I've got a new track in Masters of Song Fu #4 Round 1 @ Quick Stop Entertainment - Vote early, Vote Often! (Just Kidding)
Well, it’s that time again; time to vote for another set of challengers in Quick Stop Entertainment’s Masters of Song Fu songwriting challenge. Here’s my track:
I Will Always Look up to You – Download
Vote for your favourite tracks in Masters of Song Fu #4 Round 1
(Voting closes 11:59pm EST on Sunday, May 31st, 2009.)
Every round of Song Fu requires the songwriter to write a brand new song from scratch based on arbitrary criteria presented after sign-up, so you never know what you’re committing yourself to. The challenge this time around was as follows:
Write a song from the perspective of an inanimate object. This inanimate object must have no moving parts. Also no computers, no objects that look like living things, either human or animal (i.e. a statue, an action figure, etc.), and no celestial objects (i.e. the sun or the moon). Your song can be in any style you choose.
That’s it. The only other directive is that your song must run no shorter than 1 minute 45 seconds.
Well, after a few hours of solid writer’s block, my wife suggested I write a song about a rug. I made a couple of Big Lebowski references, and we had a few laughs, and in a few short hours I had a happy little song all ready to rock.
Here are the lyrics, if you’d like to follow the bouncing ball:
Sometimes you never see me
But I’m always there
Underneath the coffee table
Right beside the chair
A little frayed around the edges
But woven good & thick
Take me outside
And beat me with a stickSome people say
That you lie like a rug
But that’s
The constant truth for me
Curled up by the fire
Snug as a bug
You help fulfill
My destinyI came all the way from Afghanistan
Just to tie your room together
Walk all over me – that’s the plan
I don’t mind whatsoever
‘Cause I will always look
By hook or by crook
I will always look up to youSweep all your problems underneath
I can take them all
Big enough to cover it
Just not wall-to-wall
Treat me like furniture
I don’t feel downtrodden
Keep your tootsies warm
When your socks have been forgottenI came all the way from Afghanistan
Just to tie your room together
Walk all over me – that’s the plan
I don’t mind whatsoever
‘Cause I will always look
By hook or by crook
I will always look up to youSome day you’ll meet someone
And finally settle down
Have yourself
A rug-rat or two
Once a year I get a bath
Whether I need it or not
That’s how it’ll always be
For you and meI came all the way from Afghanistan
Just to tie your room together
Walk all over me – that’s the plan
I don’t mind whatsoever
‘Cause I will always look
By hook or by crook
I will always look up to you‘Cause I will always look
By hook or by crook
I will always look up to you
I will always look up to you
I will always look up to you
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Hi, I'm Steve Chatterton, a singer/songwriter of a collection of tunes about superheroes, fireflies, communicable diseases and such.
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