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Sous Chef
03:58
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Sous chef – wrong side of a Saturday
Bored stiff – nouveau cuisine’s so yesterday
Yes, Chef – I’ll have it up right away
Sudden death – knife out, splatter away
Osso buco Milanese, with a side of your eyes
Pan seared duck breast with plasma reduction,
and a knife through your…
Head chef – the main course on a Saturday
Fusion food – California, Mandalay
One bad review – customers turn away
Invite him back –
Baked atlantic salmon with bad brains
in a special metal dish for two
Flourless chocolate torte drizzled with blood
Special tonight – yeah, it’s you
They call me splatter chef
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Ambush!
02:48
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Newbie Mime meets halfling Ranger
entrance to the cave of Time
Spells are cast to ward off danger
Halfling turns and says to mime
"enter in, my friend..."
AAAAH! ... Goblins! ... 48 hit points!
AAAAH! ... Rock Trolls! ... 10 Clubs!
AAAAH! ... Bugbear! ... What the fuck is that?
Ranger jumps and slices goblins
Trolls are getting set to smash
Dungeon Master rolls a seven
Got to check our armor class
AAAAH! ... Skeleton! ... Made of bone!
AAAAH! ... Basilisk! ...Turn to stone!
AAAAH! ... Harpy! ... Stinging tone!
Halfling parries, looks and freezes
Petrified so now he rocks
Harpy croons a sickening chorus
Mime will cast a silent shock
AAAAH! ...Dragon! ...Fire breath!
AAAAH! ... Hydra! ... Seven heads!
AAAAH! ... AMBUSH!
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Up From The Gutter
03:39
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Up from the gutter, we have come for your eardrums
Wielding sticks and instruments, upon your brain we brand
From Odin’s beard and Thor’s hammer, the innocent will run
Under the sign of the pantomime, in Pierrot’s name we stand
We have come for your eardrums
From the gutter, we have come
Is the mime the one who is silent,
Or that you cannot hear him yell?
FOR YOUR EARDRUMS WE HAVE COME!
The mimes don’t mind if you don’t mind the mimes
Known once for silence, we have grown loud
For this fate we are chosen: To lift the veil of Mime!
Shatter the wall of silence, and raise mime voices proud.
Under the sign of the pantomime, in Pierrot’s name we stand.
We have come for your eardrums
All mimes are in the gutter,
but only some are looking like rock stars
(It’s an Oscar Wilde line)
FOR YOUR EARDRUMS WE HAVE COME!
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Irony Maiden
06:30
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On a distant shore, the hermit stands
and gazes across the ocean’s waves
Endymion enters from the rocks beyond the strand
Sad eyes long to save those buried in a watery grave
He wonders aloud, “Who is this old man?”
(He has been expecting him)
You, Endymion, Scylla must break from Circe’s spell
She lies under the waves where the bodies bloom
Inside the broken ship’s hull – it is the domain of bodies
Where language cannot break the gloom
For decades on this shore have I stood,
a watcher on desperate scenes
Where ships splinter on the rocks
and where the living are tempest-tossed
Into the depths – their voices bubble up in silent screams
Empty eyes watch the light fade
as they sink into their watery graves
I have watched and I have seen
I can’t move beyond this screen
You will set them free
Endymion, you must break the spell
tear the scroll that holds sway
In the depths where language cannot break the gloom
The scroll will rain down upon the dead,
a shower of fragments
Inscription carries where voice cannot
Shower upon the dead, Shower of fragments
The fragments work their magic spell
Thousands of drowners emerge from the wave’s swell
Trudging slowly onto the beach
Their rotting hands for Endymion reach
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