Track 10 - Ripkile Evanderlou
These are the original lyrics to "Ripkile Evanderlou", from the Into the Eye of Ripkile album, as transcribed by Mark Rathke in the liner notes, circa 1998:
Underneath the chalk eraser
We can find the mutilator
Underneath the carpet sweeper
We can find the Oscillator
Channeling the residue
No one knows what to do
Channeling a guy named Lou
No one has any shampoo
Sitting up on number 9 cloud
Belittled blue sky shroud
Sitting thinking this is too loud
Belittled by what you've vowed
Stunning views of the wasteland
Fearing for what was in your hand
Stunning views of eyes in the sand
Fearing for what is now bland
Fluid fills all of the boundary
Nothing left of the foundry
Fluid fills your adversary
Nothing left of Frankenberry
Ripkile Evanderlou
Frankenberry left her shoe
And here is a copy of the "Ripkile Evanderlou" MP3 that mark pulled off the original CD:
RipkileEvanderlou.mp3
If I've told you kids once, I've told you a million times! DO NOT leave the carpet sweeper on top of the oscillator! Seriously, though. I have no idea what's going on in the lyrics of this song. I had nothing to do with its creation. I had nothing to do with its creation. HOWEVER, I do have a standing belief that ANY song about Frankenberry is a good song.
Channeling a guy named lou? We were playing "Rayman: Raving Rabbids" on the Wii last night and played through a beat game that involved bunnies singing "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" in a high pitched voice. What's the connection? Well, FIRSTLY, Captain Lou Albano played Cyndi Lauper's dad ("Oh daddy dear we're not the fortunate ones!") and SECOND I watched that video more than once on "Friday Night Videos" back in the day. Mark will deny this, I'm sure. He'll tell you that Metallica is the 'softest' music he's ever listened to, but that's a damned lie.
This was also a BR attempt at philosophy. "Fluid fills all of the boundary" and "Fluid fills your adversary" ... The subtle implication? That your BOUNDARIES are your only adversary. Well, that and everyone else in the world who wish you ill will. Those are your adversaries. And people trying to kill you, too, I guess. They're adversaries... and business competitors.
Anyway, I'm hoping Mark will give us the low-down on this song a bit, since I really didn't have much to add to it. What's the scoop, yo?
2 Comments:
Most of this song is simply finding words that rhyme that make no sense. That was kind of the flavor or theme of the whole album actually. The title was loosely based on a friend of a person that Karl knew. We nicknamed this person Frankenberry based on a protruding forehead. That shouldn't be considered a foreshadowing of the 2004 election where a certain presidnetial candidate/former comedian/airhead america talkshow host combination was given the nickname FrankenKerry.
Was it the Roy Mobry? I like the surreal BR.
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