Week Twenty-Six: Spooky Tunes - Shriekback - "Nemesis" - Oil & Gold

In honor of All Hallow's Eve, better known as Halloween, Week Twenty-Six

will be full of Spooky Tunes

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If you have ever been out to The Church at the Lizard Lounge, then you probably know this as the song where everyone stands still with their arm in the air - a la "Heil Hitler!" - especially on the part when he sings - "no one move a muscle as the dead come home..."

I personally considered it ridiculously stupid to be standing still with my arm in the air when such a danceable tune was playing; therefore, I would be the one looking at all of you people standing still with your arm in the air like you were idiots, while I was enjoying myself and getting down to this tune.

From what I was told by one of the DJs, whether this be a true story or not, the way that tradition was even started at the club was that an SMU jock wandered into one of the area clubs, pre-Lizard Lounge days, on one of the retro nights.  He basically spent his entire evening making fun of the club patrons. Then when this song came on, instead of holding his arm in the air like they do in the video, he stood still and held his arm in more of a Hitler stance.  It caught on, and people seemed to continue it on a weekly basis, as well as transferring it to other clubs.  Then all sorts of variations came into play - like sticking one's middle finger in the air while holding one's arm up and crossing oneself. So if you partake in that tradition, apparently, you are, in essence, perpetuating the actions of an individual who was making fun of you in the first place...

It took me forever to locate a copy of this tune.  However, once again, my dear, sweet, loving mother drove me out to Bill's Records & Tapes, prior to me gaining a set of wheels, and Bill had it on CD because Bill never, ever let me down!!!

In the jungle of the senses
Tinker Bell and Jack The Ripper
Love has no meaning not where they come from
But we know pleasure is not that simple

Very little, fruit is forbidden
Sometimes we wobble, sometimes we're strong
But you know evil is an exact science
Being carefully, correctly, wrong

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody's happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home

We feel like Greeks we feel like Romans
Centaurs and monkeys just cluster round us
We drink elixirs that we refine
From the juices of the dying

We are not monsters, we're moral people
And yet we have the strength to do this
This is the splendor of our achievement
Call in the air strike with a poison kiss

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody's happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/s/shriekback/nemesis.html ]
Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody's happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home

How bad it gets, you can't imagine
The burning wax, the breath of reptiles
God is not mocked, He knows our business
Karma could take us at any moment

Cover Him up, I think we're finished
You know it's never been so exotic
But I don't know, my dreams are visions
We could still end up with the great big fishes

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody's happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody's happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody's happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody's happy...