I wrote this goofy song while attending BYU (Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah).
I recorded it, with the help of my brother Bill, around 1984 back at home in
Bakersfield (California). I performed all of the vocals, guitars, bass, foot stomps,
hand claps, and finger snaps.
We recorded this overdubbing from track-to-track on a reel-to-reel tape recorder.
I performed this song with my roommates in a talent show, where they held
me upside-down by the ankles, while I played guitar and we all lip-synced together
to this recording. I thought they were going to drop me on my head (they
were getting tired of holding me up), so I didn't do too well acting love-sick while performing.
Here are the lyrics:
You must have passed my way again;
'Cause here I am, my face in sand.
Those feet of mine just go aloft;
When you walk by, I'm downside-up.
The earth is up above (swirling, swinging, ...)
And the sky is down below; (somersaulting, ...)
The sidewalk's on my head; (overturning, ...)
I look ridiculous, I know... (oh... oh...)
Oblivious to propriety (thoroughly, entirely...);
Apparent incongruity (utterly, completely...);
Misplacing his identity (totally, conclusively...);
Revealing his insanity! (Absolutely flipped you see!)
The world is overturned to me;
Since I met you my toes are free
From mother earth's firm gravity.
(Scientific impossibility!)
When I see you I'm hopelessly
Lost to all reality;
Something's coming over me;
It is my feet when you I see.
With my shoes protruding in the air,
Pedestrians will gawk and they will stare;
Obviously, I just don't care;
This malfunction is beyond repair!
The earth is up above
And the sky is down below;
My brain is turvy-topsy
I'm heels over head in love with you,
I know...
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