A friend sent me a CD mix with an interesting track entitled "Once You Understand" (credited to "Think," if I remember correctly), which consists of people singing "Things get a little easier once you understand..." over and over, while over that there's various dialogues of teens fighting with their parents. Seemingly innocuous throughout, but ends with an effectively dark payoff.
Very interesting track. It almost seems more like a public message service announcement than a real song. I've looked on the WWW for more info, but can't seem to find anything about it. So, anyone here heard it, or know more information about "Think"?
Sorry if I'm just totally lame and this song is beyond common knowledge...
― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 21:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.ottawa-anime.org/~eyevocal/furnaceface/ffacect.htm
FURNACEFACE--Clobbering Time
While My Dad Gently Weeps
["Punctuality is stressed in this household. By that, I mean hair is combed and faces and hands scrubbed before the boys come to the table so they won't delay the meal. Now, mother and daughter put the finishing touches on the dinner. Father, too, looks forward to this date with the family. He has had a hard day at the office and in his briefcase are some contracts which must be looked over tonight. But in the meantime, he will relax at dinner with those he loves."]
Let's grab some cash from Dad's wallet while he's asleep
and while we're at it, let's steal the old man's keys
We'll take his Volvo downtown, cruise around, check out the scene
We'll buy some beer and then do donuts in the parking lot across the street
CHORUS:
While the old man is asleep
into his bedroom we will creep
We'll steal his money and his keys
while the old man is asleep
Let's crack open his liquor cabinet and have a few
A couple for me, 15 for you!
Hey, take it easy, that's Dad's favourite chair you're covering in puke!
Ah, what the hell--what's he gonna do?--CHORUS
["Children are not possessions."]
Let's play his records at 78
You know, at this speed, Paul Anka sounds great
Let's pop a couple of his heart pills just for fun
and when we're really pissed, we'll play with his gun--CHORUS
["Mr. Cook?"
"Yes?"
"You have a son named Robin? Robin Cook, age 17?"
"Yes."
"I'm sorry, Mr. Cook. You better come down to the station house. Your son is dead."]
AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! OH YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH-HAA-HAA-HAAA!!!!!!
Hey, I don't hear him snoring anymore
Hey, hey, hey, he's in my van, and he's listening to hardcore!
Isn't that my wallet on the dash?
Isn't that my girlfriend in his lap??
I guess I musta been asleep
Into my bedroom he did creep
He stole my money and my girl
I guess I musta been asleep
["He died of an overdose."
"Oh, my God...sob...sob..."]
["Things get a little easier once you understand."]
― evilivor, Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
three weeks pass...
Nothing to do with Joe's request, but I'm not starting a new thread for it:
On Holby City last night there was a track played at the end which was the instrumental part of Fascination Street by The Cure (or one of the tracks off the same album, it's a while since I've heard it), with a British MC rapping "Sometimes I feel like I'm talking through a pane of glass/See the mouth move/Don't hear the words" repeatedly over it. Googling finds nothing - I'm really just fascinated as to how obsure the tracks on Holby City are.
Anyone know it?
― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 20:45 (twenty years ago) link
eleven years pass...