Parody lyrics
- Accountant Song came from thinking about a confusion of Marleys.
- Always Somewhere Skulking Behind Me considers that some who have donated organs may not have volunteered.
- Don't Worry Londo is another Babylon-5 filk with Londo thinking maybe Morden's reassurances aren't that valuable.
- Dracula, You Need a Better Coffin it's possible that I wrote those solely to play with the word "pine".
- For some of us, Babylon 5 was almost a religion...not least because of all the foreshadowing. But foreshadowing of everything, including Shadows, had to be some kind of joke, right? Farther Along - B5 Edition
- Golden Arches pokes fun at a fast-food chain, low-hanging fruit...I know.
- A Great Defender is a brief look at Faramir, his troubles, and especially his recovery.
- Guess Things Happen With Whey is a semi-rare visit to the world of nursery rhymes.
- Have You Ever Tried To Make Out With Mimes? started when the title arrived from nowhere and then went from bad to worse (or "verse").
- I Don't Want To Watch "House" was written in a moment of clarity when I realized that there are enough maladjusted people in real life without wasting time on an imaginary one.
- I'd Like To Teach The World To Ask describes the frustration of trying to figure out the actual problem when attempting to provide tech support.
- I Enjoy Being A Were is...a celebration of accepting yourself for what you are. Sure, let's go thit that!.
- If I Only Had A gun was inspired by Ben Carson quotes and the general insanity of gun culture. The choice of source material seemed appropriate.
- I Hear You Knocking had its beginning while watching a Firefly episode.
- I was writing a song that referenced Slaughterhouse 5 for an OVFF song contest. I'm Billy Pilgrim kept sneaking into my head, so I had to write it in order to concentrate on the other song..
- I'm Still Married is a bit of political fun, inspired by advances in legal decisions around gay marriage.
- It's My First Filk At Sally's: in which our hero learns that the only way to get some lines out of his head is to force them into other people's heads.
- I was thinking about people who write parodies of filk songs and so Killing Her Slowly happened.
- Kittens On The Net exists solely because the phrase reminded me so much of a song I heard in my childhood.
- Lady Came From Valinor began as a LiveJournal discussion about elves...of course.
- I posted this with the comment, "the only excuse for teh song's existence is 'cleverness'":The Lady Likes To Vamp.
- Lady Soul was conceived as a birthday surprise for a friend.
- Life During Con Times is one I'd been wanting to do ever since my first filk con car pool.
- Mice Ruined Terra combines Douglas Adams with total disrespect for a song that some take far too seriously.
- A very silly LotR song: Mirkwood 4-5789, done mostly because the title caught my fancy.
- I don't know if it still happens but Seanan McGuire would re-write each Pegasus nominee to the tune of another. I decided to sing about it in Mutated Songs.
- Truly mundane, My Wildest Dreams is an anthem of misplaced stuff.
- Notation Song seemed like a natural way of describing a bit of music theory.
- It's hard to put One Puff Too Many into any sensible context at all.
- Ouroboros was another quick song, written to externalize a song worm.
- Pain, Death, and Mutilation came about when I sang a serious, semi-ose song at a house filk and everyone kept waiting for the punch line.
- Once upon a time, I did all my music-related work on a Windows PC. Parts Sourced From Hell.
- Preying On Our Kind discusses parenting as it applies to fairy tales.
- Public Transportation was inspired by a line in a comment of a friend's LiveJournal. I was given permission to paraphrase to something I could put into song.
- The Ranger has an anonymous character trying to describe Aragorn to Denethor. (It may be confusing but it's a personal favorite.)
- The "War on Christmas" backlash against Starbucks' plain red cup produced Red and Blue.
- Of course a song called Rings is going to be about Sauron if I write it.
- At Moria, the Secret Key is needed to open a door -- a rather contrived plot point, I've thought.
- She Always Games describes an entirely fictional RPG campaign.
- After practicing a certain tune over and over in preparation for FKO 2006, I decided to re-cycle it into something that would remind me of that convention. A Song At The End Of 'Dead Penguin' came from that.
- Soul Man seemed like an obvious treatment of the "Crossroads" tale.
- Strange Pussycat Minds is based on a wonderful song by Rob Balder and Tom Smith. After hearing Rob perform it Friday night at OVFF, 2005, I just had to do something with it. It seemed to me that my cats were the ones with the richest fantasy lives.
- I've written a few songs about email spam. Svetlana is another one of them.
- The big, bad wolf intrigues me in his various incarnations and so: Tenderloins.
- The Things We Learn From Spam was a quick inspiration one morning after cleaning the normal load of junk out of my email inbox.
- As I get older and increasingly forgetful, Things I Did Today becomes more real.
- I read Bob Kanefsky's notes on parody from Torcon 3. He says parodies can be serious. This one is...and LotR too. Those Days
- Time Does Betray parodies a song that was popular in the late-60s, while explaining what happened next in the story of Merlin vs. the shopping mall.
- Though Firing Line was the first filk song I started, Vicious And Cruel was the first I completed. Like, how long could it possibly have taken?
- I have some problems with both sides in the intellectual property war. What's Found On The Net Is Free takes a quick shot at the pirates.
- Somebody on Facebook posted an article about clothing with a Star Trek Theme, so: Yes You Are.
- Zombie Cowboy is an alternate take on the Streets Of Laredo story.
Original: Redemption Song, by Bob Marley
Original:Always Something There To Remind Me, by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Original: Don't Worry Baby, by Brian Wilson and Roger Christian
Original: Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter, by Trevor Peacock
Original: Farther Along, by The Byrds
Original: Scarlet Ribbons, by Jack Segal and Evelyn Danzig
Original: The Great Pretender, by Buck Ram
Original: Guess Things Happen That Way, by Jack Clement
Original: Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?, by John Sebastian
Original: I Don't Want To Play House, by B. Sherril and G. Sutton
Original: I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing, by Backer / Davis / Cook / Greenaway
Original: I Enjoy Being A Girl, by Rodgers and Hammerstein
Original: If I Only Had A Brain, by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
Original: I Hear You Knocking, by Dave Edmunds
Original: I Am A Pilgrim, by Merle Travis
Original: I'm Still Standing, by Elton John
Original: Coming Into Los Angeles, by Arlo Guthrie
Original: Killing Me Softly WIth His Song, by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox
Original: Brennan On The Moor, 19th century ballad
Original: Lady Came From Valinor, by Tim Hardin
Original: The Lady Is A Tramp, by Rodgers and Hart
Original: Starsoul, by Burton-West / Krangle
Original: Life During Wartime, by Talking Heads
Original: God Lives On Terra, by Julia Ecklar
Original: Beechwood 4-5789, by Marvin Gaye, William Stevenson, and George Gordy
Original: Redemption Song, by Bob Marley
Original: Your Wildest Dreams, by Justin Hayward
Original: Wedding Song, by Paul Stookey
Original: Suzanne, by Leonard Cohen
Original: Hallelujah, by Leonard Cohen
Original: Peace, Love and Understanding, by Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello
Original: Heartbreak Hotel, by Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, and Elvis Presley
Original: Gentle On My Mind, by John Hartford
Original: Younger Generation, by John Sebastian
Original: The Stranger, by Billy Joel
Original: Black and White, by by David I. Arkin and Earl Robinson
Original: Things, by Bobby Darin
Original: Brand New Key, by Melanie Safka
Original: It Never Rains, by Albert Hammond and Michael Hazelwood
Original: A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow, by Michael McKean and Annette O'Toole
Original: Soul Man, by Isaac Hayes and David Porter
Original: Rich Fantasy Lives, by Rob Balder and Tom Smith
Original: Rhiannon by Stevie Nicks
Original: Silhouettes by Frank C. Slay Jr. and Bob Crewe
Original: The Things We Do For Love, by 10CC
Original: Things We Said Today, by Lennon/McCartney
Original: These Days, by Jackson Browne
Original: Those Were The Days, by Gene Raskin
Original: Precious And Few, by Climax
Original: The Best Things In Life Are Free, by De Sylva / Brown / Henderson
Original: Yes It Is, by Lennon/McCartneys
Original: Rhinestone Cowboy: Things, by Larry Weiss