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Invisible Man

Tracy's Idea

Role Model

Mother

four

Into The Light/The Dean

For You

When The Sun Shines

Couch Potato

Fitting In

Change


Back to the Hangar

The Story Behind:
"Couch Potato"


One day in early 1999, my roommate, Nick, and I were bored, and decided to do something creative with our time. What followed were three silly songs. This is the second one.

At the time, we had been doing nothing much more than sitting on the bean-bag chairs, watching reruns of the Denis Leary HBO comedy special "Lock and Load," and playing "Turok 2" on Nick's N64.

Also, being in our second year of college, we were each broke, so all we drank was Kool-Aid, and we were hungry most of the time. This song, then, became a portrait of our lives at the time.

The really bad thing about it is, once it was written, I realized that it was a pretty good song. So, I decided to try to work into the recording some cool effects, including audio clips at the beginning and ending of the song consisting of "white noise" (static) and then Darth Vader talking and breathing (we also watched a lot of "Star Wars"--hence the Darth Vader references). I think that it will be a nice piece of music once I am finished with the production.



Lyrics for:
Couch Potato
Denis Leary on the VCR
What am I doing here?
Don't know what's going on
My purpose is not very clear

What am I supposed to
Do with my life?
I'm just a big old
Couch Potato
What am I supposed to
Do with my life?
Change the channel, Hey!
There's Darth Vader again!

Playing Turok on my game machine
Got my butt kicked, so I start again
I get up to get myself a drink
Fell and broke my arm on a bag of beans

What am I supposed to
Do with my life?
I'm just a big old
Couch Potato
What am I supposed to
Do with my life?
Change the channel, Hey!
There's Darth Vader again!

Surf the net with my WebTV
Drink some Kool-Aid and eat a pie
I know this stuff is bad for me
But I'm so hungry, I think I could die!

What am I supposed to
Do with my life?
I'm just a big old
Couch Potato
What am I supposed to
Do with my life?
Change the channel, Hey!
There's Darth Vader again!

What am I supposed to
Do with my life?
I'm just a big old
Couch Potato
What am I supposed to
Do with my life?
Change the channel, Hey!
There's Darth Vader again!

Hey, there's Darth Vader again!
Hey, There's Darth Vader again!

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