This week’s featured song:
Queensland isn’t the enemy. It’s the future.
Queensland
Category Archives: A Largely Fanciful History Of The Spiegeltent
Fantastic
[wpaudio url=”http://www.cantankerist.com/drowsy/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/12-fantastic.mp3″ text=”Play”] Isn’t it good to be in Melbourne when October comes along? Look at the river, she’s so beautifully brown Now the city changes gears Sam Newman disappears and the Spiegeltent comes a-rollin’ into town I don’t believe … Continue reading
The Reviver
[wpaudio url=”http://www.cantankerist.com/drowsy/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/11-the-reviver.mp3″ text=”Play”] Look at this funky space, it’s such a pretty place I wanna snap it up and wrap it in a carny embrace I wanna take the reins so we can use our brains And maybe shoot a … Continue reading
Come Around
[wpaudio url=”http://www.cantankerist.com/drowsy/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/10-come-around.mp3″ text=”Play”] I know how you feel, man You’re down to a crawl You feel like cashin’ in all your chips But this is the deal, man The world is a ball You got to cop the occasional eclipse … Continue reading
Down To The Dregs
[wpaudio url=”http://www.cantankerist.com/drowsy/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/09-down-to-the-dregs.mp3″ text=”Play”] There used to be a python-charming diva By name of Leila Montesano-Jones She laughed and cried on cue With eyes of cobalt blue And the circus through her bones Leila left a lover and believer In ev’ry … Continue reading
Mister Sandman
[wpaudio url=”http://www.cantankerist.com/drowsy/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/08-mister-sandman.mp3″ text=”Play”] Just because the bombs stopped falling Doesn’t mean it’s under control If you’re gonna call it peacetime Shouldn’t I be out of this hole? I can wear a smile with the best of them, keep abreast of … Continue reading
Escape
[wpaudio url=”http://www.cantankerist.com/drowsy/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/07-escape.mp3″ text=”Play”] They say at times the Earth’s inclined more sharply on its axis And that the moon controls our minds by how it wanes and waxes They say we’re all in helpless thrall to planetary forces that leave … Continue reading
Underneath
[wpaudio url=”http://www.cantankerist.com/drowsy/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/06-underneath.mp3″ text=”Play”] it might seem to you the heady taste of sin has wounded me has caved my spirit in but you can please yourself I might be indiscreet but when I squeeze myself I swear the juice is … Continue reading
Swing
[wpaudio url=”http://www.cantankerist.com/drowsy/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/05-swing.mp3″ text=”Play”] Johnny was a wonderful swimmer Then he caught a glimmer Of something he wanted more A medal of a different colour So Mister Weismuller Struck out for a distant shore. He went to Hollywood – so hard … Continue reading
Show, Don’t Tell
[wpaudio url=”http://www.cantankerist.com/drowsy/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/04-show-dont-tell.mp3″ text=”Play”] When I was just a nipper in Mulhausen I found it hard to get to sleep at night A shepherd to a flock of fifty thousand For all the tales my mother would recite I know she … Continue reading
Destination Anywhere
[wpaudio url=”http://www.cantankerist.com/drowsy/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/03-destination-anywhere.mp3″ text=”Play”] I was Belgium-born in a country town To a good strong farmin’ family And we work from dawn ‘til the sun goes down And we thank the Lord for our prosperity I know what to do when … Continue reading