finish it and it is yours....

[davidhanners]

this verse came to me while sitting through four other acts at a "showcase" gig tuesday night. if someone wants to add other verses/chorus/bridge/life and finish it, they can have it. i just don't have the will to finish it....

i'm sitting here listening to some guy sing
'bout how he needs good lovin'
but his lyrics make me want to stick my head
in the nearest toaster oven

or

i'm sitting here listening to some guy sing
'bout how he needs good lovin'
but his lyrics are as dry as if he
just pulled 'em from the oven

[Gypsy Picker]

Thank you for your very generous offer. Sadly, I must pass, as I already have several head-in-the-oven songs. I must admit, however, that the toaster oven is a novel and intriguing twist on the familiar. A compelling visual, to be sure. Perhaps I'd of thunk it up myself, but puny as my brain is, my head won't fit in my toaster oven (I tried it four years in a row just after the SuperBowl and all I got for it is a Phil Spector doo). Had you said "stick my head in the nearest kiln", I'd know just the guy to pick up this gem. It did not escape my attention that, as your songs go, this is one of your more up-beat happy tunes. The mere mention of suicidal tendencies in the second line is a far-cry from your usual tally of several score of dead by the same measure. Bravo to you for advancing the craft and so magnanimously sharing your hard-earned experience with all of us lesser-penners. A crumb from your toaster oven is more meal than a hundred chewy loaves straight from the stage-bakeries of song. Now, I think I'll dust off one of my aforementioned masterworks... "I don't want to hear good-lovin', just wanna pop my head in the oven".

[Cornflake]

I feel your pain, David. I have a somewhat similar verse of my own about what you get at the local coffeehouse:

Some sing of drinkin' and some sing of Jesus
And they please us except for a few
One guy just whines about women who've dumped him
And I'm thinking heck I would too

[davidhanners]

I like yours better than mine, Cornflake. We can trade....

[Village Idiot]

I'd like to see Cornflake's verse sandwiched between Hanners'. That'd be a good song.