Rainmaster

(1)

[TV man's tarantula
TV man]

Rainmaster
Rainmaster

Copycats this and that
What about copy cat familiars (2)
And miserable witches

Rainmaker
Changes all rain 

Rainmaster, Rainmaster

(Florida) Wildlife is under constant threat

Rainmaster

[TV man]

Rainmaster Rainmaster

Curserer of blights once too often
In the ridiculous muggy envelope stained
Goin', you sorry fuck  (3)

[TV man]

All hail

Rainmaster in Belgique
Rainmaster in Basingstoke's portaphone traffic
Maurique assistant crap in hermitage (4)
Rainmaster in New York
Rainmaster over cool green layered forest
Interspersed
With hammers banging
Fellas tapping slow in hot morning (5)
Silenced! Rainmaster! 
In his benediction (6)

Smug in the task and knowledge

Cut to the quick

Rainmaster whoop!
Citadel Florida 3-4-9 dot dot dot dot dot dot dot.
That's how far we go.

 1. This is one of those Fall songs that reminds me of a puzzle with missing pieces. Sometimes MES is just stringing impressions togther, sometimes there's a story or a theme, and this one could go either way. As always, my faithful readers are invited to weigh in.

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2. A familiar is a witch's aide and companion, a supernatural being that is usually said to take the form of an animal of some sort (cats are probably the most common in popular portrayals). One of the most famlous familiars in literature--Brown Jenkin, a large ratlike creature with human hands and face, appears in "Dreams in the Witch House" by HP Lovecraft, one of MES' favorite authors.

There could be a secondary connotation of people who are overly familiar, and who are copycats, with "witches" said in a derogatory sense...

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3. This transcription is an interpretation, as it sounds like it could be "Go in, you--sorry...fuck!" as though MES loses the thread and muffs the lyrics (thanks to Tom for pointing this out). 

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4. Belgique is the French word for Belgium, and Basingstoke is in southern England.

Porta Phone is a brand name of a maker of wireless headsets for football coaches, but MES seems to use it to mean mobile phones in general (as Dan points out, he did not coin this name for them).

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5. Or maybe "fellahs," which is the arabic name for a farmer or an agricultural laborer in parts of the Middle East and the Maghreb. 

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6. He actually says "brenediction," as far as I can tell, but it seems meet to have the intelligible word above and explain the pronunciation here rather than vice versa. 

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