Will You Fly Me to Rome?

Radix Malorum est Cupiditas

Hey Faux Peeps,

Imagine a formidable stereo system resting on wooden plank shelves supported by cinder blocks.

Imagine a new danced called the wake and bake.

Imagine doing this dance to music thumping from the cinder block array.

Radix Malorum est Cupiditas.¹

I do hope you will listen to this vintage lo-fi banger and fly with me.²

OX&C,

Faux Jean

Will You Fly Me to Rome?

You go out to bars

Where you don’t know no one

But you know you’ll find someone

Who thinks your made of drinks and

she lets you drive her home

She’s never been in a Hummer

So she thinks you’re okay

She might even think you’re fine

But I know when I say

Either way it’s a game

She’ll take you for a ride

If she lets you come up

To the murphy-bed-luck-pad

To get your rocks off

Twisting to the Hi-Fi

That’s up on cinder blocks and the rocks are off

Shimmy shimmy shake

Shimmy gimme wake and bake

It’s the new dance in town

Get in line

Right behind

Waste no time

Or you’ll wait in line

At the Cinder Block Sock Hop

The cinder blocks are soft

Twisting to the Hi-Fi that’s up on cinder blocks

And the rocks are off

It’s not a situation

Where you gotta pay in

Maybe take her shopping

This way she’ll hit play for you

Again at the sock hop

Where the cinder blocks are soft

(Radix malorum est cupiditas)

Twisting to the Hi-Fi

(Radix malorum est cupiditas)

Twisting to the sock hop

Sock hop

Rocks off

Vis-a-vis the new addition

She’s your new addiction

She’ll try to keep you wishing

She’ll have a premonition

Maybe women’s intuition

“I don’t want to be your whore!”

Forget his reputation

Don’t need this degradation

I need a vacation

Will you fly me to Rome?

Words and Music by Matty Schindler

1. As an English major, it gives me pleasure to have Latin lyrics lifted from Chaucer in this song. Call me a nerd.

2. This version of the song was recorded to cassette 4-track around 2002 and has been hibernating for 20 years, give or take.