Friday, March 14, 2008

The commandments

I have fallen in love with a number of songs on my—er, I mean our—cherished "FBS Best of 2007" CDs, but there is one song in particular that is rocking my world right now. MJ swears she has played this for me in the past; I guess I wasn't *ready* for it then. But I'm ready now.

The song: "Thou Shalt Always Kill" by Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

Here is the music video.
And here are the lyrics (about halfway down).

My favorite bits:
  • Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls’ pants. Use it to get into their heads.
  • Thou shalt give equal worth to tragedies that occur in non-English speaking countries as to those that occur in English speaking countries.
  • Thou shalt remember that guns, bitches and bling were never part of the four elements and never will be.
  • When I say “Hey” thou shalt not say “Ho”. When I say “Hip” thou shalt not say “Hop”. When I say "he say, she say, we say, make some noise" - kill me.
  • Thou shalt spell the word “Pheonix” P-H-E-O-N-I-X not P-H-O-E-N-I-X, regardless of what the Oxford English Dictionary tells you.
But most importantly:
  • Thou shalt think for yourselves.

2 comments:

Scott said...

In response to an earlier post but I'm too lazy to go look for it: a cover song I like - Rodrigo y Gabriella's cover of "Stairway to Heaven". A few years ago I'd have thought of this as sacrilege, but age mellows. I liked Feliciano's "Light My Fire", too.

mesmith said...

I think it goes... "Thou shalt not put musicians and recording artists on ridiculous pedestals no matter how great they are or were (unless they were The Smiths)"

IS IT