by Briyan Frederick & Joe Maki
Published by Blind Mime Music, ASCAP and Interloper Productions, BMI
© Brian F Baker, Joseph Alan Maki
All rights reserved. Contact BFBMusic.com/licensing

Steve Martin (the famous Steve Martin) posts absurd phone photos on facebook and this song was prompted by one. It's a lid on a floor captioned, "BIG NEWS! This lid landed on the floor and didn't roll under a chair or counter or anything. It landed and stayed." Joe provide an instrumental seed he named "Diddly Shit" and I used that as the music basis writing the lyric and then arranging it in sunoai.

That's What I Think About Lids

My thoughts are like lids
They're like socks or like kids
I've thought about this
Quite a lot, here's the gist
My thoughts tumble 'round
And get stuck as they twist

Over and under
Like they're running for cover
Now that I'm older
They're like a lost lover

But this one is different
This thought has a name
It follows at distance
I called it, it came

[chorus]
And that's what I think about lids

[instrumental break]

But let's change the subject
Before I forget
I admit it's quite suspect
Me feigning regret
When I don't recall
The essence or matter
It's nothing much more
Than animal chatter

[chorus]
And that's what I think about lids

[bridge]
Life sometimes rains on every parade
The clowns and the candy
Are tossed out of frame
You reach for piñatas
You swing and you miss
Then the next kid in glasses
Blows you one last big kiss

It's absurd on the surface
Absurd on its face
Absurdity's insistance
Is my lifelong disgrace
But I laugh at the question
When I think about things
That without hesitation
Would cause a blind mime to sing

[chorus]
And that's what I think about lids

[outro]
That's what I think
That's what I think
I'll nod and  you'll wink
But that's what I think about lids



That's What I Think About Lids

Blind Mime Music (ASCAP) is a Soundcloud for recordings of songs and music written by Briyan Frederick Baker (GAJOOB and Tapegerm Collective) and collaborators. Eventually songs will make their way onto Bandcamp albums and stream on all the usual outlets. Briyan has been making songs since junior and high school and these recordings contain 50+ years of material old and new. The music ranges from glitch pop to experimental.