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Artist: John Linnell
Titolo:
Album: State Songs (1999)
John Linnell (of They Might Be Giants) delivers 16 songs, each based on a different U.S. state: This is the same recording as South Carolina (Hello EP) (1994), but mixed differently.
South Carolina is about a bike crash, but there's a creepy overtone about crashing intentionally to try to collect insurance money; it’s a song about getting rich in the mythical American way: getting hurt and suing someone. (In this case, by being in a bicycle accident.) TMBG's Dial-A-Song service was created after John Linnell himself was injured in a bicycle accident.
The service started in late 1983, back when TMBG's hopping around the early 80's NYC punk scene hit an unexpected snag—John Linnell broke his wrist in a biking accident and John Flansburgh had his new Brooklyn apartment thoroughly burglarized. Despite being unable to perform, they wanted to keep the band's momentum going, and thus Dial-A-Song was born.
The other day my neighbor has a dented bike
Second day he called me from intensive care
Says he needs a picture of the dented bike
For the evidence of what a wreck he had
Accident
Accident
Lift that fork, eat that snail
Garçon summon up a new cocktail
Lift that fork, eat that snail
Garçon summon up a new cocktail
Crash my bicycle
Crash my bicycle
In a big South Carolina wreck
I crash my bicycle
Crash my bicycle
Crash my bicycle
In a big South Carolina wreck
I crash my bicycle
And I won some damages and they were punitive
By which I mean the punishment was damaging
It crushed my hand
It crushed my head
Garçon, where's my drink?
Wreck!
Observe the front wheel spinning upside down
Wreck!
The red reflector fragments strewn around
Wreck!
The back wheel's 'O' is now a letter 'D'
Wreck!
I was an 'I' and now I am a 'V'
Lift that fork, eat that snail
Garçon summon up a new cocktail
Lift that fork, eat that snail
Garçon summon up a new cocktail
Crash my bicycle
Crash my bicycle
In a big South Carolina wreck
I crash my bicycle
Crash my bicycle
Crash my bicycle
In a big South Carolina wreck
I crash my bicycle
If I had to do it all again, by bicycle
If I had to do it, I would crash my bicycle
I'd crush my head
Collect the bread
Crash my bicycle
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Fork (fork)
Snail (snail)
Garçon (garçon)
Cocktail (cocktail)
Fork (fork)
Snail (snail)
Garçon (garçon)
Cocktail (cocktail)
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
Move around folks
Push her back there, move along
Show's over, folks
Let him breathe, step lively
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