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Megan Heise - One Bigot, an Old Love, a Ton of Fear

from Steven Taylor's Song Works: SWP 2016 by Fast Speaking Music

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Megan Heise – One Bigot, One Old Love, a Ton of Fear

Intro:
I wanna tell you a story
Bout a song I had to choose


Verse 1:
So I’m thinking what to perform for y’all
And I’m thinking — let’s do something cool
And I’m thinking
Let’s put some poems to music
Let’s take it a little ways back
Let’s do Dante’s Inferno (HOT!)

So I goes to my favorite translation
Of a triplet in canto 28
Circle 8, bolgia 9, the sowers of discord
It says: between his legs all his red guts hung
With the heart, the lungs, the liver, the gullbladder
And the sac that passes shit to the bung
Pretty great right?
I look it up online to get the translation right
The website says you know who this is about?
I said NO
I read this 10 years ago, all I remember’s I baked a cake about it
Website said, well you’ll wanna know then
Said, you’ll wanna know it’s about the Prophet Mohammed
I said well fuck
I’m not okay with that
The website said, it’s true
I said I’m not gonna align myself with that
So out the door Dante went

So I look through my other ideas
I’m thinking, I’ve got all kinds of love poetry shit
I’m in love with this dude back in New York
Already married – monogamous (BOOO!)
Doesn’t matter to me tho
Of course not
I’ve written aaaaaaall about it, you know
I think, I could write some letters
Maybe like breaking ties emotionally
But it feels kinda lame, you know?
You can say it, I KNOW
So I think to myself
Maybe I wanna do something else
I said yeahhhh
I’m tired of writing this guy poetry
Lord, I am
So out the door he went

Everyone say
Whatchu gonna write?
I say, look man
I’m fresh out of ideas
They say, what you got?


Chorus:
One bigot, one old love, a ton of feeeear
Well I can’t adapt Dante cause he’s a bigot, I found
I saw for real what he was sayin and I turned right around
don’t wanna write no more unrequited love poems
Wanna find something that don’t deal with no tropes
My predicament’s tough, I’m sure you can see clear
I got one bigot, one old love, a ton of fear
One bigot, an old love, a ton of fear


Verse 3:
So I’m sitting down on my zabuton
In the Naropa Performing Arts Center thinking
What’m I gonna do for this song?
I’m thinking bout these old poems I’ve got
About depression and decomposition
Maybe put em to music
But I’m scared, you see, cuz
All I’ve got is a bigot
All I’ve got is an old love
All I’ve got is a lot of fear
Everybody’s asking what I’ll do for my song
They say, what you got?


Chorus:
One bigot, one old love, a ton of feeeear
Well I can’t adapt Dante cause he’s a bigot, I found
I saw for real what he was sayin and I turned right around
don’t wanna write no more unrequited love poems
Wanna find something that don’t deal with no tropes
My predicament’s tough, I’m sure you can see clear
I got one bigot, one old love, a ton of fear


Instrumental Solo


Verse 4:
Now by this time I’m thinking
Let’s just get meta
Let’s get reeeeeeal meta, now
So I write this song about
All the other songs I couldn’t bring myself to write
And I put it all to a tune that a white dude ripped off of African American musicians
So I learned
So it’s real imperfect and a little problematic
There’s one for your bingo card (BINGO!)
But it’s all I’ve got because the other options are still


Chorus:
One bigot, one old love, a ton of feeeear
Well I can’t adapt Dante cause he’s a bigot, I found
I saw for real what he was sayin’ and I turned right around
don’t wanna write no more unrequited love poems
Wanna find something that don’t deal with no tropes
My predicament’s tough, I’m sure you can see clear
I got one bigot, one old love, a ton of fear
One bigot, an old love, a ton of fear

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from Steven Taylor's Song Works: SWP 2016, released July 11, 2016

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