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Arthur T.
Jul 23, 2016, 5:47:29 PM7/23/16
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Title: Bad Trip Rhapsody
ttto: Bohemian Rhapsody by Freddy Mercury
What am I high on? Coke, pot, or ecstasy?
What I am seeing? I just hope it's a fantasy.
I look around and do not like what I see.
Can't understand it, not in the least degree,
Because I'm fearing life, fearing me,
What I did, what I see.
All that I remember,
Did it really happen for real, to me?
Oh God, am I still a man?
Or have I been deified?
Though alive now, had I died?
It seems that my bad trip is chronic,
But I'm high and I just want my world back.
My head aches very bad. I think I'm gonna cry.
If only I could change what I ingested
I'd be glad. But I can't. And I'm stuck with what I think is going
on.
Why did I take those drugs?
Wish someone had stopped me,
Forestalled all this lunacy
And now, in my body, I do not fit.
Will I burst my skin, become a butterfly?
But no, that's not for me, I am just feeling pain.
What is the ETA of tripping's ending?
I see a little, tiny purple pachyderm.
Is it pink? It's not pink.
It's a hippo and purple.
And it's hopping 'round me,
'Fraid it's gonna pound me, too
Purple hippo (and a rhino)
Purple hippo (and its fam'ly)
Purple hippopotamus
Whatever I took gives me delusions,
Or are delusions merely an altered state?
Is there a diff'rence between that and life?
Am I sane? Am I mad? Boy you make me mad!
Now I see you. And you're making me quite mad.
I am mad! And I am high! And I cannot get down.
Get me down. Oh, please get me down.
Get me down. Oh, please get me down.
Get me down. Aaaahh.
How can I get off this high?
O Tim Leary, I beseech you, can't you help to get me dry?
I can't get down. Yes, I've fallen and I can't get down,
Myself. Need help!
Don't know where I am now, and I want to go home.
Don't know how I got where I now seem to be.
Where am I? What are all of these feelings?
I want to come down. I don't like this trip anymore.
Nobody can help me, nobody at all.
I have just discovered,
I'm not really tripping at all.
Life is like a bad trip...
--
Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com
ttto: Bohemian Rhapsody by Freddy Mercury
What am I high on? Coke, pot, or ecstasy?
What I am seeing? I just hope it's a fantasy.
I look around and do not like what I see.
Can't understand it, not in the least degree,
Because I'm fearing life, fearing me,
What I did, what I see.
All that I remember,
Did it really happen for real, to me?
Oh God, am I still a man?
Or have I been deified?
Though alive now, had I died?
It seems that my bad trip is chronic,
But I'm high and I just want my world back.
My head aches very bad. I think I'm gonna cry.
If only I could change what I ingested
I'd be glad. But I can't. And I'm stuck with what I think is going
on.
Why did I take those drugs?
Wish someone had stopped me,
Forestalled all this lunacy
And now, in my body, I do not fit.
Will I burst my skin, become a butterfly?
But no, that's not for me, I am just feeling pain.
What is the ETA of tripping's ending?
I see a little, tiny purple pachyderm.
Is it pink? It's not pink.
It's a hippo and purple.
And it's hopping 'round me,
'Fraid it's gonna pound me, too
Purple hippo (and a rhino)
Purple hippo (and its fam'ly)
Purple hippopotamus
Whatever I took gives me delusions,
Or are delusions merely an altered state?
Is there a diff'rence between that and life?
Am I sane? Am I mad? Boy you make me mad!
Now I see you. And you're making me quite mad.
I am mad! And I am high! And I cannot get down.
Get me down. Oh, please get me down.
Get me down. Oh, please get me down.
Get me down. Aaaahh.
How can I get off this high?
O Tim Leary, I beseech you, can't you help to get me dry?
I can't get down. Yes, I've fallen and I can't get down,
Myself. Need help!
Don't know where I am now, and I want to go home.
Don't know how I got where I now seem to be.
Where am I? What are all of these feelings?
I want to come down. I don't like this trip anymore.
Nobody can help me, nobody at all.
I have just discovered,
I'm not really tripping at all.
Life is like a bad trip...
--
Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com
Arthur T.
Jul 23, 2016, 5:50:16 PM7/23/16
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In Message-ID:<vbp7pbl8l3jscaaam...@4ax.com>,
sig:
My lyrics copyright 2016 by Arthur Tansky. License granted for
non-commercial, non-political archiving and performance as long as:
1. copyright notice is maintained, and
2. no money changes hands.
--
Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com
Guessing a lyricist's opinions from his songs is as futile as
guessing an author's opinions from his novels.
Arthur T. <art...@munged.invalid> wrote:
>
>Title: Bad Trip Rhapsody
>ttto: Bohemian Rhapsody by Freddy Mercury
That post should have included my standard song copyright and
>
>Title: Bad Trip Rhapsody
>ttto: Bohemian Rhapsody by Freddy Mercury
sig:
My lyrics copyright 2016 by Arthur Tansky. License granted for
non-commercial, non-political archiving and performance as long as:
1. copyright notice is maintained, and
2. no money changes hands.
--
Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com
guessing an author's opinions from his novels.
Kay Shapero
Jul 26, 2016, 10:35:02 PM7/26/16
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In article <vbp7pbl8l3jscaaam...@4ax.com>,
art...@munged.invalid says...
(well, allowing for the fact that I do NOT have BR memorized, so can't
check the scansion. :) )
--
Kay Shapero
FAQ at http://www.kayshapero.net/filkfaq.htm
Address munged, use kay at kayshapero extension as per website.
art...@munged.invalid says...
>
> Title: Bad Trip Rhapsody
> ttto: Bohemian Rhapsody by Freddy Mercury
>
> What am I high on? Coke, pot, or ecstasy?
> What I am seeing? I just hope it's a fantasy.
>
>
I know the feeling... Good one!
> Title: Bad Trip Rhapsody
> ttto: Bohemian Rhapsody by Freddy Mercury
>
> What am I high on? Coke, pot, or ecstasy?
> What I am seeing? I just hope it's a fantasy.
>
>
(well, allowing for the fact that I do NOT have BR memorized, so can't
check the scansion. :) )
--
Kay Shapero
FAQ at http://www.kayshapero.net/filkfaq.htm
Address munged, use kay at kayshapero extension as per website.
Arthur T.
Jul 28, 2016, 4:01:57 PM7/28/16
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In Message-ID:<MPG.3201ba41...@news.eternal-september.org>,
found, and I wouldn't bet Betan dollars on my scansion.
Kay Shapero <k...@invalid.net> wrote:
>(well, allowing for the fact that I do NOT have BR memorized, so can't
>check the scansion. :) )
Neither do I and neither can I. I wrote to a karaoke version I
>(well, allowing for the fact that I do NOT have BR memorized, so can't
>check the scansion. :) )
found, and I wouldn't bet Betan dollars on my scansion.
Kay Shapero
Jul 30, 2016, 2:35:53 AM7/30/16
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In article <o1pkpb9hatf9j08aj...@4ax.com>,
art...@munged.invalid says...
I filked it and tried to stay close. In some ways I probably put more
emphasis on scansion et al than I really need to.
art...@munged.invalid says...
>
> In Message-ID:<MPG.3201ba41...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> Kay Shapero <k...@invalid.net> wrote:
>
> >(well, allowing for the fact that I do NOT have BR memorized, so can't
> >check the scansion. :) )
>
> Neither do I and neither can I. I wrote to a karaoke version I
> found, and I wouldn't bet Betan dollars on my scansion.
Grin. I didn't know just how disorganized Stairway to Heaven was until
> In Message-ID:<MPG.3201ba41...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> Kay Shapero <k...@invalid.net> wrote:
>
> >(well, allowing for the fact that I do NOT have BR memorized, so can't
> >check the scansion. :) )
>
> Neither do I and neither can I. I wrote to a karaoke version I
> found, and I wouldn't bet Betan dollars on my scansion.
I filked it and tried to stay close. In some ways I probably put more
emphasis on scansion et al than I really need to.
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