Play For Today: Weird, In A Word, Works

6 February 2009 | 11:38 PM

For some reason – perhaps because it doesn’t involve a ton of effort on my part – I keep coming back to the concept of the lyrical mashup. I don’t know how well they translate to other people but I find them kind of strangely satisfying. For tonight’s opus, I’ve elected to take a playlist I’ve created of songs with the most ridonkulously oddball lyrics, pull out the weirdest phrase from each and then string them together for your gawking pleasure. Let’s give it a go, shall we?

Damn them sonsabitches with their gill-nets set afloat
In the lap of your mama you land
Amassed resentment counting ounce and pound
Hope is a letter that’s never delivered by the postman of my fear
Tarzan I’m pleading stop your fucking screaming
Don’t tell me that you didn’t try and check out my bum
Suck, suck your teenage thumb
Or leave it senseless like a suck on a gun?
I said ‘oh’ in my hopeless youth, just so uncouth
I try to sing it funny like Beck but it’s bringing me down
I Brazilian wax poetic so hypothetically I don’t wanna beat around the bush
So why is it I’m happy when there’s tears down in your eye

Heh, well if nothing else, at least I entertain myself. G’night.

Posted by Andy in Play For Today