The Music Court

Goddamn you half-Japanese girls
Do it to me every time
Oh, the redhead said you shred the cello
And I’m jello, baby
But you won’t talk, won’t look, won’t think of me
I’m the epitome of public enemy
Why you wanna go and do me like that?
Come down on the street and dance with me 

I’m a lot like you so please, hello, I’m here, I’m waiting
I think I’d be good for you and you’d be good for me 

I asked you to go to the Green Day concert
You said you never heard of them (how cool is that)
How cool is that?
So I went to your room and read your diary:
Watching Grunge leg drop New-Jack through a presstable…
And then my heart stopped:
Listening to Cio-Cio San, fall in love all over again. 

I’m a lot like you so please, hello, I’m here, I’m waiting
I think I’d be good for you and you’d be good for me 

How stupid is it? I can’t talk about it
I gotta sing about it and make a record of my heart
How stupid is it? Won’t you gimme a minute
Just come up to me
And say hello to my heart
How stupid is it? For all I know you want me too
And maybe you just don’t know what to do
Or maybe you’re scared to say: ‘I’m falling for you’ 

I wish I could get my head out of the sand
Cos I think we’d make a good team
And you would keep my fingernails clean
But that’s just a stupid dream that I won’t realize
Cos I can’t even look in your eyes without shaking, and I ain’t faking
I’ll bring home the turkey if you bring home the bacon 

I’m a lot like you so please, hello, I’m here, I’m waiting
I think I’d be good for you and you’d be good for me 

I’m a lot like you
I’m a lot like you
I’m a lot like you
And I’m waiting
I think I’d be good for you and you’d be good for me 

Greatest opening line in a Weezer song.

                  In 2007 the prophetic singer-songwriter David Ford released his second studio album entitled “Songs for the Road.” In his realistic and depressing ode to modern society, Ford sings of the world getting heavy and sticking to his feet. Yet, one verse in particular makes the song rather telling.

“So we sell out our kids for a tank full of gas
And a lifetime in plastics for a fistful of cash
Let the rivers run dry let the economy crash
And let the discotheques resound to the requiem mass”

Aint this just wonderful but unfortunately true.

Hello 
I’ve waited here for you 
Everlong 

Tonight 
I throw myself into 
And out of the red, out of her head she sang 

Come down 
And waste away with me 
Down with me 

Slow how 
You wanted it to be 
I’m over my head, out of her head she sang 
Chorus- 

And I wonder 
When I sing along with you 
If everything could ever feel this real forever 
If anything could ever be this good again 

The only thing I’ll ever ask of you 
You’ve got to promise not to stop when I say when 
She sang 
Verse 2- 

Breathe out 
So I could breathe you in 
Hold you in 

And now 
I know you’ve always been 
Out of your head, out of my head I sang 
Chorus- 

And I wonder 
When I sing along with you 
If everything could ever feel this real forever 
If anything could ever be this good again 

The only thing I’ll ever ask of you 
You’ve got to promise not to stop when I say when 
She sang 
Chorus- 

And I wonder 
If everything could ever feel this real forever 
If anything could ever be this good again 

The only thing I’ll ever ask of you 
You’ve got to promise not to stop when I say when 
She sang 

One of the greatest ballads of all time, period.  No surprise it was written by someone that was in Nirvana. 

                   When I was first introduced into the world of literal translation of popular pop songs I sat laughing at the literal version of the youtube video of A-ha’s “Take on Me.” A “literal version” takes a video of a song and sings the song in the same key and melody but with different lyrics which jokingly poke fun at what the video is doing. Today I came across a video of The Monkees performing “Daydream Believer,” and the reason why this literal version is better then others is because the entire video is them playing the song in goofy ways. Here is the link for the literal version: http://www.fark.com/cgi/vidplayer.pl?IDLink=4476482.

                After you watch this how about checking out the actual song. Well, here the actual lyrics. Compare them and let us know which one you like better.

“Oh, I could hide ‘neath the wings
Of the bluebird as she sings.
The six o’clock alarm would never ring.
But it rings and I rise,
Wipe the sleep out of my eyes.
My shavin’ razor’s cold and it stings.

Cheer up, Sleepy Jean.
Oh, what can it mean.
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen.

You once thought of me
As a white knight on a steed.
Now you know how happy I can be.
Oh, and our good times start and end
Without dollar one to spend.
But how much, baby, do we really need.

Cheer up, Sleepy Jean.
Oh, what can it mean.
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen.
Cheer up, Sleepy Jean.
Oh, what can it mean.
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen.

[Instrumental interlude]

Cheer up, Sleepy Jean.
Oh, what can it mean.
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen.
[Repeat and fade]”

Fun Fact: The song was written by John Stewart (not the comedian) who was originally with The Kingston Trio

One pill makes you larger, And one pill makes you small

And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all                                    

Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you’re going to fall
Tell ’em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she’ll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s “off with her head!”
Remember what the dormouse said;
“Keep YOUR HEAD

Jefferson Airplane’s 1967 ode to the 1865 novel by British author Lewis Carroll about a young naive girl who is thrust into the world of psychedelia and wonder by following the White Rabbit down his hole.  The lyrics follow her adventure into the depraved world and her slip into seeming madness.