A very clean song. Though maybe a bit steamy.
Yet another songwriter-guitarist-singer. In that order. Though I earn my living mostly playing bass.
I play bass with various bands in many genres, and also perform at mainly acoustic-style venues as a solo songwriter-guitarist-singer (in that order)
Story behind the song
As everyone knows (oh yes they do), baths are better than showers, and a lot more fun.
A shower isn't a very efficient way to get clean, since the water comes from above, whereas all the parts of our bodies that need especial attention to their cleanliness are ones that face downward. I included this in the chorus. Feel free to sing along. And do the actions. Especially when you're in the bathroom, where the acoustics are conducive and nobody can see you dancing.
Lyrics
In the Shower
The human body is designed for the bath – cleansing by immersion.
The water seeps in every crevice of skin, and you end up a nice clean person.
The shower may use less water, and I don’t suppose you’ll drown,
but to get as clean as you could have been,
you’d need to stand upside down.
CHORUS: What good is the shower when facing down are all our bits that smell?
Our armpits and our dainty bits and the soles of our feet as well.
I don’t know how to put this but – at the risk of being indelicate –
where you really need a blast, the water rushes past,
and you could end up with a smelly bit.
But when you get in the bath, those most stale parts are first to hit the water;
need I elaborate which those are? I'm not sure that I oughta…
CHORUS
I’ve been in showers from home to Rome and never found a good one yet.
All they do, in my view, is get your hair and your shoulders wet.
And it’s so hard to read the paper and catch up with all the news.
So, follow my path, have a wallow in the bath – and maybe a little snooze.
CHORUS
Shower gel may get you clean and of course it leaves no scum.
But lying in the bath with your toe up the tap has gotta be much more fun.
If you have a good friend and time to spend it’s fun playing Hunt the Soap,
But try it in a shower, it all goes sour as the soap is on a rope.
CHORUS
Now, the water in the shower is not very deep, and I’ll tell you what this means:
you can play with your ducks if you really, really must ... but not with your submarines.
And another thing I hate about the shower – perhaps, like me, you find
that the shower curtain tries to chase you about and sticks to your bare behind.
CHORUSES AND DESCANT: Spare me from the shower with the water from above –
Give me a soak in a nice hot tub!
