SPIRIT IN A MEAT SUIT

by BABAL

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1.	PUSS IN BOOTS 07:30	lyrics	buy track
Puss-in-Boots He had the qualities of the androgyne shaman The soft man with the hard heart; moving from one world to another with ease. Slipping and sliding; sometimes fluid; two coats of fur and claws well hidden, Big doleful eyes as he craves the forbidden. He will creep in when the door is ajar; hearing the plans not for his ears; using the knowledge for his own poisoned spears. Sometimes striped or panther black Silent in the groove of someone elses' beaten track Then leaping off-road to gather the hype, calling on maidens who feed him on cream; smoothing his coat to a burnished gleam, Never far from a meal or a comfy bed; this feline trickster has a hole in his heart and a fire in his head. Puss-in-Boots jumps at the sound of his name And grins so wide, his teeth are insane The velvet cushions and silken threads await his pleasure and tease his time, await his pleasure and tease his time........ For Puss-in-Boots, there is no name he will not use, there is no shame he will not choose Shining his boots with purest lace! The better to see his cunning face. x2 He's Puss-in-Boots (improvise, then into musical interlude) Cunning, deceitful, charming, duplicitous! Looking out for himself, while looking out for his master, Likes beautiful things; a CON-CAT; takes his percentage from the fat of his masters' good fortune. Not what he seems! He was known as Puss-in-Boots; Charming, vainglorious, duplicitous In search of his rightful place, behind the throne of the most successful! He had his paws in so many pies that he had to open doors with his dick, but never forgot to whip his tail out for a new opportunity! Puss-in-Boots, Puss-in-Boots! Watch him and learn........ Karen Langley (copyrighted lyric)
2.	SPIRIT IN A MEAT SUIT 04:03	lyrics	buy track
spirit in a meat suit I'm just a spirit in a meat suit, only here for a day, I'm just a spirit on my way!(BREAK) In a meat suit only for today; Just a spirit with some words to say, Come and join me for heaven's sake The journey will be fun! I don't waste my time on medicine and wine; on looking for pain or clapped-out shame; Unrest comes marching soon enough, So I go between tough and tender, give back to the sender; count minutes as love notes to which I surrender. I'm just a spirit in a meat suit! I'm just a spirit on my way; I'm just a spirit in a meat suit! Only here for today. Temporary; habit-forming; I'm just a spirit on my way! I'm just a spirit in a meat-suit! Come and join me, What do you say? (Karen Langley copyright)
3.	HEROES 07:25	lyrics	buy track
HEROES. HEROES; ATTACK OUR HEARTS WITH FANFARES ANCIENT ASSASSINS, COLDLY MARCHING BY LIVE COALS FLYING; RAINING DOWN ON BLOODIED MEAT..... HEROES; UNFETTERED BY LOVE, OLD FIRES BURN; BOILING EYES AND HAIR; MUSIC; SHAPES; REACHING IN SPACE....... HEROES; REFUGE OF THE UNDECIDED; CUT AND THRUST OF MATHEMATICS; SHARP ANGLES OF MOTION; ETERNAL INFLECTION DYING....... HEROES; HUNG AS GARLANDS ON GUTSY TREES, FIGHTING TO GROW IN CIVIL SUCCESS AND OF LOGIC UNEXPECTED AND UNEXPLAINED......... KAREN LANGLEY (COPYRIGHT) 29/1/
4.	DEAD CENTRE 07:23 video	lyrics	buy track
DEAD CENTRE. He'd always been a man of legendary excess, washing off the freaks, the ghosts, the earth, the darkness. His expression was strangely dislocated. It zigzagged like a bolt of black lightning. He was listening to the boom of his heart in his head. The house is falling down; he said. So get out while you can, get out while you can, Fake and fragile are the walls, Swooning stucco lined with souls. He was dead centre; centre dead and left for living Came to light on scented pages The dead man's' house is where she rages! So get out while you can, she screamed Come collect the crazy man; on his back, he's in a trance, The drums of fate design his dance The drums of fate design his dance. Karen Langley (copyrighted material)
5.	NEVER PLAY GOLF ON SUNDAY 06:48	lyrics	buy track
NEVER PLAY GOLF ON SUNDAY I was born to the rot of nature’s wealth; laughing with the dying leaves; spilling all the crippling fruit, Counting every tangling root; cut of gentle breeze invading; spirits loved; returned; pervading. And the day before he died; she said; he looked and looked and looked upon her; “I want to look at you, until you have gone into my brain! To drink in the sight of you until it’s etched in my mind!” He left her, and went to play golf. A match from which he never returned. Dropped dead – In life so strong and charismatic. She put his clubs into the attic, and carried on. With the love etched in her brain. Never play golf on Sunday, if you wanna return to your home intact! Ooh yeah! Pick up those balls! Swing that number 9! Put ‘em in the bag; get home on time. Don’t go to the 19th hole! Get stuck in a sand-trap at number 7; see you at the clubhouse David, see you at the clubhouse David, see you at the clubhouse David. That’s how I roll!! Karen Langley. (copyright)
6.	ISIS 07:29 video	lyrics	buy track
ISIS I lived with ISIS, in my mid-life crisis, She showed me the door; so I shacked up with HATHOR; (who I’d gone out with before; yeah!} Got talking to NUIT; she was kinda cute! But then I was introduced to NEFERTITI – OOH WHAT A SWEETIE! Lots of fun, as we worshipped in the sun But she tired of me; and so I hung out with Ma’at A stickler for truth; she had a tall skinny cat that never liked me from the start; he always hoped for a piece of my heart; Weighed on the scales in the underworld; I watched him and he watched me, So soon I left and lived alone (that was before the mobile phone) Camped out by the SPHINX; a man in total despair; no wife, no kids, and thinning hair. ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MID-LIFE CRISIS! I wish I’d stuck it out with ISIS! I WISH I’D STUCK IT OUT WITH ISIS! She of the smouldering looks; quite a good cook too, hmm! Here she comes, walking barefoot across the sands to meet me; Oh! It’s so hot today! Look at those PYRAMIDS swaying in the hallucinatory breeze! She has her knife! Oh dear! What has she got on her mind? Chopped into a thousand pieces, chopped into a thousand pieces, chopped into a thousand pieces, chopped into a thousand pieces! ONLY TO BE RE-BORN!! Karen Langley. (copyright)
7.	KRAKEN KOMMANDANT 05:11	lyrics	buy track
KRAKEN COMMANDANT Technojunkies – mainlining information like pushers Give you some for free, get you hooked, Then you start paying To feed the information addiction Adds, games, apps, saps To all the feast of plenty before you. An open vista to a world of small intervals of pleasure, Popping up before your gourmet eyes, Your hydra, the octopus deep in it’s rock cavern Pulsating outwards to pull in many fish The craven appetite of prehistory sealing the fate of surface feeders The ancient brain unassailable, ingesting the free wisdom of frenzied fish-heads who think their time has come Their time of greatness 15 minutes of fame That will stick with them on the board of universal examination results. Exceptional and eternal In their own minds’ eye Flattened and dull-screened they mill around the reefs Until they gather in a bait ball of fragmented thinking and become The silvered supper of a Kraken Kommandant Lurking with his mega plug-in system “Eat yourselves better” “Eat yourselves better” Down to the last morsel The last dorsal The last dorsal fin They believed him. Copyright: Karen Langley
8.	REMEMBER THE DEAD 08:13	lyrics	buy track
REMEMBER THE DEAD MOTH AND RUST ARE THE PROVISIONS OF THE UNIVERSE, AND IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHO YOU ARE THEN HOW CAN YOU REMEMBER WHO YOU WERE? AND SUDDENLY! YES SUDDENLY I REMEMBERED THAT I HAD FORGOTTEN TO REMEMBER MYSELF... IN THE LIFE OF SLEEPING PEOPLE I WAS A DREAM A PHANTASM, FLOATING IN ONE EAR AND OUT OF THE OTHER... REMEMBER THE DEAD; IN THE SHIT - SLICK SURRENDER OF AN AFTERNOON DEATH. HIS UNDERMINING PRESENCE, NOT SAVING YOU FOR THE LAST TIME. NOW THERE IS MUSIC! NOW THERE IS LIGHT! POUNDING AND SOUNDING, ANNOINTING TIME FOR THE NUMBERED BULLET! BULLETS FOR THE GUNS MOTHERS FOR THE SONS YOU HEAR THOSE BELLS NOW! THE TINNITUS OF DEATH STRONG WITH EVIDENCE, CALLING YOU HOME... THE MOST LAND ANYONE EVER OWNS IS THE CARDLE OF DIRT THEY END UP IN. Copyright: Karen Langley
9.	THROUGH HARDSHIP TO THE STARS 05:59	lyrics	buy track
THROUGH HARDSHIP TO THE STARS (Per Ardua ad Astra) We are only a gaze; the rest is absence, The rest isn’t really there. I feel the dance of the wind; I feel the dance of the hours. The dance of the spheres. We are only a gaze; the rest is absence. We find our way, through hardship to the stars. Nothing is really easy, if we really care; for only a broken heart can let in love. We are only a gaze; the rest is absence. (Break) The dawn I feel; the dance of the wind, the music of the spheres, the light of the stars. My night and your day – will ignite. We are only a gaze ; the rest is absence. Karen Langley (copyright).

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BABAL : SPIRIT IN A MEAT SUIT
And so into 2021 with BABAL and the completion of the “CIRCLE OF CONFUSION OF TONGUES” series.
Cancer, Covid and Conservatism impacted the band in no small ways; these massive life-changing events notwithstanding, BABAL have produced an incredible lockdown legacy of words, music and rhythms of ferocious tenacity.
Fired by the sheer will to survive, tempered with the faith in Universal chaos and balance, BABAL make each song an epiphanic journey across illness, narcissism, money culture and authentic living in the face of either shit or sugar.
KAREN LANGLEY’s vocals and arrangements are focussed, yet refuse rigidity; the flow of her unique style is celebrated in this album, one that she admits she thought would remain unfinished.
ROB WILLIAM’s guitars and musical composition are at their most eloquent; his undaunted determination throughout Karen’s, and his own cancers became a spiritual mission to carefully sew together a divine collaboration and produce something so much bigger than those 3 big C’s.
JON SHARP,as ever, refines and pulls together the pieces as the third, long time rhythmic powerhouse of the power of 3.
“The liberation I feel from producing this work has literally been phenomenal”, says Karen “sometimes I couldn’t do any work for months and sometimes neither could Rob. We were like a musical see-saw; each helping the other go up if the other was down. I’m really happy with the result, we all are – it’s been well worth the persistence”

Spring 2021

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released March 25, 2021

Karen Langley - vocals , arrangements
Rob Williams - Guitars, guitar synth, bass, programming
Jon Sharp - Drums

Guest Artistes (Track 3)
Zoie Green - Keyboards
Ben Balsom - Bass

All songs composed by Rob Williams and Karen Langley
© 2021 PRS/MCPS Rob Williams/Karen Langley

Recording/Production: Williams/Langley - BABAL Kastel, Malvern, UK
Engineering/Mastering: Martin Nichols - The White House nr Bristol , UK

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One speaks and a thousand misunderstand
where millions are silent and a thunderous applause erupts
where chatter overwhelms humility and gossip destroys worlds
the tongues wag, the ears flap and the mind creates a wall
everything has been said but no one has understood
talking with conviction and concluding that knowledge is easy and effects a multitude of expanding smokescreens around truth ... more

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