The Playground of the Baby Giants
Franglophone songwriter extraordinaire.
In a nutshell, I’m French and American, I’ve lived in Paris, London, Brussels and New York, and I’ve been creating unusual musical entertainment since before you were born.
Story behind the song
I recently visited the Playground of the Baby Giants and had to share my impressions!
Lyrics
I'm in the playground of the baby giants,
where baby giants built a giant town
With giant streets and giant paper houses,
with giant cars and buses zoomin all around
They built the place at double scale
'round giant automobiles
That people have to use,
cuz everything's so far afield
But everything's so far afield,
cuz the place was built at double scale
Around the automobiles, that people use
to go where they gotta get
You know you only gotta drive,
cuz everything's spread far and wide
But everything's spread far and wide,
cuz it's been built, so you can drive
So you can park, on every block,
but you could walk, just for a lark
If there weren't so many lots,
that spread the blocks, so far apart
I'm in the playground of the baby giants,
where baby giants built a giant town
With giant streets and giant paper houses,
with giant cars and buses zoomin all around
All the houses and all the buildings
are like giant cardboard boxes
With a couple of holes,
cut out for windows and doors
With garish colors, just splattered on,
like frosting on a giant cake
And abandoned and left to bake
in the sun when the baby giants got bored
Inside the homes, inside the stores,
inside the shops, inside the malls
The baby giants left giant fridges,
giant TVs, and giant stoves
And giant plates, with mounds of food,
that I could feed on for many moons
Pieces of sushi, as big as steaks,
buckets of soda, as deep as lakes
They lined the streets, as wide as runways,
with giant palmtrees as tall as cranes
And giant billboards, on giant poles,
that you can see from miles away
With giant ads, for giant movies,
with giant stars, with giant lips
And giant teeth, as high as cliffs,
and giant tits the size of blimps
How can I feel so alone,
in such a monumental urban spread
This place is lifeless, this place is morbid,
this place just fills me with dread
Where did all the baby giants go
why have they fled
Is this the wake of the end of another world
that left all the baby giants dead
