It's not that I'm bored, per se. I certainly have plenty to do and plenty to think about. But my mind gets restless and needs to play around with other, non-legal things from time to time.
This week Huey Lewis and the News are doing a two-night concert series in Chico to record a DVD celebrating their 25th anniversary. I couldn't go, unfortunately, because of exams. But you know what they say: if you've seen 1.5 dozen HLN concerts in 2004, you've seen them all...
Anyway, a woman on the fan board is apparently a zookeeper and was talking about how she'd be singing HLN songs to her lions. I suggested the band do a set of their songs specially-adapted for her lions:
- "Some of My Lions are True" (1st album: "Some of My Lies are True")
- "Tell Me a Little Lion" (2nd album: "Tell Me a Little Lie")
- "Workin' for a Lion" (2nd album: "Workin' for a Livin'")
- "Walking on a Thin Lion" (Sports: "Walking on a Thin Line")
- "Whole Lotta Lion" (Fore!: "Whole Lotta Lovin'")
Not being content to stop there, I then wrote out one of them, as suited for her brood:
I Never Stalk AloneI remember my old hunting ground
The animals there, the prey I'd found
You could wind up snacking on a wildebeest
Or taking down an elephant and having a feast
So me and the cubs had our own little den
And mom would feed us again and again
Until we learned to hunt ourselves and then
And I... I never stalk alone.It isn't what you catch but what you eat
If your friend kills it it's still fresh meat
We catch our dinner when it's on the run
You know we're eating our meals one by one
And when the gazelle's all been chased
I remember others I have raced
I love me some of that familiar taste
And I... I never stalk alone
(For the tune, consult the "I Never Walk Alone" track on the album "Fore!")
I've now been threatening to reinterpret their number 1 hit, "Jacob's Ladder," for mollusks.
Posted 12/16, backdated closer to when song was written.