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From: DTURNER@ngco.com
Subject: t/tubes/what_do_you_want_from_life
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:38:00 -0500
What Do You Want From Life ? Spooner/Evans the Tubes
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Intro: [bass synth]
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[acoustic, doubled on piano]
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Verse 1:
What do want from life?
To kidnap an heiress or threaten her with a knife
What do want from life?
To get cable TV and watch it every night
Chorus 1: [faster, honky tonk]
There you'll sit - a lump in your chair
Where do you sleep and what do you wear when you're sleeping.
Verse 2: [original tempo]
What do want from life?
An Indian Guru to show you the inner light
What do want from life?
A meaningless love affair with a girl that you met tonight
Bridge 1: [stately]
Bb F [bkgrnd]
How can you tell when you're doin' all right? (do-do-do-do)
Does your bank account swell while you're dreaming at night?
How do you know when you're really in love? (do-do-do-do)
Do violins play when you're touching the one that you're loving?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....
Verse 3: [modulates up a tone]
What do want from life? (what do you want from life)
Someone to love and somebody you can trust
What do want from life? (what do you want from life)
To try and be happy while you do the nasty things you must
[Bass Synth Interlude, funky, over C#]
[Wah Guitar solo over C#]
What do want from life ? (what do you want from life ?)
What do want from life ? (what DO you WANT from LIFE ?)
[Spoken faster & faster & faster over changes. Alternate
spoken lines between two "voices", huckster style.]
Well, you can't have THAT - BUT if you're an American
Citizen you ARE intitled to:
- a heated kidney shaped pool
- a microwave oven (don't watch the food cook)
- a DynaGym (i'll personally demonstrate it in the privacy
of your own home)
- a king-size Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with
Polybendum
- a fool-proof plan and an air-tight alibi
- Real Simulated Indian Jewelery
- a Gucci Shoe Tree
- a year's supply of anti-biotics
- a personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth (*)
and Bob Dylan's new unlisted phone number
- a beautifully restored 3rd reich swizzle stick
- RoseMary's Baby!
- a dream date, in kneepads, with Paul Williams
- a new Matador, a new Mastedon, a Maverick, a Mustang, a Montego
- a Merc Montclair,
- a Mark 4, a Meteor, a Mercedes, an MG or a Malibu
- a Mork Moriarti, a Maserati, a Mack Truck
- a Mazda, a new Monza, or a Moped
- a Winnibago, hell, a herd o' Winnibagos, we're givin' 'em away!
- or, how 'bout a McCullough Chain saw [vocal near manic]
- a Las Vegas wedding, a Mexican divorce [band stops]
- a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot [descending drums]
or, a Baby's arm holding an apple. [end cold]
(*) remember him? the 70s TV show "The Rookies"? Nurse Jill on duty
on every shift on every floor...
- another ace 70s tab from Dave Turner & Tim Willett