Frankly, Mr Turner
When I put up the Request Line, a friend requested I write a song about the new love in her life, Frank Turner. I worked on a mostly silly song about her stalking him and then put it aside for a while. Then recently, I heard his music in a Hot Topic store and I had all these conflicting thoughts about how appropriate or not it was to hear him there. I came home and wrote this song.
Live at Viento y Agua, 26 August 2010
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From Sipology, 1 May 2010:
Lyrics
Frankly, Mr Turner
given what I’ve heard
this could be important
or maybe it’s absurd
to warn you of your fame
and the perils it could bring
when I don’t know a thing
about it.
But I hear you
in the store where all the kids hang out
in their vampire shoes
and their manufactured sneers and pouts.
Well I know you
didn’t ask to be sold that way.
But you are tomorrow.
Those kids are today.
Frankly, Mr Turner,
is there any more
we could be doing
to even the score?
I know one of your fans
and she is quite undone
but maybe it’s the risk that
makes it fun.
And after all the pain
wouldn’t it be nice to gain
something for the years you’ve put in.
January 11th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Great song, but frankly, Mr. Todd I think the real question is what were you doing in Hot Topic in the first place?
January 11th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Shopping for Twilight eyeliner of course.