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originally released October 2009 on 'KINGTIME'
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Narrator:
You better ride, ride, ride
You better roll, roll...

Now let me tell you a fine little story
about a place where once I have been
where mountains conspired
against a lean, starving sky
and the motions of chemical weathering
and a cloaking of physical weathering
and the prophetical tailorings of weather

And the ground was so thick with blueberries
that everywhere you stepped
there'd be blueberry jam
and the bears would arrive
and they'd lap it right up
they'd be so happy while their long tongues flapped
and their eyes would roll right around in their sockets
and they'd wag their little stubby tails
(you know, the kind so their arseholes aren't cold.)

You better roll,
You better ride ride ride ride ride ride ride ride ride ride,
march on down that dusty trail.

Everywhere you went
you'd hear the ringin' of bluebells
their snouts always pointing downslope
where resonances gentle glide
through valleys sloping wide
to the cushion of spruces and willow.

King Narcissus sitting still
at the top of this tower,
he's got a writ and a quill and a cape.
He says,

King Narcissus:
"I was crazy! I didn't know what I
was getting into! I had a mind of my own,
but it left; so all I got's my reflection,
my sad, sweet reflection,
and two feet which move at my behest."

Narrator:
And as he said this,
the kingdom yawned and swallowed oxygen
from the stoma of each rattling leaf
brooks crashed and roared,
lofty raptors were soaring,
and permafrost slumbered beneath.
And the days would roll,
saturated with that crisp, cool air.
And Narcissus would sign his relief
as the gears finally wound down to sleep.

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from NEW RADISH! The Best of Simon Piler and The Atom Band (2006 - 2009), released March 17, 2024

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