A tweet from the NYT tech reporter Jenna Wortham made this viral. If you’re jonesing for the Seventies, get your fix by dialing the Emergency “Callin’ Oates” hotline, which gives you free access to one of four Hall and Oates songs.
719-26-OATES, or 719-266-2837
I chose #2.
I bet that made Sara Smile…
G’day Jerry
I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)
http://youtu.be/ccenFp_3kq8
🙂
Ditto, Gary, I’m afraid.
Some lyrics written after Mick Hucknall kicked my cat:
White boy on a black trip
Think you’re Otis Blue
1966 and all that
Wasn’t you
The black guy’s Lionel Richie
You underdosed on MDMA
The Vietnam vet of the silicone set’s
On his way
Where the chords are green
And the horns are blue
And a sample means
What you want it to
Wide boy on a black trip
never wrote a word I heard
‘Cos the nerd with the third
And the record horde has the word
I have heard it
I have read it
And when there’s nothing new under the sun
There’s no fun
Where the chords are green
And the horns are blue
And you couldn’t write
If you wanted to
Saw your wedding in a magazine
And the celebrity junkies littering your scene
Saw your song remaindered in a bin
And Mr. Sony raking it in
Where the chords are green
And the horns are blue
As the roots you preen
And the mime you do
Where the chords are green
And the horns are blue
And where what I mean
Is beyond you
Where the chords are green
And the horns are blue
And where ample means
Far too much of you
Turn on
Your vibrato nostril croon
Tune in
Don’t drop the autotune
White boy on a black trip
Go bottom of the class
Go stick it up your ass
Mr. Hall is compellingly pointing with his right hand. All that is lacking to complete this tsunami of charisma is an artful “thumbs up” display with his left hand.
But Jerry, did you REALLY “choose” 2? 😉
Ha ha. Too funny!
But wait .. did I find it funny or was it inevitable. Oh dear, now I lost teh funneh 🙁
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