The Tale Of The Giant Stoneater - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

THE TALE OF THE

GIANT STONE EATER

COMMENTATOR: Hear this the tale of the giant stone eater

GIRL: Gather round boys and girls and listen

MAN: To the tale of the giant stone eater

and how the earth was ravaged

during the years of the great stone shortage…

COMMENTATOR: Raised the price of diesel oil

and yellow painted signs zigzagged

black lines of warning…

GIRL & MAN: Another tree dies of shame…

MAN: Sudden-savage-shining-solid-soiled-solid-sanded

Steel-shuddering-shattering-shovelling until the

Sabre toothed rooter roots the earth

The eater eats his fill and is not satisfied and

Roars and reves his mathematical rage

on the footprints of Vikings

trapped on a sonic tape recorder

ten million years old, ten million years old, ten million years old.

GIRL: A broken antler points the way to the still pond

where reflections of bonnie Prince Charlie lies wounded in the

shallow water sun shining on chrome surfaces

protecting the tales of a grandfather —

march on!

GIRL & MAN: Journeys unstarted measure space for future parking lots

Journeys unstarted measure space

Journeys unstarted measure space for the future

COMMENTATOR: And — underneath a million tons of cold lava

a brontasaurus lies wrong way up.

GIRL: Right way straight ahead

MAN: Hamburgers at the barn dance tonight!

COMMENTATOR: Average speed 100 mph

sixteen lane highways cross the meadows

GIRL: Plastic space agents selling candy-floss contracts

ALL TOGETHER: Bells ringing «ring ring"split, grind and grovel

Lost iron relics ringing on the cold stone

GIRL: A spated river flows up hill

directions change in the New Age rain on Tuesdays…

COMMENTATOR: Thursdays guaranteed dry…

Guaranteed dry while handmade golf courses

weary of trickery and fraud

Grey slates remain grey slates —

floods as required life silently reforms in the pools of stagnation.

Each layer a civilisation — buy your own layer

The eater eats again retches roars and vomits

his computerised future is bright with security

Headshrinkers analyse the unknown…

Meanwhile another tree dies of shame

ALL TOGETHER: And another tree dies of shame…