Lyrics ...And It's Again - Carla Bley, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra

...And It's Again

DAD:
Ach!
'Orchestra'
Loudspeaker:
I’m riding the escalator
I’m riding the escalator
Over the hill
'Phantom music'
Of radio otters
Full of your form
Which is multiple
Does it matter
If it doesn’t take
An act to be?
To be thanking the window
To elave it in confusion
To be opened in closed
And to tell the season
By what’s being eaten?
VIVA:
If this time
The parrots seem green
And it’s true
What last time was does
It matter
It this time
It’s not?
'Yodelling ventriloquist'
Loudspeaker:
Hey!
Don’t keep saying that!
Multiple public members:
Voice:
Blindmen don’t bluff
MPM:
Voice:
Blindmen don’t get the blues
MPM:
Lord
Voice ii:
O Rawalpindi
Jack I & ii:
It’s again
It’s again
It’s again
And again
(Again)
Ginger ii:
(Again)
Jack I & ii:
It’s again
'Desert band'
Sand shepherd:
(Again)
So late at night
There is light
With all probable things
Upon you
A day begins for you
You do not want it
Only the humor it takes
To keep things
From becoming funny
Since you couldn’t mean it more
If you meant it
Confusing what’s right
With what’s right
And what’s wrong
With what’s wrong
Staying the way
No one on Earth
Could make you be
Not for you
Not for me
O!
Rawalpindi
BLINDMAN (closer than the ear can hear):
Oh
How
Beaut…
'The confessions of Calliope Bill'
Viva i:
Popular explanations of pregnancy
Viva ii:
Popular explanations of pregnancy
Viva i:
Horribly disguised and as narrow
Viva ii:
Horribly disguised and as narrow
Viva i:
And as tan as beer
Calliope bill:
As narrow and as tan as beer
Viva ii:
And as tan as beer
Mutant:
The hectic silhouettes of chins
Viva i:
The hectic silhouettes of chins
Viva ii:
The hectic silhouettes of chins
Mutant:
Answering
Viva i:
Ans —
LION:
Answering
Mutant:
Answering
Calliope bill:
Answering
Mutant ii:
Closer than the ear can hear
It’s again
LION:
Again
Blindman:
Again
Mutant i:
It’s again
LION:
And again
Blindman:
And again
Mutant i:
And again
Speakers:
Silent mindsweepers
Keepers of the sea
Rough so gregariously
And absolutely guilty
Multiple public members:
Again
Again
Again
Again
JACK:
It’s again
MPM:
Again
Again
JACK:
And again
MPM:
Again
Again
JACK:
And again
MPM I:
Again
Again
Mpm ii:
Again
Again
JACK:
And again
MPM I:
Again
Again
Mpm ii:
Again
Again
JACK:
Again
MPM I:
Again
Again
Mpm ii:
Again
Again
JACK:
(Again)
MPM I:
Again
Again
Mpm ii:
Again
Again
Mpm I & ii:
Again
Again
Again
Again