Talk:Songs mentioned in Inherent Vice

2009-08-11T18:44:51Z

RGHunt57: Tiny Tim's "Icecaps are melting"

The Tiny Tim song being played is a curious apocalyptic tune actually called “The Other Side”, from the 1968 album “God Bless Tiny Tim”. But it’s quite possible from the song’s repetition that they were actually a 45.It was the B-side of Tim’s cover of “Hello, Hello” (originally recorded by San Francisco band The Sopwith Camel) .

The lyrics are:
One eye is brown,
The other is brown.
I am a fish,
I swim around.
You say I'm lost,
I disagree.
The map has changed,
And with it, me.

Flying through the seaweed,
What strange things I see below.
Cars are waiting,
Windshields wiping,
Nowhere left to go! Oh!

The ice caps are melting, oh ho ho ho!
All the world is drowning, oh ho ho ho ho.
The ice caps are melting,
The tide is rushing in.
All the world is drowning,
To wash away the sin.

The seagull flies,
In search of land.
The children hide,
Beneath the sand.
As golden toys,
Come floating down,
I play the fish,
I swim around.

Flying through the seaweed,
what strange things I see below.
Cars are waiting,
Windshields wiping,
Nowhere left to go! Oh!

The ice caps are melting, oh ho ho ho!
All the world is drowning, oh ho ho ho ho.
The ice caps are melting,
The tide is rushing in.
All the world is drowning,
To wash away the sin.

The song is credited to Bill Dorsey, about whom little is known. In
You can listen to the song [http://www.last.fm/music/Tiny+Tim/_/The+Other+Side here]

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