All My Friends Are Semi-Famous testo
Dave Lippman
Testo
All my friends are semi-famous
More than Andy, less than Amos
The Guinness book can't quite claim us
My ex-backup singer's ex-husband's brother in law
Invented velcro
He sold the patent
She disowned him
My ex-neighbor's ex-husband's great great uncle
Was a supreme court justice who determined
That the tomato is a fruit
Or at least it was at the time
According to U.S. law
And my ex-girl friend sued the power company
for muzzling her freedom of speech
she's a reporter
She won - they issued an order - she can't talk about it
But I can...but I don't know anything about it
All my friends are semi-famous
Some people sometimes sort of acclaim us
less than Spins but more than Martys
people look up when we show up at parties
My mom went to high school with the ex-wife of the ex-Director
of the CIA
She wasn't ex til thirty years later
And thirty years later Pete Seeger stepped on her foot
It was my mom's foot
But the CIA made him do it
My friend Chris talked James Watt into using
bamboo stakes at an angle
Instead of chemicals straight in
To keep the dogs off his rhododendrons
And not only that,
Jerry Brown cleaned his truck
All my friends are semi-famous
Even to an ex-ignoramous
The government would like to blame us
But they can't quite name us
And I...........
I gave a speech when I was 19 and Zbigniew Brzezinski asked
3 questions, and I don't remember what they were cause
they were really really really dumb, OK?
And also,
I was interviewed on the BBC World Service
And 40 million people heard me, all over India
and two of them still remember it and I'll never meet them
And one's probably a professor of popular culture
With a focus on political satire
And the other's probably really, really really cute
But it's all right
I'm very very very very semi-famous in my own house
All my friends are semi-famous
More than Andy, less than Amos
The Guinness book can't quite claim us
More than Andy, less than Amos
The Guinness book can't quite claim us
My ex-backup singer's ex-husband's brother in law
Invented velcro
He sold the patent
She disowned him
My ex-neighbor's ex-husband's great great uncle
Was a supreme court justice who determined
That the tomato is a fruit
Or at least it was at the time
According to U.S. law
And my ex-girl friend sued the power company
for muzzling her freedom of speech
she's a reporter
She won - they issued an order - she can't talk about it
But I can...but I don't know anything about it
All my friends are semi-famous
Some people sometimes sort of acclaim us
less than Spins but more than Martys
people look up when we show up at parties
My mom went to high school with the ex-wife of the ex-Director
of the CIA
She wasn't ex til thirty years later
And thirty years later Pete Seeger stepped on her foot
It was my mom's foot
But the CIA made him do it
My friend Chris talked James Watt into using
bamboo stakes at an angle
Instead of chemicals straight in
To keep the dogs off his rhododendrons
And not only that,
Jerry Brown cleaned his truck
All my friends are semi-famous
Even to an ex-ignoramous
The government would like to blame us
But they can't quite name us
And I...........
I gave a speech when I was 19 and Zbigniew Brzezinski asked
3 questions, and I don't remember what they were cause
they were really really really dumb, OK?
And also,
I was interviewed on the BBC World Service
And 40 million people heard me, all over India
and two of them still remember it and I'll never meet them
And one's probably a professor of popular culture
With a focus on political satire
And the other's probably really, really really cute
But it's all right
I'm very very very very semi-famous in my own house
All my friends are semi-famous
More than Andy, less than Amos
The Guinness book can't quite claim us