Lyrics Enormous Tots - Carla Bley

Enormous Tots

When you were there they could wait
But not now, not now they can’t
They never wanted it, they never went out of their way to get it
And now they’re getting over it
Call us and we’ll be glad you did
(They'll be glad you did!)
You got to scrape the feet
Right from inside of your shoes
In this old jungle
Snakes with fat working legs
Look up at you
They don’t bite
They chew
Got some
Not too many
Got a few
Think of what you’ll miss
If you do
Call them
And they’ll be glad you did
Or go walk near the warning sign
(see the starving fish)
They’ll be glad you did
Waitresses
Are starting to stare at the food
People seem to lean forward when they dont understand
Backward when they do
He’d go long distances
Seeking whatever misery he felt entitled to add to
Once he felt so dead he said ‘Isn't it wonderful to be alive?'
Call them and they’ll be glad you’re dead
They’ll be glad you’re dead
(Part II)
It takes an enormous tot
To rape a toy dog
The tearing so sharp
It clicks a wedge
Of sound fear
Through the mango forest
Eyes get beaked
And small furry animals
Go round
Spider wire bites
Leave sparkling gaps
In knees
Cruel
Deep
Knee trenches
Filling
So Quickly
With gnats
Think of what
You will miss
If you do not
It takes
It takes
An enormous tot
As the badly crippled man
Whose father had fed
The Village wrestlers
And broken up riots
With a stick
Runs frozen-footed
Toes hunched
Infected teeth
Skiddish eyes
Squeezed closed
To formal Maltese opinion
At birth
He was told that pussies
Would torture him
Antemortem
Think of what you’ll miss
If you do not
It takes an enormous tot
It takes an enormous tot
It takes an enormous tot
It takes an enormous tot