Man In A Panic: Lyrically Speaking

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Lyrically Speaking

With an Ipod semi-permanently glued to my head, I've been taking more notice of lyrics lately. Here's some current favourites...

"Met a woman in a bar,
Told her I was hard to get to know,
And near impossible to forget,
She said I had an ego on me
The size of Texas
Well I'm new here,
And I forget,
Does that mean big or small?"
I'm New Here by Smog

"My Baby said she wanted some action
I said, Baby, I can't give you that
I'm a simple man
My Baby said she wanted adventure
I said, Baby, the outside world's not safe
We should just sit down"
Baby Said by Hot Chip

"I dressed up like a woman
Under these clothes for you
And you've left it till now before you tell me
That's not what you wanted me to go through"
The Perfect Gentleman by Broken Family Band

Hmmm - lyrics are better set to music, eh? Otherwise it's just bad poetry.

So here's the plan.

I'm going to write an opening line...and then you readers have to make a suggestion for the next line...etc....and then when we've got a song, my mate is going to set it to a variety of musical styles - the Bluegrass Mix, the Noodly Rock 12", the Ragga Rewind - and then we'll upload the best one on a filesharing system, viral the hell out of it online and become very very rich and famous.

So....a ONE, a TWO, a ONE TWO THREE FOUR...

"Sundays are a bit shite in San Francisco when you're all alone....."
"I once met a girl with a ping pong bat...."

(Er...anyone got a good opening line?!)

4 Dec 2005 19:15:54 | Music

3 Comments

You are a legend! i dont know who you are, but Ive been trying to find the name of a song that I heard the other day. All I remembered was a few lines of it and Ive been searching searching everywhere...... AND YOU HAVE IT ON YOUR SITE!!!!!
Thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!
Btw it was hot chip - baby said.
Now i just have to find where to DL it.
Thanks!

Posted by: Sam Price | Friday, June 22, 2007 at 03:54 AM