Tales From Planet 9, by Cobra Fantastic

Tales From Planet 9

by Cobra Fantastic

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1.	Funkabopulation 04:36	lyrics	buy track
“Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you a bit about what we have in store for you this evening: we have taken care to prepare a special show, and we’re sure that once you’ve heard - like it or not - you’ll never be the same again! You may have noticed some people in the audience have already begun to feel the effects… They’re snappin’ their toes, tappin’ their fingers…their eyes are all glazed over…a little bit of drool runnin’ down their chin… Doesn’t it look like fun?? Well I’ve got some news for you, baby : YOU’RE NEXT !” First you feel it in the air Slinkin’ in from everywhere It’s a psychic fluxillation Make you wanna shake it like you just don’t care Then you feel it in your knees It’s a strobing modulation Your brain begins to freeze That’s the funkabopulation Chorus: We’re gonna funkabopulate you We’ll hit you with a proton laser We’ll go against your better nature You’re gonna leave your former self behind We’re gonna funkabopulate your mind Just wait, just wait, just wait Just wait ’til it hits your hips Then you feel it in your fingertips It starts to climb Up through your spine Can’t help but let your backbone slip Your body is totally consumed Your sense of space and time has been degraded You’re floppin’ and you’re bouncin’ ‘round the room Look baby Here it comes You’ve been funkabopulated Chorus We’re gonna funkabopulate you With a proton laser We’re gonna funkabopulate you Against your better nature We’re gonna funkabopulate you Hey, do you wanna? We’re gonna funkabopulate you Are you flora or fauna? We’re gonna funkabopulate you With a zircon-encrusted tweezer We’re gonna funkabopulate you Cause we aim to please We’re gonna funkabopulate you Stick with Big Daddy, baby We’re gonna funkabopulate you Here we go! You’re gonna leave your former self behind We’re gonna funkabopulate your mind
2.	Teenage Space Invader 03:16	lyrics	buy track
You’ve probably seen me around I’m starting to get the hang of being cool You’ve probably noticed my smile Naturally you assume I’m into you But you’re a fool Yeah, you’re just like the others You don’t know what it’s like It’s not true That we could never be lovers But I would have to liquefy your mind Chorus: I’m just a teenage space invader From the Planet 9 I’m just a teenage space invader From the Planet 9 My folks just don’t understand All the care about is taking down the human race I just wanna meet a nice Earth girl Maybe slightly liquefy her mind And take her back to my place It’s not cool When you’re not like the others You don’t know what it’s like I’m no fool If I tell my sisters and brothers They will most likely eat me alive Chorus I never knew That we could feel so all alone Stranded in the galaxy Light-years away from home And all those years I spent observing you Out in orbit up above Who knew that I would one day learn to love? Learn to love It’s not true That we could never be lovers Now you know what it’s like Why won’t you Be my significant other? Baby, won’t you let me liquefy your mind? Chorus
3.	My Heart is Like a Giant Monster Robot 06:22	lyrics	buy track
My heart is like a giant monster robot It's forty stories high Lasers only make it stronger And it will blow up Cleveland Just to win your love Just to win your love! My heart is like a radioactive poodle on a rampage It's impervious to flame Terrorises little old ladies And it would chew off its glowing green hind paw Just to get next to you Fido, fido! Here, fido ! Good dog. When you say that you'll be mine My heart is like a giant porcupine And when you say I'll see ya later My heart is like a hungry alligator I know my lexical incongruities Are lacking in continuity But you turned my brain to jelly, baby When you funkabopulated me! My heart is like a rabid armadillo It's foamin’ at the mouth It's gets grumpy in the mornin’ And it's actuallty a direct descendant of the giant armoured mammalian creatures known as the glyptodonts When you tell me yes yes yes My heart is like an egret in distress And when you tell me no no no My heart is like an angry Eskimo I know my lexical incongruities Are lacking in continuity But you turned my brain to jelly, baby When you funkabopulated me! My heart is like A Voodoo zombie With bright green eyes And a craving for brains My heart is like (3x) Heeeeeeee! I'm just so crazy for your love, baby You red my mind You blue my mind You greeeeeen my mind You funkabopulated me My heart is like a giant monster robot
4.	Starlit Night of Her Eyes 04:32	lyrics	buy track
The first time that you saw her it was all in black and white She was tapping out the rhythm of a foreign song She didn't know her own name She couldn't stand on her own Without you by her side she was all alone Chorus: The way you once were You won't remember She make your cold heart A burning ember You'll love every minute, You'll love every minute of it You’ll love every minute of it When she laughs you just want to make her laugh some more You'd do anything to dry her tears when she cries You will lose years of your life Falling through the starlit night Of her eyes She travels with a zebra And a black cat She laughs to the rhythm of a distant drum She doesn't speak the language She never says a word But there are other ways to make your feelings heard Chorus
5.	Let It Slide 05:05	lyrics	buy track
I am not afraid Of anything this world has made And that includes you Baby, that included you I’ve got style I’ve got mojo rhythm in my feet I’ve got class I’ve got all the moves Chorus : After all this time All I feel inside All this pain you caused me I let it slide All those plans we made All that lovin’ in the shade That was just a lie That was just a lie They say live and let live Well that’s the best advice that I can give ‘Cause I’m takin’ what’s mine Way on down the line Chorus
6.	Don't Resist 04:50	lyrics	buy track
Don’t resist Don’t resist (8x) Leave your body Let us take control We’ll take over We will overthrow Don’t you fight it Let us have your mind You’ll become a Slave of Planet 9 Don’t resist Don’t resist (8x) There is one thing you must understand We answer only to the High Command And to prove to you that we’re legit We will do with you as we see fit And as a wise man once said : Free your mind And your ass will follow Don’t resist

credits

released June 14, 2019

Cobra Fantastic is :

Big Daddy Fantastic (alias David Garlitz) : guitar & vocals
AliSunshine Fantastic (aka Alison Young) : vocals
Saralicious Fantastic (aka Sarah-Lane Roberts) : vocals
The Fantastic Merrywoodweatherson (alias Josiah Woodson) : trumpet
Prezident Fantastic (aka David Prez) : tenor sax
Thumpasaurus Fantastic (alias Simon Tailleu) : bass
Karlitos el Fantástico (known among humans as Karl Jannuska) : drums

Music & lyrics by David Garlitz
Produced and arranged by Big Daddy Fantastic

Recorded live at Studio Quadrature

Mixed by Nicolas David
Mastered by Thomas Vingtrinier

Cover design by Big Daddy Fantastic,
based on Kepler-62f with 62e as Morning Star
by Tim Pyle, from the NASA Image Archives

We extend our [vital-internal-organ]-felt thanks to our many human collaborators, who have learned to love the funkabopulation and allow their minds to be completely liquefied : Nicolas David, Thomas Vingtrinier, Auguste Manly, Anthony Caillet, Mike Iannantuono, Philiipe Kadosch, Claire Thomas, Emma and Eliot Garlitz,Bela and the Grand Pabob, Queen Cécile of House Dessertenne (adviser to the High Command), and to the many Slaves of Planet 9...er, um, we mean... “fans of the band.”
We salute you in your interplanetary funksmanship.

“You red my mind,
You blue my mind,
You green my mind,
You funkabopulated me”
- Big Daddy Fantastic