Frank Zappa

ill smelling; corrupt

She stripped away

Her rancid poncho

An' laid out naked by the door

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,

talkative; (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species

Little Greggery Peccary

The nocturnal gregarious wild swine

A peccary is a little pig with a white collar

energy; forceful exertion

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

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?

flatter; a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color

The eyes be rollin'

On the concrete fawn

The wind can't blow

shy; affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way

And feed you a box full of chicken delight

Disco chit-chat so demure

Pump that booty all across the floor

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

lessen; become smaller or lose substance

I'll be sullen and withdrawn

I'll dwindle off into the twilight realm

Of my own secret thoughts

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

She's the same

A frantic pace maybe

But who's to say

dilemma; a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant one

His mind was so messed up, he could hardly do nothing

He was in a quandary

Being devoured by the swirling cesspool of his own steaming desires

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

widespread; unrestrained and violent

From televison beams

That ignorance is rampant there

And Govermental Goons don't care

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

stout; euphemisms for `fat’

I am not kiddin'

I mean, I am portly and I am maroon

Well, how many people here tonight can guess what I am?

wander; lose clarity or turn aside from the main subject in writing or speaking

With a few more margaritas and the right company

However, I digress

"What this sofa needs" said the big 'g'

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!

sulky; easily irritated or annoyed

A bitch and a cunt and she slammed the door

In a petulant frenzy!

A petulant frenzy, this is a petulant frenzy

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

coated; form a crust or a hard layer

Around the house. Mainly what I need is a clipper, a scissors, and a pair of

Zircon encrusted tweezers." (Thank you very much)

And of course the MAN did his duty as they say in the trade. He went out and he

bigot; a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind

Wit de brief-case To be un-creedably stim-u-lat-nin'!

Eat shit, you overbearing male chauvinist member of the scientific community!

What a sweet lil' hunk o' heaven she growed up t'be!

worsen; grow worse

Okay, okay! Go 'head 'n fuck de lil' CRAB-GRASS BABY wit de enormous white pompadour!

Go on deah. Git down wit yo' nasty lil' ol' degenerate seff!

THING-FISH puts the CRAB-GRASS BABY on the floor and positions OB'DEWLLA over it.

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!

puff of air; a short light gust of air

Whiff it, Boy!

Whiff it good, now!

hurtful; of a substance, especially a strong acid

These are very light blue and apparently have come in contact with some

Corrosive material that has eaten the bottom out of it (China syndrome)

What? China Syndrome

pause; temporary cessation or suspension

Hound him mercilessly until you receive a suitable answer

Now just hold yourself in abeyance, Rhonda

I'll handle this

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

fleeing; lasting a very short time

Of energy field or solid object or even something as

Ephemeral as smoke, the first thing it does is

Begins to inactivate the molecular motion

fragile; having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped

The cold light makes it get so small

This is really brittle smoke

And that's why the pigs don't want you to touch it

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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stimulating; serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate

Practisissing, practiss, practicing

Half a dozen provocative squats

Out of the shower, she squeezes her spots

glare; look at with a fixed gaze

The trash compactors, small reactors

Mowers, blowers, throwers and the glowers

This is Buy-Cent-Any-All Salute (HYULK!)

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

melt or fuse; extract (metals) by heating

Saint Alfonzo was the patron saint of

The smelt fishermen of Portuguese extraction

And he's gotta bust into the pantry

irritating; causing disapproval or protest

When there's an 'E'

It's a very long obnoxious 'E' to the nth degree

And then there's an 'N'

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

deceitful; professing feelings or virtues one does not have

Well, I get off being spewed upon

By hypocritical TV preachers

With close ties to the Republican Party

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

fall; drop sharply

Hmm?

I must plummet boldly forward to my ultra-avant laminated, simulated replica-mahogany desk

With the strategically-placed, imported, very hip water pipe, and the latest edition of the Whole Earth Catalog

encouraging; auguring favorable circumstances and good luck

So that you get right into it, you know? But, I think this evening

Because this is such an auspicious occasion—the desecration of

Carnegie Hall itself—that we are actually going to deviate from our

stray; turn aside; turn away from

Because this is such an auspicious occasion—the desecration of

Carnegie Hall itself—that we are actually going to deviate from our

Format, ladies and gentlemen. Now, some of you might find this a