Saturday, March 12, 2005

 

Home Sweet Home

It's funny where you'll find inspiration. I constantly come up with song ideas, though it's seldom I can ever get anything down on paper. Having an idea is one thing, fleshing it out is something completely different.

A couple of weeks before Christmas I got to thinking about Martha Stewart, how her upcoming Christmas was going to be drastically different than her last one, what with being in prison and all. I saw something on the news about her, and all of a sudden was struck with a song idea. "A Martha Stewart Christmas" was written in under an hour, more like copying it out of my brain than actually writing, it came so easy. It's an amazing feeling when something like that happens.

Today I was at the computer putting the finishing touches on another song, "I Wanna Marry a Stupid Woman," when, for some reason, Martha Stewart popped into my head again. She's home now, under house arrest. I thought of a homecoming song, from the point of view of a man waiting for her to return from a grueling five months in a minimum security prison. So, in under an hour I was able to come up with this.


HOME SWEET HOME

Home sweet home
Home sweet home
She's been away
Now she's home sweet home

I missed her cooking
Her style and grace
I missed the way
She kept up the place

The house has seemed so empty
I've got no decorating flair
No scented candles in our bedroom
Just my dirty underwear

Home sweet home
Home sweet home
She's been away
Now she's home sweet home

Home sweet home
Is where she'll have to stay
Under house arrest
A small price to pay

'Cuz that new reality show
I'm sure it'll make us rich
Still she spent five months away
Being someone else's bitch

Home sweet home
Home sweet home
She's been away
Now she's home sweet home

It's our first night back together
And I promised I'd be nice
But I can't help but be distracted
By that bulky tracking device

Home sweet home
Home sweet home
The cops will keep my baby
Home sweet home



BOJ

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