Well you can say what you like
Yeah, broadcast it on the mic
Let your “audience” know if it pleases you so
It don’t affect me no
Take out an ad by a motorway
Twist it in the embers of an ashtray
But if you come over my house talking trash like a louse
You can sweep my driveway!
Go and write a killer routine
Shame me on a muddy car windscreen
Colour snow where you go
Pee it high. Pee it low.
Yeah, you know it’s just a game show
You can tell your damn fiancée
That she can keep it in her screenplay
But if you come around here spouting junk in my ear
You'll be sweeping my driveway!
You can print it on a T shirt
Go and shout it out loud at a concert
You can tell that tabloid hack right behind my back
And no, it wouldn’t hurt
You can get it all down in a long essay
Strum a verse in a cape with a dumb beret
But if I’m witness someday in a Greenwich café
You’ll be sweeping my driveway!
Beat It!
Well, you can preach it to the choir
Convert it, then send it down the wire
You can signal it with smoke, hell, I can take a joke
Just contain that fire
You can pour it out flat at a bar today
And they can drink it all down …yeah, come what may
But if you serve that swill in here… you’ll be wearing that beer...
And you can sweep my driveway!!
credits
from Glued to the TV Set / Sweep My Driveway!,
released June 4, 2021
Written, produced, engineered and performed by The Vidiprinter at Madlabo, edge of the Highlands, Scotland
All voices and instruments by The Vidiprinter
Except...
Zapa - Harp Solos
Kenny Hammer - Drums & Percussion
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