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| Cover art by John Schoenherr |
| THE BIRD OF TIME Wallace West New York: Ace Books F-114, 1961 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-441-? | ||||
| ISBN 0-441-? | 224pp. | SC | $0.40 | |
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the theories of Freud!
He has taught me all the evils that my ego must avoid.
Repression of the impulses can make you paranoid
As the id goes marching on.CHORUS:
Glory glory psychotherapy;
Glory glory sexuality!
Glory glory now we can be free,
As the id goes marching on
There was a man who thought his friends to him were all superior
And this complex he imagined made life drearier and drearier
Till his analyst assured him that he really was inferior
As the id goes marching on.CHORUS:
Do you drown your superego in a flood of alcohol,
And go running after women till you're just about to fall?
You may think you're having fun but you're not having fun at all
As the id goes marching on.CHORUS:
Oh sad is the masochism: the vagaries of sex
Have turned half the population into total nervous wrecks.
But your analyst will cure you, long as you can pay the cheques
As the id goes marching on.CHORUS:
Is your body plagued by aches and pains that you can't understand:
Compound fractures, ingrown toenails, floating kidneys, trembling hands?
Here's the secret to your troubles: you're in love with your old man
As the id goes marching on.CHORUS:
Freud's mystic world of meaning needn't leave us mystified.
It is really very simple what the psyche tries to hide:
A thing's a phallic symbol if it's longer than it's wide
As the id goes marching on.Repeat CHORUS and fade out...
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