"Shaking Skin House" is a song by Andy Partridge. It appeared on the 1987 home demo cassette collection Jules Verne's Sketchbook, then on Andy's Fuzzy Warbles Volume 6 in 2004. It is a precursor to "Merely a Man."
Quotes[]
Andy: “Another half song plus blah blah blah mumbled lyric, proper words to be written at a later date. I thought the chords had a good idiot stomp. At one time this was a potential title for what became THE BIG EXPRESS.”
Andy: “Half born proto song, something for The Big Express. Sometimes I just blunder into a recording not knowing what it's about or where I'm going, returning to it later to pick over the wreckage for salvageable stuff. In this I found the idea for ‘Merely a Man’, so it wasn't a wasted exercise. Also considered using its full name, ‘Another Product From Shaking Skin House’, as the title for The Big Express. A shaking skin house being a person.”
Lyrics[]
Zap, pow pow zap
Zap, pap, pap, pap zap
Da da da da
Zap, pap pap zap
Pop, pop pop pop
Here's something coming
Maybe a song or two
Can't stop from strumming
Can you feel it too?
I'm merely a man and I want
Nothing but love from you
I'm merely a man and I want
Nothing more than to do
What I want in the songs
And the order
[make up gibber that ends in something rhyming with order][1]
It's another another product
From Shaking Skin House
Another product