Comes in a full-color, 100% recycled sleeve featuring art work by Brad Erickson (detail from the watercolor painting 'The Protopaisleyan Era' and photography by Jason Baldwin. Graphic design by Lisa Roth.
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Partly inspired by Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, AHL forms part of the continuing arc of gender ambiguity from the Kinks' Lola to Ziggy Stardust to Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
lyrics
Alien Hermaphrodite Lover
B. Erickson 2012
You made it with Ziggy some years ago, had a thing for human beings
But you don’t age the same way that we do. You still look good in jeans
Somehow you stowed away, you made it on the homeward shuttle flight
And the next thing that I knew, you were tapping on my window late at night
Kinda pretty, kinda tough, I let you in, but was I man enough?
Kinda handsome, kinda weird, could you ever grow a beard?
I asked just how you were arranged, you said, “ever seen a werewolf change?”
Well I hadn’t, but I came to guess, there were only sometimes that you filled-out a dress
Well you’ve got a name I can’t pronounce
It makes our love hard to announce
But that don’t matter when we’re under the covers
My alien hermaphrodite lover
You asked if you could date my sister on the days we call you mister
It might be incest once-removed but who am I to harsh your groove?
My sister stipulated you get good and clean before you switch between us
You said a photon shower would be nice, we said a bathtub would suffice
You come and go, you shrink and grow
How you do it no one knows
You play both sides, that’s what we discovered.
Our alien hermaphrodite lover
We found out you were a hoochie, left us to go chase some hot space cootchie
Used the clothes dryer spin for oscillation, orbed out naked to your destination
My sister was knocked up, I got plastered: you dirty space bastard!
Would the kid be a star or face persecution? Would it be the next link in human evolution?
The reason for our discontent?
You went and came then came and went
I’d slap your face, if I could orbit and hover
You alien hermaphrodite lover
credits
from Beautiful Grotesque,
released September 14, 2012
Brad Erickson: vocals, guitar; Courtney Arnold: vocals; Olivia Rathbone: vocals, percussion; Jason Berkman: drums; Sarah Topaz: bass, Bernie Jungle: lead guitar.
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