Showing posts with label Ammon Shepherd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ammon Shepherd. Show all posts

Monday, December 28, 2009

Song Share: Surf Wax America

By Ammon Shepherd

Here's another great Weezer song. This one also brings back riverboarding memories, but also the one time I tried to be in a band.... This was the song we practiced, once, and never again....

Surf Wax America
by Weezer



Lyrics:
The sea is foaming like a bottle of beer
The wave is coming but I ain't got no fear
I'm waxing down so that I'll go real fast
I'm waxing down because it's really a blast
I'm going surfin cos I don't like your face
I'm bailing out because I hate the race
Of rats that run round and round in the maze
I'm going surfing, I'm going surfing!

You take your car to work
I'll take my board
And when you're out of fuel
I'm still afloat

My buddies and their honeys all come along
They seem invincible as they surf along
The sea is rolling like a thousand pound keg
We're going surfing, we're going surfing!

You take your car to work
I'll take my board
And when you're out of fuel
I'm still afloat

You take your car to work
I'll take my board
And when you're out of fuel
I'm still afloat

All along the undertow
Is strengthening it's hold
I never thought it would come to this
Now I can never go home

All along the undertow
Is strengthening it's hold
I never thought it would come to this
Now I can never go home

You take your car to work
I'll take my board
And when you're out of fuel
I'm still afloat

All along the undertow (you take your car to work)
Is strengthening it's hold (I'll take my board)
I never thought it would come to this (and when you're out of fuel)
Now I can never go home (I'm still afloat)

You take your car to work
I'll take my board
And when you're out of fuel
I'm still afloat

You take your car
I'll take my board
You take your car
I'll take my board
Let's go!

Monday, December 21, 2009

Song Share: Say It Ain't So

By Ammon Shepherd

So many good memories of heading out to the river to do some riverboarding, hanging out with friends... highschool... good stuff.

Say It Ain't So
by Weezer



Lyrics:
Oh Yeah.
All Right.

Somebody's Heine' is crowdin' my icebox.
Somebody's cold one is giving me chills.
Guess I'll just close my eyes.

Oh yeah.
All right.
Feels good.
Inside.

Flip on the Tele... Wrestle with Jimmy.
Somethin' is bubblin' behind my back.
The bottle is ready to blow.

Say it ain't so a-woah-a-woah.
Your drug is a heartbreaker.
Say it ain't so a-woah-a-woah.
My love is a life-taker.

I can't confront you, I never could do...
That which might hurt you.
To try and be cool, when I say:
This way is-a-waterslide-away-from-me-
that-takes-you-further-every-day! Hey!
To be cool.

Say it ain't so a-woah-a-woah.
Your drug is a heartbreaker.
Say it ain't so a-woah-a-woah.
My love is a life-taker!

Dear daddy, I write you in spite of fears of silence.
You cleaned up, found Jesus, Things are good or so I hear.
This bottle of Stevens awakens ancient feelings...
Like father, stepfather...
The son is drowning in the flood! Yeah Yeah-Yeah Yeah-Yeah!

Say it ain't so a-woah-a-woah.
Your drug is a heartbreaker.
Say it ain't so a-woah-a-woah.
My love is a life-taker.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Band Share: Small Faces

By Ammon Shepherd

shock, shock, surprise...

I've got a bunch of songs to put into one song share. From a band called Small Faces. They were quite popular in England in the 1960's, but never quite made it big in the US.

These songs are one of those few that tell a story. It's an original fairy tale about a man who goes in search of the other half of the moon. The speaking parts are done by a famous English comedian, Stan Unwin, who spoke in Unwinese (English with gobbledegook). An odd, but funny story, some pretty good 60's music (organs and all).

About Small Faces: they were a huge hit in England, not so much in the US. Some of their members went on to play with Rod Stewart in a band called The Faces.

Anyhow, enjoy all the songs, one after another...