Tale Of The Giant Stone Eater Lyrics - Tomorrow Belongs To Me - Sensational Alex Harvey Band

THE TALE OF THE 

GIANT STONE EATER 

COMMENTATOR: Hear this the tale of the giant stone eater 

GIRL: Gather round boys and girls and listen 

MAN: To the tale of the giant stone eater 

and how the earth was ravaged 

during the years of the great stone shortage... 

COMMENTATOR: Raised the price of diesel oil 

and yellow painted signs zigzagged 

black lines of warning...... 

GIRL & MAN: Another tree dies of shame..... 

MAN: Sudden-savage-shining-solid-soiled-solid-sanded 

Steel-shuddering-shattering-shovelling until the 

Sabre toothed rooter roots the earth 

The eater eats his fill and is not satisfied and 

Roars and reves his mathematical rage 

on the footprints of Vikings 

trapped on a sonic tape recorder 

ten million years old, ten million years old, ten million years old. 

GIRL: A broken antler points the way to the still pond 

where reflections of bonnie Prince Charlie lies wounded in the 

shallow water sun shining on chrome surfaces 

protecting the tales of a grandfather - 

march on! 

GIRL & MAN: Journeys unstarted measure space for future parking lots 

Journeys unstarted measure space 

Journeys unstarted measure space for the future 

COMMENTATOR: And - underneath a million tons of cold lava 

a brontasaurus lies wrong way up. 

GIRL: Right way straight ahead 

MAN: Hamburgers at the barn dance tonight! 

COMMENTATOR: Average speed 100 mph 

sixteen lane highways cross the meadows 

GIRL: Plastic space agents selling candy-floss contracts 

ALL TOGETHER: Bells ringing "ring ring" split, grind and grovel 

Lost iron relics ringing on the cold stone 

GIRL: A spated river flows up hill 

directions change in the New Age rain on Tuesdays... 

COMMENTATOR: Thursdays guaranteed dry!... 

Guaranteed dry while handmade golf courses 

weary of trickery and fraud 

Grey slates remain grey slates - 

floods as required life silently reforms in the pools of stagnation. 

Each layer a civilisation - buy your own layer 

The eater eats again retches roars and vomits 

his computerised future is bright with security 

Headshrinkers analyse the unknown.... 

Meanwhile another tree dies of shame 

ALL TOGETHER: And another tree dies of shame.....