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Let's Talk Some More

by Samm Bennett - Polarity Records

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1.
I Was Hoping 02:20
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I WAS HOPING i was hoping you might drop by and now here you are lemme just grab my coat and hat we’ll go down to the corner bar have us some drinks and some laughs a ha-ha a ho-ho a hee-hee and i was hoping you’d maybe stay, my darling maybe stay the night with me i was hoping, i was hoping, i was hoping there’s a whole lotta pain and suffering all over the world tonight floods and wars and disasters people ain’t being treated right but not a whole lot we can do about it it’s mostly out of our control so i was hoping for a least a few moments of joy some pleasure to soothe our soul i was hoping, i was hoping, i was hoping so if we could catch a little bit of respite from the woes of this weary world that’d somehow be a little triumph our little banner of victory unfurled if we could seize this fleeting moment and make it yours, yours and mine i got to tell you my dear I was hoping we could let our little love light shine i was hoping, i was hoping, i was hoping i was hoping, i was hoping, i was hoping i was hoping
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Communists From Outer Space 04:12
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COMMUNISTS FROM OUTER SPACE communists from outer space communists from outer space they’re everywhere, all over the place communists from outer space flying all around in their UFOs the liberals are loving it, don’tcha suppose? i mean the alien communist agenda attacking our way of life trying to turn your kids into homosexuals lord knows what they’re telling your wife communists from outer space communists from outer space they don’t want you to have your freedoms they wanna take all your freedom away it’s the radical left wing master plan to destroy the USA they’ll be taking your automatic weapons away takin’ em so you’ll have no protections they’re even tryin’ to make it easier now for Black people to vote in the elections communists from outer space communists from outer space they come from a galaxy far far away out in the communist universe they’ve landed their spaceships everywhere with propaganda to disperse they’re trying to raise the minimum wage but that’ll break the backs of the billionaires, man then the trickle down theory won’t work after all that’s their alien communist plan communists from outer space communists from outer space communists from outer space so we got to watch out for these aliens, friend destroying everything that we hold dear soon you won’t be able to drink a Coca Cola and your neighbors will all be queer they’ll be aiming those Jewish laser beams at’cha and expanding their liberal base they’ll be teaching our children to love one another the communists from outer space teaching all the children to love one another the communists from outer space
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Dr Sheckleton's Brain Juice 04:50
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DR SHECKLETON'S BRAIN JUICE i was down in Louisiana way down behind the sun when i saw a man approaching he was carrying some kinda little handgun then i realized i was mistaken was just a little bitty bottle in his hand he said friend you’re looking sickly drink this stuff and you’ll feel grand Doctor Sheckleton’s Brain Juice Doctor Sheckleton’s Brain Juice i said tell me more about it he said friend it’s for your brain because your brain controls your body and lets you know when you’re in pain you take a teaspoon in the morning and then with lunch and then at night it’s good for your synapses it’s gonna make your blood run right Doctor Sheckleton’s Brain Juice Doctor Sheckleton’s Brain Juice i said tell me what it’s made of he said herbs and leaves and roots extract of amphibian and seeds from exotic fruits but some ingredients are secret so i cannot name them all but i can tell you friend, i can tell you this it’s 40 per cent pure grain alcohol Doctor Sheckleton’s Brain Juice Doctor Sheckleton’s Brain Juice i said alright maybe i’ll try it but tell me how much does it cost he said it’s only five dollars a bottle my friend you don’t buy it? hah! you’re lost! well i had just been paid that morning i had a hundred dollar bill i said tell me can you sell me twenty bottles? he said yes sir i certainly will Doctor Sheckleton’s Brain Juice Doctor Sheckleton’s Brain Juice and so i took it every morning and then with lunch and then at night but i’m sorry to say it didn’t help me none my brain is still not working right so now i’m selling what i got left and man they’re flying off the shelf my stock will soon be depleted i’m gonna have to make the stuff myself Doctor Sheckleton’s Brain Juice Doctor Sheckleton’s Brain Juice
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Evil Babies 05:14
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EVIL BABIES evil babies ... evil babies some babies are cute some babies are funny some babies are lovable even when their nose is runny but these babies ain’t like that these babies ain’t playing don’t mess with these babies that’s all I’m saying evil babies ... evil babies don’t get cute with these babies these babies will cut you, man all that koochy koochy koo and bouncing on your knee that ain’t part of their plan they wanna play some cards, roll some dice and drink sweet cherry wine and listen here friend, they’ll mess you up if you get outta line evil babies ... evil babies some of ‘em have already done time in summa the toughest jails in the land one of ‘em was playing with a baby rattle when things got out of hand someone tried to take the rattle away out of his diaper baby pulled a knife that fool got sliced up pretty bad he was lucky to escape with his life evil babies ... evil babies i had a run in once with one of these tough little guys he seemed so cute at first glance i tried to touch his little button nose that little hoodlum didn’t gimme the chance grabbed an ice pick, stuck it through my palm then the jerk said “hardy har har” can’t hardly use that hand for nothing no more look y’see I still got the scar evil babies ... evil babies ... evil babies ... evil babies so just remember next time you you see a baby, friend don’t assume it’s all sweetness and light summa these babies are mean little bastards some are just looking to fight might be be packing a gun or a switchblade some’ll be wearing brass knuckles some’ll cut off your ear or knock your teeth out just for giggles and chuckles evil babies ... evil babies ... evil babies ... evil babies ...
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No Go Zone 04:42
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NO GO ZONE i’m on my way to the no go zone . somebody left a note for me there written in invisible ink, still it’s as plain as the nose on your face some kinda Instructions or guidelines apparently all quite essential it’s all stuff I’m told I should’ve already long since forgotten by now the thing is, though, y’see i’m in a wee little bit of a hurry the last bus leaves at a quarter to half past an hour ago but the future is coming so slow i think I can make it on time and then once I’m in my seat and the bus takes off i’ll relax and enjoy the ride now, the bus makes a giant circle, circles through a giant graveyard but when it gets back to where you started y’see that where you started is somewhere else a little familiar, yes, but key locations have-been shuffled like a deck of cards they say “pick a card, any card” then you see it’s all just a magic trick of course you draw the Jack of Diamonds that’s the hardest card to play so you take it down to the second hand shop to try and trade it for something that’s useful but you’ve forgotten what useful means if you ever even really knew but when you get to where the second hand shop used to be y’see it’s now just hole in the ground ah, it’s a very big hole in the ground surrounded by men in suits they’re throwing great wads of cash down into it now you see it seems it’s a lucky hole the kind that entrepreneurs have wet dreams about but my money’s staying right in my pocket cause i ain’t so easily seduced and so you wander off down the busy streets where busy people do their busy things and you start to understand and get used to the way things have changed but then they all go back to the way they were and i’m confused all over again i ask a passing stranger for good advice he says "man just keep your feet on the ground" i say "stranger, it ain’t that simple these days the ground ain’t what it used to be and the sky? forget the sky the sky is falling, Chicken Little was right" but before it could land on my head like an anvil i ducked into a restaurant ordered up a bowl of beans then the waitress turned into a wisp of smoke i’m going back out on the street now looks like the sky has finished hitting the ground cause there’s clouds everywhere you step we’re all walking on air i’d stick around, except I don’t like heights so I’m gonna be moving along and I’m taking that wisp of smoke along with me on my way to the no-go zone on my way to the no-go zone on my way to the no-go zone
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Baby Come Back Home 02:32
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BABY COME BACK HOME baby come back home! baby come back home! baby come back home! now baby i know i haven’t always been the man you hoped i’d be but if you’d come back home darling, i’ll do right i guarantee i’ll stop doing all those things i do that you don’t like and my cousin sleeping on your couch? i’ll tell him "take a hike!" baby come back home! baby come back home! baby come back home! i'll tell my other girlfriend that we’re over, finished, done! and i’ll get back your dress i gave her, that cute little purple one and those naked pictures of me’n’her i’ll BURN ‘em baby i swear! and i’ll never again say i prefer the way she wears HER hair! baby come back home! baby come back home! baby come back home! the money that you loaned me i’ll repay it every cent and your dog i’was s’posed to take care of? i’ll find out where he went! and that precious family heirloom of your grandma’s that i sold i’ll get it back believe me! oooh bunny, my word is gold! baby come back home! baby come back home! baby come back home! by now i hope you know i mean you’ve GOT to know my dear my intentions are the very best i’m nothing but sincere so come back home and on your way, just do one thing, you hear? pick up some frozen pizzas and two six-packs of beer! baby come back home! baby come back home! baby come back home! come back home! come back home! come back home!
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Angel Headed Hipsters 05:28
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ANGEL HEADED HIPSTERS angel headed hipsters purveyors of poetry below 14th lies the universe the streets will set you free under the arch at Washington Square our voices will echo and ring we'll pontificate until the police come then escape on a pigeon wing angel headed hipsters careen through the New York night spinning around on a basement stage at twice the speed of light leanin’ on walls made of immigrant bones as the steam pours out of the street the lamp post offers a warm embrace the pavement kisses your feet angel headed hipsters scribbling furiously junkies and lost souls, geniuses, fools the anointed of NYC composing their odes to happenstance chance occurrences in subway cars up on the roof their incantations bouncing off the planet Mars radio waves from the top of the Empire State passing through the brain pondering the soles on the shoes of a stranger sleeping on an uptown train yes tonight they're heading to Harlem like every angel hipster should there's a world of inspiration there they’d be Negroes too if they could angel headed hipsters got that hobo jazz in their ears there's an ancient code in the jittery notes something only the hipster hears sound of a jackhammer jigging a jug band cuttin' like a serrated knife moanin' at midnight on Mulberry street breaking up with someone else's wife the holy waters of the Hudson flow past the piers where the poets play past Lady Liberty's sandaled feet what is liberty? the hipsters say well it only exists on some downtown blocks south of 14th of course it's galloping at lightning speed down MacDougal on a wild eyed mercurial horse the world might be spinning one way friend ah but the Village is spinning another and the angel headed hipster knows it can't be explained to your mother there’s cosmic forces overthrowing the workaday world of the suit and the tie in their Salvation Army finery they fly cross the downtown sky angel headed hipsters crown of western civilization smoking that old brown Mexican dope the last best hope of the nation reading the Tibetan Book of the Dead on Greenwich Avenue the cosmos pulses and shimmies and shines on every ragged one of you angel headed hipsters they're long gone now my friend their speed-fuelled dreams drifted off like smoke well, everything comes to an end and our beloved Village is now full of banks where lawyers and stockbrokers dwell they pay millions for our old cold water flats they turned the Village into hell but anyway you can still hear their voice here and there their little books are still to be found and maybe at your local poetry slam there's echoes of their old sound they did their thing, they played their part on that pigeon's wing they flew they're the angel headed hipsters, man and they're smiling down on you angel headed hipsters smiling down on you
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Sensible Shoes 04:37
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SENSIBLE SHOES put on some sensible shoes my darling gonna try to talk some sense into you never mind those high heels that make you stand so wobbly i need you standin’ firm and those heels won’t do see I got some ideas knockin’ around my head oh yes, i got more than a few put on some sensible shoes put on some sensible shoes first of all, lemme just say you need to try to be making dinner at least every now and then it ain’t right that i got to cook every night maybe we could start by me doing, say, nine outta ten i got all the ingredients laid out on the kitchen counter i think it’s time you begin put on some sensible shoes put on some sensible shoes and honey you’re definitely spending too much of my hard earned cash on your nails and your hair that beauty salon you’re hittin’ just about every day? aw honey, you practically live there meanwhile we can’t hardly pay the rent and these clothes i’m wearing are threadbare put on some sensible shoes put on some sensible shoes now i been hearing some rumors that are going around and I don’t want to believe them of course but the one that involves you being seen round town with another-guy comes from a trusted source she told me Samm I know you’re crazy ‘bout that woman but you bet on the wrong damn horse! put on some sensible shoes put on some sensible shoes so now we had this little talk, ah but somehow babe look like I’m still not getting through and I figured that might be the case, so I prepared myself oh yes honey it’s true you see these nice new shoes I’m wearing right now? well you can watch em walk away from you i got some sensible shoes i got myself some sensible shoes i mean some sensible shoes now you can watch ‘em walk away from you
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In the Afterlife 04:58
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IN THE AFTERLIFE in the afterlife we’ll have little wings and we’ll use ‘em for flyin’ cloud to cloud we’ll strum on our little gold harps, yes we will so sweetly, and never too loud it’ll be just like that for eternity, friends and you know, that’s a mighty long time but there’ll be dollar stores fulla stuff that you want where nothing costs more than a dime in the after life ... in the afterlife you’ll kick back on your cloud as you soak up the sun with nary a care in your heart every day up in heaven will be a delight every moment will be a fresh start and the problems that plagued you in the world down below? friend they won’t mean a single damn thing! you’ll never hear ol’ Kenny G play the sax and you won’t hear Celine Dion sing in the after life ... in the afterlife you’ll have mind blowing sex whenever you want all your carnal desires will be met you’ll learn new positions, techniques and such things you haven’t even imagined as yet plus there’ll be tiramisu for breakfast and lunch and for dinner and whenever you please and those things that were just too expensive in life? they’ll be free, like imported French cheese in the after life ... in the afterlife all the assholes who treated you badly they won't be up in heaven with you all the jerkoffs and knuckleheads, bozos and fools the insufferable know-it-alls too they’ll be way down below, down in hell, in the netherworld ain’t that a shame? golly gosh! they’ll be tortured, tormented, like the poor folks you see in those paintings by Hieronymous Bosch in the after life ... in the afterlife there’ll be no Republicans up there, you bet! no Nazis, and no Ku Klux Klan they got systems in place in the afterlife, see and those folks aren’t a part of the plan and the greedy-ass grifters who made lotsa money by poisoning this poor old tired earth? their suffering will be fifty billion times greater than what Fortune magazine says they’re worth in the after life ... in the afterlife now i’d tell you much more ‘bout the afterlife, friend but I reckon you’ll see soon enough cause ain’t none of us yet has escaped that ol’ death this mortality thing’s kinda rough ah but hey, once you croak, buy the farm, kick the bucket you’ll wish you had died years ago! you’ll laugh at the crazy shit people go through in that crazy old world down below in the after life ... in the afterlife in the glorious wonderful magical sweet afterlife
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A Wild Monkey Appeared 03:51
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A WILD MONKEY APPEARED warning a wild monkey appeared the wild monkey bites brutality don't feed him and don't fight him even if you fight, you can't win
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Let's Talk Some More 05:11
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LET'S TALK SOME MORE we had a little talk we discussed a few things we determined that we needed to find out which way the pendulum swings ah but we couldn’t agree on the difference between the ceiling and the floor let’s talk some more talk some more we covered some topics and we touched on some points we agreed that a hole in the ocean’s no place to make a dovetail joint ah but we couldn’t decide which one of us should stop at the liquor store let’s talk some more talk some more you finished summa my sentences and then i finished summa yours we talked about the various diseases for which they still ain’t found no cures no cures ... ah, doctors are working round the clock but there’s still no cures ah, it's a shame we spoke in riddles, we spoke in tongues Swahili, Croatian and French we talked about sitting on the dock of the bay while we sat on an old park bench ah but we never got around to the matter of which one of us is supposed to be keeping score let’s talk some more talk some more now we could stay silent from here on out and just gaze into each other’s eyes and never tell each other bout our plans for the future make everything a big surprise we could fly off the handle or fly by night or take a day trip down to Peru i could work on the railroad or strum on the old banjo a special number for you! ah but we got to remember, we mustn’t forget and don’tchu dare try to ignore we need to talk some more ... let’s talk some more let’s talk some more

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Hello friends, Samm Bennett here, with a new full length album of original material for your listening pleasure. Last year I released a collection of *spoken songs* called "I Need To Talk To You", and this is the followup to that album, entitled "Let's Talk Some More". 10 songs that cover a wide range of subjects (lyrically) as well as a great variety of musical styles. Somehow, I think there's something for everyone on this collection.

Please NOTE: For the first FOUR DAYS after the album's release it will be on SPECIAL SALE at only 9 dollars. Wow! That's 2 songs FREE! Through August 16 the special price will be in effect,and after that... 11 bucks, friends! Now, as usual, the "pay more if you like" is also in effect, and I've been so thankful to those kind souls among you who have been so generous in the past. It really helps keep the home fires burning. But, sale price, full price, generous above-and-beyond payments, they're ALL welcomed and much appreciated, I assure you.

I'd like to add that the album does include one song that I had released previously as a single, that is, "A Wild Monkey Appeared". Since that initial single release, though, I've added quite a lot of new parts to the track, giving it renewed energy and interest, I think. Two other songs on the album, "I Was Hoping" and "In the Afterlife" have appeared online as YouTube videos. On those tracks, I recorded vocal *live to video*, using tracks that I'd pre-recorded. Those vocal takes were good enough to keep, so those 2 songs are also appearing on this new album, but, like "A Wild Monkey Appeared" they've had new parts added and overall sound improved (mastering and all that).

And everything else on the album is... never-before-heard! Hope you'll give it a listen!

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released August 12, 2022

All words and Music by Samm Bennett.
Recorded at Polarity Studio, Tokyo, during late 2021 and early 2022.

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Singer and songwriter, player of unusual string instruments such as 3-string and 1-string guitar, plus jaw harps, mouthbow, electronics and junk, plus all manner of drums and percussion.

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