Soap and Such

New Ball & Smith song recorded last Thursday titled Soap and Such . . . aka The Jonah Icarus Minotaur Theseus Medea Jason RobinHood Hercules Fable Table Blues.

I’ve been avoiding blogging it because it’s strange stuff, odd, offputting . . . my double-tracked vocals start off fairly horrible and slowly improve to mediocre — but after you get used to the bad, it’s not so bad.

At least the music’s good, the chorus works quite well, and the words are not your usual blues lyrics. Perhaps its authentic unsmooth non-professional unsinging will come across as endearing primitiveness . . . or not.

Here it is –> -> -> Soap and Such.

Music mix recording Peter Ball of Apartment One; vocals words Smith.

Soap and Such

Saw a cat beat a drum with her tail
Flashed on Jonah swallowing the whale
And the life in which he lived to love to fail
But someone done told that tale

Icarus flew too close to the sun
Minotaur after Theseus did run
Medea for Jason killed her son
But they’re not the only one

  But first a commercial for soap and such
  It really won’t cost you all that much
  And we need to pay for this program
  Cuz our bread and butter needs new jam

Robin Hood robbed and taxed the rich
Whose greedy palms did always itch
For larger status tents to pitch
But way too much leads to ditch

Hercules had to clean their stables
Or the gods said we will you disable
Unless that’s just another fable
And I’m sitting at the wrong table

   Again a commercial for soap and such
  It really won’t cost you all that much
  And we need to pay for this program
  Cuz our bread and butter needs some brand new jam

All these tales tell outlandish lies
Trying to answer our unsettled whys
To explain what’s above the skies
The how and why we live our lives

But there ain’t no truth to a single one
Except for the truth in having a bit of fun
Though bits of truth in each one run
Yet no final answer till this this undone

  And finally a commercial for soap and such
  It really won’t cost you all that much
  So we need to pay for this here program
  Cuz our bread and butter wants some brand new jam

— Smith, 5.10.2012