This song is an alternate, acoustic version to the “Over the Neptune part of the opener of 1992’s Propeller. This version of the song, also dating back to at least 1992, was considered for Propeller prototype The Corpse-Like Sleep of Stupidity, as well as on one of several early tracklists for Bee T...
[Verse 1]
Onion lady blows her precious prose
And so it goes
Kisses to the crying cooks
Their beaks in books with baited hooks
[Chorus]
And days away from your army
And spend with whimsy kings and slaves
A girl of God becomes a cash power
A catalog of garden and grave
[Verse 2]
Traveller's diagram
For where I am, from where I am
Strip the provisional codes and overloads
It all explodes
[Chorus]
And days away from your army
And spend with whimsy kings and slaves
A girl of God becomes a cash flower
A catalog of gardens and gray
Kisses to the Crying Cooks was written by Robert Pollard.
Kisses to the Crying Cooks was produced by Mike Hummel & Tobin Sprout.