rinue | A *Very* Silly Song

All right, this is for Taley's birthday, which I believe is today although it might have been yesterday, and when is Dee's birthday anyway or did I miss that too?

Unfortunately, I cannot do justice in print to the sheer catchiness of the tune, which has been stuck in my head ever since I came up with it. Or maybe it is fortunate after all, because it's beginning to drive me a bit batty and I wouldn't want to subject you to that. It sounds a bit like a cross between "Lily" by the Smashing Pumpkins and "Honey Pie" by the Beatles.

Here goes:

Taleyana
She was a real hot mama
Her cardboard box full of pajamas
She stole my heart.

Oh Taleyana
I want to move to the Bahamas
Where we can talk like Dalai Lamas
And sit around in the sand.

I still remember the time when I held your hand
We danced through clouds and dreams and neverlands
In clothes of purple and blue.

Taleyana
You have uplifted all my trauma
It's like Shakespearian high drama
The way you love.

Oh Taleyana
She's like Queen Lilliolukohana
She eats her sandwich with banana
And rides an elephant home

I still remember the time when I held your hand
We danced through clouds and dreams and neverlands
In clothes of purple and blue.

Oh Taleyana
I want to kiss her in the sauna
She smells of honey and lantana
And she's my favorite girl.

And she's my favorite girl.

And she's my favorite girl.

[It's worth noting here that I *do* write songs that are actually serious and poetic, but this is decidedly not one of them as that would have been tremendously inappropriate to the occasion. And it really is better when sung along with accoustic guitar. Ukelele would be even better, but I don't have one of those. Actually, I have three, but none of them have all their strings.]