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Oliver Plunkett's Head

from Oliver Plunkett's Head by Too Much Joy

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Oliver Plunkett's Head is a real thing you can actually see in a church in Ireland. He was a martyr who was drawn and quartered and burned by people offended by his beliefs, but I guess some of his fans made off with his skull, which now sits in a glass case. It's a pretty horrendous sight.

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OLIVER PLUNKETT'S HEAD

There's a head in a glass case
In St. Peter's in Louth
A real human head
With a smile on its mouth

Enemies burned his body
But they preserved the top
Someone really wanted
To make Oliver stop

I think I'd like something to pray to
That head can keep you up at night
People they scare me
Dead or alive

Oliver Plunkett tried
But Oliver Plunkett's dead
Some people sat and cried
At Oliver Plunkett's head

Just believed something different
He didn't mean any harm
But if they didn't believe him
Why were they so alarmed?

Yeah, the abyss is scary
We're all afraid to fall in
What good's hanging in heaven
With who did that to him?

Quit praying to the knucklebones
Of skeletons you never met
They don't grant wishes
They excrete regret

Oliver Plunkett tried
But Oliver Plunkett's dead
Some people sat and cried
At Oliver Plunkett's head

The case fogs over
Plunkettt stops smiling
That could never be my skull
Cuz I don't believe in anything

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from Oliver Plunkett's Head, released August 6, 2021
Jay Blumenfield: guitar, vocals, zoloft
Tim Quirk: vocals, edibles
Sandy Smallens: bass, vocals, guitar, ardbeg
Tommy Vinton: drums, vodka, cranberry
William Wittman: bass, guitar, keys, vocals, yamazaki 18

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TMJ is/was a punk-pop band of some minor renown. Some of that renown was due to their music, which included semi-hits such as “Crush Story,” “Donna Everywhere,” and “That’s a Lie” — a cover of the LL Cool J tune that featured the man himself in the music video, which actually got played quite a bit during daylight hours on MTV back when they did that sort of thing. ... more

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