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VERSE 1: MC LARS
Spinal Tap wrote a song about this monument
if you ever take a trip you’ll be glad you went
older than the pyramids - there it is - wow!
4000 years ago they created it - how?
on the salisbury plane (yeah)
they put 85 stones, where 53 remain
In a circle - a calendar, not pocket sized
built over generations, but how? And why?
1,500 tons of rock - that’s lot
no trucks or cranes on that sacred spot
but here’s where it’s crazy - it gets kind of silly
80 blue stones carried from the Hills of Preseli (pri - sell - I)
in Southwest Wales - 200 miles
an un-unionized project that took a darn while
log boats carried stones cross the estuary
was it a church, or a clock or a cemetery?
CHORUS:
I'm talking about Stonehenge! (Where druids deonte the passing of time)
Stonehenge! (How did they build it, when did they, why?)
Stonehenge! (Constructed by merlin they say that’s so tight)
Stonehenge! (The solstice is coming let’s stay up all night)
VERSE 2: MEGA RAN
Stonehenge - yo!
It's an ancient site but no-one knows how
and no one knows when
It was put together and then it came apart
like some old friends
Maybe an old time, or a burial site - it makes no sense!
Celebrations around the solstice
If they served sweets and other dope treats
they'd call it "Scone Henge"
Or if they stayed up and got blazed up maybe "Stoned Henge"
But for real though! Nobody really knows!
Let's go in!
Paid £30 just to walk the grounds, no answers found
what a let down!
CHORUS:
I'm talking about Stonehenge! (Where druids deonte the passing of time)
Stonehenge! (How did they build it, when did they, why?)
Stonehenge! (Constructed by merlin they say that’s so tight)
Stonehenge! (The solstice is coming let’s stay up all night)
VERSE 3: KOO KOO KANGA ROO
Just a couple tourists, look at us
riding so hard on this sightsee bus
and I guess we gotta trust
that we’ll figure out what’s the big deal
what the frick is the fuss/
all my life ive dreamed of rocks
not talking bout the kind that a rapper rocks
I mean a stone so big you can see for blocks
whoever built these here, yo I give em props
now that we made it my first thought is ‘whoa’
boulders on boulders, cause thats how we roll
How did this happen, we may never know
rappin’ on this track cause Lars said so
yo, im just a curious dude
somehow these slabs of rock were moved
stonehenge if you’re in the mood
this mysterious site has to be viewed
CHORUS: x2
I'm talking about Stonehenge! (Where druids deonte the passing of time)
Stonehenge! (How did they build it, when did they, why?)
Stonehenge! (Constructed by merlin they say that’s so tight)
Stonehenge! (The solstice is coming let’s stay up all night)
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King Lear, King Lear
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"King Lear, King Lear"
lyrics by MC Lars
music by SMP
VERSE 1:
King Lear, King Lear think we’ve got a problem here
Gonna give away your kingdom to the daughter most dear
appearances deceiving - this tempest in your mind
takes away the feeling from your senses feeling fine
Cordelia, Regan, Goneril - Who will do you dirty?
filial ingratitude - you’re vision’s looking blurry
Guess you’ll stumble when you see, searching for the meaning
when you’re homeless on the street - cause your girls are steady scheming
PRE-CHORUS:
Demons to the left of you
Serpents to your right
that’s you sleep with one eye open
on these cold Britania nights
Demons to the left
Serpents to the right
that’s we sleep with one eye open
on these cold Britania nights
CHORUS:
You can’t see what’s going on (going on)
you can’t see what’s going on (going on)
locked behind the castle doors your daughters do you wrong (KING LEAR)
VERSE 2:
This cold night, will turn us all to fools
will make us go insane, King Lear you know it’s true
Gloucester gets blinded, then he tries to end it all
Edgar says he made it, he somehow survived the fall
that’s when Lear appears with Cordelia they find
that she truly loved her father but to truth Lear is blind
wish he never banished her captured in the battle,
(so then) every one is killed - and they’re slaughtered just like cattle (oh!)
PRE-CHORUS:
Demons to the left of you
Seprents to your right
that’s you sleep with one eye open
on these cold Britania nights
Demons to the left
Seprents to the right
that’s we sleep with one eye open
on these cold Britania nights
CHORUS:
You can’t see what’s going on (going on)
you can’t see what’s going on (going on)
locked behind the castle doors your daughters do you wrong (KING LEAR)
BRIDGE:
How sharper than a serpent's tooth / serpent's tooth
It is to have a thankless child! Thankless child!
How sharper than a serpent's tooth / serpent's tooth
It is to have a thankless child! Thankless child!
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Turn Your Cell Phone Off
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Wal-Mart Nation
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Hall Pass
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TiVo Ad Jingle
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The Sonnet Song
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CHORUS:
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”
Maybe you might know these rhymes?
They are from a sonnet that
Shakespeare wrote long ago
Fourteen lines,
the first three quatrains
establish a theme
VERSE 1:
"What is pentameter?" Let’s take a look?
Five pairs of syllables - where rhythm is the hook
Leaving Petrarch shook with Shakespeare's twist
Unstressed / stressed and it sounds like this:
"But soft what light through yonder window breaks?"
Helping actors learn their lines to minimize mistakes
‘cause life is complicated, hardly idyllic
Like an amphibrach mixed with a foot so dactylic
CHORUS
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”
Maybe you might know these rhymes?
They are from a sonnet that
Shakespeare wrote long ago
Fourteen lines,
the first three quatrains
establish a theme
William Shakespeare (Shakespeare!)
Wrote mad sonnets
William Shakespeare (Shakespeare!)
Wrote mad sonnets
If you love someone,
drop pentameter on ‘em
William Shakespeare (Shakespeare!)
Wrote mad sonnets
William Shakespeare (Shakespeare!)
Wrote mad sonnets
If you love someone,
drop pentameter on ‘em
VERSE 2:
What do we know about Shakespeare’s life?
No tell-all biographies penned by his wife
So we look to the sonnets - and read what they say
Who was the Dark Lady? Who was Anne Hathaway?
And was Shakespeare gay? No one really knows
but he wrote hella poem showing love to his bro
"Was Shakespeare even Shakespeare?" many scholars want to know
by any other name is a rose still a rose? Yo!
Seriously though - the authorship question is a very important one
and it’s honestly worth of its own song. Stay tuned for that.
Yo DJ! This drop is too long! What is this, Coriolanus?
CHORUS:
Rhyme scheme goes
AB AB CD CD EF E
F, the final lines always
rhyme and they all resolve (GG)
Petrarch he wrote sonnets too
but this song’s not 'bout you
A - BBAABB- C DC DC D? (Please!)
William Shakespeare (Shakespeare!)
Wrote mad sonnets
William Shakespeare (Shakespeare!)
Wrote mad sonnets
If you love someone, drop pentameter on ‘em
OUTRO:
Sonnet 126 we want to know
where did your missing rhyming couplet go?
Sonnet 126 we want to know
where did your missing rhyming couplet go?
Sonnet 126 we want to know
where did your missing rhyming couplet go?
Sonnet 126 we want to know
where did your missing rhyming couplet go?
Sonnet 126 we want to know
where did your missing rhyming couplet go?
Sonnet 126 we want to know
where did your missing rhyming couplet go?
Sonnet 126 we want to know
where did your missing rhyming couplet go?
I don't know... shoot!
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