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Gary the Purple Hippo
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Somewhat punk influenced song. Bridge is very punk-ish.
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David Conklin's Punk Rock style comes together with Jared Markson's Bluesy, folk rock style, to create comedic acoustic genius.
At 2am on New Years Day, Jared Markson, David Conklin, Joe Loeffler, Frank Nowinski and Brenten Foote were over Jared's house, when the three guys challenged David and Jared to a contest to see who could write the best song in 15 minutes. In that short period of time, the two produced their first song "Kill Yourselves" which completely ruined the other guys chances of winning the contest. Proud of their victory, Jared and David went on to write many new songs...in 15 minutes. Thus, Brothers of the Head was conceived. Not too many people take a band composed of a couple 19 and 20 year old kids seriously...but if you've listened to our songs, we don't take ourselves very seriously either. Take our music for what it's worth. We have so much fun writing new songs, and joking around. We only hope that people will find us comical as well. Also, if you couldn't tell, we're not English and there is no real reason that we speak in English accents. We thought it would be funny I guess...don't question our genius.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #150
Peak in subgenre #34
Author
Conklin/Markson
Rights
2008
Uploaded
January 14, 2009
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MP3 4.4 MB • 128 kbps • 4:46
Story behind the song
We wrote the guitar part for this song and we we're all happy with it, but we had no idea what to write about...so Jared looked around the room and saw a purple hippo dog toy on his floor. He decided we should write about him. We named him Gary and realized he has a deep seeded resentment of himself because of his skin color.
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Gary the Purple Hippo Has to live in shame. Because of his purple pigment, He'll never get a dame. He's been to many plastic surgeons To get his color changed. And they all say the same old thing, That that seems pretty lame. Cuz you're a hippo. A Purple hippo. Gary the Purple Hippo Couldn't bare the pain, Of all the other normal hippo's Calling him nasty names. He'd always just mope around, Emotionally drained. He often wondered why he didn't Look the same. Cuz he's a hippo, A purple hippo. "Hello God, are you there? I've been praying every day. Just to have a glimpse of living, y'know, The normal hippo way. Life's been tough for me y'know, and I finally see that I'm not okay. And the only way to fix it Is if I kill myself...today, YAY!" CHORUS: I'm just a hippo With a sensitive, purple heart. And it feels like My whole word is falling apart. Yeah, I'm just a purple hippo With a normal beating heart. And I gotta figure my life out. Gary the Purple Hippo Put a gun to his head. He was finally gonna Pump his brain full of lead. But Gary realized something As he sat upon his bed. His big dumb hooves Can't pull the trigger to kill him dead... Cuz he's a hippo. A purple hippo. CHORUS (Random oh's. To add to the magic.)
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