Daniel Otto Jack Petersen | Brickbats @Doctor_Rockter | Uploaded December 2010 | Updated October 2024, 56 minutes ago.
A tribute to the late Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) on the day he died. Performed by Daniel Otto Jack Petersen. Filmed & Edited by Daniel Otto Jack Petersen II.

'Brickbats' by Captain Beefheart
From the album Doc At the Radar Station

Brickbats fly at my fireplace
Upside down I see them in the fire
They squeak and roast there
Wings leap across the floor
Fold up the wall shadows
The window curtain ghost
Throws my heart and dusts my throat
My mind caught by the corner
Gradually decides its safe
Becomes a bat itself
Flexes its little claws
[Tests] its leather wings
With loud, hollow pops
Around the room
Threatening to dash its brains
Somehow at the last minute
Retreats and becomes a natural glue
[That] holds fast and slow
[and] every other motion
Making the night more interesting
Becomes a cold, liquid breeze
That freezes and thaws
And pours the surroundings full
As no breath can be taken
It drowns and relieves
To see the black turn into yellow
And the yellow into black.
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