THE HANGED MAN IV [live performance, semi-improvisation]

from O LIST! by The Ophelias

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Track: 7
Title: THE HANGED MAN IV [live performance, semi-improvisation]
Authorship: Medford/Immerglück/vonBlankers/Benton/Dion/Armour
Publishing: BrowBeat Music, BMI
Recording date: 30 September 1988
Recording place: KZSU Radio Station Studio, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Live radio broadcast recorded onto cassette
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 04:30
First appeared on: O List!
Released 4 December 2018
[via multiple streaming services]

Leslie Medford : vocals, acoustic guitar
David Immerglück : electric guitar
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar
Edward Benton : drums

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THE HANGED MAN [version 4]

Are you not swinging with the tide?
Do you not show? Do you not hide?
The sea’s sequential, don’t you see?
I’m swinging from the hanging tree.

But as I’m hanging by my foot
I am alive, and this is good!
You think your world is upsidedown,
But still the sun and moon are round.

And so I sank it deep into the core,
Yeah melting to the glore.
We walked down streets and hollered their names
That kept to themselves in blank.
Some secret sin and what dug the autumn dim
At a few moments before and still unknown.
You looked into his eye yourself and went
Prepare, deceive like all your health.
I will lay and trace about my loin
Yeah trace about my lord and jingle bells hallo and toll
You'll play my bloated call it wilt
It was in your facing bend
Thor we would sail about into the gale
Yea sell it the Gael my friend.
It tore early wars in Cainbeeyarde
I found little witch in death aghast!
Singing near they're steering me to you
Your smearing me to you!

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from O LIST!, released December 4, 2018

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The Ophelias are a psychedelic rock band formed in San Francisco in 1984.

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