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Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is, 1981. Optionally adapted for SL.

Performed live at the Flatbed, DarkStar, SL, on Aug. 19, 2014.

lyrics

Hey, they're really dancin'
They're on auto-destruct
On the floor
On the pipe
Bouncin' off-a the wall

Hey, the people here are really
Tearin' it up
On the side
In the back
By the front of the stage

They ain't really crazy
You can take it from me
I should know
'Cause I go
Every time I'm in town

If you never tried it
Lemme straighten you out
It's the best kinda place
To unfasten yerself

MUDD CLUB
All the way downtown
MUDD CLUB
They ain't messin' around
Just turn to the left 'n look around
It's there somewhere

If you ain't found it, better
Hurry up
The folks down there's on auto-destruct
And so can you be too
(Fact of the matter it's made for you.. .)

Try it on a Saturday 'bout four o'clock in the mornin'
Or even a Monday at midnight
When there's just a few of them Fabulous Poodles
Doin the Peppermint Twist for real

In black sack dresses with nine inch heels
And then a guy with a blue mohawk comes in
In Serious Leather. ..

(And all the rest of whom for which
To whensonever of partially indeterminate
Bio-chemical degradation
Seek the path to the sudsy yellow nozzle
Of their foaming nocturnal
Parametric digital whole-wheat inter-faith
Geo-thermal terpsichorean ejectamenta)

In Serious Leather
In Serious Chains
In Serious Clothing
From when they come downtown
From the ruins of Studio 54
To twist 'n twerk
In an arrogant gesture
To the best of what SECOND LIFE has
to offer, at the Mudd Club
Moondance Parx is down there now... I mean in here right now!
Looking for a virgin with nice breath...
(Why, maybe it's you. . . And you don't even know it!)

Hey, they're really dancin'
They're on auto-destruct
On the floor
On the pipe
Bouncin' off-a the wall

Hey, the people here are really
Tearin' it up
On the side
In the back
By the front of the stage

They ain't really crazy
You can take it from me
I should know
'Cause I go
Every time I'm in town

If you never tried it
Lemme straighten you out
It's the best kinda place
To unfasten yerself

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from The Very Worst of the Dreadful Gate, Vol. 1, released April 7, 2017

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The Dreadful Gate San Francisco, California

Two RL brothers separated by a whole continent virtually jam in Second Life together to form The Dreadful Gate. Jackson in California and drummis in New York jam cross-country making live music that can be described as psycho-dynamic electric improv... and a few knee-slappin' songs!

Join us in SL if you enjoy live, multi-instrument, psychedelic-ish music that you can't hear anywhere else. ... more

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