Listen right here: http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=9810626&q=lo&newref=1
And try the beyond controversial "Draw Me a Picture," a special bonus
track: http://alonetone.com/pauliorio1/tracks/draw-me-a-picture
T A B O Opaul iorio
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And here're the lyrics (so you can sing along to
"THEY'RE BUILDING A MOSQUE IN MY MIND":
THEY'RE BUILDING A MOSQUE IN MY MIND
Music and lyrics by Paul Iorio
Copyright 2010
They're building a mosque in my mind (my mind)
They're building a mosque in my mind
They're taking over all the grey matter
They're building a mosque in my mind
The preachers and imams and rabbis and priests
Who populate the part of my mind
Where Hindus are praying near by left hippocampus
Where the Shintos are building a shrine
They're building a mosque in my mind (my mind)
They're building a shrine in my mind
They're taking over my entire cerebellum
They're building a mosque in my mind
The Hares spray graffiti on my left ventricle wall
They've got a real Jones for the Tao
They're confusing Confucians as to their actual intent
They're saying, "Hey, man, don't have a sacred cow!"
Anglicans and Brahmins fight for my synaptic cleft
In the pre-frontal lobe of my mind
Orthodox Jews are building a temple
Using words like thee and thou and thine
They're building a mosque in my mind (my mind)
They're building a shrine in my mind
They're taking over my entire cerebellum
They're building a mosque in my mind
Mental health professionals visit me at work
I tell them they're bombs in my brain
The Sunnis are fighting the Sufis for turf
I say this as they take me away
Take me away!
They're building a mosque in my mind (my mind)
They're building a shrine in my mind
They're taking over all the gray matter
They're building a mosque in my mind
They're building a mosque in my mind (my mind)
They're building a shrine in my mind
They're taking over my entire cerebellum
They're building a mosque in my mind
They're building a [7 frets up] mosque in my mind
They're building a [7 frets up] mosque in my mind
NOTES ON "BUILDING A MOSQUE": Sends up the hysteria and hoopla
around the so-called Ground Zero mosque controversy.
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Check out the album's other songs, too:
Trees Try to Rise Above Their Roots
and
Kiss Me Where Your Mouth Is
and
Meta-Song
and
They're Building a Mosque in My Mind
and parody song
The Monster Mosque
Four Brand New Songs by Paul Iorio.
All songs composed, performed and produced by Paul Iorio (except
"The Monster Mosque," based on "The Monster Mash" by Bobby
"Boris" Pickett). Recorded at Paul's Home Studio in Berkeley,
California, in October 2010. Cover art: Mano Gyotei's "Gods of Thunder (Wind and Rain)."
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MP3S, LYRICS, ETC.
"Trees Try to Rise Above Their Roots" and "Kiss Me Where Your Mouth Is."
alonetone.com/pauliorio1/tracks
"They're Building a Mosque in My Mind" and "The Monster Mosque."http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_music.cfm?bandID=1111859
"Meta-Song."
http://www.zshare.net/audio/8150261593c981e4/>(just click the link and it plays automatically after buffering; NO NEED TO PRESS PLAY)
the new tracks are also posted on this website:
"They're Building a Mosque in My Mind."http://www.zshare.net/audio/8150103831cf98f9/>(just click the link and it plays automatically after buffering; NO NEED TO PRESS PLAY)
"The Monster Mosque"
Lyrics and notes:
TREES TRY TO RISE ABOVE THEIR ROOTS
Music and lyrics by Paul Iorio
Copyright 2010
I drove by all the Christmas lights
Purple, red and green
The sound of horse hoofs in the park
The sound of tambourines
The sound of tambourines
Trees are always tryin' to rise above the roots beneath their leaves
Trees are always tryin' to rise above the roots beneath their leaves
Cumulus is what you have
In place of mountain peaks
Clouds that look like Wyatt Earp
On the chaparral between
On the chaparral between
Trees are always tryin' to rise above the roots beneath their leaves
Trees are always tryin' to rise above the roots beneath their leaves
How naive we are in the future's eyes
To think we know our fates
I lived my youth like a wise old man
Never took the bait
Never took the bait
Trees are always tryin' to rise above the roots beneath their leaves
Trees are always tryin' to rise above the roots beneath their leaves
NOTES ON "TREES": I woke up on Labor Day with the melody of this one running around in my head. It's got a sort of Olde West feel that I mixed with Ladysmith Black Mambazo-ish background vocals.
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KISS ME WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS
Music and lyrics by Paul Iorio
Copyright 2010
You want me to be sick as can be
I only attract women when I'm sick
Thin as a rail, gaunt and dead pale
I only attract women
attract women when I'm sick
Kiss me where your mouth is
Kiss me where your mouth is
Kiss me where your mouth is
When you take off that dress, I'm a full time mess
I only attract you when I'm sick
When my cheekbones are starting to show
I only attract you
attract you when I'm sick
I only attract women when I'm sick and thin as a stick
And then I have remind you
When I have the runs and nothing's really fun
I only attract women when I'm through
I'm sick
I'm sick
I'm sick as arsenic
Kiss me where your mouth is
Kiss me where your mouth is
Kiss me where your mouth is
Kiss me where your mouth is
Kiss me where your mouth is
Mouth is
I'm sick
I'm sick as arsenic
NOTES ON "KISS ME WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS": Sort of Cobain-ish, with Sly and the Family Stone-esque overdubs. The lyrics -- "I only attract women when I'm sick" -- stem from a trip I took to Seattle during which I got sick, lost weight and found I was suddenly more attractive to women than I had been.
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META-SONG
Music and lyrics by Paul Iorio
Copyright 2010
Intro, intro, intro...
Well, there's a verse that gets you started like this
A second reiteration of it
Then it builds to the top of the verse
But don't you fret the melody will soon change (overdub)
But then there's a tension that leads to the chorus
The major key chorus
Here's the major key chorus
Here's the chorus
Here's the chorus
Rousing chorus
Major key chorus
Everybody sing to the singalong chorus
Second verse, slightly varied from the first
Second verse slightly varies the melody
To make sure that you don't get bored
And then it comes back to familiar turf
And I bet you're singing along again
And there's that part that creates tension
Just before the chorus
Here's the major key chorus
Here's the chorus
Here's the chorus
Rousing chorus
Major key chorus
Everybody sing to the singalong chorus
What's this part of the song?
What's this part of the song?
Beatles-esque dissonance
Beatles-esque dissonance
Here's the chorus
Here's the chorus
Rousing chorus
Major key chorus
Everybody sing along to the chorus
Everybody sing to the singalong chorus
Then there's an outro
Then there's an outro
Then there's an outro
Hanging chord finale
Coda coda gotta be a coda, baby
coda coda gotta be a coda baby
NOTES ON "META-SONG": A song about a song. Inspired a bit by Pavement's "Gold Soundz."
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THE MONSTER MOSQUE
Parody by Paul Iorio (based
on "The Monster Mash" by
Bobby Boris Pickett)
I was working in the mosque late last night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
My Islamic Center began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise
He built a mosque
He built a monster mosque
The monster mosque
Near the Ground Zero crash
He built the mosque
It caught on like a rash
He built the mosque
He built the monster mosque
