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You look dandy in the sky but you don’t scare me
Cause I got you here in my eye
In this lifetime you got my human gets me blues

— Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica (1969)

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A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?

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That's right, The Mascara Snake. Fast and bulbous! Also, a tin teardrop!

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"I've written every drum bit I ever done, every note. I played the drums. I played the guitar. I played the piano. I wanted it exactly the way I wanted. Exactly. Any composer I would think would want it that way, and I don't deviate at all. Don't you think that somebody like Stravinsky, for instance, don't you think that it would have annoyed him if someone bent a note the wrong way?"

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