The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #12633   Message #100576
Posted By: Peter T.
29-Jul-99 - 04:39 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Glory, Glory Psychotherapy (Melanie)
Subject: Lyr Add: PSYCHOTHERAPY (Melanie Safka)
Altavista is almost as good a search engine as Rick's basement. Here is the Melanie (shudder) lyrics site, containing everything, including Alexander Beetle (double shudder) here

PSYCHOTHERAPY
(Melanie Safka)

Oh, 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 resulting paranoid
As the id goes marching on.
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.
Glory, glory, psychotherapy,
Glory, glory, sexuality,
Glory, glory, now we can be free
As the id goes marching on.

Do you drown your superego in a flood of alcohol (or something else)
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.
Glory, glory, - (You're not singing, you're just clapping!)
Glory, glory, psychotherapy,
Glory, glory, sexuality,
Glory, glory, now we can be free
As the id goes marching on.

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.
Glory, glory, psychotherapy,
Glory, glory, sexuality,
Glory, glory, now we can be free
As the id goes marching on.

Is your body plagued by aches and pains that you can't understand:
Compound fractures, ingrown toenails, floating kidneys, trembling hands?
There's a secret to your trouble: you're in love with your old man,
As the id goes marching on. (All together now!)
Glory, glory, psychotherapy,
Glory, glory, sexuality,
Glory, glory, now we can be free
As the id goes marching on.

Freud's mystic world of meaning needn't have us mystified.
It's really very simple what the psyche tries to hide:
A thing is a phallic symbol if it's longer than it's wide,
As the id goes marching on.
Glory, glory, psychotherapy,
Glory, glory, sexuality,
Glory, glory, now we can be free
As the id goes marching on.

Yours, Peter T. (goofing off on a hot day)