Electric Barn

from Dotted Line by The Unstable Tables

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Electric Barn is a song that relentlessly gallops along, propelled by a crazy beat that takes you up and off into an urban gothic landscape. We are directed into a nightmare circus by the sneering demonic ringmaster that is Patrick Snape! Mad scientists plot, and at night an unknown figure sits on a ledge at the edge of the world accompanied by the guttural grunts of what could be the Baskerville hound or a Hammer Horror Werewolf!

This amusement park, past the graveyard and through the underpass, is only for the brave and the children of the night, a perfect soiree for the lads that are The Unstable Tables. Dee Shaw.

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The Electric Barn

Make your way to the Amusement Park
Closed for the night and laughing in the dark
Steal your way through the underpass
Through shut down trees and unplugged grass

Soft foot through the Graveyard stones
Close your ears to the deep Crypt moans
Shortcut through the chainsaw farm
Peer through the slats of the Electric Barn

Scientists in the local pub, trying to find a cure for Love
Out of contact out of sight, sitting on a ledge at the edge
Of the world tonight

Night Owls coughing up Rodent bones
A click and a clack like old tap phones
Mote notes float on a Raven’s wing
A web of chords and a cloud that sings

Laboratory rats and perfume cats
Smoking dogs and bloodless bats
Experiments on DNA
A Petri dish on a silver tray

Scientists in the local pub, trying to find a cure for Love
Out of contact out of sight, sitting on a ledge at the edge
Of the world tonight

Welcome to the electric barn
There’s batteries on the Chicken Farm
Parties for the Chimpanzees
Ebola strain in cups of tea

Step inside the electric barn
Securities tight don’t so don’t be alarmed
Take your key enjoy your sleep
The woods are lovely dark and deep

Scientists in the local pub, they’ve finally found a cure for Love
Out of contact out of sight
Slipping off a ledge at the edge of the world tonight

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from Dotted Line, released September 4, 2010

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