Hear more musicRecorded on 08/15/08
Recorded by: Milburn & Vigoda
Written by: Milburn/Vigoda
Valerie Vigoda: vocal
Brendan Milburn: vocal & keyboards
CHARLES and HOPE have been back together for quite a while now. Charles's father has passed away, and this fact has brought their own mortality into sharper focus. Our heroes have settled into a comfortable, harmonious companionship in their later-middle years, and during this song we leap forward through their sixties.
Brendan Milburn: vocal & keyboards
CHARLES and HOPE have been back together for quite a while now. Charles's father has passed away, and this fact has brought their own mortality into sharper focus. Our heroes have settled into a comfortable, harmonious companionship in their later-middle years, and during this song we leap forward through their sixties.
Lyrics
CHARLES
What was that?
HOPE
I said I can't seem to find my glasses
CHARLES
Aren't they right up there beside your book?
HOPE
Well they're the wrong prescription then
CHARLES
The prescription's fine
HOPE
But I really hate the way they make me look
CHARLES
What was that?
HOPE (pointing to CHARLES's hair)
I said it looks just like a ferret
Take it right back to the zoo from whence it came
CHARLES
It does not look like a ferret!
HOPE
Okay more like a chihuahua
If I see it on your head I'm taking aim
CHARLES
What was that?
HOPE
I said you've got your hearing aid turned off
Now turn it on okay so you can hear!
CHARLES
It's fine it's on
HOPE
It's off
CHARLES
It's fine I hear you
HOPE
No you don't
You turned it off and put it right back in your ear!
CHARLES
It's a protest
I'm on strike
I only turn it on to listen to the things I'm gonna like
I can't hear you!
I don't want to go
Because that movie guy's a baby and I'm nervous, I don't know
He's still in diapers! He looks twelve
It's highly doubtful he could put a necktie on all by himself
He wants the aliens to be sexy, more self-conscious, more ironic,
More appealing to the younger demographic, more sardonic
So yours truly, a.k.a. Methuselah, may not be hip
But I'll be damned if I let Mister Nose Ring give me any lip
HOPE
Time to go
Don't look back
No more staring in the mirror or you're gonna make it crack
CHARLES
Will you stop
Cleaning please!
I'll quit looking in the mirror when you're off your hands and knees
HOPE
I want the house
To look nice
Tomorrow Jules and all the kids are coming, it's no sacrifice
It's just a little tidy up
CHARLES
The house is reeking of Fantastik!
And you might as well encase the frickin' place in sheets of plastic!
Just sit down, they should be here by now, sit down
HOPE
And why don't you sit down
CHARLES
Sit down
HOPE
Sit down
CHARLES
Sit down
HOPE
Okay i'm sitting
CHARLES
I am too.
(pause)
HOPE/CHARLES
Let's sit in our rocking chairs
And watch the grandkids playing on the lawn
CHARLES
What was that?
HOPE
I said go sit in your rocking chair
Go watch little Sarah chase Gerard
CHARLES
You mean Serena and Jerome?
HOPE
Gerard, Jerome, oh I don't know, whoever
Someone left some kids out in the yard
CHARLES
I can't hear you!
HOPE
No problem, Chip
I get confused among my many many men
That was a joke
CHARLES
Okay
HOPE
Okay
CHARLES
Okay
HOPE
Okay
CHARLES
Hey Hope, what did you say?
HOPE
I said hello, which one are you again?
What was that?
HOPE
I said I can't seem to find my glasses
CHARLES
Aren't they right up there beside your book?
HOPE
Well they're the wrong prescription then
CHARLES
The prescription's fine
HOPE
But I really hate the way they make me look
CHARLES
What was that?
HOPE (pointing to CHARLES's hair)
I said it looks just like a ferret
Take it right back to the zoo from whence it came
CHARLES
It does not look like a ferret!
HOPE
Okay more like a chihuahua
If I see it on your head I'm taking aim
CHARLES
What was that?
HOPE
I said you've got your hearing aid turned off
Now turn it on okay so you can hear!
CHARLES
It's fine it's on
HOPE
It's off
CHARLES
It's fine I hear you
HOPE
No you don't
You turned it off and put it right back in your ear!
CHARLES
It's a protest
I'm on strike
I only turn it on to listen to the things I'm gonna like
I can't hear you!
I don't want to go
Because that movie guy's a baby and I'm nervous, I don't know
He's still in diapers! He looks twelve
It's highly doubtful he could put a necktie on all by himself
He wants the aliens to be sexy, more self-conscious, more ironic,
More appealing to the younger demographic, more sardonic
So yours truly, a.k.a. Methuselah, may not be hip
But I'll be damned if I let Mister Nose Ring give me any lip
HOPE
Time to go
Don't look back
No more staring in the mirror or you're gonna make it crack
CHARLES
Will you stop
Cleaning please!
I'll quit looking in the mirror when you're off your hands and knees
HOPE
I want the house
To look nice
Tomorrow Jules and all the kids are coming, it's no sacrifice
It's just a little tidy up
CHARLES
The house is reeking of Fantastik!
And you might as well encase the frickin' place in sheets of plastic!
Just sit down, they should be here by now, sit down
HOPE
And why don't you sit down
CHARLES
Sit down
HOPE
Sit down
CHARLES
Sit down
HOPE
Okay i'm sitting
CHARLES
I am too.
(pause)
HOPE/CHARLES
Let's sit in our rocking chairs
And watch the grandkids playing on the lawn
CHARLES
What was that?
HOPE
I said go sit in your rocking chair
Go watch little Sarah chase Gerard
CHARLES
You mean Serena and Jerome?
HOPE
Gerard, Jerome, oh I don't know, whoever
Someone left some kids out in the yard
CHARLES
I can't hear you!
HOPE
No problem, Chip
I get confused among my many many men
That was a joke
CHARLES
Okay
HOPE
Okay
CHARLES
Okay
HOPE
Okay
CHARLES
Hey Hope, what did you say?
HOPE
I said hello, which one are you again?