Post #576537 by Luckydesigns on Thu, Feb 17, 2011 8:25 AM

This weekend, The Hula Girls will be debuting two brand new songs in Northern California. Never before performed live! The songs are "Mai Kai Mystery Girl" and "The Suffering Bastard"...

I wanted to share the lyrics of Suffering Bastard with you. I went to college in Stockton, CA, just a couple of hours inland of SF. The song mentions a $1 Trader Vics decanter, thrift store find as well as describing what a vintage tiki bar scene looks like though my eyes. Pretty cool stuff, if I DO say so myself... Hopefully you dig it as much as we do!

The Suffering Bastard
copyright •HulabillyMusic• 2010 Marble

(V1)
There he sits with his hands on his head
All full of rum, from the things he did
Was it zombies, blood and sand, he was fed?
Who can tell where it all began?

(V2)
A table of shriners erupts in a fight
knocks over a volcano bowl that bursts into fire
Glowing halos around netted fish float lights
Each one explodes into an atomic night

(CHORUS)
Suffering bastard for you again
Suffering bastard bleeds truth...
Suffering bastard for you again
Suffering bastard bleeds truth, my friend

(V3)
The lava rock walls seem to trap him inside
A Predicta TV flickers static in the night
A dried up fountain with tikis that have died
The burlesque girls grab their clothes, run and cry

(CHORUS)

(V4)
The wrecking ball waits in front of a polynesian paradise
One dollar thrift store find on a cloudy Stockton night
Rings of times in the past left behind
One day the scene will replay in my mind

Suffering bastard for you again
Suffering bastard bleeds truth...
Suffering bastard for you again
Suffering bastard bleeds truth, my friend

See you Friday night (9:00) at The Bamboo Hut and Saturday night (@ 5:00) at the incomparable Forbidden Island!