Para las reediciones de vinilo LP se empleó una funda impresa más tradicional en blanco sobre negro.
Captain Beefheart fue uno de los pioneros que se atrevió a experimentar en la música sin preocuparse por alcanzar el éxito comercial. En este álbum, debido a las dificultades que atravesaba la banda, mostró su lado más comercial, claro, según lo que él consideraba como tal. Es, sin duda, el álbum mejor producido y el más accesible de sus primeros trabajos. Mis favoritas son las baladas melancólicas "My Head is My Only House Unless it Rains" y "Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles".
Cara uno
1. "Low Yo Yo Stuff" 3:41
[Verse 1]
Fast goes fast
Slow goes slow
[Chorus]
Alright now, do the low yo yo yo yo
Now do the low yo yo yo yo yo yo
[Verse 2]
Like that girl standing on the corner
Trying to get a ride to the other side
When way down underneath all she had to do was
Move her pretty feet
[Chorus]
And do the low yo yo yo yo
Alright baby, do your low yo yo with all your stuff
Now, baby, do your low yo yo stuff
[Verse 3]
Now, baby, it's in your beanie
Whether you're long, tall, short or skinny
Sometimes it's rough
You mean to tell me it's that low yo yo stuff?
[Chorus]
Low yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
[Verse 1]
Fast goes fast
Slow goes slow
[Chorus]
Low yo yo yo yo
[Verse 2]
It's like that girl standing on the corner
Trying to get a ride to the other side
When way down deep
She knows all she gotta do is move her pretty feet
[Chorus]
Do the low yo yo yo yo
[Verse 4]
What if my girlfriend back home
Finds out what my fingers have been doing
On my guitar since I been gone?
Don't anybody tell her
I been doing the low yo yo yo yo
Like any other fella
Away from home, all alone
[Chorus]
Been doing that low yo yo yo yo
Yeah, I've been really carrying on!
[Verse 5]
Fast goes fast
Slow goes slow
Rich are rich and the poor are poor
[Chorus]
Everybody's doing the low yo yo yo yo
Everybody could and deep down
Everybody knows they should
Do the low yo yo yo yo
2. "Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man" 3:46
[Verse 1]
Men, you been lookin' all around for the women
But they always been right there
Nowadays a woman has to haul off and hit a man
To make him know she's there
Other night a woman came up 'n' hit me
Like I wasn't even there
Yeah, mmm, dawned on me, man
That a man been doin' a woman unfair
[Chorus]
You gotta wait for your woman
Let her know you're there
I knew I had to go out 'n' tell all of the women
That I knew they were there
Now ev'rywhere I go, the women all know that I know
Mmm, there ain't no other place to go but there
[Verse 2]
I'm talkin' about women
Yeah, I'm talkin' about women, man
They don't have to hit me
To make me know it's there
None of my women have tears in their eyes
You can ask 'em about me, I swear
'n they'll tell you
That's one man, I swear
Yeah, that's a man
'Nuff about tellin' you this
[Chorus]
Mmm, you gotta wait for your woman
Let her know you're there
I knew I had to go out 'n tell all of the women
That I knew they were there
Now ev'rywhere I go, the women all know that I know
There ain't no, there ain't no other place to go but there
[Outro]
I'm talkin' about women
They don't have to hit me, man
To make me know it's there
None of my women have tears in their eyes
You can ask 'em about me, I swear
3. "Too Much Time" 2:50
[Chorus]
I got a-too much time
Too much time
I got too much time to be without love
Too much time
I got a-too much time
I got too much time
Too much time to be without love
[Verse 1]
In my life, I've got a deep devotion
Wide as the sky and deep as the ocean
Every war that's waged makes me cry
Every bird that goes by gets me high
[Verse 2]
Sometimes when it's late and I'm a little hungry
I heat up some old stale beans
Open up a can of sardines
Eat crackers and dream about somebody to cook for me
[Chorus]
(Too much time) Too much time
(I got too much time) Too much time
(Too much time) Too much time
Too much time to be without love
[Verse 1]
In my life, I've got a deep devotion
Wide as the sky and deep as the ocean
Every war that's waged makes me cry
Every bird that goes by gets me high
[Outro]
I got too much time
(I got too much time) Too much time
(Too much time) Too much, too much time
(Too much time) To be without love
(Too much time) Too much time
(I got too much time) Too much time
(Too much time) Too much-uch time
(Too much time) To be without love
(Too much time) Too much, too much time
(I got too much time) Oh, yeah
(Too much time) Too much, too much time
(Too much time) To be without love
(Too much time) Too, too, too, too much time ...
4. "Circumstances" 3:14
[Chorus]
Once you find out the circumstances
Then you can uh go out, whoa yeah
[Harmonica Solo]
[Chorus]
Once you find out the circumstances
Then you can uh go out, whoa yeah
[Verse]
Little girl, don't you know that the stars up above are
Runnin' on love
Little girl don't you know that they're
Blinkin' at you
Now the sun can sunburn you but
Not as bad as those old people do, yeah
[Chorus]
Ah, once you find out the circumstances
Then you can uh go out, whoa yeah
[Verse]
Little girl, don't you know that the stars up above are
Runnin' on love
Little girl don't you know that they're-a
Blinkin' at you
Now the sun can sunburn you but
Not as bad as those old people do, yeah
[Chorus]
Ah, once you, once you find out the circumstances
Then you, then you, then you, then you can go out, ah yeah
You can go out
5. "My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains" 2:55
[Verse 1]
I'll let a train be my feet if it's too far to walk to you
If a train don't go there, I'll get a jet or a bus
'Cause I'm going to find you
You're going to see my shadow soon around you
[Refrain]
And my head is my only house unless it rains
[Verse 2]
I walk the meadow plains
Water deserts are my eyes until I find you
I won't sleep until I find you
I won't eat until I find you
My heart won't beat until I wrap my arms around you
[Verse 3]
My arms are just two things in the way
Til' I can wrap them around you
You can make my sad song happy
And a bad world good
I can feel you out there moving
You're mine, I know I'll find you
[Refrain]
And my head is my only house until I've found you
[Verse 4]
I hate to have other people hear me sing this song
But if it reaches you before I do
Follow this song to "I love you"
That's where I'll find you
[Refrain]
And my head is my only house unless it rains
6. "Sun Zoom Spark" 2:13
[Verse 1]
Nothing makes it move
From the bottom to the top
Does it start at the bottom?
Or does it start at the top?
[Chorus]
Magnet draw day from dark
Sun zoom spark, sun zoom spark
[Verse 2]
Now which hand's got it?
Bottom or the top?
Neither hand's got it
It's just got it, hope it don't stop
[Chorus]
Magnet draw day from dark
Sun zoom spark, sun zoom spark
[Verse 3]
Think you can hold it
Once it start?
I don't care who you are or what size you are
I'm gonna magnetize ya
[Chorus]
Magnet draw day from dark
Sun zoom spark, sun zoom spark
[Verse 4]
It goes every which way once it start
Does it start at the bottom?
Or does it start at the top?
[Chorus]
Magnet draw day from dark
Sun zoom spark, sun zoom spark
[Verse 5]
Ohhh, don't let it get away
I'm gonna zip up my guitar
'n' then when I've gone too far
I'm gonna zip down my guitar
[Chorus]
Magnet draw day from dark
Sun zoom spark, sun zoom spark
Cara dos
7. "Clear Spot" 3:40
[Verse 1]
I have to run so far to find a clear spot in the hot
Sun's all hottin' and a-rottin' hot
Swamp's all rotten 'n' stinkin', uhh
Vegetation's hot
Sleepin' in a bayou on a old rotten cot
[Chorus]
Can't find my kind of folks havin' fun
I have to run, run, run, run
Run to find a clear spot
[Verse 2]
Can't shadow down on the sun big brown
Mosquitos 'n' moccasins steppin' all around
'Fraid I'm gonna get hit
[Verse 3]
Sun's all a-hottin' and a-rottin' hot
Vegetation's hot
Sleepin' in a bayou on a old rotten cot
[Chorus]
Can't find my kind of folks havin' fun
Got to run, run, run, run
Run to find a clear spot
[Outro]
Can't shadow down on the sun big brown
Mosquitos 'n' moccasins steppin' all around
'Fraid I'm gonna get hit
'Fraid I'm gonna get hit
I have to run so far to find a clear spot
8. "Crazy Little Thing" 2:38
[Chorus]
Crazy Little Thing has just gone crazy
Girl, how'd ya get a name like Crazy Little Thing
Probably the name that drove you crazy all along
[Verse 1]
How'd ya get a walk
How'd ya get it all to move so smooth and lazy
How'd ya learn to talk real low like that
To where it makes all the men go crazy
Every little thing, every little thing has just gone crazy
[Verse 2]
The way she move, there ain't no maybe
Talkin' way low like that
To where all the men go crazy
[Verse 3]
She brings things down lower than they should be
She brings things up higher than they could be
She got the answer to the answer
And my only question is how old, how cool, how low can you be? (You won't find out from me)
[Verse 4]
If you're too young, girl, you know you're gonna be the ruin of me
They call her crazy, but I'm hot and she's cold
Crazy Little Thing, Crazy Little Thing
How old, how old, how old
[Verse 5]
How'd ya get built like that?
You ain't been here that long
Crazy Little Thing, Crazy Little Thing
How long, how long, how long
[Chorus]
Crazy Little Thing has just gone crazy
Girl, how'd ya get a name like Crazy Little Thing
Probably the name that drove you crazy all along
[Verse 1]
How'd ya get a walk
How'd ya get it all to move so slow and lazy
How'd ya learn to talk real low like that
To where it drives
To where it drives the men all crazy
[Chorus]
Crazy Little Thing has just gone crazy
Girl, how'd ya get a name like Crazy Little Thing
Probably the name that drove you crazy all along
9. "Long Neck Bottles" 3:18
[Chorus]
Woman like long neck bottles
And a big head on her beer
I don't like to talk about my women
But I hold that woman dear
Well, one night she got to drinking
Got out and shot up the town
I'll be damned if she didn't bring an airplane down
I don't like to talk about my women
But this one sure could chug 'em down
I don't like to talk about my women
But this one sure could chug 'em down
[Verse]
One night she started drinking down by the river
She tied up the river and backed the ocean down
I don't like to talk about none of my women
But this one sure could hold her long neck bottle beer down
When she walked into a bar
They set 'em up and got right out of town
'Cuz she picked 'em up a'plenty
And laid a lot of them down
[Chorus]
Woman like long neck bottles
And a big head on her beer
Now you got that down
You got that down
Well, I don't like to talk about my women
But I'm gonna do it anyway
Then I'm gonna get right out of town
Well, one night she got to drinking
Got out and shot up the town
I'll be damned if she didn't bring an airplane down
I don't like to talk about my women
But this one sure could, sho'nuff could chug 'em down
10. "Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles" 2:57
[Verse]
I look at her and she looks at me
In her eyes, I see the sea
I don't see what she sees in a man like me
She says she loves me
[Chorus]
Her eyes
Yeah, her eyes
Her eyes are a blue million miles
Far as I can see
She loves me
Her eyes, her eyes
Yeah, her eyes are a blue million miles
Far as I can see
She loves me
Yeah, her eyes
Yeah, her eyes
Her eyes are a blue million miles
[Verse]
I look at her and she looks at me
And in her eyes, I see the sea
I can't see what she sees in a man like me
If she says she loves me
[Chorus]
Yeah, her eyes
Yeah, her eyes are a blue million miles
Yeah, her eyes
Yeah, her eyes
Whoa, her eyes are a blue million miles
Her eyes
Yeah, her eyes
Whoa, her eyes are a blue million miles
11. "Big Eyed Beans from Venus" 4:23
[Chorus]
Distant cousins, there's a limited supply
And we're down to the dozens and this is why
Big eyed beans from Venus, oh my, oh my
[Verse 1]
Boys and girls, earth people around the circle
Mixtures of man alike
Big eyed beans from Venus
Don't let anything get in between us
Beam in on me, baby
And we'll beam together
I know we always been together
But there's more
[Bridge]
Mister Zoot Horn Rollo
Hit that long lunar note and let it float
[Verse 2]
Men, let your wallets flop out and women, open your purses
'Cause a man or a woman without a big eyed bean from Venus
Is suffering with the worstest of curses
Yeah, you're suffering with the worstest of curses
[Verse 3]
Put 'em out in the sun and when the night come
You don't have to go out and get 'em
They'll glow with you, they'll go with you
They'll show with you, ain't no losers
'Cause they're on the right track
'Cause they're on the right track
You can be on the right track together
Of course, of course
Ain't no SNAFU, no fol-de-rol
[Verse 4]
Check these out
Big eyed beans from Venus
I'll let a few out
Let 'em pass in between us
[Chorus]
Distant cousins, there's a limited supply
And we're down to the dozens, and this is why
Don't let anything get in between us
Big eyed beans from Venus
Big eyed beans from Venus
12. "Golden Birdies" 1:36
