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Thread #88017   Message #1647701
Posted By: Bobert
13-Jan-06 - 08:36 AM
Thread Name: What can you Not write songs about?
Subject: RE: What can you Not write songs about?
"There's a man on TV
He's killed 23
Burned their bodies
and collected their teeth...

Seperatem pair of rights
lead to separate lifes
Woman on a talkl show
wants to be his wife
Another man decides
to purchase his knife
The court decides
he's got the right..."

(from a "Golden Smog" song entitled "I Don't Want to Walk Where He Walked", or something like that...

So, even the sick mind is not out of bounds when it comes to song writing...

Actually there ain't much that can't be written about but there are a few topics that will sho nuff sink the song. Like:

1. Songs that glorify racism...

2. Songs about bodily funtions...

3. Songs in praise of the Iraq War...

4. Songs about having sex with yer grannie or mom...

5. Songs boasting of one's wealth...

6. Songs about plots to commit crimes...

7. Songs that are intended to hurt another song-writer (Think Lynard Skinnard's song where they put down Neil Young... I thought that was tasteless...)

8. Songs about your late wife named "Honey" (think Bobby Goldsboro here)(makes one reconsider one's stand on capital punishement...)

I'm sure there are plenty more but those come to mind this morning...

Bobert