Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale
Of a place that is no more
Used to be out Franklin Street
Past the boulevard

You remember the streetcar loop
Yellow brick buildings and walls
Who can forget those faces?
Long hair, bearded and all

Down at Saylor’s Garage
Smell the gasoline
Listening to rock and roll
On DVE

Wearring your Pro-Ked sneakers
Faded denim shirt 
You were like one of them
It almost worked

Ambition draining away
Like an oil change
Too scared to ask the old man
For a raise

Down at Saylor’s Garage
Smell the gasoline
Listening to rock and roll
On DVE

Drinking with Venus
Parked in the woods
Touching her Corinthian leather
She said you could

Don’t need a reason
To feel this good
Turn up the radio
And do it on the hood

Drinking with Venus
Twenty-twenty hindsight
You should have seen her leaving
Jesus! What a night
You should have seen her leaving that night

Roll out the barrels of beer
It helps to be drunk living here
Go away Roxbury blues
Breaking bottles on the avenue

We parted ways
On the park road
I was stuck like a rock
She wanted to roll
There was no goodbyes
I just went on home
Fell back into a dream

They closed the school 
And sent the kids away
And the little league teams
Found another place to play
And the baseball diamonds
Turned back into a lake
With algae blooms
And freshwater clams
It’s all water
Over the dam

Drinking with Venus
She is the light
You should have seen her leaving 
That night
You should have followed her
To Elim that night

Caterpillars ate Luna Park
And the Jets flew south
The old man fired you
For not watching your mouth

He did you a favor
Like the others, you left town
He died right after
Now the bay doors stay down

Down at Saylor’s Garage
Smell the gasoline
Listening to rock and roll
On DVE

Saylor's Garage

Peter Rabbit
Have some chamomile tea
Silly Rabbit 
Hiding from me

Down on the farm
They say, Don’t go
I was warned
Mama said I don’t wanna know

Certain things 
Have happened there
Unspeakable crimes
Hasenpfeffer

I had to go
I couldn’t wait
Making my way
Through that garden gate

Green patch of Heaven
Unparalleled
Till I crossed paths
With the farmer from hell

Thought it was a game
And I was a player
But it ain’t been the same
Since Mr. McGregor

I’m being chased by a psychotic man
Heavy rake in his hands
Break my neck if he gets the chance
Mr. McGregor’s making me dance

And I got a terrible 
Sense of rhythm
Bad, bad feeling
I’m gonna die

Shoulda stayed back
With my sisters
But I gotta ramble
I don’t know why

Thought it was a game
And I was a player
But I ain’t been the same
Since Mr. McGregor

I’m being chased by a psychotic man
Heavy rake in his hands
Break my neck if he gets the chance
Mr. McGregor’s making me dance

This dude is flipping out
Over his vegetables
Put down the rake man
I’m getting out of your garden

Peter Rabbit
You’ve tempted fate
There in the cabbage
The devil  awaits

Ran for my life
For Cotton tail cove
Got chased by a cat
Lost all my clothes

Thorny and bloody
Did I roam
Sent to bed hungry
When I got home

McGregor

Ted Kaczynski
Lived out west
Dirty clothes
Hair like a bird’s nest

You might say 
He was the radical type
Sending bombs
To strangers he don’t like

Why’d he do it
We hardly know
Just the stuff
In his manifesto

Ex-professor
Myth and man
Contradictions
Go hand in hand

Wild nature
Rides a bike

Young genius
Warped his mind
Going to Harvard
Before his time

Misfit student 
Doing his best
Beating brainwashers
At their rotten tests

Wonza and Mona
And other twisted pairs
Disconnected
It wasn’t fair

Graduation
Scars intact
Went into the woods
To plot his attacks

Wild nature
Hunts like the shrike

Unabomber 
Beat the system
Message stronger
But do they listen?
Damn the loggers
Avoid suspicion 
Unabomber
Final mission

That’s the story
Of our old friend Ted
Plagued by nightmares
That won’t stay dead

Killed the innocent 
Trying to make a point
Now he lives his
Days out in the joint

Wild nature
He’s gonna strike

Unabomber 
Beat the system
Message stronger
But do they listen?
Damn the loggers
Avoid suspicion
Unabomber
Final mission

Unabomber

Long way down
From the top of the hill
Mercury rising
On two wheels

Stingray rider
Long way from home
Handlebar meteors
Fenders and chrome

Cheater Slick
Man, I'll turn you into butter
Go ask your mother
She'll say Cheater Slick is her lover
She likes the way I burn that rubber

Aphrodite up beside me
On a 3-speed from Sears
She said she’d like to try me
If I ain’t scared

She had long lanky legs
And a free spirit smile
She said the end of the road
Is a quarter mile

Cheater Slick
Here comes another
Pretty young up and comer
Thinks she can steal my thunder
Kinda makes me wonder

Looking swell
Cheater Slick
You think you’re cool
We’ll I’m quick
Street style, big smile
Got you licked
I’m the Queen of Denial
Cheater Slick

Cheater Slick
Queen of Denial

I was quick off the mark
Had an early lead
When she clicked into hi-gear
I got the third degree

She disappeared
And I faded out
She said, Cheater Slick
You’re a total rout

Cheater Slick
Man, she turned me into butter
Don’t think I’ll ever recover
To live and die another
That little girl had my number

Go to hell 
Cheater Slick
You think you’re cool
We’ll I’m quick
Street style, big smile
Got you licked
I’m the Queen of Denial
Cheater Slick
Cheater Slick
Queen of Denial

Cheater Slick (with Sue)

Too many witches
Spoil the brew
I hope this year
It’s just me and you

Turn off the light
Halloween night
Candy apple
Pure delight

Rags to riches
Best costumes
Trick or treating
It takes two

Close the window
Lock the doors
You’ll be mine
An I’ll be yours

Midnight visions
Waning moon
Protective sisters
Don’t have a clue

You’re someone
Who has learned
To play with fire
Not get burned

Let me be your
Jack-o-lantern
Shining all night

When you hold me
Tight while dancing
Melt like candle wax

It’s a dark night
My dear friend
Never gonna 
Give you back again
Goodbye Mama
Goodbye Pa
They both kept you
Long enough

Too many witches
Spoil the brew
The coven wonders
Where are you

The werewolf howls
The owl takes flight
The fire’s burning
Deep inside

Let me be your
Jack-o-lantern
Shine on you all night

When you hold me
Tight while dancing
Melt like candle wax

It’s a dark night
My little friend
Never gonna 
Give you back again
Goodbye Mama
Goodbye Pa
They both kept you
Long enough

Trick or treat
My little friend
Never gonna
See daylight again
Goodbye Mama
Goodbye Pa
They’ve both kept you
Long enough

Too Many Witches (with Sue)

Tourist season
Waves rolling in
Boardwalk dining
Twelve-hour shifts

Know my way round the kitchen
Been here for three years
Take care of the tables
Appetizers and beers

I got a stack of applications
From the manager
He said, pick some winners
When I seen her

Name on the paper
Local address
Here for the summer
Be my guess

Past employment
She used to work here
Much to my enjoyment
Whenever she was near

She had a certain wiggle
I guess I had a certain strut 
She let me see those dimples
On the side of her butt

She always made it clear
She had a steady somewhere
Studying law
But that didn’t mean we 
Couldn’t get together
Midnight booty calls

The summer before
The summer before last summer
I was her man
But there was another
The summer before
The summer before last summer
We broke like a wave, she went away

Big decision
And positions to fill
Her application
Keep or kill?

It’s three years later
My how time flies
It’s against regulations
But why shouldn’t I try

She always made it clear 
There was a steady somewhere
Studying law
But that didn’t mean we 
Couldn’t get together
Midnight booty calls

I took her application
Pulled it out of the pile
Folded, in my pocket
Personal history file
I’ll look at it later
Regret it all again
But I’m just a dumb waiter
So I’ll sing it again, sing it again

The summer before
The summer before last summer

The Summer Before The Summer Before Last Summer

Sunlight
Too bright
From the darkness of a movie

Corvair 
Life ain’t fair
These dudes want to abuse me

Fade out
Start to shout
Need help from my brothers

They arrive
Just in time
There’s safety in numbers

Don’t get caught outside

Drive in
We sneak in
What do we discover?

Nice girls
Another world
Maybe I could be a lover

Walk them home
Danger zone
Car circles back again

Bloody fool
Red pool
Blue and white cement

Should have known better
With Cherry and her friend
One night together
Before the end
Over too quickly
Nothing gold can stay
Johnny’s gone with the wind
Another sun sets everyday

They call us greasers
They call us hoods
Unlikely heroes who
Emerged from the burning woods

They call us dangerous
Boys of the night
Smart-aleck punks 
Who never walk away from a fight

Making movies
Who you want to be?
Paul Newman 
Or Lee Van Cleef?

I’m trying to figure
Who’s the real me
When the lights come up
Maybe I’ll see

I’m on the outside
I’m on the outside

Outside

The first year of college
I tried to disappear
Wouldn’t let anyone near
He was so sincere
But I’d say, “Go away”

Deep inside my dorm
Was an alternate universe
Fan fiction comes first
Throw a hex or a curse
When he’d knock on the door

Make up happy endings
Revise the plots
With assignments that are not
Required reading

Only a fan
Would ever stand in the rain
Icy drive to Omaha
Share your world
Let me ease the pain
Then we’ll rise above it all
Fangirl
I’m your biggest fan
Girl

We fell asleep together
That fateful night
Woke up, wrapped up tight 
Knew he might be Mr. Right
Just by holding hands

The never-ending story 
Wizards that clash
Meet my boy after class
We’re like Simon and Baz

Only a fan
Would ever stand in the rain
Icy drive to Omaha
Share your world
Let me ease the pain
Then we’ll rise above it all
Fangirl
I’m your biggest fan
Girl

The first year of college
I tried to disappear
The first year of college
I tried to disappear
The first year of college
I tried to disappear

But now I carry on
Got my imagination
I got this song
Gonna write my story
Gets pretty long
Levi’s my man
Baby I’m your fan

Fangirl

May Kasahara
Thinking about tomorrow
She might have a plan
She’s got the sun tan

Blue hose with a sprinkler
Says I’m a deep thinker
She’s just a kid
Don’t know how to swim 

She says Hey Mr. Wind Up
Mr. Wind Up Bird

May Kasahara
Don’t dwell on sorrow
Keeps a cool head
Lives life on the edge

She says Hey Mr. Wind Up
Mr. Wind Up Bird

I meet her in the alley
Between the dead ends
She gets a little jealous
Thinks I got too many friends

Now she’s in the sunlight
I’m reflected in her shades
I went down in the hollow
The ladder went away

She says Hey Mr. Wind Up
Mr. Wind Up Bird

May Kasahara
Got a strange kind of aura
She holds it inside
Where they all try to hide

May Kasahara 
Someday she’s gonna
Find her fate
Set the right kinda bait

She’ll say Hey Mr. Wind Up
Mr. Wind Up Bird
Hey Mr.  Wind Up
Mr. Wind Up Bird

Wind Up Bird (May Kasahara)

Slagle Rock (Guitar & Vocal) Sue (Vocal) Rob Zelinsky (Guitar, Bass Prod. & Mix)

Call me Gilligan
Or Mr. Crusoe
I been stranded on this island
And I want to go

I fell asleep 
At the last picture show
She was gone when I awoke
Now I’m alone

Isolated
By myself
Isolated 
On the shelf
Isolated
I need help
Isolated
Or something else

The coast is clear
Sand and sea
The sun shines bright above
But not for me

I’ll build an arc
Light a flare
Tune the old shortwave
On the air

Isolated
By myself
Isolated 
On the shelf
Isolated
I need help
Isolated
Or something else

Wild applause
Dancing in the street
Just a mirage
My silent scream
Are you coming back?
Or just leave me here
This film’s been over
A couple years

How did it end
Was unresolved
Sun came up
And I dissolved

Isolated
By myself
Isolated 
On the shelf
Isolated
I need help
Isolated
Or something else

Isolated 
Distant place
Isolated
Atomic space
Isolated 
Chronic State
Isolated
Sit and wait

Slagle Rock

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