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Lost at Sea / Seabird!
03:55
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No land in sight?
No ants, no plants
Where could we be?
I'm lost, mummy please help me
Mummy please help me, I'm lost at sea
I'm lost at sea
We're lost at sea
Hey guys
Hey, how's it going
Nice to meet you
I'm Andy
Hi, Andy
This is my friend Leo
He's coming to visit
And uh, we're lost at sea right now.
Where could we be
The compass hasn't worked in days
I'm surrounded by crabs
Why are there crabs on the ship
How did they get up here?
Did they climb the ladder?
Better crabs than rats
Crabs are eating the rats
That was our only feedstock
Now the grass is gone
I see a ship in the distance
Wave the flag
Wave the flag
Wave the flag
Wave the flag
Here 'em disappear behind the curtain
The ship is gone
No one is coming to save us
And that's ok
Maybe we don't need to be saved
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Seabirds!
Seabird on the horizon!
Get down!
We're in Seabird Town!
Seabird!
Help me, it's a seabird!
That dog is very excited
It's an anti-seabird dog
Anti-seabird
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2. |
Flamingo
06:17
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3. |
Peacock
07:34
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4. |
Simurgh
03:26
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5. |
Charles is a Lizard
04:42
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Sorry, Charles
Looks like you were gonna reptile-snatch that right out of my hand with your tongue
I was, I'm glad you caught that
. . . like you were doin' the calculations
Are all freemasons reptiles, or is it just Charles?
All reptiles are freemasons.
God, I'm not a freemason. Holy shit.
How's it been going, Charles?
Yeah, tell me about your life.
Well, um . . .
You have to.
. . . I got another shipment of stones in yesterday.
Couple tons. Just sittin' in my backyard right now.
Masonry? That's lizad shit.
. . . aren't very happy with it, but uh
But you know, like, they aren't the end products.
Charles is on some lizard shit, as usual
Charles is on some lizard shit, as usual
I like to invite all my friends over, to just carve, things!
Charles is on some lizard shit, as usual
As usual
Charles is a lizard, as usual
We carve . . . edifices
Yeah, edifices?
Out of the stones that are sitting in my backyard now
If you listen, you can hear it:
Hey Charles?
Stones are an important ingredient in gardening.
Hey, Charles
What?
Are you cold-blooded?
Absolutely not.
Charles is cold-blooded, as usual
Charles is on some lizard shit, as usual
So you wanna come over and carve stones some time?
Yes, I would love to!
Listen to him talk about stones, as usual
He's clearly a lizard, as usual
Charles is on some lizard shit, as usual
He's on some lizard shit, as usual
Listen to him talk, as usual
Obviously a lizard, as usual
Help each other out with stuff
You know, in moving, politics, whatever they need
Charles is a freemason
I'm not
What's it like?
God dammit, Jay
You'll actually convince people I'm in the Freemasons
That's code for being a lizard, right?
I told you, we're the Liberated Stoners, and
It's a local community activist group, and we help each other out
In non-political ways
Non-lizard ways, or pro-lizard?
I. mean, you know, pro-lizard, but non-political
I like lizards. What's wrong with lizards?
Are you serious right now?
Just tell me . . .
What do you not like about lizards?
. . . are you or aren't you a lizard?
Name the top three things you don't like about lizards.
Um, one:
Warm blooded? No
Yeah they're not.
Two:
Um, soft to the touch? No
Three:
Named Charles? Yes!
This is kinda hurting my feelings
Lizards don't have feelings
Yes they do
Charles is a liar
No he's not
This is not a duet
Get the fuck out of here
Of my song
You're not in my song
I'm totally in your song
No you're not
Yes I am
In the universe of this song
I'm singing, you are not
I'm a warm-blooded lizard, in your song
No you're not
You're a cold-blooded lizard
I'm a warm-blooded lizard, in your song
Cold-blooded lizard
Cold-blooded lizard
Get out of my song
This is my song
Fuck
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6. |
Snakes Should Get Jobs
06:57
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If I was alone in this world
I would find a snake in my parents' barn
It would come to no harm, no harm
The snake on the farm in my parents' barn
That is, no physical harm
I would ask that snake,
Do you have a job, do you have a job?
And if that snake had no job,
I would tell it to go get a job
Oh, the things I would put that snake through,
In order to make sure it got a job
We are a very serious band,
And our main mission is to
Make sure snakes get jobs!
Make sure snakes get jobs!
Make sure snakes get jobs!
Make sure snakes get jobs!
A snake unemployed
Doesn't deserve to live
A snake well-endowed
Is a philanthropist
A philanthropist snake
Deserves to live
A snake with a good job
He shoots from the hip
Snakes should get jobs
And if they don't
Do I have to say?
Fling them in the moat
A snake in a moat
Has a job
A snake in a moat
Is well-endowed
When in doubt,
Look in the barn
Find a snake
Say, junior, you'll come to no harm
That is no physical harm
For a snake without a job, well . . .
The things I would do to you if snake-murder was legal
What I'm saying here, is we should
Engage in psychological warfare against unemployed snakes
Until all of them get jobs and can finally give back to their communites
In a big way!
I'm talking about seriously well-endowed, financially speaking that is.
We don't want some snake with just some kind of a pocket-change job,
You know. the kind oh job that snake parents say
Oh, they'll just do that when they're kids,
And then eventually when they're older, they'll get a real job,
I'm not talking about that kind of job.
When it comes to snakes,
When I say job, I mean, like,
I mean high finance.
I mean, I mean . . .
He means surgery
Insurance, like, like . . .
He means engineersssss
Engineers, yeah.
Doctors and lawyersssss
I'm not talking about some low-level bureaucrat, I'm talking about
Business executivesssss
Exactly!
Snakes should get jobs
Motivational speakersssss
And if they can't
Drive them to depression
School superintendentsssss
Yeah!
Healthcare consultantsssss
Snakes should get jobs
C-level executivesssss
You know, I think I prefer playing
The wailing ghost to any other instrument.
What is the wailing ghost?
It's the instrument I'm playing
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I'm surprised about how many snake jobs you knew
Well I just thought-- I was trying to think of, uh, jobs that had-- job titles that had S's in them that I could, like, hiss.
Oh. Are you a snake?
No.
Uh-oh. That guitar riff says different
This song is called Jay's Confession, in parentheses, Jay is a Snake.
Jay's gonna sing about what it was like to be a snake.
I am not a snake.
No, you won't get me to admit that I am a snake
Because I'm not a snake.
I am not a snake and I shall prove it to you.
Prove it!
I am not a snake and I will prove it to you.
Here's how I'll prove it to you, I am not a snake.
Yesterday I purchased a tub of ice cream from Berkeley Bowl
And as you almost certainly all already know
Snakes don't buy ice cream because they're cold-blooded
(Ask Charles!)
If they eat the ice cream then they certainly will be dead
Therefore!
I am not a snake, this is what I'm telling to you
I am not a snake, please believe me it is true!
If I were a snake, then the ice cream would have killed me.
I would have frozen to death because I'm cold-blooded
So, treat this as my proof:
I can eat ice cream.
Snakes, they can't have ice cream.
They can't do that.
However, I do think it's awfully suspicious the fact that I've had doubt casted upon me by none other than . . . Leo.
Me?
Yeah, you!
You keep telling me that you think I'm a snake.
But I think that the reptile doth protest too much.
I think that you're actually . . . a marine iguana.
And I'd like to hear your case as to why you're not one.
Oh, I don't wanna
Claim that I'm not an iguana
Oh I don't wanna
Oh I don't wanna claim that I'm not an iguana
I'm not an iguana
But I oughta, I oughta, I oughta . . .
When my skin is dry,
I'll go to a spa or salona
I'm not an iguana
I'm not an iguana!
I've never shed my skin
Where do I begin?
If I had lied it would be a sin
Oh chagrin, chagrin!
I'm not an iguana!
I could never survive in North Carolana
If I was an iguana
I said if I was an iguana,
I did not say that I was an iguana
A-ha!
No! Nah!
Do I look like some kind of a reptile?
Do I look like some kind of a Charles-loving, reptile, freak?
And then we have Jay over here,
Claiming that he's not a snake,
But if he were,
A snake and a musucan,
I'd have some major scales!
And you'd be in a bad, bad position.
Hahahahahahahaha!
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8. |
Iguanas Are Cool
01:19
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Some songs shouldn't exist
Like this one
I'm sorry for what we've made
Reptiles are OK,
Except for Charles and Jay.
They're not OK.
But iguanas are cool
But iguanas are cool
Make it about mammals
Iguanas are cool
Iguanas are cool
Iguanas are cool
Mammals are feeling pretty left out right now
What, like cats?
What would you know about mammals?
Everything, Jay. Everything.
You a mammal?
Yes, I'm a mammal.
Since when?!
I've been trying to tell you this the whole time!
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9. |
Cats Are Reptiles Too
05:09
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Oh, I know this one!
Cats are reptiles too
Cats are reptiles too
Forget what you heard
Forget what you knew
Cats are reptiles too
Forget what you heard
Forget what they said
Next time there is a cat in your bed,
Check it for udders
Check it for scales
Which will you find,
Without fail?
Cats are reptiles too
Cats are reptiles too
If only you knew
If only you knew
Cats are reptiles too
Cats are reptiles too
If only you knew
If only you knew
Cats are reptiles too
Squaring the circle is to math
As this guitar solo is to cats being reptiles.
There's no such thing as infinity
There is a last number
And that last number is . . .
Charles knows
I'm never tellin' you
Cats are reptiles too
Charles already knew
He doesn't want you to know
You're lucky that you have me, bro
If you could see his face, he's incensed right now.
His crooked eyes,
His furrowed brow.
His unkempt beard,
His, um, reddened ears.
His lizard's face,
His dragon's . . .
Did I already say beard?
Yeah
Oh, fuck.
Cats are reptiles too
Cats are reptiles too
Don't pretend you didn't knew
Cats are reptiles too
Infinity ends at two
Cats are reptiles too
You just rhymed two with too
Check it out,
If cat's aren't reptiles, prove this:
Cats and reptiles, they both hiss.
So do--so do geese.
Have you heard of John Cleese?
Where's the Charkulele?
My what?
The Charkulele.
The Charles uku--like a Charles uku
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Tortoise shell
Great.
Tortoise shell.
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11. |
Adele Hates Me
01:23
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