"Starting the Record"

These were to be the bookend songs for a concept album which would feature an assortment of weird faux-angry music. Other songs on the album would include “EdibleHamsters,” “This is the Album,” as well as some of the We the People songs like “Three Days of Hell.”

Starting the Record, Part One

© 1986 Brian Hutzell

"Here we go"

           

            "Go, record, go!"

"Come on..."

            "Come on!

            You can do it!"

"Let's go!"

            "Go!"

"Alright, now!"

                                    "One two, on the spotlight

                                    Let's get this song right..."

Starting the Record Over

© 1986 Brian Hutzell

"This has been the album. You were warned, but you listened anyway. You listened with your friends and neighbors. You experienced major problems in a nation shunned by some. You survived Revolution 21 and three days of hell eating edible hamsters. Your thoughts may have bothered you. Let them die."

We're starting over
Starting again
Starting the record over

Yes, it's back; it's back again
You can't escape this strange phenomenon
You turn your back for just a second
Back around you've learned your lesson
Why keep asking silly questions?
Yes, it's back; it's back again.
Before another moment passes, run and fetch your opera glasses
Bring the family, come to see and hear the lecture on the record
Telling you what you're about to hear
This is the album
This is the record
Isn't it clever how we've managed to persuade the doubting public
That our purpose is to amplify the global situation when in fact
The only politics we've spoken were of such peculiar nature
They could be pointed out by any college student majoring in poli-sci
No matter what his grade-point is,
How often he attends the extra-credit classes or if he's been paying close attention
To the lyrics as they ramble on and on about the lack of proper training in the art of alchemy
Turning nothing into something
How to emphasize a point:
Repetition!
This is the leading way to stress important matters.
Repetition!
This is the best way to remember what should not be forgotten
With that in mind,
we're starting the record over
Maybe someday the world will better understand what we've attempted here.
Maybe not, but I guess it doesn't matter.

We're starting over
Starting again
Starting the record over

This record's over
This record's over
This is the end
This is the end
One, two, three, four, stop!
Let it die with the needle lifted on the arm
That's a joke, son.

“Zabberty Snaft”

Brian Hutzell

from Make a Thwinting Sound