"The Innsmouth Look"

Just get a load of this lyric:



I met her at the EOD
She sank her dew claws into me
We stepped out to watch the tide come in
She said a little swim would do some wonders for your skin
I shed my old self, slipped into the sea


One glance was all it took
She gave me the Innsmouth look(x2)


I dig her batrachian lips
Her bulbous eyes and scaly hips
She's got secrets but they'll soon be mine
Oh, Father Dagon smiles upon me from the bas-relief
And something's fishy down at Devil Reef


One glance was all it took
She gave me the Innsmouth look(x2)

Obed was a sailor
He sailed the 7 seas
He made love to the fish
He made love to the fish
He made love to the fishies (repeat ad nauseam)

One glance was all it took
She gave me the Innsmouth look

This catchy little tune was recorded by Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets, a Canadian punk band that chooses to honor the vision of the Great Scribe Lovecraft. So naturally, there are a whole lot of lyrics on their albums about PISCATORIAL LOVE; this song is easily my favorite. It's a got a good beat and you can slamdance to it.

But when you settle to the bottom of the tank and really listen to the words, you realize it's far more than catchy and danceable; it paints a charming little picture of an operative and her recruit DOING WHAT THEY WERE MEANT TO DO, falling in love and going for a little swim in the moonlight after a church meeting. This would have been recorded on Motown Records if Marvin and Tammi were, um, fish.

Click here to buy their albums; to hear this song, you'll want to order Spaceship Zero. It's the one with the dreamy space-suited Gill Man on the back cover. To me he looks like Charles Bronson, if he were, you know, a fish.