CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND - My Head Is My Only House Unless it Rains [Clear Spot] / Too Much Time [Clear Spot

 I was sat drinking coffee look at the birds in my garden and thought every bird that goes by gets me high . . . . . . . . where is that from!? As if I didn’t know . . . from perhaps my favourite Captain Beefheart Album ‘Clear Spot’ and the song Too Much Time largely because this was the work performed the last time I saw them . . . . . . 1973? Oxford Polytechnic . . . life changing! 

"Mr Zoot Horn Rollo play that long lunar note , . . . . . and let it float"

My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains

My head is my only house unless it rains

I'll let a train be my feet if it's too far to walk to you

If a train don't go there I'll get a jet or a bus

'Cause I'm going to find you

You're going to see my shadow soon around you

And my head is my only house unless it rains

I walk the meadow plains

Water deserts are my eyes until I find you

I won't sleep until I find you

I won't eat until I find you

My heart won't beat until I wrap my arms around you

My arms are just two things in the way

Til' I can wrap them around you

You can make my sad song happy

And a bad world good

I can feel you out there moving

You're mine, I know I'll find you

And my head is my only house until I've found you

I hate to have other people hear me sing this song

But if it reaches you before I do

Follow this song to "I love you"

That's where I'll find you

And my head is my only house unless it rains

Songwriter: Don Van Vliet 1972

OOOPS Spot the deliberate mistake?!

Every war that’s waged makes me cry, every bird that goes by get’s me high

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Too Much Time (Clear Spot)

Too Much Time

I got a-too much time

Too much time

I got too much time to be without love

Too much time

I got a-too much time

I got too much time

Too much time to be without love

[Verse 1]

In my life, I've got a deep devotion

Wide as the sky and deep as the ocean

Every war that's waged makes me cry

Every bird that goes by gets me high

[Verse 2]

Sometimes when it's late and I'm a little hungry

I heat up some old stale beans

Open up a can of sardines

Eat crackers and dream about somebody to cook for me

[Chorus]

(Too much time) Too much time

(I got too much time) Too much time

(Too much time) Too much time

Too much time to be without love

(songwriter - Don Van Vliet) 1972

N.B most folk slag off the albums Bluejeans and Moonbeams and especially Unconditionally Guaranteed but Clear Spot less so - discuss! It has just as many love songs ( for Jan ) on it but somehow features higher up than the previous two mentioned album