Sunday, December 11, 2011

20th Century Song

The Mezzanine:
....*

Mrs Dalloway: 
According to Mrs Dalloway:
(play "proper" theme)

I guess I'll get the flowers. This reminds me of when I was a young girl and I would just daydream by the flowers. Then Peter Walsh would make fun of me and say, "Musing among the flowers are we?" Then I'd say  "Screw you Peter, you have no friends." It's awful cold out. That man over there is looking at me quite peculiarly. Is that a roll of coins in his pants? Ooh, an automobile!...

According to Septimus: 
(play Crazy Train theme) 

THE WORLD IS ON FIRE! AAHHHHHHHHHHHH.........................................! (splat)

The Sun Also Rises:
(play folk theme)

Night time in Paris in a bar made of brick 
There's a man named Jake who is very stoic
Knows a Jew named Cohn who seems like a prick
Jake is a bitter man because he has no... genitalia 

There's a girl named Brett who is a fine lass
Who really gets around but she does it with class
Never too far from her drinking glass
She has curves like a yacht and a really nice... personality

Jake and Brett love each other but they're out of luck 
Because of Jake's condition the two are really stuck
So Brett falls for a count who's got lots of bucks
It's because Jake and Brett can never... fornicate

Everyone in the book is drunk day and night
Especially Bill and that jerk-off Mike
They all went to Spain to see a big bull fight
Tensions arise and Bill calls Cohn a... derrogatory Jewish name

After a while their little fiesta ends
Jake leaves Brett with the Spaniard she weds 
But Brett called for Jake 'cause Jake's a gentleman
Now Brett and Jake are together again

The Metamorphosis:

When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a MONSTROUS VERMIN! (evil laugh)
(play creepy theme)

Once upon a time there was a 
Boy who was named Gregor Samsa 
Who was like a slave because he lived 
With his papa and his mama

One day he woke up and saw that 
He looked like a giant cockroach
But he wanted to work so he 
Made a really slow approach

When his parents saw their Gregor
They were scared so Gregor tried to 
Speak to them but what he said was
Something that sounded like (RAAAH!)

Then Gregor was locked in his room
He spent his days hiding in shame
Then Grete gave him rotten food
Gregor liked it but it was lame

(evil laugh)

Every day he got more bug-like
So he climbed up and down the walls
But that feaked out lots of people
Then Grete didn't come at all

Then one day Gregor acted up 
People thought that he was jacked up
Then Gregor died and everyone
Became happy what a crack up

The Stranger:
(Play The Cure Song)

Standing on the beach 
With a gun in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring down the barrel
At the arab on the ground
I can see his open mouth 
But I can't hear no sound

I'm alive 
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an arab
 
I can turn 
And walk away
Or I can fire the gun
Staring at the sky
Staring at the sun
Whichever I choose
It amounts to the same
Absolutely nothing

I'm alive 
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an arab

Wide Sargasso Sea
(play why can't we be friends theme)

**Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends

Antoinette lived in Jamaica in harmony
But then her mama had to burn down Coulibri

**

Antoinette and Tia were the best friends in the world
But then Tia got called the N-word

**

Antoinette married a man named Rochester
The man ain't never done nothing good for her

**

Rochester went and slept with Amelie
He's a man whore so there's no harmony

**

Antoinette was taken to England
Why the hell is her name now Bertha Mason

**

Song of Solomon
(play delta blues theme)

***Ooh... gotta fly away
Ooh... gotta fly away
Gotta get away from this house
Ooh... take my blues away

Ooh... gotta drive down south
Ooh... gotta drive down south
All my relatives are crazy
What the hell is that all about?

***

Ooh... I'm so alone
Ooh, I'm so alone
I have found myself
But I have lost my happy home

*Play a G-note and move on
**repeat chorus
***repeat chorus


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