Just a couple from Ariel P's meta-pop collection
(and both from the same album)
The first is a hymn... a cosmology.... a mission statement, even, in its gentle, floppy way
The second is a musician talking about music-making, a song about the moment just before setting out to write a song...
"Hardcore Pops Are Fun"
Pop music is free
For you and me
Pop music's your wife
Have it for life
Pop music is fun
Just like chewing gum
Pop music is good
It sounds like it should
Pop music is wine
It tastes so divine
Pop music's a bird
It goes with the herd
Pop music's a fan
A fan to a fire
Pop music's for you
I'm at the point
Where I can kiss the harmony
'Cause you know it's a thrill
When you go in for the kill
Hardcore pop, your pills are popped
Tonight
Pop music makes you wanna
Go and do your thing
'Cause your body is a dance
Built to end, not to last
Hardcore pop is fast
Just like your life
Pop makes it seem so easy
Any sound will do
'Cause it's true, you're alive
Like a bird in the sky
If hardcore pop is dyin'
Then I'll be fine
There I go again
Can't help myself
"Interesting Results"
Will I write a song you love today?
There's no way to tell and who cares
Well, I don't, thank the lord
That my standards for success are so low
Every time I pick up the pen I get interesting results
Every time I sit down and I try I get interesting results
At least interesting results
Will I write a song I like today?
Decidedly no, there's no way but okay
I guess I'll just go sing
What's on my mind
Every time I pick up the pen I get interesting results
Every time I sit down and I try I get extraterrestrial results
I get these interesting results
I'm not gonna try
I'm not gonna try anymore
This is not tryin'
This is not tryin'
No, I'm not gonna try
I'm not gonna try anymore
I'm not gonna try
I'm not gonna try anymore
I'm not gonna try
I'm not gonna try anymore
It may not be much but let's see you try