Schwarzes Loch

Mayo Thompson recording with Rüdiger Carl & COWWS Quintet

Lyrics

Acid psychedelic sentences are poor in detail Rich in generality as a semantic function of syntaxonomy What's that little 'click'? I kill it Scandal and irony were once useful tools of instrumentality Transparency/opacity is a reciprocal relation One mistake makes a thing perfect Once a week I understand Once a week I understand why all and all It's all quite good An answer arrived from afar

When I heard that old bum in front of a bar saying "This puts an end to all your sin 'Cause my heart is where the wound went in"

Once a week I understand why all and all it's all quite fine An answer arrived from afar When I saw that old lady in front of a bar Slipping on hundreds of little red bugs That are supposed to bring people good luck!

Little runover rabbit I recently saw some lively crows Flocking the side of one road Eyes shiny, beaks upright They looked healthy in a healthy ? And they tried to get at the tasty flesh Of a little runover rabbit

Cars passed with adequate speed They chased each other it seemed The crows waited with watered beaks Staring at the nutritive spot on the street But they could not get at the tasty flesh Of the little runover rabbit

Words mean! Words take objects as their reference Words are determined by the meaning-relation they abstract or represent Which is a function of the nature of the referential logical entailments Syntax is a relation to word order issued as a covering propositional theoretic structure for semantics Opacity is a function of extension

Oh how I slept well And oh how I feel fine And oh how I love that hotel What a nice room With your weather inside What a nice bed to welcome the night And four whores bitching out on the street Four whores bitching me to sweep leads asleep

People in whirlpools are feeling fine People in whirlpools are warm all the time People in whirlpools are funny and gay People in whirlpools would never say "Let me out of this blue brew Let me out and start anew" Because there was an eternal rule Man whirls forever in his allocated pool

Chronology

• Cowws Quintett with Mayo Thompson - Book
  • Mayo Thompson - vocals
  • Rüdiger Carl - accordion, clarinet
  • Jay Oliver - double bass
  • Phil Wachsmann - violin, electronics
  • Stephan Wittwer - electric guitar
  • Irène Schweizer - piano

Retrospectives

Liner notes

Studio, July 1989 Following an idea of Mayo Thompson the voices were recorded separately on individual tracks, overdubbed and then overlapped three times.

Interpretations

• The "Little Runover Rabbit" section was written by Werner Büttner
• "Schwarzes Loch" means "black hole"