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A Very Unusual Head

by The Slambovian Circus of Dreams

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moonconjunctneptune
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moonconjunctneptune Great Album. Lyrics are phenomenal.
This for me is their best record.
Fi and Step out of Time phenomenal

Highly Recommended
slambovia
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slambovia More of the same (without repeating!): brilliant music, incredible musicians, insightful, clever lyrics, totally positive vibes that'll cure what ails ya! Favorite track: The Neverwas.
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hillsdalehooker Love, love, love this new album!! Listening to it as I work! My 3rd eye and crown chakras are buzzing!! Fabulous vibrations!! See ya later Alligator!🤗💜
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ruanyc One of my favorite bands came back like an aftershock! Time to get back to going to their shows more again too! Favorite track: Absolutely Beautiful Freakin' Day.
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    Review: January 2023 issue of Rock'nReel Magazine:
    3 Great Albums of 2022 - "A Very Unusual Head. Possibly their finest work..." - Dai Jeffries
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1.
I know where the bees have gone They’ve all come to my yard I stopped cutting the grass you know I stopped being so hard Stopped trying to control the world, and learned to steer myself And now the bees and butterflies became a source of wealth They’re making honey butter now, they ship it ‘cross the sea They’re rakin’ in a lot of dough and they share it all with me I know where the bees have gone (Where all the birds and bees have gone) I know where the bees have gone (Where all the birds and bees have gone) I know why the birds all sing, I understand each song The birds and bees are telling me we got the whole thing wrong Re-teaching me the facts of life and as I get it right My lovely wife is courting me most every day and night They’re making honey butter now, enough to feed us all They dose it with enlightenment for creatures great and small I know where the bees have gone (Where all the birds and bees have gone) I know where the bees have gone (Where all the birds and bees have gone) I know where the bees have gone (Where all the birds and bees have gone) Where the bees have gone (Where all the birds and bees have gone) We bought some little bee chairs where we sit and shoot the breeze Encouraging the flowers and the animals and trees And all the sad creation that eagerly awaits for the yang dang doodle human race to finally get it straight ‘Cuz I know where the bees have gone (Where all the birds and bees have gone) I know where the bees have gone (Where all the birds and bees have gone) I know where the bees have gone (Where all the birds and bees have gone) Where the bees have gone (Where all the birds and bees have gone) (Where all the birds and bees have gone)
2.
Look Around 03:42
The things prepared the way, the way was never found The things filled up the day, the way went underground Cuz there was so much noise, you couldn’t hear a sound Look around, Look around, Look around round round Look around, Look around, Look around The Queen was misinformed about the style of suit They said that all the clouds would beneath the boots So when it came to town, they thought it was a hoot They turned around, turned around, turned around round round They turned around, turned around, they turned around I’m dreamin’ of a day, I’m dreamin’ of a time ‘Cause there’s this better world keeps screwing with my mind I tried to shake it loose, you know it causes so much pain The thought that it might come if we just try again Whoa, Whoa, etc I’m dreamin’ of a day, I’m dreamin’ of a time ‘Cause there’s this better world keep screwing up my mind I tried to shake it loose, you know it causes so much pain The thought that it might come if we just try again The things prepared the way, the way was never found We built a flying ship that got stuck on the ground Let’s start it up again, who knows what might be found We’ll look around, look around, look around round round We’ll look around, look around, look around (We’ll look around yeah) Look around, look around, look around Round round round, etc
3.
Fi 03:52
‘Fi were anymore high I would cease to see and start to be the sky I’d be home to everything that’s learned to fly Oh if I were anymore high ‘Fi were anymore high I’d be true and blue and never have to lie I’d absorb your stormy oceans and I’d cry over you if I were any more high And I’d extend thru space into the ends of everything Yeah ever outward I would travel towards your home Beyond the waves and endless rings of where our crossing paths all sing and echo to the void we’re not alone... Oh And you’d travel ever inward Into me in joyous hope of what might be Created by our hearts and minds In this holy dance that causes everything We’re awed by what our love can bring By pure desire, not design ‘Fi were anymore high I would cease to see and start to be the sky I’d be home to everything that’s learned to fly Oh if I Were anymore high eeeee Were anymore high eeeee Were anymore high eeeeeeeeeee!
4.
Babies are grownups, children are old Future is present, past still untold Hearts scream for love in a world that’s gone cold We gotta step outta time Our bodies like Chevys, they’re stronger than steel Storms break the levees, truths are revealed What should we save now, what should be healed We gotta step outta time Yeah he walked the road ‘til we called him the man We flew like the dove and we slept in the sand But we’re still building cannons and making war plans We gotta step outta time Step outta time, step outta time Let’s get our bodies aligned with our minds Let’s get our minds aligned with our hearts Maybe it’s there we can start Families in China, families at home They get the jobs and we just get the phones But who gets the money, throw the workers a bone We gotta step outta time Step outta politics, we’re all being played Skits to distract while the real deals are made Behind the curtain, who’s pulling the reins We gotta step outta time We’re all from one mother, that’s what they say People of science and not just those who pray So let’s live for each other and become the way We gotta step outta time Step outta time, step outta time Let’s get our bodies aligned with our minds Let’s get our minds aligned with our hearts Maybe it’s there we can start Step outta time, start it again Love not religion, enemies friends All of these ‘isms and vanities end We gotta make the world rhyme Yeah we know enough to know what’s really cool To know what is mean and what’s just outright cruel They say religion but they’re just evil’s tools They just can’t fake it no more Step outta countries, step outta pride Step outta worlds where the love has all died Let’s live for each other and ride the new tide We gotta step outta time Step outta time, step outta time Let’s get our bodies aligned with our minds Let’s get our minds aligned with our hearts Maybe it’s there we can start Step outta time, step outta time Step outta time, step outta time
5.
All the brilliant works of man Maybe weren’t in the plan All our great theologies Training wheels ‘til we were free To love the many and the One And be brilliantly, brilliantly dumb Ooh la la la la la, la la la la laaaa Ooh la la la la la, la la All my lovely friends and me, forgetting our means and our ends Everything that we should be, the lies and the stupid pretends All sophistication lost, intelligence is on the bum Getting high without the costs We’re the brilliantly, brilliantly dumb Ooh la la la la la, la la la la laaaa Ooh la la la la la, la la All the finite comes undone - the letters, the limits, the laws Everything can move as one, we look at each other in awe Differences so beautiful, a pallette of infinite hues Dancing through each other’s lives Our thoughts and our glorious views All sophistication lost, intelligence is on the bum Getting high without the costs We’re the brilliantly, brilliantly dumb Ooh la la la la la, la la la la laaaa Ooh la la la la la, la la All our music all our words, our pictures our colours our dreams Flow into each others lives, a fabric without any seams For at last we’re not afraid, we’ll keep all the good we can share Let the rest all fade away, just keep things that show that we care All sophistication lost, intelligence is on the bum Getting high without the costs We’re the brilliantly, brilliantly dumb Ooh la la la la la, la la la la laaaa Ooh la la la la la, la la Then when everything is free and moves like a big symphony Maybe then we’ll get to see this One we’ve been longing to see Dancing round with you and me, dancing like we were all one Dancing round with you and me......... The brilliantly, brilliantly dumb Ooh la la la la la, la la la la laaaa Ooh la la la la la, la la The brilliantly, brilliantly dumb
6.
Little Stephen Hawking He’s always on a roll He’s always in a brain storm His mind full of black holes They’re sucking in his body But I’m betting on his soul Comin’ back through He’s a force of nature But not forcier than you Well maybe just in scale love But in density not true Yeah you can singularly Turn the whole world blue Baby it’s true You walk among us with your rainy lightnin’ You walk among us and dark clouds swirl round you You walk among us, you’re a little frightning And then you smile, and clouds are gone You’re the force of nature, we are hooked on you We study all your dances and everything you do We try to be objective but the love keeps breaking through Baby it’s true You’re all around us raging storms of beauty Magnetic forces swirl the tides that bind us We long to know you, our objective duty But you’re the drug that we are on Have mercy on us, calm these waves around us Have mercy on us, walk upon these waters Your ways astound us, spark our dreams and wonder And reason dies if you are gone Little Stephen Hawking He’s always on a roll He’s always in a brain storm His mind full of black holes They’re sucking in his body But his radiating soul Keeps comin’ back through
7.
Halo 04:15
I want a halo To wear upon my headbone So that I can find my way when dark consumes my soul Stylish enhancement Spherical advancement Tuning all my frequencies right to God’s radio Hey! Yeah I want a halo To wear upon my headbone So that I can live with great compassionary flair Yeah I want a halo To wear upon my headbone Maybe you will start to think that I’m quite debonair Light all around me Will shine like the stars above It will astound me To think that we are love We are love Light will shine From our minds And from our lonely little hearts I’ll be yours You’ll be mine And as the old world falls apart We’ll have our halos Shining from our headbones Radiating light for all the world to find it’s way We’ll have our halos Shining from our headbones Leading everything into that better brighter day Yeah we’ll have our halos Shining from our headbones We’ll have our halos Shining from our headbones Yeah we’ll have our halos Shining from our headbones We’ll have our halos We’ll have our halos Light all around us Will shine like the stars above It will astound us To know that we are love We are love We are love We are love (Light will shine From our minds Light will shine From our minds)
8.
Stand Under Understand Standing under gray skies I want to understand it all Stand Under Understand Listening to clouds cry Waiting for their tears to fall They’re crying for the colors They’re crying for the rain For sisters and for brothers To feel each other’s pain Stand Under Understand Standing under gray skies I want to understand it all Stand Under Understand Listening to clouds cry Waiting for their tears to fall They’re crying for the colors They’re crying for the rain For sisters and for brothers To heal each other’s pain Did I hear a voice Was it just my own Something made me cry Something so alone Did you see that light It almost made me blind Something broke the night Or was it just my mind Stand Under Understand Standing under gray skies Can you hear the voices call They’re calling to the colors They’re calling for the rain For sisters and for brothers To end each other’s pain Stand Under Understand Understand
9.
Well who stretched the elephant's legs I’ll bet it was you, Solve It All Daily Taught them to walk through the streets on stilted gray limbs like Barnum and Bailey Yeah you pulled a trick with the tigers too Now no one can keep them in the zoo Why do you do what you do when you do what you do Solve It All Daily Well who turned Narcissus to stone Fishes to phones that always call me Who melted all the town clocks, and hung them on rocks and limbs by the blue sea Who put those drawers in your sister’s chest Had to re-tailor her favorite dress Why do you make normal such a mess What are you up to Solve It All Daily Solve It All Daily Well maybe behind that mustachioed mask a black hole Sucking everything in, making rules, lose control Deconstructing dogmatic distractions that rule our reason Back to molecular dances and music of spheres That our ears used to hear before fig leaves and fear Made us deaf dumb and blind to the beauty that really matters Oh Ohhhhhhhhh Well who turned Mae West to a living room Who elongated Mom's favorite spoon Why are your paintings so out of tune or is that the Wang Chung? Geopolitical child out by the wild globe on the prairie Watching the birth of new man in the new land, oh it's pretty scary He’s in a world trapped by its points of view And you always said true may not be true Yeah we read it all in the Dali News monarch of dailies Solve it all Solve it all..daily Yeah what great adventures will future hold Once we have all learned to break the mold Teach us your passionate whiskery whimsical ways To solve it all daily Solve It All Daily Solve It All Daily Solve it all....
10.
It’s an absolutely beautiful freakin’ day But I wish the sun would go away And leave me here with all my blues again An absolutely beautiful freakin’ day The birds have got so much to say, I wish they’d fly so I could choose again To be alone It’s an absolutely beautiful freakin’ day Dark clouds have all been rolled away The sun is shining, I got hope again The birds are singing magical little tunes But I’m just prayin’ for the moon To bring the night so I can hide away And none too soon Ok ok ok, yeah fine Why are you messing with my mind? Where are you goin’ with my pain? What kind of game you tryin’ to play? You’re chasin’ all my blues away Why don’t you go and let it rain? Yeah Yeah it’s an absolutely beautiful freakin' day But I wish the sun would go away Hey And let it rain Yeah let it rain Yeah let it rain Yeah let it rain
11.
The Neverwas 06:11
Somebody told me they’re makin’ up lies Somebody told me with tears in their eyes Somebody told me it’s not like it ever was Somebody told me they build out of fear The lies and the habits, the straight and the queer Somebody told me it’s not like it ever was And we all build this world together And tell our tales and sing our songs Search for a now that’s worth forever But it takes so long Zeroes to heroes let’s even the score Let’s strike a blow that can end all the wars You’d give your lives for it, we know, we’ve seen it We’ll find a truth that can end war, we mean it. And then we’ll build our world together And tell our tales and sing our songs Search for a now that’s worth forever Peaceful and strong What are these patterns, these prisons, these games Will they lose power if we give them names We’re getting tired of all of the same o, same o Our hearts are aching for signs of the Everwas Woman oh woman, the source of us all You carried the burden and cure since the fall Used in a game by a posturing predator Pit in a struggle – a spiraling gender war We’ve gotta find out what we’re really fighting for And then we’ll build our world together And tell our tales and sing our songs And find a now that’s worth forever Well it took so long Somebody told me they’re makin’ up lies Somebody told me with tears in their eyes Somebody told me it’s not like it ever was Somebody told me it’s not like it ever was Somebody told me it’s not like the Everwas
12.
Jupiter, Jupiter and Mars Mercury and Earth agree It’s not what it used to be Venus told Neptune and the stars She’s been crying every night Since she learned poor Plutos’ plight She said: We’ve all been friends forever We’ll never change the way we feel So strange to hear the clever Tell Pluto that he wasn’t real How’d that feel? He may be a little stupider But surely you could see He always tried his best to be Dignified and heavenly He’s just a simple planet Maybe he wasn’t quite as deep But don’t take our hearts for granted Don’t let ‘em put our dog to sleep Little creeps Saturn told all his little moons Say a little prayer tonight They don’t turn out Pluto’s light Hey! No no no no no, oh no What would it lose or gain us Science is filled with fact and flaw But your heads are up Uranus When love’s not greater than the law Fatal flaw Yeah Venetia wished upon a star Someone would still want to play And not just chase her dog away Hey! No no no no no, oh no No no no no no no etc, oh no Jupiter, Jupiter and Mars Mercury and Earth agree, it’s not what it used to be
13.
‘Got a very unusual head ‘Got a very unusual head They will take him apart when he’s dead And his very unusual head Cuz he’s soaring through boring predictable games that they play With the glorious noise that can steal all our sad hearts away Up through the atmosphere Very unusual head ‘Got a very unusual head They will take him apart when he’s dead And his very unusual head Yeah they’re following, swallowing everything he’s got to say But he’s wallowing, hollow and barely can get through the day But he’s coming back again Yeah he’s rambling, scrambling, getting his ducks in a row He’s preambling, gambling this time the whole thing will go Up through the atmosphere Got a very unusual head Got a very unusual head They will take him apart when he’s dead And his very unusual head (Play trumpets here) Everyone sing along Very unusual head Got a very unusual head They will take him apart when he’s dead And his very unusual head Surely take him apart when he’s dead And his very unusual head
14.
Alligators 08:13
See ya later alligators Think it’s time to end this show We’d like to stay a little later but I Think it’s time to go But it sure has been sublime To spend a little time with you And it always blows our minds To see the things that we can do When we put our heads together See ya later alligators Yeah it’s gettin’ time to run We’d like to stay a little later We sure have a lot of fun And it sure has been sublime To spend a little time with you And it always blows our minds To see the things that we can do When we put our hearts together See ya later alligators Think it’s time to hit the road Get these treasures off to bed before our Crazy heads explode But it sure has been sublime To spend a little time with you And it always blows our minds To see the things that we can do When we put our dreams together Goodnight, sleep tight, climb the stairs Don’t forget to say your prayers We’ll come see you in your dreams Help you push them to extremes Yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah yeah We represent the lullaby league the lullaby league the lullaby league And in the name of the lullaby league Yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah yeah Na na na, na na na na Na na na na Yeah yeah yeah yeah Na na na, na na na na Na na na na Yeah yeah yeah yeah After ’while now, crocodile!

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"A Very Unusual Head", the Slambovian Circus of Dreams' sixth studio album was released in January 2022.
(UK/EU CD orders!!! Go to Talking Elephant Records: talkingelephant.co.uk)

Recorded over 4 years in 5 studios and 2 countries, this album is a real Slambovian tribal project with contributions from many friends and a few 'special guests' including Anthony Thistlethwaite - founding member of The Waterboys and Dar Williams.
We know you will be surprised and excited as you experience this amazing collection of songs which touch on science - "Force of Nature (Stephen Hawking's Lament)", the creative mind - "Solve It All Dāli", theology's wandering path - "Brilliantly Dumb" and the vision and hope we seem to have mislaid but can find again if we only "Step Outta Time" and "Look Around"!
And soooo much more!!!

The Band appreciates all the support of our fans and friends who helped make it possible. This 14-track album was a real labor of love by so many. Sharkey, engineer Dio Tadin, Joziah and Tink pulled it all together at the end and really 'mixed up the majick’, creating a stellar audio experience for the amazing songs to shine in.

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released January 21, 2022

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Psychedelic americana from the misty hills of Sleepy Hollow.


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