Town Meeting Song-The Polyphonic Spree

[ti:Town Meeting Song] [ar:群星] [al:Nightmare Revisited] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Town Meeting Song - The Polyphonic Spree [01:18.34]Listen [01:18.61] [01:22.87]There were objects so peculiar [01:25.25] [01:29.45]They were not to be believed [01:32.03] [01:35.12]All around things to tantalize my brain [01:39.13] [01:42.02]My brain [01:42.48] [01:45.57]It's a world unlike anything I've ever seen [01:49.51] [01:54.61]And as hard as I try [01:56.03] [01:58.40]I can't seem to describe [01:59.79] [02:02.60]Like a most improbable dream [02:06.67] [02:09.20]Improbable dream [02:10.15] [02:13.59]But you must believe when I tell you this [02:16.14] [02:16.70]It's as real as my skull and it does exist [02:19.28] [02:23.05]Here let me show you [02:24.42] [02:27.19]This is a thing called a present [02:31.10] [02:33.89]The whole thing starts with a box [02:37.89] [02:41.24]A box [02:41.58] [02:42.70]Is it steel [02:43.07] [02:44.43]Are there locks [02:44.89] [02:46.31]Is it filled with a pox [02:47.27] [02:49.72]A pox [02:50.04] [02:51.27]How delightful a pox [02:51.94] [02:53.27]A pox [02:53.63] [03:00.81]If you please [03:01.22] [03:02.33]Just a box with bright colored paper [03:04.60] [03:05.22]And the whole thing's topped with a bow [03:07.27] [03:11.69]A bow [03:11.96] [03:17.35]But why [03:18.27] [03:21.12]How ugly [03:23.35] [03:28.23]What's in it [03:29.28] [03:33.42]What's in it [03:34.47] [03:39.34]That's the point of the thing not to know [03:41.85] [03:44.33]It's a bat [03:44.76] [03:45.92]Will it bend [03:46.32] [03:47.75]It's a rat [03:48.17] [03:49.27]Will it break [03:49.69] [03:51.42]Perhaps it s the head that I found in the lake [03:54.93] [04:03.16]Listen now you don't understand [04:05.56] [04:10.12]That's not the point of christmas land [04:12.65] [04:14.69]Now pay attention [04:15.44] [04:17.98]Now we pick up an oversized sock [04:19.80] [04:22.04]And hang it like this on the wall [04:25.86] [04:30.87]Oh yes does it still have a foot [04:33.70] [04:38.10]Let me see let me look [04:39.73] [04:44.69]Is it rotted and covered with gook [04:48.04] [04:51.20]Hmm let me explain [04:53.37] [04:57.83]There's no foot inside but there's candy [05:00.78] [05:03.63]Or sometimes it's filled with small toys [05:14.76] [05:31.59]Small toys [05:32.56] [05:34.94]Do they bite [05:36.80] [05:38.49]Do they snap [05:40.25] [05:41.93]Or explode in a sack [05:45.41] [05:48.85]Or perhaps they just spring out [05:54.06] [05:55.30]And scare girls and boys [05:59.73] [06:00.95]What a splendid idea [06:01.68] [06:03.01]This christmas sounds fun [06:04.31] [06:05.35]Why I fully endorse it [06:07.12] [06:08.19]Let's try it at once [06:09.33] [06:13.11]Everyone please now not so fast [06:15.67] [06:16.29]There's something here that you don't quite grasp [06:18.91] [06:19.62]Well I may as well give them what they want [06:22.43] [06:23.08]And the best I must confess I have saved for the last [06:25.71] [06:28.07]For the ruler of this christmas land [06:29.72]Is a fearsome king with a deep mighty voice [06:32.80] [06:34.28]Least that's what I've come to understand [06:37.07] [06:40.33]And I've also heard it told [06:41.33] [06:42.12]That he's something to be hold [06:43.13] [06:43.66]Like a lobster huge and red [06:45.78] [06:47.43]And sets out to slay with his rain gear on [06:49.87] [06:50.64]Carting bulging sacks with his big great arms [06:53.32] [06:55.70]And on a dark cold night [06:57.03] [06:59.04]Under full moonlight [07:00.13] [07:01.14]He flies into a fog [07:01.95] [07:04.12]Like a vulture in the sky [07:06.27] [07:07.81]And they call him sandy claws [07:13.40] [07:50.18]Well at least they're excited [07:53.03] [07:59.19]Though they don't understand [08:00.18] [08:03.83]That special kind of feeling in christmas land [08:08.99] [08:10.57]Oh well [08:11.01] [08:13.96]Oh well