Pterodactyl

from Mirror in the Spirit Hotel by Richard Haxton

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Lately my lover's staying out all night
I believe she has another man
Lying here awake. Something is not right
I've had about all I can stand

In the heat of the evening, lying cold in my bed
Trying hard to close my eyes
I hear a sound strange enough to wake the dead
A sound that turns my blood to ice

It is the high wailing scream
of some gigantic thing
It comes from just above my place
It sounds like the song the jaws
of hell would sing
Sweat dripping down my face

They say
there's
bigfoot
sasquatches
chasing jackalopes
Devils & angels
racing UFOs
Yetis and nessies riding unicorns
True blue women & leprechauns
I don't know, I don't know
I got no proof. All I know
There's a pterodactyl on my roof

My lover said she's been communing with the dead
I said "This must be happening in my dreams"
She said "Don't worry, baby, I didn't buy half of what he said
Things ain't sometimes what they seem"

You think you got it figured out. What you see is what you get
Til something strange comes about. You find a few loose ends ain't tied up yet
She says I'm wrong, I know I'm right. It happens almost every night
She says "Baby, you better stick to the facts. Find me some feathers. Show me some tracks
When your rafters start to bend and crack you find out what the facts can lack

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from Mirror in the Spirit Hotel, released January 1, 1998
Words, music, and performance by Richard Haxton

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Richard Haxton Los Angeles, California

From the middle of Mississippi, served in Viet Nam in Thailand, lives 5,000 feet from the world's oldest freeway. Searches for transcendence - or something - where science meets the spirit. Never quit fighting the war for the groove!

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