Alex Temple: Big Heads (Sissy-Eared Mollycoddles)

The Sissy-Eared Mollycoddles perform Alex Temple's "Big Heads" (2011). From the South by Southwest Nonclassical Showcase at the Velveeta Room (Austin, TX), 3.18.11.

Ben Hjertmann, voice
Noah Zeldin, tenor sax
Alex Temple, keyboards
Chris Fisher-Lochhead, bass
Brian Baxter, drums


Lyrics (opening chorus by Sara Madison Björk Hernández; all other lyrics by Alex Temple):

Big Heads!
Small heads!
Every kind of heads!
I don't know what I'm talking about!
I think I'm talking about heads!

Once there was a land where everything looked the same:
The perfect rows of trees,
The perfect lawns,
And the cloudless sky.
And all ten thousand perfect citizens
Had heads exactly two feet high.

Twin heads!
Matching heads!
Identical heads!
Interchangeable heads!
Indistinguishable heads!
I don't know what I'm talking about!
I think I'm talking about heads!

An artificial man constructed out of household objects.
He couldn't see or hear,
He couldn't smell,
And he had no taste.
And so he swallowed nearly everything
And laid the countryside to waste.

And when he'd gobbled every cranium,
He built them new ones out of copper, silver, nylon, marble, wood, glass and titanium.
So everybody had...

Big heads!
Small heads!
Giant heads!
Medium heads!
Tiny heads!
Enormous heads!
Miniscule heads!
Tremendous heads!
Microscopic heads!
I don't know what I'm talking about!
I think I'm talking about heads!

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[canzona]

Nice! Fun music, guys, which I could have been there!