our side
Rock is dead let's do the zombie rock

Mama papa told me in 1956
To turn down that radio and it was going to make me sick
Beer and sex and cigarettes
Conspire to make me die
But Suzie Pony-tail never forgets
She wanna hear the Wolfman cry

Zombie rock &c

Someone came and put a hole in our head
Let the air in and out of our head
Got world famous collapsible head
Got a shrunken head got a shrunken head

You know they buried Rock and Roll in a television box
They drove a stake through those blue suede shoes and through the bobby sox
Cut the heads off all the boys and girls
Who wouldn't act their age
There's nothing left to live for in this world
When calypso's all the rage

Zombie rock &c