TIME 03:30

LYRICS

On MTV, I saw her gliding on the screen, a beautiful visage, a video dream with Warhol hair in a style mod she had Elizabeth Taylor’s bod I saw her standing over there Elizabeth Taylor with white hair ooooh la la la la la la la oooo la la la lalalalalal Welcome to 1954 I didn’t want to dream about her anymore. I couldn’t’ bear the movie screen in 1962 1963 1964 1965 If you’re gonna bake in the movie star world then you better get the Liz Taylor Curl I saw here sitting in side of a car but I couldn’t touch her because she was a star I do not dispute that liz was fair but she should have had albino hair I saw her standing over there Elizabeth Taylor with white hair ooooh la la la la la la la oooo la la la lalalalalal Welcome to 1954 I didn’t want to dream about her anymore. I couldn’t’ bear the movie screen in 1962 1963 1964 1965

RECORDED

Performed by the TOMBSTONE TEETH
Written by the TOMBSTONE TEETH
Recorded 1999, Junk Room Studio, NYC
Appears on the full length Album: X THE UNKNOWN
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PERSONEL

C W Cobalt: Vocals, Lyrics
Djangus Khan: Percussion, Drums

Lord Claudius von Vile Silencer: Keyboards

Sal Cassady: Ghost Guitar
Bread Morton: Acoustic and Electric guitar

NOTES

On the night before our first official gig as the Tombstone Teeth, we were rehearsing our material and realized that we needed a really rocking song to end our set. Instantly Stan came up with a guitar riff that just ripped the roof off. I decided to add a spoken introduction and Lord Claud came up with the idea of kicking off the song with a Siren. The song was a last minute piece that came together in about 5 minutes. X the Unknown wound up being one of our most endearing songs.

The lyrics are loosely based on imagery from two B-Movies: X the Unknown and the Crawling Eye. In the Crawling Eye there’s a giant creature that ramdomly decapitates humans, eats their heads and leaves their headless bodies lying around hotels. It was quite disturbing as a young child (though the film’s pay off is pretty lame). X the Unknown was a film with a creeping radioactive blob that ate human flesh and left a skeleton behind. The third influence was a creepy book I had about Death which showed a picture of someone’s decapitated head --- all black and gross, which made quite an impression on me as a youngster.

STUDY QUESTIONS

1) What does the word “epidermic” mean?
2) How many famous people can you name who have been decapitated?
3) Why are the scientists bewildered?