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my friend, sits at the drum
his magic hand feels nothing but time
nothing but time
my only friend sits at the drum
his magic mind doesn't feel anything
American flag is behind
if I could stand to be less difficult
my new friend, plays drums all the time
her magic heart feels everything
she plays the difficult parts and I play difficult
she goes:
shoop
shoo-pe-doop
shoo-pe-doop
shoo-pe-doo-pe-doop
shoopedoo
we go:
shoop
shoo-pe-doop
shoo-pe-doop
shoo-pe
doo-pe-doop
if I could stand to be less difficult
his magic hand feels nothing but time
nothing but time
my only friend sits at the drum
his magic mind doesn't feel anything
American flag is behind
if I could stand to be less difficult
my new friend, plays drums all the time
her magic heart feels everything
she plays the difficult parts and I play difficult
she goes:
shoop
shoo-pe-doop
shoo-pe-doop
shoo-pe-doo-pe-doop
shoopedoo
we go:
shoop
shoo-pe-doop
shoo-pe-doop
shoo-pe
doo-pe-doop
if I could stand to be less difficult
Lyrics submitted by typo
Track duration: 03:30
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I love the backwards Beastie Boys loop, as well as the "shoop shoop ba-doop" bit which I see as an obvious reference to Salt-n-Pepa.
it's a real simple beat, do you think she might have just played it, then ran it backwards?
-"my old friend", not "my only friend"?...i know it's sorta hard to tell with the way she pronounces things, but it also seems to fit better since she later says "new friend"
-I thought of the connection between drums and the American flag being the drums that would be played going into battle in the American Revolution. A drummer would play a very constant beat ("nothing but time") for everyone to march to. But I guess it's a political statement in the second part, when she says "his magic mind doesn't feel anything" because even though those drums may represent something, the connection has lost any meaning. (i.e. patriots still have the drive but not the values)
-oh, and that drum beat underneath is sampled from the beastie boys