With seasoned creepiness, these bands know what they're doing.
Presenting The Monochrome Set - Eine Symphonie Des Grauens, featuring a love-sick indie mummy.
And Squirrel Nut Zippers - Ghost of Stephen Foster, with a perfect pastiche of the Betty Boop Fleischer cartoons. It references the songwriter of 'Camptown Races' and many other minstrel songs, Stephen Foster, who died in an nasty accident. Plus it finally reveals what singer Jimbo Mathus's soul might really look like...
The Monochrome Set - Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
I'm dead and dank and rotten
My arms are wrapped in cotton
My corpse loves you, let's marry
(Get smart, once) Every night at sleepy time
(Get smart, twice) I hang my skin out on the line
(Get smart, sing) Oh, darling, would you be, be mine?
I'm in love, I think I'm in love
I'm in love, I think I'm in love
I'm in love, I think I'm in love, oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
I'm caught in a mesh of veins
My fingers and flesh and brains
My skull gives head, so let's wed
(Get smart, once) Every night when all alone
(Get smart, twice) I drape my flesh around the phone
(Get smart, pray) Oh, darling, would you be my own?
I'm in love, I think I'm in love
I'm in love, I think I'm in love
I'm in love, I think I'm in love, oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Don't cry, beautiful, it's just a phase
To the father and the son and the holy ghost
Oh I chant and I pray, I love
You know, God works in mysterious ways
To the father and the son and the holy ghost
Oh I sing and I pray, I love
I'm soft and slightly stinking
My arms are small and shrinking
My lips kiss dirt, oh, let's flirt
(Get smart, once) Every night at half-past-one
(Get smart, twice )There's a little taste of things in come
(Get smart, chant) Oh, darling, can I be your son?
I'm in love, I think I'm in love
I'm in love, I think I'm in love
I'm in love, I think I'm in love, oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Don't scream, baby, it's just a coma
To the father and the son and the holy ghost
Oh I chant and I pray, I love
You go to heaven, I go to Roma
To the father and the son and the holy ghost
I sing and I pray, I love
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Ghost of Stephen Foster
Met the Ghost of Stephen Foster at the Hotel Paradise
This is what I told him as I gazed into his eyes:
Rooms were made for carpets,
Towers made for spires,
Ships were made for cannonade to fire off from inside them
Gwine to run all night
Gwine to run all day
Camptown ladies never sang all the doo dah day no, no, no
Gwine to run all night
Gwine to run all day
Camptown ladies never sang all the doo dah day no, no, no
Met the Ghost of Stephen Foster at the Hotel Paradise
This is what I told him as I gazed into his eyes:
Ships were made for sinking,
Whiskey made for drinking,
If we were made of cellophane, we'd all get stinking drunk much faster ha, ha, ha
Gwine to run all night
Gwine to run all day
Camptown ladies never sang all the doo dah day no, no, no
Gwine to run all night
Gwine to run all day
Camptown ladies never sang all the doo dah day no, no, no
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