Great Moments In Lyrical Fail #23 - Moon June Spoon Loon Baboon
Howdy Folks.
Rosie brought in a new piece of music the other day and I set myself the task of writing something lyrically appropriate.
It's got this bouncy kind of reggae feel so i have been all over youtube liberally applying Marley to myself. In fact I have had complaints from them-whats-shares-my-environment about repeating this song over and over. Not his most well known or arguably best writing but I still dig it. apologies for the Advert at the start..
In the Lyrics Department, a brightly lit corner of the Stormcellar with a window out over the back garden, Lyric Gnomes do battle for ideas - Rhyming Vs Prose, Traditional VS Weird, On the beat Vs Off The Beat, Over the Melody VS Alt Melody and so on and so forth.
For those that are into word games, this is all good stuff. (Mind you, there are those amongst us that think Words are the Squawks in between Clever Guitar Chords.)
Nonetheless, we have a very open and failure loving system, because it's only by embracing complete FAIL that you can luck out onto a great combination.
For both our amusement, here's a great moment of fail from yesterday's writing.
As it was a reggae-ish tune and most reggae stuff seems to be short two verse stanzas with rhyming endings such as:
'get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
get up stand up, don't give up the fight'
I thought I'd give it a shot. Ok Rhyming it is.
What about subject matter? Marley gave us more than a Sound, his music put forth short, well thought out, well encapsulated positive ideas.
Well, we kinda took that approach for Hard times (remember? if not here's the vid)
hmmm...well I guess that's still an option, but what about a Love Song instead? The world might already have a plethora of'em but we don't, so, okie doke, let's give it a shot.
My first verse was going ok, nothing too ridiculous.
Then I hit verse 2.
It all started when I tried using the word Lagoon.
Firstly, it's a ghastly mental image with potentially subconscious references to Female....err....you know. (blush)
But more problematic is that it gives rise to the dread OON ending.
OON
Before I knew it, the next line was ending in in MOON. (oh no)
As I realised what I'd done, frankly, I gave up and just went with it.
Kingly tide and Crimson Moon
Power of a great baboon
Lyrics written by a loon.
Spoon in june and spoon.
I added a second 'Spoon' there just because I could. Because: Transcendent Awfulness.
Also very amusing.
