songs for the road

Yesterday I went on a long car journey with Hunchermuncher and N. H has this cool thing that you plug into the car stereo and then you can play your ipod or mp3 player through it. Not so simple to choose the music though...N is nearly 14 and likes house music and film music and H like some of the things I do but not all. I rose to the challenge though and made a playlist that I hoped would please both of them - and with enough tracks that we could skip some if they weren't popular. phew....
Popular choices were: "brown Sugar" by the Rolling Stones, Baka Beyond, Faithless and "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys.

Today though it's back to thinking about music I like - after talking in one of my previous posts about Grace Slick I wanted to hear some tracks off the album Sunfighter by Grace Slick and Paul Canter, I have had a look for the CD but it doesn't seem to have been re-issued in the UK, only in USA. I may have to save up and order a copy through Amazon. I did manage to download one track "Silver Spoon", which is really good although the words are a bit full on:
Throw down all yoursilver spoons -
ea tall of the raw meat with your hands.
Pick it up piece by piece
Pick it up piece by piece
Pick it up piece by piece

Where are the bodies for dinner?
I want my food!
What if you were starving to death
and the only food you had was me -
what would you say to the cannibal question?
Would your answer be perfectly free?

Your mama told you never to eat
your friends with your fingers and hands,
but I say you ought to eat what you will -
shove it n your mouth any way that your can.

You think that I will come to your mouth,
looking for a home.
But I get stuck sideways in your throat
like a good old chickenbone.

Where are the bodies for dinner?
I want my food!
Stay out the kitchen children
The cook is cleaning his gun
He just got back from the open market -
shooting his food on the run.

Your mama told you never to eat
your friends with your fingers and hands,
but I say you ought to eat what you will -
shove it in your mouth any way that your can.

Sharpen your teeth for the family feast -
let all the hungry drool roll down your chin.
Hide the human and bring out the beast.
Let all the animal games begin!
Where are the bodies for dinner?
I want my food!

You could leave to dine on your friends -
pour their bones into a cannibal soup
muscles like steak blood like wine -
save the brains to feed to troops

Scarlet juices oozing slow - boiling in a human sea.
Is it human dinner you're talking about?
Then slice me tender raw and lean
Where are the bodies for dinner?
I want my food!

Oily fingers can hardly wait -
bodies slumped face in plate
Wake up the drunks the coffers on
the fourteenth course has come and gone.
So long, all day sucker your candy has come and gone
and its left you with your mouth wide open.
Just humming cannibal songs.