Lyrics and lolly-gagging... not like I know what lolly-gagging actually means, but O if I did...
Clearly, clearly I remember
Nervous if ever confronted
And questioning myself
Perhaps, perhaps if I got better
Perhaps if I challenged myself
Perhaps if I was
Just a little bit stronger
Just a little bit wiser
Just a little less needy
Maybe I'd get there...
I actually got to school today. I make it sound like I just achieved something extrordanary... Holy shit, I managed to wake up this morning. Give me a fucking cookie...
Speaking of cookies... I'm hungry...
Allow me to beguile you for a moment...
This is the story of the family Jefferson
The Jefferson family owned an airplane which they used frequently to get them from place to place all around the world. One day the pilot, Grace Slick, lost control of the craft and was forced to crash land it in the middle of a busy city; Slickville. From the ashes of the ruined Jefferson airplane sprung the new Jefferson starship, a sort of Phoenix like upgrade. The family Jefferson and the people of Slickville manned this starship and flew it to the land of Rock and Roll. There they built a new city, the foundation set in the soil that is Rock and Roil. They built this city... O-O they built this city on Rock and Roll.
And this is their national anthem...
WE BUILT THIS CITY
Chorus:
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Say you don't know me or recognize my face
Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Chorus:
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Someone always playing corporation games
Who cares they're always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible write us off the page
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
It's just another Sunday, in a tired old street
Police have got the choke hold, oh then we just lost the beat
Who counts the money underneath the bar
Who rides the wrecking ball in two rock guitars
Don't tell us you need us, 'cos we're the ship of fools
Looking for America, coming through your schools
(I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge
Out on another gorgeous sunny Saturday, not seein' that bumper to bumper traffic)
Don't you remember ('member)('member)
(What's your favorite radio station, in your favorite radio city
The city by the bay, the city that rocks, the city that never sleeps)
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
(We built, we built this city) built this city (We built, we built this city)
And they all danced the mamba.
But then came the great flood... The Great Hoopla Flood of 85. The people of Rock and Roll were literally knee deep in the Hoopla. The Jefferson family perished in this terrible disaster, but somehow their great starship managed to survive. Grace Slick accidentally left the craft on autopilot and it sailed away into the depths of space, completely unmanned. It is currently heading toward Alpha Centauri... will it ever be seen again?
To be continued I'm sure.
I would like to tip my hat to Brian Coleman, who collaborated with me on that moving epic.
Nervous if ever confronted
And questioning myself
Perhaps, perhaps if I got better
Perhaps if I challenged myself
Perhaps if I was
Just a little bit stronger
Just a little bit wiser
Just a little less needy
Maybe I'd get there...
I actually got to school today. I make it sound like I just achieved something extrordanary... Holy shit, I managed to wake up this morning. Give me a fucking cookie...
Speaking of cookies... I'm hungry...
Allow me to beguile you for a moment...
This is the story of the family Jefferson
The Jefferson family owned an airplane which they used frequently to get them from place to place all around the world. One day the pilot, Grace Slick, lost control of the craft and was forced to crash land it in the middle of a busy city; Slickville. From the ashes of the ruined Jefferson airplane sprung the new Jefferson starship, a sort of Phoenix like upgrade. The family Jefferson and the people of Slickville manned this starship and flew it to the land of Rock and Roll. There they built a new city, the foundation set in the soil that is Rock and Roil. They built this city... O-O they built this city on Rock and Roll.
And this is their national anthem...
WE BUILT THIS CITY
Chorus:
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Say you don't know me or recognize my face
Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Chorus:
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Someone always playing corporation games
Who cares they're always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible write us off the page
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
It's just another Sunday, in a tired old street
Police have got the choke hold, oh then we just lost the beat
Who counts the money underneath the bar
Who rides the wrecking ball in two rock guitars
Don't tell us you need us, 'cos we're the ship of fools
Looking for America, coming through your schools
(I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge
Out on another gorgeous sunny Saturday, not seein' that bumper to bumper traffic)
Don't you remember ('member)('member)
(What's your favorite radio station, in your favorite radio city
The city by the bay, the city that rocks, the city that never sleeps)
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
(We built, we built this city) built this city (We built, we built this city)
And they all danced the mamba.
But then came the great flood... The Great Hoopla Flood of 85. The people of Rock and Roll were literally knee deep in the Hoopla. The Jefferson family perished in this terrible disaster, but somehow their great starship managed to survive. Grace Slick accidentally left the craft on autopilot and it sailed away into the depths of space, completely unmanned. It is currently heading toward Alpha Centauri... will it ever be seen again?
To be continued I'm sure.
I would like to tip my hat to Brian Coleman, who collaborated with me on that moving epic.