Escalator Over The Hill - Carla Bley, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra

Cecil Clark:

People who never

Tell anyone anything

Always

Just letting them know

Flooding memory with pumps

Talented teams of onions

Inside the goal

Of the mouth

Itself

Roomer:

Escalator over the hill

Operasinger:

Thickening old hotel

Doubletalk with single

Entendre

The giggling fly

Of a flashing

Pajama

Longed for pleasure

Lost forever

To a flashing

That insists

On a new

Yodelling

Ventriloquist

Men:

Escalator over the hill

Again no choice

For the poor pale house

Ancient Roomer:

Riding uneasily

Cecil Clark/Operasinger:

Over the hill

Over the hill

Over the hill

Direct pulse

Passes by

Darts in limiting

The system

All green within

All pale with go

A whistling echo

All for fun

From Sinclair’s

Blue magic gun

Hotelpeople:

Escalator over the hill

Again no choice

For the poor pale house

Riding uneasily

Over the hill

Over the hill

Over the hill