Evelyn Evelyn - Tragic Events - Part II lyrics

Are you crying, Evelyn?
No well, yes i was just thinking about Sandy
And about Bimba and Kimba i miss them
Evelyn i know, I miss them too
Especially this time of year, evelyn

The year is 1991 terminator 2 is the
Highest-grossing film at the Box Office
The first
Super Nintendo Entertainment System has
Just been released
And after 70 years of Communist rule
The Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics has collapsed
And on a chicken ranch just
Outside of Claxton, Georgia
Twin sisters are waiting for their supper

The farm is old and
Operated by Alfred McCluck
An eccentric man with a fascination
With Civil War weaponry
McCluck's chicken farms produces over 140
000 chickens a year and ships wings, thighs
And legs all over the
Continental United States
Despite the modest success of his business
McCluck leads a solitary life
Never marrying and tending several of
The chicken houses himself
A simple man with a not entirely bad heart
McCluck never knew how to best
Take care of the young
Girls who came into his life
Shortly after their birth
So he raised them the only way
He knew how - in a
2-foot by 2-foot wire mesh cage on
A diet of mash, crumbles
Pellets and egg booster
One clear September day during the twin's
Sixth year at the farm
McCluck does not come at mealtime
Night falls and still
He doesn't appear the girls and the
Chickens cry out from hunger
Days pass and the chickens in neighboring
Cages begin to die the
Smell of rotting poultry permeates the
Air of the hot, humid barn
Finally, desperate to find food and concerned
Over the whereabouts of their guardian
The twins break free from their cage
McCluck's house is locked tight, but the
Girls find the garden hose
Which quenches their thirst
Still half delirious with hunger
They make their way out to the road
Little time passes before a
Dusty black Cadillac Coupe
De Ville drives by and pulls over a tall
Mustached young man with a
Kindly face steps out
Of the vehicle he smiles at the girls
"Hello" and presents them with the first
Candy they had ever tasted a Twix bar
Which they share in silent, odd delight
The girls do not feel
At all uncomfortable when
The man leads them gently into the dark
Spacious trunk

In the following days
The girls are transferred into the
Trunks or several other cars "Hello"
By many other kindly "Hello"
Candy bar offering men "Hello"
Until they reach their final destination at
The lakeside lodge in Manitoba

The Underwood lodge is a collection of cozy
Waterfront cabins with an
Attached trailer park
Along the shores of Lake Winnipeg
It is also the world headquarters
Of Budding Flowers Entertainment
Specializing in the production and
Distribution of photographs and
VHS tapes for clientele with unique tastes

The girls are welcomed by
Mrs deborah Bouldger
The 52-year-old portraitist
"Well, hello, girls"
A woman of enormous proportions who
Lives with her own
3 children in the main lodge of the Underwood
Upon finding that the girls have no names
She christens them Eva and Lynn, names
Which neither she nor the twins themselves
Are ever able to keep straight
"Eva, and Lynn eva, Lynn"
The twin's days of the
Underwood are relatively comfortable, they
Are well cared for, the food is delicious
And there are many other girls their age
Once a week, photo sessions take place
Convivial affairs that involve make-up
"Smile!" a wide variety of dress up
Costumes and inventive new games
Every few days Mrs bouldger
Introduces the girls
To one of their many uncles
"Eva, Lynn, say hello to your Uncle Mark"
"Heeey"
These uncles, seemingly endless in number
Travel from all over the world
To visit their nieces
"Hello, Hello, Hi, Hello"
The girls don't always like their new uncles
But Mrs bouldger is always quick
To remind them that
"family is family" and "blood
Is thicker than water"

The conjoined sisters are not popular
Amongst the other girls
However, one gentle resident
A few years their senior befriends them
And takes them under her wing
"Hello, what's your name?" her name is Sandy
"I'm Sandy" she has soft
Blond hair that reaches down to her knees
Everyone says she looks like a mermaid
Dressed daily by Mrs bouldger in trademark
Fishnet stockings and vintage attire
Sandy is by far the most
Popular girl of the Underwood
She has so many uncles that
The twins lose count
Every night after dinner and chores
Sandy tucks the young sisters into
Bed and tells them
Fantastic stories until they fall
Peacefully to sleep
"And after the three long weeks at sea
Jean Luc the sailor finally spotted land"
But these happy times do
Not last shortly after
The twins' third Christmas under
Mrs bouldger's care, sandy disappears
Never to return

The twins remain in the Underwood for
The greater part of two, long
Miserable years
Without Sandy to protect them
They are ostracized and abused
By the other girls
"What are YOU looking at, 4-eyes?!"
The photo sessions involve fewer fancy
Costumes and over time
Their uncles become more peculiar
"Did I ask you to talk?"
The twins begin to notice the
Disturbing tendency for girls
Much like their dear friend Sandy - to
Quietly disappear from the Underwood around
Their 12th or 13th birthday the sisters
Brace themselves for something terrible
One autumn, when the girls are
Eleven, an old man, who
Speaks only Spanish, takes the
Twins into a large
Orange van and drives them to their new home
"Step right up, step right up, see amazing
Human oddities, freaks of nature be warned
People with heart condition, children
Women - we will accept no responsibility for
Fainting, reoccurring nightmares, or death"
Dillard and Fullerton's Illusive and
Illogical Traveling Show is
The 12th largest touring circus
In North America former insurance salesman
Dillard and Fullerton distinguish their
Enterprise by procuring the
Most shocking specimen of the
Grotesque and unusual
Their small administrative staff
Works tirelessly to combat legal actions and
Public allegations of animal cruelty
And human slave trafficking "What?"

Life in the circus is harder than their
Time at the Underwood there is always
Work to be done in addition to
Their chores of laundry and sweeping
Mr dillard insists that the twins spend many
Hours each day practicing their act
"What are you standing around for?"
The girls are frightened of the clowns
Several of whom, by amazing coincidence
Also happen to be their uncles
"Hello, hello, hello!" but still
Overall these early days at the circus are
A happy time for the twins

Every night to the delight of
Audiences across the country, the girls
Appear in the center ring, singing
And strumming the ukulele
At the top of Bimba and Kimba - the
World's only known conjoined
Twin Siamese elephants
The twins feel they have found
True soul mates in Bimba
And Kimba, who they affectionately
Refer to as 'Elephant, elephant'
This special bond is reciprocated
By the pachyderms
Who fondly nuzzle the girls
With their trunks and
Seem to delight in giving them rides
The twins and the elephants are inseparable
With the help of Alphonso de Arresting
The animal
Trainer, the twins tend to the elephants
Feeding them and grooming them daily

But one terrible August morning
Bimba and Kimba refuse to take their food
Due to the unsanitary conditions
Of their quarters and
An improper diet of popcorn and cotton candy
The elephants have contracted a rare form of
Elephantine diphtheria compounded by
Early-onset Alzheimer's disease
For the next two weeks can
Only stand by helplessly
As their companions become sicker
And weaker and
Begin displaying obvious signs of memory loss
The last few days are almost unbearable
With Bimba and Kimba's confused
Sad eyes looking up at the
Girls with great anguish
But no hint of recognition
And on one, grim, September day
The sisters' 16th birthday
Elephant Elephant dies
The funeral is held the same day
A grizzly affair at an
Industrial trash compactor behind a Home
Depot in Fort Dodge Iowa

The twins are devastated
Without Bimba and Kimba life is but
A terrible and meaningless void
They resign themselves to living out the rest
Of their hollow existence in solemn mourning
The emotionally exhausted sisters fall from
Favor within the circus
No longer willing to sing
And play their ukulele
The girls are dressed in
A pink tutu and forced to balance
On the giant red ball
An impossible task for the conjoined sisters
"Get on that damn ball!"
The audience roars with laughter each
Time they awkwardly fall

Their discomfort is increased by a
Pair of radical groups
Who have taken an interest in the twins
Every night in most major
Cities, protesters assemble
Nosily waving signs and chanting slogans in
Front of the Box Office
The first faction claims to represent
An organization called 'FASSEN' -
The Foundation for Always Separating
Siamese Twins Everywhere Now
Citing the bible
FASSEN members vehemently believe that it is
The will of the Lord that
All conjoined twins be separated and
Allowed to live individual lives
Wielding symbolical surgical saws and
Blunt carving knives
FASSEN members jibe the ticket buyers for
Supporting the abomination of god
The second group operates under the
Acronym SPLIT - the
Society for the Preservation of
Linked Identical Twins
A reactionary organization
Working to discredit the claims of FASSEN
SPLIT believes that conjoined twins
Will play a critical
Role in the second coming of Christ
The twins are terrified by both groups
- the knives and saws
Make them very nervous and SPLIT
Members make threats to
Kidnap the girls and take them
To where they will be
Kept safe in a place of
Darkness until the rapture

One day before a Sunday
Matinee in Sacramento
A chaotic brawl erupts between the
Two factions and one FASSEN
Member gets alarmingly close to the
Twins with a hacksaw
"It's the will of the Lord!"
Stricken with fear
The sisters decide that they are no
Longer safe at the circus that night
They make a resolution - to leave
The Dillard and Fullerton traveling show
Forever