F©ck the formula
We're going with breast milk
I generally don’t have a lot of swear words in my songs, so this week I thought I’d make up for that by having the “F” word show up three times in one song, including the first word and the second-to-last word. (insert grimace emoji here.)
I recorded this little number on my iBook G4 using the laptop’s built-in microphone back in 2006.
This recording experiment had me pretty stoked, as I was beginning to realize how easily music fits together if it’s recorded on the grid, as it were.1
MySpace was the big thing in 2006, and I know I posted a version of this back then, but that place subsequently took a turn for the worse, so we can pretend this is the first time this has ever seen the light of day and these new platforms will last forever.
Deal?
I remain your humble servant,
OX&C,
Faux Jean
Here are the lyrics:
Let’s Have Some Fun!
Fuck the formula we're going with breast milk,
Fuck the Seersucker, we're rolling in French silk,
Had to chill out for a minute like a cat and how to skin it,
time to reassess...
Let's have some fun
We'll dance around
We'll forget all about the problems
that we had downtown,
We're Uptown now,
This ain't Northeast
I got no problems making peace, baby
You've got to leave me alone,
Baby don't you see,
It's only me, and I'm working
Oh, I would that I didn't have this job
Got a job of work to do son
If anyone could ever see
What you have done to me
If anyone could ever see
What you done to me
Well you let my hair on fire
You made fun of my clothes
I got you back with a song
Let's have some fun
Let's have some fun
Let's have some fun
Let's have some fun
Baby don't you see,
Baby don't you see,
It's only me, and I'm working
Oh I would that I had no job of work!
I gave a Jack's here's Johnny
with a fist instead of a knife
Somehow I managed to set your hair on fire
Poured a drink over your head
at a party where you said Baby,
I'm only being playful baby
Let's have some fun
I'm only being playful baby
Let's have some fun
I'm only being playful baby
Let's have some fucking fun!
That is to say, if you suck at playing the drums, as I do, you can still capture a little bit of goodness and spread it around without having to turn in an actually decent performance. There are some folks who see the downfall of humanity in this, but I do not.