Bobby's Diner
Modern and experimental musical theater, abstract, symbolic elements with unconventional structures, dissonant tones, emphasizing visual storytelling, surreal imagery, and fragmented narrative
Bobby's Diner
Modern and experimental musical theater, abstract, symbolic elements with unconventional structures, dissonant tones, emphasizing visual storytelling, surreal imagery, and fragmented narrative
Lyrics
Verse 1
Cyborg woman Christmas morning
Bust her plug
Leaking red and green out her bottom in a pile on the floor
Filled with blood and wires galore
Guardian angel dancing tango
Stole her wings and sent her flying solo
Then he passed out in the rain
He’ll take flight with wings again
Chorus
But one day
He will save Mary’s lamb
One day she’ll see it coming
Enter Lips
Mama Jane
With a bat in her hand
Velvet loose around Bobby and his men
Verse 2
Cyborg woman
Check the date
Oh no
She’s dead
Died in '88 and laid upon my bedside chest of drawers
Who’s blood is on the floor?
Snapped his wings mid-flight
That angel gave his life so I could have mine but vows go both ways
Now all I see is static hypnotism
At the makeshift altar
Plastic jungle prison
Chorus
One day
He will save Mary’s lamb
One day she’ll see it coming
Enter Lips
Mama Jane
With a bat in her hand
Velvet loose around Bobby and his men
Bridge
All her threads must yet untwine
Polly pulled those strings
They dragged on
Anchor-like
And the anchor is floating skyward
Floating skyward
They dragged on anchor-like
(Stitched up like modern art)
Floating skyward
Off Bobby’s mind
And the anchor floats up off my mind
Chorus
One day
He will save Mary’s lamb
One day she will see it coming
Enter Lips
Mama Jane
With a bat in her hand
(My haircut, so
That textured fringe
Oh
At school
I think they call it French but
Is it?)
Velvet loose around Bobby and his men