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- Posted: June 5, 2008Hamlet Blues
Credits/Backstory:
The Ivory Bills (Johnny Java, drums; John El, guitar and backing vox, and me, JV, vocals and bass guitar) tracked this tune more or less live recently with Scott Amore of InnerSpaceSoundLabs. It was mixed by Greg DiCrosta. Produced by Rahn-Dum Khaos.
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Lyrics:
My mother’s sleeping with my uncle
my father’s dead, I’m confused
melancholy, angry
I got a bad case of the
Hamlet Blues, Hamlet Blues.
There’s gonna be a bloodbath soon.I’m so crazy I’m contagious
my girlfriend got sick too
she walked into the river and she never came back
she had a fatal case of the
Hamlet Blues, Hamlet BluesOutrageous fortune is my companion awake or asleep
the only question still worth asking – is can I keep
going on and on and on, or will I drown in this sea of troubles?I’m in touch with the spirit world
a voice I trust gives me the news
don’t know what I want
but I think I know how to go about gettin’ it.
that’s the Hamlet Blues, Hamlet Blues.We are all actors in this endless play-within-a-play
there’s no fourth wall, and there’s no illusions, it’s plain as day
we’re going down, down, down
we will drown in this sea of troubles.There’s a goodly supply of deadly poison
and weapons for all to choose
there’ll be no one left standing
we’re all going down with the. . .
Hamlet Blues, Hamlet Blues, Hamlet Blues. . .
There’s gonna be a bloodbath. A massacre of the first degree.
Could be the start of World War Three. Gonna get my picture on TV.