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Jeffrey Lewis Band
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 29 พ.ค. 2019
Jeffrey's 3-minute version of Evil Dead 2
Happy Halloween! Here's my favorite movie (in low-budget Not-flix streaming form).
Spoiler alert, natch.
Lyrics:
There’s this evil book and in Medieval times it disappeared, somewhere none can tell
It speaks of evil things, that possess human beings, if anybody speaks the evil spell
But anyway, fast forward to today, it’s Ash and Linda in an Oldsmobile/
Ash knows an empty shack, that’s in the woods way back. As a romantic trip, it seems ideal.
She's got a lovely necklace, but they both get reckless, when they find a tape deck and press play
It’s some historian, who found that book again, reading out loud the spells you shouldn’t say
So the things get inta/ Ash’s girlfriend Linda, she attacks and he chops off her head
With shovel, tools and vise, Ash has to kill her twice / I guess that’s why they’re called the evil dead.
For Ash’s next big mess, his hand becomes possessed, and it keeps laughing though it’s unclear how
But Ash fights back and stabs it, sees a chainsaw and grabs it, and chops it off and yells who’s laughing now
Meanwhile like lambs to slaughter, the historian’s daughter / Annie, plus her research partner Ed
take Jake and Bobby Jo, as towards the shack they go, to bring more pages from the book of the dead.
But Annie’s folks are gone, and Annie guesses wrong / that Ash killed them, tho he tries to tell ‘er
But he seems so insane, they won’t let him explain, they beat him up and throw him in the cellar
But while they play the tape, Ash struggles to escape / 'cuz Annie’s mom is down there, as a demon
As her mom Henrietta / gets evil-er AND dead-er / they all now understand why Ash is screaming
Just as Ash is rescued / Ed’s the person next who/ gets possessed and chopped up violently
Bobby Jo runs off/ and foolishly gets lost / and then gets murdered by an evil tree
Annie’s new pages tell / how to defeat the spell/ but Annie’s pages all get grabbed by Jake
He throws them in the cellar, down with that evil dweller, which seems to be a terrible mistake
And bad turns worser when Ash gets possessed again, and in the battle Jake is stabbed and dies
There’s only doom and death, now Annie’s all that’s left, as Ash approaches with his evil eyes
But what the heck? It’s / Linda’s lovely necklace! // When Ash sees it, he returns to human!
With a mighty screamin’, LOVE beats Ash’s demon, and he’s reborn as a heroic new man.
Next on the to-do list, strap chainsaw to his wrist, then add a holster and a groovy shotgun
Ash heads to that basement, where Annie’s pages went, and hands the pages back each time they spot one
The cellar beast’s defeated / Ann reads the spells they needed, which will turn the evil spirits mortal
But Ash’s severed hand, stabs her and stops their plan/ before she’s finished with the magic portal!
The evils all fall through, but Ash is sucked in too, with his chainsaw and his Oldsmobile
The poor guy never wins, now he just screams and spins, as time and space go crazy and unreal.
And when he lands he finds he’s in Medieval times./ To live the film again becomes his fate
Cuz the knights all need him to fight the book’s old demons/
He screams Noooo, but it’s too late.
So we leave Ash there, a hero in despair, the music rises and the credits fade.
And tho there’s one more sequel, this film has no equal.
It’s the greatest movie ever made.
(Song and art by Jeffrey Lewis, 2021)
(Thank you Sam Raimi & co for making such a great movie)
Spoiler alert, natch.
Lyrics:
There’s this evil book and in Medieval times it disappeared, somewhere none can tell
It speaks of evil things, that possess human beings, if anybody speaks the evil spell
But anyway, fast forward to today, it’s Ash and Linda in an Oldsmobile/
Ash knows an empty shack, that’s in the woods way back. As a romantic trip, it seems ideal.
She's got a lovely necklace, but they both get reckless, when they find a tape deck and press play
It’s some historian, who found that book again, reading out loud the spells you shouldn’t say
So the things get inta/ Ash’s girlfriend Linda, she attacks and he chops off her head
With shovel, tools and vise, Ash has to kill her twice / I guess that’s why they’re called the evil dead.
For Ash’s next big mess, his hand becomes possessed, and it keeps laughing though it’s unclear how
But Ash fights back and stabs it, sees a chainsaw and grabs it, and chops it off and yells who’s laughing now
Meanwhile like lambs to slaughter, the historian’s daughter / Annie, plus her research partner Ed
take Jake and Bobby Jo, as towards the shack they go, to bring more pages from the book of the dead.
But Annie’s folks are gone, and Annie guesses wrong / that Ash killed them, tho he tries to tell ‘er
But he seems so insane, they won’t let him explain, they beat him up and throw him in the cellar
But while they play the tape, Ash struggles to escape / 'cuz Annie’s mom is down there, as a demon
As her mom Henrietta / gets evil-er AND dead-er / they all now understand why Ash is screaming
Just as Ash is rescued / Ed’s the person next who/ gets possessed and chopped up violently
Bobby Jo runs off/ and foolishly gets lost / and then gets murdered by an evil tree
Annie’s new pages tell / how to defeat the spell/ but Annie’s pages all get grabbed by Jake
He throws them in the cellar, down with that evil dweller, which seems to be a terrible mistake
And bad turns worser when Ash gets possessed again, and in the battle Jake is stabbed and dies
There’s only doom and death, now Annie’s all that’s left, as Ash approaches with his evil eyes
But what the heck? It’s / Linda’s lovely necklace! // When Ash sees it, he returns to human!
With a mighty screamin’, LOVE beats Ash’s demon, and he’s reborn as a heroic new man.
Next on the to-do list, strap chainsaw to his wrist, then add a holster and a groovy shotgun
Ash heads to that basement, where Annie’s pages went, and hands the pages back each time they spot one
The cellar beast’s defeated / Ann reads the spells they needed, which will turn the evil spirits mortal
But Ash’s severed hand, stabs her and stops their plan/ before she’s finished with the magic portal!
The evils all fall through, but Ash is sucked in too, with his chainsaw and his Oldsmobile
The poor guy never wins, now he just screams and spins, as time and space go crazy and unreal.
And when he lands he finds he’s in Medieval times./ To live the film again becomes his fate
Cuz the knights all need him to fight the book’s old demons/
He screams Noooo, but it’s too late.
So we leave Ash there, a hero in despair, the music rises and the credits fade.
And tho there’s one more sequel, this film has no equal.
It’s the greatest movie ever made.
(Song and art by Jeffrey Lewis, 2021)
(Thank you Sam Raimi & co for making such a great movie)
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That's some great rhyming!
Socialism cannot come through peace, radicalism is a necessity. For they will torture and kill us before giving us freedom. Much like they did in Brazil, where they gave the military the order and our president fled across the border. He said that it was for peace and lives. That trying to fight would only lead to more bloodshed. The coward left us to die, then soon came his own time. For the US poisoned him as well, not before they gave out lists. In those, each name was a person whose dreams were crushed, whole families slaughtered and called socialists. In truth, they only wanted a fair share of all the wealth which the rich have stolen. It rests on us to make sure we choose wisely, we can either fight or play nice to end up in a ditch.
❤
You let the record label take you out to lunch
I was hoping this would be irony but given your song about the 2020 elections, the unfortunate truth is that you're a Class AAA+ NPC my man
Great cartooning. Is it colored with Copic markers?
The illustrations are out of this world! !!
Brewery dog watching
Absolutely amazing
Wholly magnificent, Batman!
Ha!
Bros eating these words now
That was amazing! Thank you!
Would you sell me that book?
i hope your shows have these kinds of visuals on a screen bc it’s a key part of how awesome the whole pieces of art are (to me anyways)
This song is so fucking catchy
I love these documentaries so much!
Punks not dead it took the vaccine.
yuck
Loveeeely ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I think this was part of your set as warmup for Cornershop at the South Bank in the UK, way back? You were awesome. I then couldn't stand Cornershop and walked out. Jeffrey you are the bomb.
So I was looking at the video, and I'm pretty sure I can play about 90% of this track on the keyboard.....😅 .....but believe me, you don't want to hear me sing 🤣😂
The total lack of rhythm and rhyme in this "song" is astounding...
Quaccinated
This didn't age well.
Imagine if our history teachers went to this effort. Seriously though jeff is a genius of epic proportions. It would be nice to see someone in the big time give him a fuck load of money to make a motion picture, he deserves mainstream attention.
You’re a great songwriter and I admired you for a long time when I was younger. You should have evolved politically, your moderate fame insulated you within a small Marxist clique. Defending the Federal Reserve shows the depth of your ignorance.
So good seeing this in Cardiff recently
Great version shame it was an air born virus so washing your hands was totally pointless.
"microscopic nazis". that's great! caught the Micronauts Easter egg in the video to.
damn that's a clever song! i knew you were gonna have ROM in your book at some point even before it got to the end.
this song reminds me . . .of me. and that was even before covid.
here we are in 2023 and unfortunately despite Biden's win we can feel all the damage from the 4 years of trump. great song!
this is so awesome
Thank you so much for existing, Jeffrey.
This is a weird sequel to east river.
Is this guy even still alive after the clot shot?
Aw, the mystery behind it being 'chapter 4', then the subsequent filling in of the mystery... 😭 Always assumed Jedi would wear armour, of sorts, at least of a ceremonial nature. If Obi Wan was hiding out, would never have made sense to hide out in the dress of your kin... In my head Jedi were clad in dark Dune-esque armours that would serve longevity and adventuring. With an offset large shoulder pad, and probably a cape of practical usage. Like underdressed 40k priest class Space Marines. Jeese. They even hinted at it with Luke in Jedi... Am sure this last 20 years has been a wet Yuri Bez-men-ov dream.
(First attempt was censored by The Tubes. Likely for the usage of the name I had to truncate into segments...)
Aw, the mystery behind it being 'chapter 4', then the subsequent filling in of the mystery... 😭 Always assumed Jedi would wear armour, of sorts, at least of a ceremonial nature. If Obi Wan was hiding out, would never have made sense to hide out in the dress of your kin... In my head Jedi were clad in dark Dune-esque armours that would serve longevity and adventuring. With an offset large shoulder pad, and probably a cape of practical usage. Like underdressed 40k priest class Space Marines. Jeese. They even hinted at it with Luke in Jedi... Am sure this last 20 years has been a wet Yuri Bez men ov dream.
♥️
I hate both candidates. It's the choice between death by drowning, or fire. All this information coming out about the election fraud and social media manipulation is refreshing, at least. Absolutely love the composition, and artwork, and sentiment. I met you once but was too shy to talk and got muddled up when you asked me about Spacemen 3 as was star struck. Got a friend to get you to sign the album I brought later on as was too embarrassed to ask myself after the gig 😆 Thank you for being you. Please check out The Lancet's recent position on certain medical treatments, and if inquisitive, start looking at who has been legitimate, yet suppressed, the last few years (independent academics and such). Much love, a befuddled Scotsman
Rad!!
You're the coolest cat in the alleyway
Thank you Jeffrey
Thank you for the knowledge.
God damn Jeffery really is the best
I really hated this song when it came out but despise it now. Especially with the lack of understanding about how modern capitalism is precisely a crisis based system. There was no need to plan a pandemic, it's just decades of experience in using any event to generate a crisis in which civil liberties deteriorate and the rich and powerful get richer and more powerful. To not see that lockdowns and mandates were more of the same, from The War on Terror to the coming Green Capitalism, really saddened me from someone that I love, have seen and talked to after shows so many times for so many years. But that is basically how it's been with so many people these last two and a half years. Anyway, can't wait to see you soon in Berlin again. Love ya, but this one hurt :)
Rad!
i wish it had all turned out as jeff said...
Trout mask wearing a surgical mask.