What Is Quicksand?

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What Is Quicksand?
St cecilia cover.jpg
Artist Stalk-Forrest Group
Album St. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings
Released April 23, 2001 (Stalk-Forrest Group)
June 26, 2001 (Soft White Underbelly)
Length 3:19 (Stalk-Forrest Group)
3:40 (Soft White Underbelly)
Writers Richard Meltzer
Allen Lanier
Lead vocals Eric Bloom

What Is Quicksand? is a song by Stalk-Forrest Group, released on the compilation album St. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings. A demo version of this song, recorded as Soft White Underbelly for an earlier session with Columbia Records, was released on the 2001 reissue of Blue Öyster Cult.

Lyrics[edit | edit source]


Well, right now in Tokyo
Only place I am
When my blisters are immersed
In fresh-as-fresh tin can

I've often talked about
How the cretins span the world
In the time that I've known you
I've yet to have shown you
A moron with his snarl unfurled

But right back in Tokyo
With a tough, encircled hand
Thousand vulture smokey-o
Cigareet with a seegar band

I've always talked about
How to carve up daddy's boat
In the space of a half-year
We've yet to embark, my dear
To another shallow side of the moat


Well, right now in Tokyo
Only place I am
When my blisters are immersed
In fresh-as-fresh tin can

I've always talked about
How the cretins span the world
In the time that I've known you
I've yet to have shown you
A moron with his snarl unfurled

But right back in Tokyo
With a tough, encircled hand
Thousand vulture smokey-o
Cigareet with a seegar band

I've never talked about
How to carve up daddy's boat
In the space of a half-year
We've yet to embark, my dear

To another shallow side of the moat

Trivia[edit | edit source]

  • The original demo's lyrics differ slightly from the final version's at the start of each chorus, with "often" and "always" replaced by "always" and "never", respectively.

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