The best way to come up with amusing, surreal lyrics? Steal from Bob Dylan. I'm about to record this one, but here's lyrics in advance. You can probably guess the title. Points if you can spot all the rip-offs. No...not the ripoffs, the allusions.
There's a man on the corner and he wants some bills
I offer him my five elevens but he wants four twelves
And as Johnny sets the medicine on the window sill
We get to bringing it all back home.
And Captain Arab shows up running from the penitentiary
Drops his harpoon, screams "the crew's locked up! You gotta set 'em free!"
I say "Arab, quit your shouting, you ain't the boss of me.
Can't you see I'm bringing it all back home?"
The black madonna pulls up on her shiny Harley bike
Revs the engine and asks me "Baby, what would you like?"
I say "to drink some wine with you beneath the Tree of Life,
But first I've gotta bring it all back home."
Now this kid walks up with shades on and a bird's nest for hair
He's got a beat up old Gibson and a harp or two to spare
We start jamming and although he claims he just don't care,
He sure is bringing it all back home.
~Sam
I can even hear Bob singing it if I let my mind run wild.
~Sam
