Noun Verbs

(Blegvad/Partridge)

Orpheus - The Lowdown

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Recordings

1. Album version.
   Performed by Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge.
   Released on 23 February 2004 on the Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge album Orpheus - The Lowdown in the U.K.

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Lyrics

What the dead lack   is substance. They're so nebulous   and rarified   that a gas like helium   seems to them as solid as a beefsteak.   A child's balloon full of helium   feeds a whole cemetary of ghosts   for a week.

Words are money,   the way time was once.   Time means nothing to them now, but words...   speech,   hot air shaped by thought   into blobs and ribbons   of intelligible discourse,   words have not only substance   but value.   Words are tangible to the dead.   Legal tender.   Abstract terms less tangible,   lower value.   The most solid language unit with the highest value   as hard currency is the NOUN VERB.   To the dead,   nouns which do double duty as verbs   are words of power.   The verbs TO SNOWBALL,   TO SMOKE, TO WATER, TO AIR   (is human), TO FIRE   are held in high regard   by these kooky misfits   from beyond the grave.

TO SWEAT
TO EYE
TO SPIT
TO STOMACH
TO SHOULDER
TO SPINACH
TO SADDLE
TO BRIDLE
Orpheus notes that the word   impassion   is made up   of three nouns.
IMP
ASS
ION

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