Thinking Long And Hard About You - Trousersnake

by @reinderd

Liner Notes

Second in my series of fictional bands. Since my voice has been destroyed by a bad cold which has also sapped my motivation to record and stopped me from experiencing new things to write about, I'm returning to a project I was considering doing for FAWM until I decided to write about life in our off-grid farm for a bit. That project was to create an album of songs by fictional bands, who played at a fictional festival called #Dunestock, on a fictional island. Trousersnake weren't supposed to be the headliners, but one headliner dropped out due to the death of their singer, and their substitutes had a bad case of demonic possession, so in the end, Trousersnake were helicoptered in to wrap things up.

Trousersnake, led by the charismatic and unfiltered Dana Cloverhill since 1975, have been described by one critic as delivering "Goofball cock-rock brought to you by mountains of cocaine", and with that as my brief for the band, I set about creating some really dumb, puerile lyrics.

I've also written part of the music and made some scratch demos but there's no real way for me to complete them until I have at least the semblance of a voice, so #lyrics-only is what it will be for now.
#parody

Lyrics

Gm
You make my heart pound; I've got a big heart.
All my equipment is state of the art
C
I won't deny it, you're haunting my dreams
Gm
Until I'm coming apart at the seams.

Pre-chorus
F - Gm
Oh come on baby, don't turn me down
F - A
I cannot hold up, the pressure mounts!

Chorus
Gm
I've been thinking, long and hard, about you!
I've been thinking, long and hard, about you!

F? Gm?
I can't go on much longer,
My love is getting stronger,
Gm
I've been thinking-
[Drum roll]
Long and hard about you!

Verse
I take the long shots
I shoot from the hip
I hope you don't mind
If I sound too flip
Just try to run it
Up the totem pole
I will salute you
With my heart and soul

Pre-chorus
F - Gm
Oh come on baby, don't turn me down
F - A
I cannot hold up, the pressure mounts!

Bridge
I'm still looking for the words to say
Don't know how I can make it clearer
What I am trying to communicate
I want to hold you ever nearer
And nearer…

Chorus
I've been thinking, long and hard, about you!
I've been thinking, long and hard, about you!
I can't go on much longer,
My love is getting stronger,
I've been thinking-
[Drum roll]
Long and hard about you!

Verse
I know you'll find me an upstanding man
and I will please you the best that I can
The world's your oyster
And you can be mine
Let's just keep pounding
'till the end of time.

Pre-chorus
F - Gm
Oh come on baby, don't turn me down
F - A
I cannot hold up, the pressure mounts!

Chorus
I've been thinking, long and hard, about you!
I've been thinking, long and hard, about you!
I can't go on much longer,
My love is getting stronger,
I've been thinking-
[Drum roll]
Long and hard about you!

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