So while I don’t hate the song, I woke up with it in my head this morning and soon thereafter some alternate lyrics blossomed in my caffeinated cranium:
You Wrote a Bad Song
(to the tune of Bad Day)
A helping of saccharine and whole lot of sap,
The artist within you said ‘no way’,
Throw that piece of crap away,
But that’s not how how you earn your paaaaaay…
You wrote a bad song,
You pushed it too far,
But now it’s on the charts
and it’s made you a star
You wrote a bad song
You made some new friends
but now they want to know
when you’ll do it again
Because you’ve known it all along,
You wrote a bad song.
You sit at your keyboard and play with some notes,
But all of the lyrics stick in your throat
Everything that you write that blows
Will be played on the radio,
But that’s now how you want to be knoooooooooown…
You wrote a bad song
You pushed it too far,
But now it’s on the charts
And it’s made you a star.
A million people CAN be wrong,
You wrote a bad song.
Sometimes when you’re thinking late at night,
You wonder what went wrong,
You remember how happy your were the time
The radio first played your song
They played your song…
So where is dispassion when you need it the most?
Why can’t the artist just give up the ghost?
You know if you do it all your way
Play what you really want to play
All your brain-dead fans will saaaaaaaaay…
You wrote a bad song
You pushed it to far
We came to hear candy
And you’re giving us art
Yeah, You wrote a bad song
You pushed it too far
But now it’s on the charts
And it’s made you a star
You wrote a bad song…
You wrote a bad song…
You wrote a bad song…
[Repeat many, many times, fade out]
