Edifice Wrecks

Half comic book, half Space Opera, Cobra Fantastic’s first full-length album Edifice Wrecks follows a warrior priestess, her rogue soldier and former lover, a 40-story monster robot, a dental-floss farmer, the galaxy’s fastest starfighter, and a guitar with a mind of its own as they struggle to maintain the balance of the Funkabopulation in the universe. It’s Heart of Darkness meets Mars Attacks, spoken in the language of jazz and funk, and carried along by the baddest grooves this side of Zargon VII.

It was recorded over the course of an Earth year at various locations throughout the galaxy, including a live performance at La Dame de Canton in Paris, France. In addition to the band’s usual instrumentation (vocals, electric guitars, bass, drums, trumpet, and saxophone), our intrepid funkateers saught the help of partners-in-funkitude such as Nils Wekstein (percussion), Thomas Savy (bass clarinet), and Lucas Brown (keyboards).

Due to the limitations of physical/linear time-space, some of the performances had to be recorded at vast geographic and temporal distances. For example, Karlitos performed the entire solo section of Golden Boy completely ad lib without any accompaniment, leaving Manu Camy (bass) and Lucas Brown (electric piano) to fill in their parts after the fact. Fortunately their telepathic bond is so strong that the solo sounds not only like it’s happening in real time, but that Lucas is leading the band through the time changes!

We hope you enjoy this voyage through time and space. We certainly enjoyed putting it all together for you! Just remember : everything is on The One…even if The One isn’t always where you think it is….

Take a Ride (to Planet 9)

Calling all funk-o-nauts
The countdown has begun
Get on your feet
So we can have some fun

Let’s take a trip
Aboard the mothership
Just get in line
And liquefy your mind, baby

Don’t worry, don’t panic, just set your cares aside
Just follow your dreams and slowly close your eyes
Come fly the friendly skies
Yeah yeah yeah!

Take a ride
To Planet 9
Sit back relax and kick it
Take a ride
To Planet 9
We know you’re bound to dig it

Safety first
Make sure you buckle up
Get your head on straight so we can funk you up
You got the moves
You feel it deep inside
You know wanna, you wanna take a ride, baby

Don’t worry, don’t panic, just set your cares aside
Just follow your dreams and slowly close your eyes
Come fly the friendly skies
Yeah yeah yeah!

Take a ride
To Planet 9
Sit back relax and kick it
Take a ride
To Planet 9
We know you’re bound to dig it

Number 9 take off for the planet
To the Planet 9
Number 9 take off for the planet
To the Planet 9
Number 9 take off for the planet
To the Planet 9
Number 9 take off for the planet
To the Planet 9
Number 9 take off for the planet
To the Planet 9
Number 9 take off for the planet
To the Planet 9
Number 9 take off for the planet
To the Planet 9
Number 9 take off for the planet
To the Planet 9

Don’t worry, don’t panic, just set your cares aside
Just follow your dreams and slowly close your eyes
Come fly the friendly skies
Yeah yeah yeah!

Take a ride
To Planet 9
Sit back relax and kick it
Take a ride
To Planet 9
We know you’re bound to dig it

Ophelia Shazam

Ophelia Shazam
Ophelia Shaza-am
Ophelia Shazam
Ophelia Shaza-am
Ophelia Shazam
Ophelia Shaza-am
Ophelia Shazam
Ophelia Shaza-am

She has a master plan
To bend the will of man
Won’t you come and take her by the hand?
Oh yeah

Ophelia Shazam
Ophelia Shaza-am
Ophelia Shazam
Ophelia Shaza-am
Ophelia Shazam
Ophelia Shaza-am
Ophelia Shazam
Ophelia Shaza-am

She came from outer space
To put the human race
In a state of funkatomic grace
Oh yeah

Ophelia Shazam
Ophelia Shaza-am
Ophelia Shazam
Ophelia Shaza-am
Ophelia Shazam
Ophelia Shaza-am
Ophelia Shazam
Ophelia Shaza-am

There’s a new boy in town
And he’s up to no good
Started making trouble in your
Neighbourhood

He ain’t got no emotions
He so heartless and cruel
He’s a bad mamma Jamma
He ain’t nobody’s fool

He got dem abs of steel
Dem titanium pecs
He’s the forty-story robot named Edifice Wrecks

Get on your feet
Cuz there’s gonna be trouble
Edifice Wrecks’ll turn your town to rubble
Get on your feet
When you hear that sound
Edifice Wrecks is gonna burn it down

You can blast him with a laser
But it’ll only make him laugh
Hit ‘im with your biggest warship
He’ll just cut that thing in half

He’s twisted up inside
They say he’s blown a fuse
He mad and he’s mean and he’s got
Nothin left to lose

They say his mama was a cruiser
And his daddy hustled freight
Now one’s rustin’ on the ocean floor
And the other one’s his date!

Get on your feet
Cuz there’s gonna be trouble
Edifice Wrecks’ll turn your town to rubble
Get on your feet
When you hear that sound
Edifice Wrecks is gonna burn it down

Golden Boy

It’s so easy for me
I guess I’m one stop from reality
I got my string attached to this thing
I call an Ego-tryptical Ring
Everybody thinks that I’m the nicest
But I got all dem sinful vices
I’m takin’ Planet Earth
For everything it’s worth
But you know all these humans gotta go

Because I am the One True Golden Boy
I’m not human
But I’m groovin’
Yes and I am the One True Golden Boy
I’ve come in from Planet Nine
Just to liquefy some puny human minds

It’s so hard to be the villain
But you know my band is killin’
Psycho-toon Boots workin’ with a Warbler Glove
The one I love
And watch you let a
Whirlwind get you woozin’
But we ain’t afraid of losin’
You got your gold teeth shinin’ and that’s when you’re linin’ up
All the dem humans in a row

Because I am the One True Golden Boy
I’m not human
But I’m groovin’
Yes and I am the One True Golden Boy
I’ve come in from planet nine
Just to liquefy some puny human minds

I am the One True Golden Boy
I am the One True Golden Boy
I am the One True Golden Boy
I am the One True Golden Boy

I Know Karate

One, two, three
One, two, three

It was early one morning on a Saturday night
I was waxin’ up a crop of dental floss in the South field
I seen a rhythmic vibration and I heard a bright blue light
An’ I said to myself “Can this be real?”

They say they come from Planet 9
They wanna liquefy my mind
I said “I dare ya, I dare ya, I double-dog dare ya,
You gonna say that to me one more time??”

I know karate
and I know ka-razor
I know karate
and I know a little voodoo, too
I know karate
let me show you what I’m talkin’ bout
I know karate

They say they’re gonna take it up with the High Command
‘Cause they know their mistake was quite egregious
I put it to them in a way that they could understand :
That I’m a mad jujitsu genius

I ain’t just your average dental floss farmer, no
I ain’t just another face in the crowd
So step a little bit closer, grasshopper,
So I can make my mother proud

I know karate
and I know ka-razor
I know karate
and I know a little voodoo, too
I know karate
let me show you what I’m talkin’ bout, baby
I know karate

Hey, get your body on the dance floor
Hey, get your body in the groove
Humans, best be careful what you ask for
We’re gonna make your body move
Planet Earth! Feel the Funkabopulation!

I think my mind is liquefied!
I think my mind is liquefied!
I think my mind is liquefied!
I think my mind is liquefied!

I know karate
I know karate
I know karate
I know karate

I know karate
and I know ka-razor
I know karate
and I know a little voodoo, too
I know karate
let me show you what I’m talkin’ bout, baby
I know karate

Hide the Pocket

That’s when I knew she loved me
We were in a Cuban jail
That’s when I knew she loved me
We were in a Cuban jail
Said “You follow me through this jungle, baby
You’ll follow me straight to hell”

You got drag strip courage, baby
Doing all the things you do
You got drag strip courage, darlin’
Doing all the things you do
If we ever make it out alive, girl
I’m gonna stick next to you

She said
“You Play a mean game of hide the pocket
And I don’t say that to the other boys
Some see a groove and they just rock it
But you throw it in the back with the other toys”

I’m workin’ for the devil now
You know I gave him everything I had
I’m workin’ for the devil now, baby
You know I gave him everything I had
I know I make it look so easy, darlin’
But it takes a lot of work to be so bad

But maybe you can save me, baby
Maybe I can be redeemed
Maybe you can save me, baby
Maybe I can be redeemed
Maybe that path to paradise
Ain’t as long as it seems

She said
“You Play a mean game of hide the pocket
And I don’t say that to the other boys
Some see a groove and they just rock it
But you throw it in the back with the other toys”

And I said here’s my heart and soul
Down to every last note
She said ain’t nobody care
About a thing that you wrote
Cheer up, Jojo, now don’t you know the score?
Ain’t nobody listens with their ears no more

She said
“You Play a mean game of hide the pocket
And I don’t say that to the other boys
Some see a groove and they just rock it
But you throw it in the back with the other toys”

Quicksilver

My Guitar Wants to Eat Your Sandwich

My guitar wants to do your laundry
Cuz it ain’t too clean
My guitar wants to do your laundry
Cuz it ain’t too clean
Gonna get out all that nasty funk
Like a love machine

My guitar wants to eat your sandwich
Cuz it looks so good
My guitar wants to eat your sandwich
Cuz it looks so good
My guitar wants to
My guitar wants to
My guitar wants to

My guitar wants to mow yo’ lawn
Cuz it’s overgrown
My guitar wants to mow yo’ lawn
Cuz it’s overgrown
She’ll come by on a Sunday after dawn
When you’re home alone

My guitar wants to do your taxes
My guitar wants to walk your dog
My guitar wants to flip your pancakes
My guitar wants to get that pie plate back
My guitar wants to
My guitar wants to
My guitar wants to

I think he smells your guitar on you

Another Man’s Groove

You should have known that I would lie
You should’ve known that I go on until I’m satisfied
But maybe now you hear the danger lurkin’
Maybe catch a whiff of sulfur on the air
Don’t even matter ’cause your mojo’s workin’
Shake it like you just don’t care
You better shake it like you just don’t care

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure
One man’s rut is another man’s groove
Now you’re gone and you’re gone forever
Now that you’re gone all I want is you

Well we can see it in your eyes
We can see that you’ve been waking up at sunrise
And now we know where all the cool kids get it
When they can flip you for a nickel or a dime
Two in the morning you’ll be drunk and out ridin’
Spendin’ all the money you can find
Wastin’ all your motherfuckin’ time

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure
One man’s rut is another man’s groove
Now you’re gone and you’re gone forever
Now that you’re gone all I want is you

I always knew there’d be a time when you’d be walkin’ out my door
We always knew that it was over from the start
But when the morning breeze comes blowin’
And when the morning sun comes shinin’
Play it like you mean it, baby
Make like it’s for real

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure
One man’s rut is another man’s groove
Now you’re gone and you’re gone forever
Now that you’re gone all I want is you

Now that you’re gone all I want is you
Now that you’re gone all I want is you
Now that you’re gone all I want is you
Now that you’re gone all I want is you

2 Funky 4 U

We travel through time
We travel through space
To blow your mind
And melt your face

We’re in your head
We’re in your heart
They way we shred
We rip you apart

You know we ain’t lyin’
You know that it’s true
Without even tryin’
We’re too funky for you

The pocket’s so deep
You lost control
We rock it so hard
You sell your soul

The more you fight it
The more you feel
The rhythm is right
The rhythm is real

You know we ain’t lyin’
You know that it’s true
Without even tryin’
We’re too funky for you

You know we ain’t lyin’
You know that it’s true
Without even tryin’
We’re too funky for you
We’re too funky for you
We’re too funky for you
We’re too funky for you
We’re too funky for you

Find the Time

She said “where do you find the time?”
As if it’s just lying out in the open
Under a tree or behind a rock
She seemed so terribly surprised
And a bit disappointed
When I said “hey baby, you know that it doesn’t work
like that.”

But I don’t find my time
I make it
Carve it out from the daylight
Steal it back from the night
And I don’t bide my time
I take it
Can’t give it away
You can’t save it up
And you never have as much as you need

She said how do you draw the line
Between life and everything else all around it
Bring it all in black and white
Well you know it’s always intertwined
And a little rough around the edges
That’s way it’s always been
And it’s always gonna be
like that

She said I’ve got some time to kill
And I said violence is not the answer
But she’s a Capricorn in cancer
And she will dance all night until she gets her fill

But I don’t find my time
I make it
Carve it out from the daylight
Steal it back from the night
And I don’t bide my time
I take it
Can’t give it away
You can’t save it up
And you never enough
Can’t give it away
You can’t save it up
And you never have enough
Can’t give it away
You can’t save it up
And you never have enough
Can’t give it away
You can’t save it up
And you never have enough
Can’t give it away
You can’t save it up
And you never have enough
Can’t give it away
You can’t save it up
And you never have enough
Can’t give it away
You can’t save it up
And you never have enough
Can’t give it away
You can’t save it up
And you never have enough

Dr. Fingers

My Lucille

Lucy was a fighter
With a funked up overdrive
Fiber optic signal from the hive
She could outrun anything alive

Lost her in a wager
To a blork named Clementine
Psychotropic feelers read my mind
How could I have ever been so blind?

My Lucille
With your Miracle Bite™
Baby won’t you please come
Baby won’t you please come
Baby won’t you please come home
Tonight

Later by the portal
Before that blork come and take her away
I could almost swear she spoke my name
Then I knew I’d never be the same

My Lucille
With your Miracle Bite™
Baby won’t you please come
Baby won’t you please come
Baby won’t you please come home
Tonight

Four in the morning and I’m
Miles away
I let my golden chances
Fade

My Lucille
With your Miracle Bite™
Baby won’t you please come
Baby won’t you please come
Baby won’t you please come home
Tonight