Susceptable to music today, it seems
I slept for a while, then woke up too early in the afternoon and did a bit of research online. As I occasionally do when I don't know what kind of mood I'm in, I drop my entire directory of mp3s into Winamp and let rip. Two songs caught my attention today:
Broken, by Seether and brought up to chart-worthy status by Amy Lee. Man, this song pissed me off. The notion that someone would attempt to steal my pain away. It's mine, you bastards! Sometimes that's the fuel that gives me drive! Damn do-gooders, at least offer to take it away, don't just take it. :P
This feeling was immediately replaced however, by Tom Waits singing The Piano Has Been Drinking. If you don't know Tom, he sings like somebody that's just swallowed a handful of hot gravel. And the lyrics of this song by a guy that's deep in his cups... the lyrics are worth posting here:
The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep
And the combo went back to New York, the jukebox has to take a leak
And the carpet needs a haircut, and the spotlight looks like a prison break
And the telephone’s out of cigarettes, and the balcony is on the make
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking...
And the menus are all freezing, and the light man’s blind in one eye
And he can’t see out of the other
And the piano-tuner’s got a hearing aid, and he showed up with his mother
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
As the bouncer is a sumo wrestler cream-puff casper milktoast
And the owner is a mental midget with the i.q. of a fence post
’cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking...
And you can’t find your waitress with a geiger counter
And she hates you and your friends and you just can’t get served without her
And the box-office is drooling, and the bar stools are on fire
And the newspapers were fooling, and the ash-trays have retired
’cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
The piano has been drinking, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me
Man, I dig that song.
Broken, by Seether and brought up to chart-worthy status by Amy Lee. Man, this song pissed me off. The notion that someone would attempt to steal my pain away. It's mine, you bastards! Sometimes that's the fuel that gives me drive! Damn do-gooders, at least offer to take it away, don't just take it. :P
This feeling was immediately replaced however, by Tom Waits singing The Piano Has Been Drinking. If you don't know Tom, he sings like somebody that's just swallowed a handful of hot gravel. And the lyrics of this song by a guy that's deep in his cups... the lyrics are worth posting here:
The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep
And the combo went back to New York, the jukebox has to take a leak
And the carpet needs a haircut, and the spotlight looks like a prison break
And the telephone’s out of cigarettes, and the balcony is on the make
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking...
And the menus are all freezing, and the light man’s blind in one eye
And he can’t see out of the other
And the piano-tuner’s got a hearing aid, and he showed up with his mother
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
As the bouncer is a sumo wrestler cream-puff casper milktoast
And the owner is a mental midget with the i.q. of a fence post
’cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking...
And you can’t find your waitress with a geiger counter
And she hates you and your friends and you just can’t get served without her
And the box-office is drooling, and the bar stools are on fire
And the newspapers were fooling, and the ash-trays have retired
’cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
The piano has been drinking, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me
Man, I dig that song.
posted by Rimmy at 19:25
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