This is a collaboration with the Liberalizer about being rejected by girls. Not that I get rejected by girls or anything... I now dislike most of this song, because I feel like it's too angsty and whiny. This is funk influenced, and the Liberalizer
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Story behind the song
It never hurts for a young, good looking musician to write a song expressing the fact that he's single. Think about it. Who goes into music for any reasong other than impressing girls? And if you're impressing girls, then it pays big to let them know that you're completely available. The trick is not to sound too desperate. We failed at that. Yeah...We admit. We're desperate. (I love putting words in Eric's mouth.)
So yeah. This was Eric's idea. He wrote the chorus and his verse, I did my verses and the beat. I claimed main guy status on this one because I'm greedy.
Lyrics
Shot Down
Chorus
I got shot down again
Maybe we should just be friends
From the beginning to the end
I got shot down again
Verse 1
This one goes out to all of the ladies,
Specifically, this one’s so the ladies don’t hate me.
I’ll get the message out first, so then we can have fun.
Ladies, don’t hate me, there, that part’s done.
My history with girls is humorous, and brief.
Like Charlie Brown and the redhead, saying “good grief.”
By the mailbox on valentine’s day’s where he sat, man,
Last time I got a valentine, it featured batman.
History has shown that my understanding
Of the opposite sex, despite a lot of careful planning,
Is not that expansive, nor is it expanding,
My brain’s a little small, and the subject’s too demanding.
Like, I just found out that girls prefer conversation
Over nervous, quick, expressionless glances on occasion.
Maybe someday I’ll give conversation a shot,
But you can’t get shot down if you never take off.
(Chorus)
Verse 2
On the TV, there’s some beauty pageant on,
She’s says a guy with a sense of humor’s all she really wants.
Well, if you happen to know a Miss America contestant,
Send her my way, ‘cause real life girls don’t share that sentiment.
No, that’s incorrect…It’s just I’m under the notion
That if I’m really, really funny, then the girls will just pour in,
And I won’t have to confront them to ask for a date,
It’ll happen on its own, if I just sort of wait.
Crushes cripple cognitive functions constantly
Had a thing for this girl once, don’t know what she thought of me…
I could hardly speak to her, but for two years or more
She was the only one in the world that I had eyes for.
Then I lost what chance I had, so I had to move ahead
Did I say that happened one time? I meant nine or ten.
That’s the cycle I’ve been stuck in, since I can remember
I should probably get out, or I’ll be there forever…
(Chorus)
Verse 3 (Liberalizer)
I asked this girl to go with me to Homecoming,
She said, “I’d rather go alone then go with you Pumpkin”
And when she said that she started some sort of trend,
Now every girl I ask out say ‘maybe we should just be friends’
But then that was motivation for me to try harder,
I put spinners on my car and starting wearing Prada,
Put my hair in cornrows and thought I looked pretty fly,
Rumors spread around and everyone that that I was bi,
So then I started working out to get the muscle tone,
Went up to the club and the bouncer told me to go home,
He said “There’s a lot of fly girls in there but none of them gonna see ya”
And I was like “let me in man I’ve been practicing the Macarena”
But that didn’t work and I felt like a jerk up in this place,
I asked this girl for her number but she sprayed me in the face with mase,
So sometimes its hard to be an average looking boy I need a push,
I don’t get shot down I get completely ambushed,
(Chorus 2X)