Genesis - The Colony Of Slippermen (Arrival-A Visit To The Doktor-Raven) | Текст песни

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Rael:
“Baba-dee Bap”
I wandered lonely as a cloud,
Till I came upon this dirty street.
I've never seen a stranger crowd;
Slubberdegullions on squeaky feet,

Continually pacing,
With nonchalant embracing,
Each orifice disgracing
And one facing me moves to say "Hellay".

[He is grotesque in every feature, a mixture of ugly lumps and stumps. His lips slip across his chin as he smiles in welcome and offers his slippery handshake. ]

His skin's all covered in slimy lumps,
With lips that slide across each chin.
His twisted limbs like rubber stumps
Are waved in welcome saying 'Please join in!'

My grip must be flipping,
Cos his handshake keeps slipping,
My hopes keep on dipping
And his lips keep on smiling all the time.

[Rael is a little disillusioned, when the Slipperman reveals that the entire colony have one-by-one been through the same glorious romantic tragedy with the same three Lamia, who regenerate themselves every time, and that now Rael shares their physical appearance and shadowy fate. ]

Slipperman:
"We, like you, have tasted love.
Don't be alarmed at what you see,
You yourself are just the same as what you see in me."

Rael:
Me, like you? Like that!

Slipperman:
"You’d better watch it, Son; your sentence has only just begun.
You better run and join your brother John."

Amongst the contorted faces of the Slippermen, Rael recognises what is left of his brother John. They hug each other.

A Visit To The Doktor
[John bitterly explains that the entire life of the Slipperman is devoted to satisfying the never-ending hunger of the senses, which has been inherited from the Lamia. There is only one escape route; a dreaded visit to the notorious Doktor Dyper who will remove the source of the problems, or to put it less politely, castrate.

They discuss the deceptively-named escape for a long time and decide to go together to visit the doctor Dyper. ]

Slipperman:
"You're in the colony of slippermen;
There's no who? why? what? or when?
You get out if you've got the gripe
To see, Doktor Dyper, reformed sniper - he'll whip off your windscreenwiper."

Rael:
“John and I are able
To face the Doktor and his marble table.

The Doktor:
“Understand Rael, that's the end of your time.”

Rael:
"Don't delay, dock the dick!"

[I watch his countdown timer tick....]

'The Raven'
[They survive the ordeal and are presented with the offensive weapons in sterile yellow plastic tubes, with gold chains. "People usually wear them around their necks," said the Doktor handing them over. "The operation does not necessarily exclude use of the facility again, for short periods, but of course when you want it you must provide us with considerable advance warning." ]

He places the number into a tube;
It's a yellow plastic ‘shoo-be-doobe’.
It says: "Though your fingers may tickle, you'll be safe in our pickle."

[As the brothers talk themselves through their new predicament, a big black raven flies into the cave, swoops down, grabs Rael's tube right out of his hands and carries it up into the air in his beak. ]

Suddenly, black cloud come down from the sky.
It's a super-sized blackbird that sure can fly.
...

The raven brings on darkness and night.
He flies right down, gives me one hell of a fright.
He take(s) the tube right out of my hands.
Man, I've got to find out where that blackbird lands.

[Rael calls for John to go with him.
And he replies "I will not chase a black raven. Down here you must read and obey the omens. There's disaster where the raven flies." ]

"Look here John, I've got to run
I need you now, you going to come?"

He says to me:
"Now can't you see,
Where the raven flies there

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