This song is a surrealist parody of Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I-V and VI-IX off their 1975 studio album Wish You Were Here. Originally meant to kickstart an otherwise completely different sounding original called She Smells Like Christmas Time, I had improvised an atypical melody I found impossible to turn around and laid down some riffs that were very nearly Shine On in style. I decided to make the piece a holiday parody of Pink Floyd's legendary composition.
Hey, I think it sounds pretty alright.
sponge
lyrics
Remember when you were clean, you had a nice gleam.
Shine on you crazy snow globe.
Now there's a stain on your glass, like fire in the grass.
Shine on you crazy snow globe.
You were caught in my Windex and steel wool with a sponge, damning the bookshelf.
Come on you reason for incessant cleanings, come on you object, you friend's gift, you ornament, and shine!
I brought over some guests too soon, the dust was a'bloom.
Shine on you crazy snow globe.
Threatened by social standards, and some asthmatic words.
Shine on you crazy snow globe.
Well you snuffed my company with mad dust bunnies (maa-ad), ruling the bookshelf.
Come on you bloodstain, you knower of my pain, come on you smoker, you lawyer, you player, and shine!
credits
from Ha Laa La La La Ooh!,
released December 26, 2014
Written and composed by Logan McCarthy.
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