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Punk Pentimento

from Moontower by Johnny Dioxide

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    Play me in your car! Put me in a sleeve with your other cool CDs! The beautiful cover art is all from the lovely Kelly Daniela Norris.

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lyrics

The watch Labrador is beginning his shift
while Mrs. Delicious is calling up a lift
Her dear Daddy Watson is holding her gift
and the children are all asleep in their bedrooms

The town is lit up like a carnival display
painted faces point their noses every which way
When up comes the curtain and the catch of the day
The paddy wagon's rounding up the hoodlums

People come from all around to scramble in this race
I find I'm losing my mind in this place
I'm begging Kelly won't you please take me back to outer space

Sympathetic dancers of stellar physique
Greet me at the entrances begging me to peek
But I'm on my knees for they've become to weak
from their sultry and seductive powers

And parading around with two guns in his hands
a cowboy named Daniel is barking out demands
and yanking the microphone away from the band
he says "I just want some rain for my flowers!"

A murder of crows did gather for a feast
a fine deadly hollow for a feather for a beast
but when they all did finish they looked on yonder east,
all their offspring were turning into chickens

And the sad lonely lady who fed the dreadful birds
was often singing softly but was seldom ever heard
her sisters long ago had learned her all the words
and she believed they belonged to Charles Dickens

My boss was hauled in on the back of a bike
her heart was impaled by a railroad spike
but all the city doctors were away out on a strike
and they were claiming to be victims of perjury

so I was left in charge of my employers life
the nurse wouldn't help he was away with her wife
and cursing the doctors I picked up a knife
and I practiced some open heart surgery

The emperor of Persia was lying on a rug
he won it off of one of Mona Lisa's hired thugs
and looking at the ceiling, he thought he saw a bug
so he shot it and called for the general

But the general was frantically barking up a tree
in full-blown regalia it was quite a sight to see
a subversive flying squirrel was up there eating all the seeds
and it seems he was deemed to be a criminal

credits

from Moontower, released July 1, 2017
Drums: Mike Hidalgo
Mixed and mastered at Control Tower Studios

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Johnny Dioxide Austin, Texas

Hailing from Austin, TX is intergalactic space cowboy Johnny Dioxide, chemical formula JO2 -- the disembodied voice of a lovelorn ghost. He refers to his music as Ghost Rock, and it has been described as intricate yet breezy, haunting yet playful, and all with a sweet western flair to leisurely mosey along to. ​ ... more

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