Cosmic Slop (1973)


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Track List (links jump to lyrics for that song):

Nappy Dugout
You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure
March to the Witch's Castle
Let's Make It Last
Cosmic Slop
No Compute
This Broken Heart
Trash A-Go-Go
Can't Stand the Strain



Nappy Dugout

{G Clinton, Garry Shider, Cordell Mosson}


Come play ?
In a nappy dugout (x2)

Oh lord, lord!
We so?

Here it comes again
Hohoho
Fun in the dugout!
Yeah, ?

Come play?
In a nappy dugout (x2)

Stand up!
Shake it!
?
Watch me

Come play
In a nappy dugout

Everybody do it this time
Come play
In a nappy dugout (x2)
Hey!

Cooooome plaaaay?
In a nappy dugout
(x4)

What you mean by dugout?
Cooooome plaaaay?
In a nappy dugout



You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure

{G Clinton, Sidney Barnes}

Sitting here with a broken heart
Wishin' you'd come home for
Sitting here with breakin' hearts
I just can't go on

Oh!

Grief has got a hold on me
I can't think for myself
It's all because that woman of mine
Making love to someone else

I'm turning green from being blue
Without your face around
You found another to do your lovin'
And me you have put down
And I'm

Sitting here with a broken heart
Wishin' you'd come home, 'cause
Sitting here with breakin' hearts
I just can't go on

Ahhhhh!

I'm trudging water all through the house
I thought it was from my kitchen sink
I phoned the plumber to rush right over
And see if he could fix this leak

He rushed right over and he took a look
And much to my surprise
He said "My son it's not your sink,
It's teardrops from your eyes"
Oh!

Sitting here with a broken heart
Wishin' you'd come home for
Sitting here with breakin' hearts
I just can't go on

You can't miss what you can't measure
That's what he tried to make me see
Love is around I know for sure
What's in store for me

Sitting here with a broken heart
Wishin' you'd come home for
Sitting with breakin' hearts
I just can't go on
Oh!

I chew my nails off one by one
I only got one to go
Unless I get what I been missin'
Never had no more

My nerves are shot, I smoke a lot
In my loneliness
And until I see your face once again
My lonely heart won't rest
And I'm

Sitting here with a broken heart
Wishin' you'd come home for
Sitting here with breakin' hearts
I just can't go on
(x2)

You can't miss what you can't measure
That's what he tried to make me see
Love is around I know for sure
What's in store for me
(x3)



March To The Witch's Castle

{G Clinton}

February 12th, 1973
The prayers of thousands were answered
The war was over, and the first of the prisoners returned
Needless to say, it was the happiest day in up to thirteen years for most
For others, the real nightmare had just begun
The nightmare of readjustment
And for those, we will pray

Whooa-ohh-ohhh
Whooa-ohh-ohhh
Whoa-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh-oh whooaaa
(x 5)

Father, bless the soldier who has returned home from the war
He has fought with all his might
Yet he knew not for what or who he was fighting for
Death waited in the shadows as he crawled by night for his country
His enemies was many, including the habit he still cannot break
Father, we pray that we might understand what has happened to his mind
And help us understand his reaction
To the changes that has taken place here at home
And father, smile upon us, with your grace, for we will need you more than ever
Help him understand, that when his loved one remarried
They were truly under the impression that he was dead
And never would return
Oh lord, we pray

And father, why must wars be fought?
Someone said this war ended with "Peace with honor"
But can there truly be?
Is there such a thing?
Thousands of boys gave their life, and for what?
Do anybody know?

Oh lord, give us the strength to understand ourselves
For we are mysterious animals, man
And as the boys march home to the witch's castle
They will all need your help
I can hear them calling, calling out for you, father
For there is no one else that can help
Smile upon us, oh lord
For we are very weak
Very weak
Very weak
Very weak
Very weak



Let's Make It Last

{G Clinton, Eddie Hazel}

I don't want a love
That's burning fast
Ten-to-one
Ah, that it won't last

Now I take a love
That's burning slow
Then bend an eye
And watch it grow

Let's make it last
Let's make it good
Let's make it last
Let's make it good
Whoa, lord!

I don't want a love
Like apple pie
Good while it lasts
Oh, when it's gone, you wanna cry

I don't want a love
Like a sunny day
Out come the clouds
Chase it away

Let's make it last (whoo-hoo whoo-hoo-hooo)
Let's make it good
(x2)

Oh lord!
Whoo-ooh!
Oh lord!

I don't want a love
Like a racing car
Hey, win today
And lose tomorrow

I don't want a love
That's burning fast
Ten-to-one, hey baby!
It won't last

Let's make it last (whoo-hoo whoo-hoo-hooo)
Let's make it good
Let's make it last (whoo-hoo whoo-hoo-hooo)



Cosmic Slop

{G Clinton, B Worrell}

Ahhh, ahh-ah-ahhhhh, hear my mother call
Ahhh, ahh-ah-ahhhhh, hear my mother call

I was one of five born to my mother
An older sister and three young brothers
We've seen it hard, we've seen it kind of rough
But always with a smile, she was sure to try to hide
The fact from us that life was really tough

I can hear my mother call
I can hear my mother call (Ahhh, ahh-ah-ahhhhh)
Late at night I hear her call
Oh lord, lord I hear her call
She said, "Father, father it's for the kids (Ahhh, ahh-ah-ahhhhh)
Any and every thing I did.
Please, please don't judge me too strong.
Lord knows I meant no wrong.
Lord knows I meant no wrong."

Then the devil sang

"Would you like to dance with me? (Ooh-ahh-ooh)
We're doin' the cosmic slop." (Ooh-ahh-ooh)
(x3)

She was well known through the ghetto
Tricks would come and then they'd go
The neighbors would talk and call her Jezebel
But always with a smile, she was sure to try to hide
The fact from us that she was catching hell, hey!

Hear my mother call
I can hear my mother call (Ahhh, ahh-ah-ahhhhh)
Late at night I hear her call
Oh lord, lord I hear her call
She says, "Father, father it's for the kids (Ahhh, ahh-ah-ahhhhh)
Any and every thing I did.
Please, please don't judge me too strong.
Lord knows I meant no wrong.
Lord knows I meant no wrong."
Lord!

(Ahhh, ahh-ah-ahhhhh)
Hear my mother call
(Ahhh, ahh-ah-ahhhhh)
Hear my mother call
She says, "Father, father it's for the kids (ooh-ah-ooh)
Any and every thing I did. (ooh-ah-ooh)
Please, please don't judge me too strong.
Hear my mother call (ooh-ah-ooh)
Hear my mother call (Ahhh, ahh-ah-ahhhhh)
I can hear my mother call (Ahhh, ahh-ah-ahhhhh)
Heyyyyyyy! Heyyyy!
Mother!
I can hear my mother call (ooh-ah-ooh)
I can hear my mother call (ooh-ah-ooh)
Mother, mother

Late at night
Late at night
Calling me
Mother
I can hear my
I can hear my mother calling me
Late at night I hear my mother
Late at night I hear my mother
Heyyyyyyy!
Heyyyyyy-ayyy!



No Compute

{G Clinton, Garry Shider}

Ah, I awakened from a wet dream in which I was restless {?}
My imagination could no longer take me there
So I slid into my copping haberdashery
And gave into the original jones: sex.

Now, my sexy jones was below sea level
The hornies occupied my being
I was at that stage where most men would say,
"Hey ho', it's your life or your lay."
But I was cooler than that.
She said, "No compute."

I spotted a lady who was also on the prowl
I could tell by her makeup, plus the scent was there
So I sashayed over to her, and, ah, spoke of my plan
She screamed and said, "Are you asking to make love to me?"
I said, "Is pig what's in pork?
Or you gonna play hard
After all the trouble you went through to get chosen?"
She said, ah, "No compute."

Finally, she said, ah, "I could, ah, probably go for what you're talking about.
But it's really about my birth control pill."
I said, "All looks are not alike, all holes are not a crack.
When in doubt, vamp.
Or at least ad-lib.
And of course you know that spit don't make babies."
She smiled, and said, "No compute."
But I could tell that she was getting interested {?}.

So off we went!
There was fun to be had, love to be made.
"Strange", I said to myself after I laid,
Smoking a last joint before I ??? to sleep
"What a man will go for when the hornies, ah, set in."
Well, suddenly as she laid there, mouth wide open, wig half off, snoring
Breath smelling like a 1948 Buick
I was sick with the filthies, and she smiled in her sleep
As if to say, "All looks are not alike, all holes are not a crack."



This Broken Heart

{W Franklin}

Are you mad, at me, darling?
Are you sorry that we, we, we met?
Have you learned to love another?
Has he told you to for, for-for-forget
But no other heart can love you
Like this broken heart
Of mine

{spoken}
Yeah, I've been diggin' on your vibes lately
Yes, and you've been finding more faults
Than Carter got liver pills
And I'm hip to all that Gemini material laying around, heh
And I ain't no Gemini
I just want to make sure you ain't half-steppin', and short-strokin'
Can you get to that?

{sung}
Well, no other heart can love you
Like this broken heart of mine
Like this broken heart
Of mine



Trash A Go-Go

{G Clinton}

Your honor!
I didn't do it
I didn't pimp her just for money
What's wrong with making her call me daddy?
Your honor!
I didn't do it
Oh, your honor
She didn't like it
I don't care what she said
I didn't make her sell head
Your honor
I didn't do it

The judge and jury just frowned at me
They said, "For exploiting your lady,
Just for a payday,
Is a sin, and you will pay."

When getting over is high above your head
And gettin' high can get you dead
What are you supposed to do?

I didn't pimp her to support my high
Pick up my car and keep me flyin'
No, your honor!
I did not do it
The judge and jury still frowned (Your honor!)
And said, ah, "Ten to twenty."
Your honor!
I still did not do it!
Your honor....



Can't Stand The Strain

{G Clinton, Eddie Hazel}

This old heart
Couldn't stand the strain
This old heart
Couldn't stand the pain

I've got the strangest feeling you've grown tired of me
Something that was ours has gone and made you unhappy
What's wrong, baby?

Complainin' by the day, I can feel the change
I've been working down south for ?
And you're convinced that I'm to blame
What's wrong, baby?

'Cause this old heart is not in shape
This old heart couldn't stand the strain
This old man is going insane
You're taking your love away

I'm losing you, I don't know why
Tell me what can I do
I don't want to say anything
Just to hold on to you
Dig it, baby

Lover's words are so unfair
To make everybody kiss
I don't know but I've been told
Make ? this
Dig it, baby

'Cause this old heart is not in shape, oh no
This old heart couldn't stand the strain
This old man is going insane

Don't do it (don't!)
Don't do it (don't!)
Don't take your love away (mama don't take it away!)
(x4)

Heeeyyyy!
(x2)

(Everybody say it, come on!)
Don't do it (don't!)
Don't do it (don't!)
Don't take your love away (mama don't take it away!)
(x5)
Don't do it (please don't take it away)
Don't do it (well!)
Don't take your love away