weescoosa: Gingerbread Man

Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated Guide

THE GINGERBREAD MAN is the story or, maybe more accurately, one of the many journeys of an entity that visits the minds of human beings, and spies upon their thoughts. In the center of these personalities, the Gingerbread Man finds each person’s individual “brain song,” an infectious piece of pop music that floats around in their mind. The Gingerbread Man recognizes this “brain song” as a human’s unconscious attempt at creating order in the quagmire of chaos constantly confusing its mental condition. Because of his ultimately detached position, The Gingerbread Man has no real emotional stake in the lives of these people, but they do represent an ongoing sense of amusement for him. In the end he sums up his feelings toward humanity with a brief song of his own.

The musical treatment of THE GINGERBREAD MAN is a continuous piece approximately 36 minutes long. This piece is actually a series of musical fragments united by two themes announcing the arrival and departure of the Gingerbread Man as he visits each personality. Within this structure several different characters or personalities will be created:
• A BUTCHER, who has returned from a near death experience, is preoccupied with thoughts of revenge towards someone he refers to as “buddy.”
• An ASCETIC or seeker of truth constantly strives to find out what is at the “top of the mountain” but also hears a voice that tells him to “beware of what he wants, because it might want him more.”
• A LONELY OLD WOMAN obsesses on the fact that her children never write or call and asks an angel if anyone would even notice if she murdered herself.
• An ARTIST sees himself as having sold out, but justifies his position because he had to “feed the fat boy,” a demon that everyone must eventually serve in order to become successful.
• An OLD SOLDIER fondly remembers an affair with a younger woman as he stands at attention in the hot summer sun; he wishes they could just dance together one more time.
• A CONFUSED TRANSSEXUAL has unfortunately discovered that a sex change operation was not a miracle cure for all his/her problems; he/she identifies with crows and how some people see the call of a crow as a cry, while others see the cry of a crow as a lie.
• A WEAVER who believes that something better is always just beyond her reach, but is also terrified that she won’t recognize her big opportunity when it finally arrives; meanwhile she plays the lottery and looks down on the man who is completely devoted to her.
• An AGING MUSCIAN fantasizes how might he might be remembered on MTV if he committed suicide; he mentally constructs his suicide note which reads: “If you like to pretend that you’ll never get old, you got what it takes to rock n’roll.”

The Gingerbread Man

1 The Weaver: The Fool And The Death-maker Die Alone 3:52
2 The Dying Oilman: Blinded By The Hostages Of Fortune 3:13
3 The Confused Transsexual: Stamen And Pistallate Together Again 3:12
4 The Sold-Out Artist: Black Are The Legs Inside The White Sepulcher 3:47
5 The Ascetic: Shadows Doubt The Strength Of The Sun 4:07
6 The Old Soldier: Safety Sells, But War Always Wins 3:31
7 The Aging Musician: Narcissus Knows No One Naked 4:51
8 The Butcher: The Flesh Of Animals Angers Anew... And Moos 3:04
9 The Old Woman: Kissless Are The Isolated, Rootless Are Their Tongues 4:32
10 Ginger's Lament 2:23

Lyrics

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