"Ghonk" genre: Progressive Rock
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	An epic with varying moods ranging from ambience and industrial metal to prog rock. Try figuring out what this one's about, because I'm not really sure myself.
	MP3.com CD: Oddities - buy it! Credits: Music and lyrics by Ken Robinson
	Story Behind the Song Believe it or not, but this entire 15+ minute epic only took one day to do. It was probably one of the most productive days I've had this year. The lyrics were based on a poem I wrote in 1986 called "Space Oddity," which was loosely based on David Bowie's famous work. Over time, the wording of the poem evolved into something far removed from the original. I retitled it to "Ghonk" in 1998 and made even more changes in 2000. I attempted to do something really different from my usual stuff, which can be seen in part C where I experiment with metal. Various portions also have an ambient feel. I don't know about the listeners out there, but this one really has given me the confidence to pursue even more "grandiose" works in the future. Lyrics a. two by two grounding out, two by two salami and bread, twenty-two by twenty two floors and hampers, two by twenty-two flee from sneeze, twenty-two by two our supply of protein is down our supply of carbon dioxide is high helping out the barking, baffling dots sinking cheese holes, two by two counting letters, two by two, too what's the news around the authority? can you explain a deficit for this today? this is me understanding two two hundred and twenty-two by two thousand two hundred and twenty-two b. across the confusion bridge are you receiving my message clearly? bippitybops, disturbing, an atmosphere? strange feeling, can it be so clear? what is it? what do we know? this is me, am i out? c. what we want we will tell you what we want we can give you bacon and eggs we can keep our pants from falling down there is nothing you can do we will control all valid input we will be the firewall, you will be safe we will drop little tori into your bowl of milk there is nothing you can do d. here come the ghonks ghonk, ghonk, ghonk... "what the heck was all that about?" "uhhhh... i don't know" "maybe we should get out of here?" "uhhhh... oh yeah, forgot about that" e. attack of the solar wind computers waiting for input governments waiting for money floating inside a tin can please give me a hand can i ever get along with these peas? on the other side of the planet it is dark the hydrogen points looking strange spread across the universe, no pages impacted by the solar wind spinning round and round and round... "after all this, you just have to wonder... was it all about hilbert space and eigenvectors?" f. two by two, part two landing on mars, edge of a crater is this the dark, dingy, old hamper? distant noises starting to sing over the cliff, disappearing from sight trees observing a space oddity no sense, don't know why equipment scattering dust, pancakes pipperpops, don't know why deodorant, two by two stinky fleabags, two by two two by two g. return of the ghonks ghonk, ghonk, ghonk...

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