The Man from Utopia is a 1983 album by Frank Zappa. The album is named after a 1950s song, written by Donald and Doris Woods, which Zappa covers as part of "The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou". This is Official Release #36.
"The Dangerous Kitchen", "Mōggio" and "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats" were all prepared for Zappa's unreleased album Chalk Pie, which was scrapped after it had been bootlegged.
The sleeve art features the work of Tanino Liberatore. It portrays Zappa on stage trying to kill mosquitoes. That is a reference to a concert held in Italy in 1982, the year before the release of the album, on 7 July at Parco Redecesio (which is also referred in a street sign on the album cover) in Segrate, near Milan. While Zappa was playing a huge number of mosquitoes began flying on stage and gave the band a hard time. The back cover shows the audience as seen from the stage during the 1982 concert in Palermo, which ended in a riot. The album was the second of two to credit Steve Vai with "impossible guitar parts" (the first being the preceding album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch).
two weeks and i'm pacing the floor,
saying "pull it together boy, pull it together."
i know you said you don't love me anymore,
but never say never girl, never say never.
it took too long
for me to realize i was looking at it all wrong.
and you were right,
i was trying to run, i was trying to hide.
but this is my one chance to make it right.
sophie, baby,
i know exactly where we went wrong.
sophie, maybe,
give me one more chance to stop you from moving on.
three weeks and my head is getting sore,
but pull it together boy, pull it together.
you always seem to leave me begging you for more,
but you never deliver, girl, you never deliver.
it took too long
for me to realize i was looking at it all wrong.
but now i know,
that i don't want to hide, that i want it to show.
i only get one shot so here we go:
sophie, baby,
i know exactly where we went wrong.
sophie, maybe,
give me one more chance to stop you from moving on.
i'm sorry for what never happened.
i never should've let you go.
but i am ready now to try and make it right,
to tell you what you've always known.
sophie, baby,
i know exactly where we went wrong.
sophie, maybe,
give me one more chance to stop you from moving on.
sophie, baby,
i know exactly where we went wrong.
sophie, maybe,