Zombies Or The Undead
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Central theme[edit]
- The Darlings Of Lumberland
- Dead
- Exquisite Dead Guy
- From Beyond The Grave
- I'll Be Haunting You
- Mrs. Bluebeard - "Alas, my murdered remains are incapable of learning anything" - sung entirely from the perspective of a murdered spouse.
- Tavern In Pinsk - "All the corpses have a drink" as they await "deliverance"
- The Edison Museum - "Ghosts float up the stair, like silent moving pictures"..."The tallest, widest and most famous haunted mansion in New Jersey"
- Turn Around - "...A man I had recently killed / Called me up from a phone near my building", "...The ghost of my dance instructor / Pushed me down into an open grave"
- You Probably Get That A Lot - Cephalophores (depictions of beheaded saints carrying around their own severed heads), the Headless Horseman
Briefly mentioned[edit]
- Back In Los Angeles "Arm in arm with a sobbing ghost"
- Microphone - "A voice is speaking from beyond the grave"
- No Answer - "Was it the ghost of somebody who decided not to begin?"
- Purple Toupee - "The purple brigade is marching from the grave"
- Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head - "Well it's a mighty zombie talking of some love and posterity"
- Turtle Songs Of North America - One fictitious turtle mentioned is the Zombie Turtle
- Wearing A Raincoat - "Being awake is swimming around in a lake / Of the undead / And the undead are like / A bunch of friends / That demand constant attention"
- Werewolves Of London (Wearing A Hockey Mask) - "After they were all dead, they got up and I killed them again"
Honorable mention[edit]
- Butcher's Tale was written by the band The Zombies
- Garbage In - "Remove the head or destroy the brain"
- Michigan - "We must eat Michigan's brain"
- Ondine - "Don't make me kill you again, 'cause I couldn't bear to kill you again"; presumably only the undead would need to be killed twice
- Phone Calls From The Dead
- Where Your Eyes Don't Go describes a sentient scarecrow who terrifies humans
- Wreck It Apart - "Don't make me kill you again"; same as Ondine