Story Behind The Song

1975, just bought an Echoplex, plugged it in, wrote this song.

Song Description

Fantasy description of being in a strange neighborhood long past dark.

Lyrics

She's A Crustacean/Michael Oosten
These streets don't come to me
The way that they used to
They're neon blood pulse
But I just don't feel the pull
All the Johns and Janes they are locked inside their boxes
They're shadow gets them
In their own night
I saw her then
She had tinfoil for veins
I saw her then
she had kryptonite for brains
I saw her then
She cam up to me and said

Hey boy come with me
You know you like to play
Oh don't be shy
I'll show you a good time
I won't let you cry, no
I won't let you die

I saw the claws her sleeves hide
I saw her ambrosia smile
I smelled the green stuff round her neck
And I saw the face that's run so many miles
I tried to keep the fletch inside
Curling in my head
When she turned on her heels
And down the sidewalk she fled
I followed her cautiously
Through the mercury vapor glare
When suddenly she stopped
A so seductively she said

Hey boy come with me
You know I like to play
Oh don't be shy
I'll show you a good time
I won't let you cry
I won't let you die

She took me through her nightmare
To the center of her fright
When I turned around I noticed
It was me that was turning white
She closed the door
And lit the lamp
And began her striptease
When I noticed her shell legs
And the webbing in her feet
Her chest was a snail shell
Her arms were crab legs
But when she spread her wings to take me
All I could say was

She's a crustacean
She runs in the night
She's a crustacean
She doesn't minimize my fright
She's a crustacean
She knows how to bite
She's a crustacean
She goes
Click
In the night