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The Penguin Discography: Building The Perfect Beast




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Building The Perfect Beast
    Authors »
Don Henley, Danny (Kootch) Kortchmar

    Year Written »
1984

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Date Performance 1984-00-00
Running Time 4:59
Performers Don Henley (Produced By), Danny (Kootch) Kortchmar (Produced By), Greg Ladanyi (Produced By), Don Henley (Vocals), Danny (Kootch) Kortchmar (Guitars), Danny (Kootch) Kortchmar (Synthesizers), Danny (Kootch) Kortchmar (Percussion), Don Henley (Synthesizer), Don Henley (Percussion), Albhy Galuten (Synclavier), Michael/Mike Boddicker (Programming), Michael/Mike Boddicker (Sequencing), Kevin James McCormick (African Drums), Patty Smyth (Harmony Vocal), Martha Davis (Chants), Don Henley (Chants), Michael O'Donahue (Chants), Carla Olson (Chants), Danny (Kootch) Kortchmar (Chants), Patty Smyth (Chants), J(ohn) D(avid) Souther (Chants), Waddy (Robert) Wachtel (Chants)
CommentsChants by "The Occasionally Perfect Beasts".
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Building The Perfect Beast (0000)
Don Henley

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The power of reason, the top of the heap
We're the ones who can kill the things we don't eat
Sharper than a serpent's tongue
Tighter than a bongo drum
Quicker than a one-night stand
Slicker than a mambo band
And now the day is come
Soon he will be released
Glory hallelujah!
We're building the Perfect Beast
(Building, building, etc.)
It's Olympus this time - Olympus or bust
For we have met the enemy - and he is us

And now the day is come
Soon he will be released
Glory hallelujah!
We're building the Perfect Beast
(Building, building)
Ever since we crawled out of the ocean and stood
upright on land
There are some things that we just don't understand:
Relieve all pain and suffering and lift us out of the
dark
Turn us all into Methuselah -
But where are we gonna park?
(Building, building)
The secrets of eternity -
We've found the lock and turned the key
We're shakin' up those building blocks
Going deeper into that box - (Pandora wouldn't like
it)
And now the day is come
Soon he will be released
Glory hallelujah!
We're building the Perfect Beast
(Building, building)

All the way to Malibu from the Land of the Talking
Drum -
Just look how far - look how far we've come

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(C) 1984 Cass County Music/Kortchmar Music ASCAP Lyrics reprinted by permission. All Rights Reserved.

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2010-08-23