I'm gonna write a soap opera and you're going to be the heroine

I always figured I'd grow up and be some kind of Madison Avenue type. I liked their style in the movies. They seemed to have the prettiest wives -- or the hippest bachelor pads if they weren't married.

And, from my studies in front of the television, I knew that Mad Ave types had more sophisticated ways of dealing with sticky interpersonal entanglements -- and particularly creative and craftful ways of dealing with situations that might see the less sophisticated resorting to insult, invective, or even violence.

What better way, I always thought, of doling out a little comeuppance than to put a troublesome ex-love or a friend who has betrayed you smack in the middle of his or her own soap opera, you know, a real TV soap opera. Finally a chance to argue it all out before the court of public opinion -- all, of course, without the ex-friend's input, which would only get in the way of the poetic truth of the situation.


A note on today's song: Today's entry is a bit different. It's still highly informal, but it's more a full band demo for a possible project.

[revised mix posted Sunday, 2006-03-19 23:30 UTC]

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I'm Gonna Write a Soap Opera

I'm gonna write a soap opera
you're gonna be the heroine
I'm gonna show the world just how ya think
I'm gonna write a soap opera
I won't have to make up a thing
When we get the ratings back
you know I'll take you out for a drink

I'll get a famous model
to play your part for you
I was gonna ask you but you're always busy
We'll get a famous model
I know she'll do real good, too
When the plot gets thick
She'll be skinny enough to wriggle through

I'm gonna sell the rights
everywhere I can
there'll be games and dolls and underwear
I'm gonna sell the rights
I suggest you buy up while you can
I said I'd make you famous
I think by now you understand

(C)1990, TK Major