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Teacher: Good evening boys and girls
And those that’re in between
Welcome to the evening class
That starts at 6:15
Is everybody here?
Did you sign in on the sheet?
Very good, let’s get this show on the road
Now the intro is complete.
I must apologize for appearing,
Unfashionably late.
Me and my new flame had a falling out,
I’m sure you can relate.
It’s such a pity that she is what she is
And all those other bits
Because you should’ve seen her!
She had the biggest…
Oh, I’m just wasting my time
Class: Get to the program
Teacher: Wasting my time
Class: Get on with the program
We came here to learn of algebra
We’re not interested in some girl’s bra
Teacher: You’re right. Now then.
The area of a circle
Is A is π r squared
Where π is 3.1415…ugh
The rest you probably don’t care.
Oh look! I can turn this circle into a pair,
Now it looks like a woman’s waist…
Oh. Pretend you didn’t see that,
I’m gonna have this erased.
Let me say it again: I’m sorry
What more d’you want me to say?
Of all the days my girl could’ve dumped me
She had to pick today.
I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Happy now?
Get the hell off of my ass.
I’ve every right to take it out on you
Cause I’m the teacher of this class!
Though I’m just wasting my time…
Class: Saying sorry doesn’t let you off
We’re not stupid, it’s not what we want.
You’re not teaching any new things
Just stuff we already know
We will tell the dean about you
And he might just let you go
We will ask for your dismissal
You might never teach again
Won’t you keep your shit together
Keep to the curriculum till then
Stop wasting your time
And get to the program
We don’t care about your sob story
Please keep to what you’re supposed to teach
Teacher: Alright, cards on the table, right now
I really don’t wanna be here.
It’s not like I’ve never missed
A class before (at least this year).
If I hurry, I can probably
Make the next subway train
And say goodbye before she gets
On her Paris-bound airplane.
I’d love, again, to see her
If only one more time.
I miss the way she loved me
And made a key lime pie
We could’ve been starting something
We’d be the king and queen of Queens
I’d say she turned my tables
But I don’t know what that means!
Class: Careful now, don’t start a chain reaction.
Teachers too can get an infraction.
You might serve some time, maybe forty
And miss the new episode of Rick and Morty
Teacher: I just want one more chance
Before she goes to France
Country known for great romance
Please give me a pair of pants
Class: This is stupid, really stupid
You’re oh so better than this
You had so much potential
But it fell down the abyss
Teacher: I thought she was the one
The odds were mil to one
Not as simple as one plus one
Or a class in room three-oh-one
Class: You’re not teaching any new things
Just stuff we already know
We will tell the dean about you
And he might just let you go
We will ask for your dismissal
You might never teach again
Won’t you keep your shit together
Keep to the curriculum till then
Teacher: You know what? Class dismissed.
Class: Yeah. Sure.
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Lower East Side
03:26
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They say in dreams that
Things are not always
What they seem
But who am I
To believe
The things
They say in dreams
Didja see her on the walk
The new kid on the block
Who’d have guessed
That on my door she’d knock
She coming in to Lower East Side
From cross the New York Bay
Is she here for just the weekend
Or is she here to stay?
Your hair is golden brown
It’s spread across the town
Tell me baby
Will I see you round
Or you goin’ underground?
Would you eat at Lombardi’s or The Back Room?
Tell me where you want to go.
We’d be here and there in just five minutes.
Tell me, cause I’d like to know.
We’re on the avenue
You know it to be true
Come on baby
Say it with me too
Baby I love you!
Please stay with me, don’t deceive me
Tell me what you’re all about.
I’d understand if you had a past.
Don’t you leave me out.
Why you lookin’ up to the skies?
You think I was telling you lies?
Come back baby
I’ll apologize
I’ll apologize
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La Bamba
03:07
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Para bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba
Se necesita una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia, par mi par ti, arriba, arriba!
Arriba arriba, por ti seré
Por ti seré, por ti seré
Yo no soy marinero
Yo no soy marinero, soy capitán,
Soy capitán, soy capitán
You wanna dance the bamba?
You wanna dance the bamba?
Well first you need a graceful girl
A graceful girl from me, for you, go and give her a whirl
A whirl and a dirl, she will be for you
Oh yes my friend she is for you.
I am not just a sailor
I am not just a sailor; A captain I
A captain, I, A captain, I
You gotta dance the bamba!
Come on and do the bamba!
Your graceful girl on the merry-go-mound.
On the merry-go-round you ride with her
Go around and around.
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4. |
The Show
02:56
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I'm not really famous, I just had a dream
I wanna talk to people, you know what I mean?
They say things are not always what they seem.
Well here I am on your TV screen
Studio audience, that (applause) light's gonna glow.
How we doing house band? Didja tune that banjo?
Everybody ready? We all need to know.
Hurry up cause it's time to go
Let’s put on a show!
We’re talking with a DJ but his space odyssey
And waiting in the green room is a child prodigy
There’s a technical error one camera three
Well that’s show business, don’t you agree?
Coming up is music from They Never Do Crack
But first is a commercial for Kellogg’s Apple Jacks.
Don’t you touch that dial while the train’s on its track
But go ahead and fix up a snack
And we’ll be right back
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Magdalena
03:58
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Magdalena
Is the worst girl that I know
She’s always saying crazy things
That I know aren’t so
I’d love to tell her off but
It’s not as simple as they say
No matter how I loose her
She just won’t go away!
Tell me, Magdalena,
Why must you lie
You told me you were vegan
Yet you ate my shepherd pie
You say you don’t like Tom Hanks,
Yet you laughed with Forrest Gump,
You told me you liked Clinton,
But you voted for Donald Trump
I don’t want to see you,
So why must you see me?
For I am just another fish,
Out in the deep blue sea.
What do you tell the others?
Does your mother even know?
Ah, what’s the point of asking,
When I know the answer’s ‘no’!
Come on Magdalena
Stop crimping up my style
You’re getting me in trouble for
Speeding by a mile
You made me go past 40
In a 20 mile zone
They threw the book and me
And wouldn’t let me use the phone!
Shut up Magdalena
I don’t trust you anymore
This time I’m getting rid of you and
Locking up the door
I don’t like you,
Never did and never will.
You made me loose my faith
In people from Inwood Hill.
Please Magdalena
For once tell me the truth
Are you cheating on me?
Or picking on the youth?
Go away Magdalena
Please get out of my life!
Propose to someone else cause
I already have a wife!
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I'm not gay
But I don't mind if you're that way
I'm not bi
I'm just a regular ally
Whatever floats your boat, it's all okay
Cause I say let's be friends anyway.
There are girls that like girls
And men that like men
Some try it once,
Others do it again.
I don't know why, but I know this guy
Who told a girl he was gay
But what do you know? They're still friends anyway!
I am proud, and so can you.
We go and fight for the lives we choose.
Even if you move sex or gender out of the way,
We're still gonna be friends anyway.
Masculine or feminine
Black or white
Equal or opposite
Wrong or right
Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer, Straight
Come what may
Let’s be friends anyway
So what if your male friend wants to wear Angora?
I say let ‘em do it, muchas gracias señora!
He and him and she and her and they and them and they
Are friends like those who need friends all the way.
I'm not gay
But I don't mind if you're that way
I'm not bi
I'm just a regular, plain-old ally
Whatever floats your boat, it's all okay
Cause we will be friends anyway.
No matter if we’re wrong or right
Yin or yang or black or white
We’ll be friends anyway
But if you're looking to go all the way
As per the flag you carry,
The one you want is Brian
Not me, cause I'm married.
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If I had wings like Noah's dove
I'd fly the river to the one I love
Fare thee well, my honey fare thee well
I knew a girl, who was thin and tall
Moved her body like a cannon ball
Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well
I remember one evening in the pouring rain
And in my heart there was an aching pain
Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well
Very next morning, wasn't long
I call your name but you were gone
Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well
Muddy river runs muddy and wild
Can't give a bloody for an unborn child
Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well
As sure as the birds flyin' high above
Life ain't worth living without the one you love
Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well
Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well
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9. |
Play Me Off the Stage
05:39
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Ten o’clock at the Mercury
The beat be flowing
The song is s’posed to be over
Yet I’m still going
But I see the stagehand glare at me so serious
And the audience, they’re suddenly delirious
Gettin’ past the five minute mark
Seven will soon be on
But this is Open Mic Night, not the Garden
Where it’s three minutes max per song
Though at first I thought if Bob Dylan could do it, then I could do it too
So I keep it going on ahead.
But I should be leaving this kind of stuff to the pros
Like Phish or the Grateful Dead
But I know they’ll charge extra for going overtime
And they might yank me away if this were pantomime
Get me off the stage
“I must be crazy” the audience says
It’s the song that never ends
The kind of song you hide from strangers
And keep it in between friends.
My license to perform, the boss might confiscate
Even worse my parking ticket, they won’t validate
Help me off the stage
Now I know the bandmates used up all their energy
But when I’m in groove there is no stopping me
Play me off the stage
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The Plastic E-Gulls New York, New York
A (virtual) East End-based garage band consisting of three childhood friends and a clone, they now live in the heart of Long
Island City, a short train ride away from the Big Apple.
Ian Furelli (guitar)
Tina Furelli (bass)
Ellen Blinstone (keyboard)
Brian O'Feeny (drums)
Created by Thomas Fay
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