Monday, January 7, 2008

Shinola

From an old song I used to dig from from Todd Rundgren & Utopia,
"Shinola":


Sung:
I see you're still in the headlines
You pegged the latest trend again this week
I'm not impressed by the outfit,
Or your revolutionary chic
And here it comes,
I see you forming the words, you're performing the exercise
And here it comes,
It's the feeling that I heard the same speech a hundred times:
Screamed:
This is the jabber of a
chimpanzee!!
The motion of your mouth

looks much the same to me!!!
The differentiation might

be hard to see,
But this is crapola!!!

(the political message of the picture, while I don't
disagree)
is incidental to what I'm talking about)

Sung, very melodically, with harmony:
This is shinola--
shinola!!!



Spoken:
Everyone's talking, few of them know The rest are pretending, they put on a show And if there's a message I guess this is it Truth isn't easy, the easy part's shit:

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What is shinola?
--Jemn

Brian Mandabach said...

Whatever it is, it always shines with love.