Song Description

Black Velvet Elvis is about the first manned landing on Mars and the pride that wells up in all mankind about the accomplishment.

Lyrics

VERSE
Thank you for being selfish with your black velvet Elvis...
Painting.
Ain't things new the same thing?
Symbols-over-substance ranting

Thank you for being selfish with your black velvet Elvis...
Painting.
Evening news no breathing
interrupting
interceding

Thank you for being selfish with your black velvet Elvis...
Painting.
Main thing I think that we all stink of achievement-babbling

Well thank you for being selfish with your black velvet Elvis...
Painting.
Shame things didn't work out up to what you'd hoped you'd see now

BRIDGE
Black is the color of my true girl's heart,
Not of race, but on pace with the ways of mankind
The dark canvas of the night is afraid of the light
Paints an image of morality that it says is art right
But it's gaudily Godless and a loathsome sight
The baying black sheep has filled three bags
But its good works in God's face, are as bloody rags

TRIP HOP BRIDGE
Walking to his car
He looked forlorn afar
To a world so distant, blue terra formed to match the coop he flew

Money gonna fly us into the sky
Prove everybody's prophecy's a lie
Funny how they disappeared right out of their cars
From the aliens
or the way they found their way to Mars

CHORUS VAMP OUT
Thank you for being selfish with your black velvet Elvis...
Painting.
Ain't things new the same thing?
Symbols-over-substance ranting

Thank you for being selfish with your black velvet Elvis...
Painting.


*Sound bites courtesy of Dr. Robert Zubrin