Frank Zappa

feed box; a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)

And so she wandered

Trough the door-way

Just like a shadow from the tomb

huge; of great force or power

A brazen little Jewish Princess (hey-oh)

With Titanic tits, and sand-blasted zits

She can even be poor

threatening; threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Knives 'n spikes 'n guns 'n the likes of every tool of pain

An' a sinister midget with a bucket an' a mop where the blood goes down the drain;

An' it stinks so bad the stones been chokin'

harmful; exceedingly harmful

And regulate you

I may be vile and pernicious

But you can't look away

decline; the state of the economy declines

Chump Hare Rama, ain't no good to try

Recession

Depression

inactive; potentially existing but not presently evident or realized

To fear, my son!

You are a Latent

Appliance Fetishist,

active at night; belonging to or active during the night

Little Greggery Peccary

The nocturnal gregarious wild swine

A peccary is a little pig with a white collar

careful; marked by keen caution and watchful prudence

Journalism's kinda scary

And of it we should be wary

Wonder what became of Mary?

stretchiness; the property of being physically malleable

I'm sure that love Will never be

A product of Plasticity

A product of Plasticity

small; very small

And with that, Greggery turned and strode nonchalantly into his dinky little office with the desk and the catalog and the very hip water pipe

And proceeded, with a vigor and determination known only to piglets of a similarly diminutive proportion, to single-handedly invent the calendar

With his eyes rolled heaven-ward, and his little shiny pig-hoofs on the desk

saved item; a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists

Reaching for an oversized chrome spoon

He gathers an intimate quantity of dried muffin remnants

And brushing his scapular aside

clever; marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

Two hundred years have gone ka-poot!

(Ah but we have been astute!)

Signed

distressed; excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion

She's the same

A frantic pace maybe

But who's to say

related to the universe; pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe

He'll put down his pencil

And have himself a squat on the Cosmic Utensil (Cosmic Utensil)

Go give it all you got on the Cosmic Utensil (Cosmic Utensil)

esoteric; difficult to penetrate

Maybe you thought I was the packard goose (da, da-da, da-da)

Or the Ronald MacDonald of the nouveau-abstruse

Well, fuck all them people, I don't need no excuse

drive away; force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

Many people feel that Irish people in America simply aren't sexy

Now in order to dispell the ethnic myth

That people of the Irish persuasion are not particulary sexy

cultural; distinctive of the ways of living of a particular group of people

This is really quite technical

You understand that each ethnic group has characteristics

And these characteristics are generally made fun of by other ethnic groups

optional; of your own free will or design; done by choice; not forced or compelled

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The voluntary labelling is NOT censorship...

Bend up and smell my anal vapor!

kill; kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment

In will come ROPER, BENDER & RAPER

To legally execute all that remains

Of this tragic amusement for drug-addled brains

speech; a speech that is open to the public

He looked in the camera and fixed his specs

And gave a fascinating lecture 'bout anal sex

Anal sex

clever; showing inventiveness and skill

With these two little metal things to make it go ding, ding, ding

George Duke is now applying an ingenious technique

To the finger cymbal itself, as a prelude

compliant; willing to submit to orders or wishes of others

OUR KIND will get rid of YOUR KIND, just like wiping off this fountain pen, HARRY!

Smell it quick, you submissive little cocksucker, 'cause I'm wiping it off... any minute now!

THIS IS SYMBOLISM, HARRY!

conclude; reason by deduction; establish by deduction

The way you's giving me the lip

Lead me to infer a superior motivation

I want a nun

not transparent or translucent; not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy

I usually played such things as rough-neck and thug

Opaque melodies that would bug most people

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quick; moving quickly and lightly

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Jesus

Very agile, Howie, very agile

I'm in this band and I am in this band

subsidiary; an assistant subject to the authority or control of another

That 'U' is for everybody who believes what the 'J' stood for

And also we have a subordinate 'U' for the rest of you who go, "Huh?"

And then there's an 'H' which stands for

available; (often followed by `of’ or `to’) yielding readily to or capable of

- The probably overheated later in the program André Lewis on keyboards

The extremely susceptible to increases in tempo tiny skinny foxy little cute little available tonight to each and everyone of the ladies in the audience

And maybe some of the other persons that might be interested in him, little skinny "Terry Ted" Bozzio on drums

calm; a disposition free from stress or emotion

This must have been what the brochure was talking about

They said you'd... you'd feel a... a kind of a serenity, a feeling of peace of... of

Hey, why, why don't you shut up?

hurt; cause injuries or bodily harm to

During those two minutes you are free to express yourself in any manner that you desire

As long as you don't injure each other, any member of the audience

Or harm any of our equipment or any members of our rocking teen-age combo

document; a small book usually having a paper cover

Bak, bu piyanonun icinde nereden sinema buldun sen?

This must have been what the brochure was talking about

They said you'd... you'd feel a... a kind of a serenity, a feeling of peace of... of