The Colony Of Slippermen – Genesis
Nghệ sĩ: Genesis
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"The Arrival"
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…Baba-di-ban…
Verse 1→ Phiên khúc
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I wandered lonely as a cloud,
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Till I came upon this dirty street.
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I’ve never seen a stranger crowd;
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Slubberdegullions on squeaky feet,
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Continually pacing,
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With nonchalant embracing,
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Each orifice disgracing
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And one facing me moves to say “hellay”.
Verse 2→ Phiên khúc
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Your skin’s all covered in slimy lumps.
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With lips that slide across each chin.
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His twisted limbs like rubber stumps
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Are waved in welcome say “Please join in.”
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My grip must be flipping,
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Cos his handshake keeps slipping,
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My hopes keep on dipping
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And his lips keep on smiling all the time.
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“We, like you, have tasted love.
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Don’t be alarmed at what you see,
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You yourself are just the same as what you see in me.”
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Me, like you?
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like that!
Verse 3→ Phiên khúc
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“You better watch it son, your sentence has only just begun
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You better run and join your brother John.___”
"A Visit To The Doktor"
Verse 4→ Phiên khúc
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“You’re in the colony of slippermen.
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There’s no who? why? what? or when?
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You get out if you’ve got the gripe
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To see, Doktor Dyper, reformed sniper – he’ll whip off your windscreenwiper”
Verse 5→ Phiên khúc
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John and I are able
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To face the Doktor and his marble table.
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Understand Rael, that’s the end of your tail.
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“Don’t delay, dock the dick!” I watch his countdown timer tick…
Verse 6→ Phiên khúc
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He places the number into a tube,
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It’s a yellow plastic shoobe-doobe.
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It says: “Though your fingers may tickle
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You’ll be safe in our pickle.”
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Suddenly, black cloud come down from the sky.
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It’s a supersized black bird that sure can fly…
"The Raven"
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Verse 7→ Phiên khúc
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The raven brings on darkness and night
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He flies right down, gives me one hell of a fright.
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He take the tube right out of my hands
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Man, I’ve got to find out where that black bird lands.
Verse 8→ Phiên khúc
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“Look here John, I’ve got to run
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I need you now, you going to come?”
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He says to me: “Now can’t you see
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Where the raven flies there’s jeopardy?
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We’ve been cured on the couch
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Now you’re sick with your grouch.
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I’ll not risk my honey pouch
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Which my slouch will wear slung very low.”
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He walks away and leaves me once again.
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Even though I never learn, I’d hoped he’d show just some concern.
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some concern,
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ah, some concern.
Verse 9→ Phiên khúc
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I’m in the agony of Slipperpain
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I pray my undercarriage will sustain.
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The chase is on, the pace is hot
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But I’m running so very hard with everything that I’ve got.
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He leads me down an underpass
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Though it narrows, he still flies very fast,
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When the tunnel stops
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Catch sight of the tube, just as it drops.
Outro
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I’m on top of a bank too steep to climb
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I see it hit the water
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just in tiiiii-iiiiime
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to watch it float away