Thursday, September 20, 2007

Scotland's For Me!

Yesterday I picked up the album A Guide For The Daylight Hours by the band Ballboy. I tried it on the strength of the awesome song "You Can't Spend Your Whole Life Hanging Around With Arseholes", and found the rest of the album to be, while not quite as kick-ass as "Arseholes", pretty good as well. The band is also Scottish, which always wins brownie points with me (I have a mysterious, lifelong fascination with all things Scottish). And imagine my pleasure in finding an asexy song on the record! I can't agree with the writer's dislike of hip-hop, trip-hop, and punk rock, but I can relate to his attitudes about both sex and house music.
Good Lord, did I have a bad experience with house music once.
But that's neither here nor there. On with the lyrics:

"Sex is Boring" by Ballboy (2003)

take me back to your room
tie me up and strip me naked
and lie me on your floor
and then you'll see that sex is boring with me
it's not what i came here for
it's not what i came here for

you know about hip hop and
you know about trip hop and
you know about punk rock and
you know about house music
and house music, house music is the greatest thing of all

and you've read more books than i
i could ever read and you
you've seen more films than i
i could ever see so
why is it, why is it, that you don't know any more than me

and i hate hip hop and i
i hate trip hop and i
i hate punk rock and i
i hate house music
because house music, house music never meant anything at all to me.

so take me back to your room
tie me up and strip me naked
and lie me on your floor
and then you'll see that sex is boring with me
it's not what i came here for
it's not what i came here for

and it's not like you are going to save me
although you think you are

and i've got miles to go before i sleep
and you're not going to save me
although you think you are

Totally asexy, right? There is also a song on the album called "I Wonder if You're Drunk Enough to Sleep With Me Tonight". Music for every part of the spectrum-- that's actually pretty cool.

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