From Scarabus (1977) by Ian Gillan

Scarabus (Fenwick/Gillan/Gustafson/Nauseef/Towns) - 4:51

Let's try Scarabus pie
Leg of dog and lizard's eye
Come into the wizard's lair
Breath of goat and dead man's hair
What do you want to be
I'm the king of sorcery
If you care to serve me true
I'll make some gold for you

Bye, bye enemies five
Only four will stay alive
Come to me if you dare
First the three and then the pair
Here is thunder here is pain
Live as creatures in the rain
Two toads and one a mouse
Go forever from this house

When I am dreaming leave me alone
This is more than living...leave me

Let's try Scarabus pie
Leg of dog and lizard's eye
Come into the wizard's lair
Breath of goat and dead man's hair
Of the two I hate the worst
One's undead forever cursed
The last is turned to stone
Set before my magic throne

Twin Exhausted (Fenwick/Gillan/Gustafson/Nauseef/Towns) - 4:06

I like a Studebaker widowmaker
Sitting on the highway crown
When it's early in the morning
I can put my foot right down
And if the wheels keep spinning
Baby I'll be winning
I'll be really alive
When the drive's beginning

I've got a Buick that can do it
With a wide seat in the rear
With a woman on my arm
And a cold six pack of beer
And if the wheels keep turning
I'll be yearning
I'll be bombing away
With the back tyres burning

I'm twin exhausted see
My second wife is tired of me
But when she gets off my back
I'll be back to the track
Wheeling free

Barracuda you are ruder than
A long legged bitch I know
With my hands on your stick
I can feel your body letting go
And I'm always dreaming
About the back tyres screaming
Down with the toes and away she goes

Poor Boy Hero (Fenwick/Gillan/Gustafson/Nauseef/Towns) - 3:06

Rockin' to the poor boy he'll be my king
Really got to shiver when he sings
He is the image of my fantasising
Now we got the whole world listening
He will be the biggest thing in history
Cause he's doing the same thing
But so differently
Got to hear the poor boy hero sing

Now we got a genius the people cried
When he move a finger we sighed
And then we squeezed him till he broke inside
When he went to Vegas the music died
He is still the biggest thing in history
Now he's doing the same thing so indifferently
Got to hear the poor boy hero sing

Living in a fantasy
Love that poor boy tenderly
Now he's gone so tragically
Give that poor boy back to me
Hero of the century
Love that poor boy tenderly

Now we take it easy on the soul
If it isn't magic it leaves me cold
It's only magic if it's fresh and bold
It's nothing if it's easy on the soul
You can be the biggest thing in history
If you're going to do it, do it differently
You could be a poor boy hero too

Mercury High (Fenwick/Gillan/Gustafson/Nauseef/Towns) - 3:30

Maybe I can see at night
Maybe I can touch the sky
A few feet above the ground
A few more with every bound
Got to get higher, got to get higher
No-one can see me trying
Dreaming of flying

I going to find my life in the light of the night
I'm going to dream my dream when you're all out of sight
Then I can be who I want I can fly in the sky
Really feel a mercury high

Running thru' a crowded street
Faster than a lightning streak
With each step the night is brighter
With each step I'm feeling lighter
Got to get higher, got to get higher
No-one can see me trying
Dreaming of flying

I run - I fly - I reach the sky
My feet - have wings

Now it's easy watch me fly
Wheeling in the open sky
A few feet above the crowd
A few miles above the cloud
Got to get higher, got to get higher
Everyone see me flying
Flying

Pre-Release (Fenwick/Gillan/Gustafson/Nauseef/Towns) - 4:21

Cast no shadow on the ground
Scream and there is not a sound
You can be free when you're with me
If I'm not me who can I be
Watching in the darkest night
When you cast your opal light
You go away during the day
Where do you stay when you're away

And now I am your tangled slave
Command me from your lonely grave
You make it easy so completely
When you're with me when you're with me
Take me back a hundred years
Let me kiss your dying tears
You can have peace I can release you
Living will cease and the undead will have peace

Years of wonder passing
Burning in my brain

Take me down beneath your hill
Take me where the air is still
If I'm with you then I can choose
A life for me too undead like you
Deep inside your new disguise
Burning colours in my eyes
We can be free if we can see
What shall we be it's our mystery

Slages to Bitches (Fenwick/Gillan/Gustafson/Nauseef/Towns) - 5:07

You don't make it with your fire and your rain
You ain't nothing but a fool
You've got nothing in your animal brain
But baby I will stand with you
Say hey to your Daddy hey to your Mammy
Maybe to your sister too
'Cos you got the money and I've got the need
So baby I will stand with you

There's no way you can stop it
You've got my heart in your pocket
Moving up from rags to riches, slags to bitches

You throw parties on your own private beach
I see you riding horses too
You've got the things that are out of my reach
Baby less I stay with you
I ain't gonna fight you I'm only gonna bite you
'Cos you've got enough for two
The sweetest things your inheritance brings
So baby I will stand with you

See me walking with my nose in the air
Though I can't see too good
You catch me spitting though it ain't debonair
But mostly I can be like you
So give it to me honey, take me to the money
Surely that's the least I'm due
I'm just your toy I know but you are a fool
And baby I will stay with you

Tell your Daddy that you're gonna be mine
You know I love you truly
When he tells you that you're out of your mind
'Cos I'm stupid and unruly
Smile at him sweetly, whisper so discretely
One and one is three not two
He's got the money and I've got the need
So baby I will stand with you

Apathy (Fenwick/Gillan/Gustafson/Nauseef/Towns) - 4:13

Slow down, slow down
You move too fast
Get back
Lay back
Or you just won't last
You get up
You fall down life's grand ain't it
You be good
You be bad, you always pay for it

It's getting me crazy
I've discovered I'm lazy
I'm a spit in the ocean
And I don't have the notion
Shirking working
You can have all the money
While I play with my honey
You see it's so funny
What you do with the money
Hurting it's hurting

You stay in my life
Forget the past
Live like the sun
Just relax
Get up, fall down
It makes me crazy
Don't try, don't work
Take it easy

Mad Elaine (Fenwick/Gillan/Gustafson/Nauseef/Towns) - 4:15

Me and my girl now we really look a treat
She's a looker but she ain't too sweet
She don't hold back when we get into a fight
Comes in swinging with a left and a right

Oh Mad Elaine
No none can tame her
Oh Mad Elaine
Look out stand back
Here's another Mad attack

If you're ready boy teddy boy
Give her all your jive
Keep dancing or you'll never stay alive
If you don't keep dancin' when
She pulls her forty four
You won't be doing no jive no more

Country Lights (Fenwick/Gillan/Gustafson/Nauseef/Towns) - 3:13

Everybody's rolling thru' the night
Get that city moving out of sight
I've just got time to get away
And free my mind for thirty days
Get that city moving out of sight

Bye bye city
Bye bye city
Moving on to country lights

The sun is hot we're going out to play
The money's getting spent without delay
Screaming shouting with delight
No-one's going home tonight
I can make the city fade away

Stars have been forever in the night
Someone turns the lights on in the sky
They just ain't there in my own town
We're always looking at the ground
I've got to get away to country lights

Fool's Mate (Fenwick/Gillan/Gustafson/Nauseef/Towns) - 4:18

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My Baby Loves Me [Live] (Fenwick/Gillan/Gustafson/Nauseef) - 8:10

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