Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Another vision

In keeping with Heather's pop culture ideas I have been really digging the Pink song "Sober." It's got the dramatic strings and full bellied yowling. Can we fit it in somewhere? 

I thought maybe we could sing it to chocolate while we're in chocolate eating chocolate.  I think there might need to be a ladder or two and I think some kind of Hershey's syrup maybe...
The song is all about denial and looking for yourself and being some kind of girl but not "that" girl--the one who's always up drunk and partying.  It's also got some nice "ooohooo oo oo oo's" in the high register that I think are funny.  
And, there's something to that late eighties/early nineties video quality--Def Leppard, crappy Jefferson Starship, and the shitty Heart stuff (my favs are Heart and Def Leppard--Love Bites being a personal preference) wandering through sets with dry ice and laser lights and people rigged for a cheap fly. Any way, I kind of see it in a big hair, glitter, sliding on plastic in the chocolate syrup way. Can we get some smoke and laser lights? 

Maybe it was the boca burger...
Here are the lyrics: 


I don't wanna be the girl who laughs the loudest
Or the girl who never wants to be alone
I don't wanna be that call at four o'clock in the mornin'
'Cause I'm the only one you know in the world that won't be home

Ah, the sun is blindin'
I stayed up again
Oh, I am findin'
That's not the way I want my story to end

I'm safe up high, nothing can touch me
But why do I feel this party's over?
No pain inside, you're my protection
But how do I feel this good sober?

I don't wanna be the girl that has to fill the silence
The quiet scares me 'cause it screams the truth
Please don't tell me that we had that conversation
'Cause I won't remember, save your breath
'Cause what's the use?

Ah, the night is callin'
And it whispers to me softly, "Come and play"
But I, I am fallin'
And if I let myself go I'm the only one to blame

I'm safe up high, nothing can touch me
But why do I feel this party's over?
No pain inside, you're like perfection
But how do I feel this good sober?

Comin' down, comin' down, comin' down
Spinnin' 'round, spinnin' 'round, spinnin' 'round
I'm lookin' for myself, sober

Comin' down, comin' down, comin' down
Spinnin' 'round, spinnin' 'round, spinnin' 'round
Lookin' for myself, sober

When it's good, then it's good, it's so good 'til it goes bad
'Til you're trying to find the you that you once had
I have heard myself cry 'never again'
Broken down in agony, just tryin' find a friend, oh, oh

I'm safe up high, nothing can touch me
But why do I feel this party's over?
No pain inside, you're like perfection
But how do I feel this good sober?

I'm safe up high, nothing can touch me
But why do I feel this party's over?
No pain inside, you're like perfection
But how do I feel this good sober?

1 comment:

  1. Singing the song in hershey's syrup: reminds me of those carnival games in which people throw things at a target triggering a seated person to fall into the water below.

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