Blues Wrapped Round My Head

In a slow count of 5, here's some kind of convergence of Burma and the blues, or thereabouts. "scissors cut paper / paper blows away / stone smashes scissors / and so it goes / another day / but it's all downhill from here / at least that's what sisyphus said /ah you're fucked six ways from sunday / with the blues wrapped round your head"

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posted by flapjax at midnite (6 comments total)

blues wrapped round my head

scissors cut paper
paper blows away
stone smashes scissors
and so it goes another day
but it's all downhill from here
at least that's what sisyphus said
ah you're fucked six ways from sunday
with the blues wrapped round your head

need to call my baby
but her number's been unlisted
wonder will i ever straighten out
all the words that woman twisted
gonna move out to the country
paint my mailbox red
say please wait a minute mister postman
got the blues wrapped round my head

what's the use of having a memory
when it only moves in one direction
you think you learn from experience
but that's just a misconception
so just save your cheerful good mornings
i'm staying right here in this bed
don't you dare open up those curtains
i got the blues wrapped round my head

i'll have one more for the road
six more for the ditch
been sitting in your electric chair for years
so just go ahead now and throw the switch
but the joke's gonna be on you
you see i'm already dead
at least that's how it feels
when the blues blues wrap round your head

copyright 2007 Samm Bennett / Polarity Records
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:01 AM on February 23, 2007

need to call my baby
but her number's been unlisted
wonder will i ever straighten out
all the words that woman twisted

Oh man! This is good stuff. My favorite lyrics from you so far.
You know, listening to it, I kinda got to wonder how would it sound if you sang it in a lower voice, sung, but more "whispered". Did you try that? Perhaps it would be a cliché, the obvious thing to do, but I think that would suit the song.

Good one, flapjax.
posted by micayetoca at 8:43 AM on February 23, 2007

I am a flapjax fan!!!
posted by ageispolis at 1:05 PM on February 23, 2007

Great song, but I have to give you a 10+ just for writing about
sisyphus. Holy crap.
posted by snsranch at 4:30 PM on February 23, 2007

note to flapjax - if you are going to post to music.mefi, try to contribute music that is at least somewhat rhythmically interesting, lyrically well-thought out, and melodically interesting.

Sheesh - some people just don't get it.



posted by fingers_of_fire at 7:39 AM on February 24, 2007

OK, for some reason my /sarcasm tag didn't show up - but you got the point right?

Great tune.
posted by fingers_of_fire at 10:31 AM on February 24, 2007