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Peak #149
Peak in subgenre #24
Author
J. Wrabek
Rights
2008
Uploaded
July 28, 2008
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MP3 5.0 MB • 128 kbps • 5:28
Lyrics
[4/4, fast w/prominent bass]
PROBABLY OLD TOWN, OR SOMETHING (“BEDPANS FOR BRAINS”)
--J. Wrabek
[THE RAP: This is another song I wrote for Southern Pigfish. The band wanted to do a music video starring the cast from the wizard of Oz—with the Scarecrow singing the first verse, and then the Tin Man, and the Lion, and the Wicked Witch, and Dorothy, with Toto and the flying Monkeys coming in on the chorus. I tried to explain all those guys were dead, but they said do it anyway, so I did. So if all the parts sound like they’re being sung by the same voice, that’s because they are.
The Scarecrow first, then the Tin Man, then the Lion, and the Witch, and Dorothy. Scarecrow’ll wrap it up at the end…]
INTRO BY THE SCARECROW:
They made me run the country, without a brain in my head,
'Cause the Wizard's flown for parts unknown, and the Wicked Witch is dead;
I've tried to forget you, but you just get rearranged,
And keep bobbing to the surface in my bedpan for brains.
CHORUS
Come on over to my place, I've got bedpans for brains;
You can join the I.V. League, transfusion's been arranged;
Spend some time in my world, won't nothing feel too strange--
I've got enemas for cinemas, and bedpans for brains.
1.
THE TIN MAN:
There's an empty space inside my chest where my heart used to be;
You ripped it out, and tore it up, and won't give it back to me;
I get rustier by the minute, wondering what to do--
I got a dozen years of one-night stands, reminding me of you.
CHORUS:
Come on over to my place, I've got bedpans for brains;
You can join the I.V. League, transfusion's been arranged;
Spend some time in my world, won't nothing feel too strange--
I've got enemas for cinemas, and bedpans for brains.
2.
THE LION:
The people in the forest always seem to say
"Come with us to see the Wizard, he'll take your fears away";
He just wants you for a mission that he won't do himself,
And I'd rather be scared of mnissing you than anybody else.
CHORUS
Come on over to my place, I've got bedpans for brains;
You can join the I.V. League, transfusion's been arranged;
Spend some time in my world, won't nothing feel too strange--
I've got enemas for cinemas, and bedpans for brains.
[GRATUITOUS INSTRUMENTAL BREAK GOES HERE]
3.
THE WITCH:
Beware of passing strangers, dropping in from the sky,
They'll decapitate your sisters, and never tell you why;
Strip the wings off your monkeys, steal your slippers for their friends,
And turn you into a puddle 'fore they go away again.
CHORUS
Come on over to my place, I've got bedpans for brains;
You can join the I.V. League, transfusion's been arranged;
Spend some time in my world, won't nothing feel too strange--
I've got enemas for cinemas, and bedpans for brains.
4.
SURREAL INSIPID DOROTHY:
Take me back to Kansas, drop me off behind the barn,
So I can hang with all the folks I knew back on the farm;
I want to sleep with my old boyfriend, have half a dozen kids,
And let 'em graze all over the place, singing songs like this:
CHORUS
Come on over to my place, I've got bedpans for brains;
You can join the I.V. League, transfusion's been arranged;
Spend some time in my world, won't nothing feel too strange--
I've got enemas for cinemas, and bedpans for brains.
6.
THE SCARECROW, WRAPPING UP:
If you ever get to Munchkinland, tell ‘em I said hello;
They’re short and they’re ugly, and they make me miss you so;
I’ve lived my life without you, but I’m ready for a change—
My cast and crew keep finding you in my bedpans for brains.
CHORUS
Come on over to my place, I've got bedpans for brains;
You can join the I.V. League, transfusion's been arranged;
Spend some time in my world, won't nothing feel too strange--
I've got enemas for cinemas, and bedpans for brains.
REPEAT LAST LINE OF CHORUS TO END
(c) 2008 J. Wrabek dba outside Services Ltd. All the usual rights reserved just in case.
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