By way of the Shower Principle, it arrived as I was drying myself at the Convent, frog shower in Bathroom B. The chorus was all I had, but for months it was stuck in my head. I saw the structure like architecture, and took it to Nick Fishman down in Houston about seven weeks before these Concerts. We laid down a demo, and I returned with the tapes to my brother's place near Montgomery, where I carelessly built the verses around the idea of an ex-girlfriend who had a bad temper and a bad coke habit (all true to life, unfortunately), finalizing the lyrics about two or three before we performed it together. In the end, it really is just "a little shake, rattle & roll", simple as that.
lyrics
THIS, THAT & THE OTHER
You talk about love but you don’t know what it means
You cut to the heart just to watch a good man bleed
Baby, I believe you belong in a penitentiary
You’re up in face, you got cocaine on your breath
You’re talkin’ in circles and you don’t make too much sense
And this conversation is boring me to death
You’re comin’ at me with
This, that & the other, you know you ain’t my mother
This, that & the other, you know you ain’t my mother
I can’t go along with it the way you bother me with
This, that & the other, all right!
You talk about love but you don’t know what it means
You go on and on ‘bout the way things oughta be
But you’re just repeating the things you heard on TV
You’re comin’ at me with
This, that & the other, you know you ain’t my mother
This, that & the other, you know you ain’t my mother
I can’t go along with it the way you bother me with
This, that & the other, all right!
Get down with
This, that & the other, you know you ain’t my mother
This, that & the other, you know you ain’t my mother
I can’t go along with it the way you bother me with
This, that & the other, all right!
This, that & the other, this, that & the other
This, that & the other, this, that & the other
I can’t go along with it the way you bother me with
This, that & the other, one more time, I said:
This, that & the other, this, that & the other
This, that & the other, this, that & the other
I can’t go along with it the way you bother me with—
The latest from Sonny Smith's long-running San Francisco outfit is clever and very sweet and more than a little bit country. Bandcamp Album of the Day Aug 3, 2021
The latest album by the Los Angeles rock outfit showcases their varied musical influences such as zydeco, folk, R&B, and cumbia. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 30, 2021