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11 line lyric (36 words) ready for critical onslaught.

  • 15-02-2008 2:45pm
    #1
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,665 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Eating soup
    "cuppasoup"
    'Not exactly heston blumenthal'
    "Feels hot"
    'Let it cool.
    If it's too hot you should just blow on it'
    (whistle bridge)
    Cruton.
    Paper plane.
    Fashioned out of graph paper.
    "A little science,
    cross the room".


Comments

  • #2
    frobisher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭frobisher


    I likes it!!


  • #3
    eoin5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,141 ✭✭✭eoin5


    humberklog wrote: »
    Eating soup
    "cuppasoup"
    'Not exactly heston blumenthal'
    "Feels hot"
    'Let it cool.
    If it's too hot you should just blow on it'
    (whistle bridge)
    Cruton.
    Paper plane.
    Fashioned out of graph paper.
    "A little science,
    cross the room".

    Zappa fan?


  • #4
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,665 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Nope,not really. I've respect for the dude but he's not my cuppa tea. It's fairly straight forward with a nice simple tune too.


  • #5
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,665 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    This song is written from the point of view of a passive efemeral observer into a few moments of an ordinary tuesdays meeting between two people that live together. The 1st line 'eating soup' is a mental response to a question that doesn't appear in the song. The question is put by the female of the couple. Then man then responds verbally to question with 2nd line 'cuppasoup'. With a hint of snobbish sneer the female retorts with 3rd line 'not exactly heston blumenthal.
    Man takes sup from cup and says openly (but not exactly addressing female)for the 4th line 'feels hot'. The woman wades in in a snappy passive aggressive manner for the 5th line 'let it cool'. Realising that her comment was unwarranted and unnecessarily cruel she back pedals a little and smooths the ripples with a softer 6thline 'if it's too hot you should just blow on it'.
    The man ,leaving the room, whistle blows the soup cool. Lifting the cup to his mouth he makes a mental note for the 7th line 'cruton'. The man enters the next adjoining room. Subconsciously to escape the tempered criticism. In the room there is a table with paper on it and a window that faces the table and opens onto the street below. The man sits at table looks at paper and again in his mind he says the 8th line 'paperplane'. The man folds the graph paper carefully. Then on completion he whispers outloud the9th line 'fashioned out of graph paper'.
    The song ends from the view point of the passive efemeral observer. It's spirit is transfered to the paperplane and recognising the skill it took to create the plane,the observer comments on it in the 10yh line 'little science'. The man then throws the paper plane gently towards window. The spirit observes what is happening. All is going as it had planned. The spirits last words in the house is the 11th and final line 'cross the room'. The song ends musically staying with the plane as it leaves the room through the window and is taken by the breeze on the street. End.


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