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Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa


Background information
Birth name Frank Vincent Zappa
Born December 21, 1940
Born place Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Died December 4, 1993
Death place Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genre(s) Rock
Jazz
Classical
Avant-garde
Years active 1950—1993
Label(s) Verve Records
Associated acts The Mothers of Invention
Captain Beefheart
Website Website



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Frank Zappa Lyrics

"Man with the Woman Head" lyrics


Are you with me on this, people?

The man with the woman head
Polynesian wallpaper made the face stand out,
a mixture of Oriental and early vaudeville jazz poofter,
forming a hard, beetle-like, triangular chin much like a praying mantis.
Smoky razor-cut, low on the ear neck profile.
The face the color of a nicotine-stained hand.
Dark circles collected under the wrinkled, folded eyes,
map-like from too much turquoise eyepaint.
He showed his old tongue through ill-fitting wooden teeth,
stained from too much opium, chipped from the years.
The feet, brown wrinkles above straw loafers.
A piece of coconut in a pink seashell caught the tongue and knotted into thin white strings.
Charcoal grey Eisenhower jacket zipped into a loaded green ascot.
A coil of ashes collected on the white-on-yellow daks.
Four slender bones with rings and nails endured the weight of a hard fast black rubber cigarette holder.
I could just make out Ace as he carried the tray and mouthed,
"You cheap son of a bitch" as a straw fell out of a Coke, cartwheeled into the gutter.
So this was a drive-in restaurant in Hollywood,
So this was a drive-in restaurant in Hollywood,
So this was a drive-in restaurant in Hollywood.

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