30-Day Song Challenge (Day 3)

It's time for another 30-Day Song Challenge blog and given that most of my friends of Facebook have already completed their lists, I better get a wriggle on!

Song #3 - A song that makes me happy
One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces - Ben Folds Five (from the album Whatever and Ever Amen, released by 550 Music, 1997)


When I first heard this song in Year 7, it made me smile. Not just because of the awesome piano-rock that is Ben Folds Five (which also happens to be one of our biggest influences for our band), but because I could relate to the lyrics and th underlying message of the song. I went through so much crap in my first four years of high school, but like Ben Folds, I knew that some day, I'd be able to rise above the bullshit.

This song inspired me and now, more than 10 years later, I'm exactly where I want to be. Every time this song comes up on my iPod, it still cheers me up and I can't help but dance to it and sing along - even if it's in the middle of a train station and I look and sound like a weirdo!

Please watch the video, listen and enjoy!

Lyrics

September '75, I was 47 inches high,
My mom said by Christmas I would have ...
A badass mother G.I. Joe, for your little minds to blow,
I still got beat up after class.

Yeah, now I'm big and important,
One angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces of you.
If you really want to see me,
Check the papers and the TV,
Look who's tellin' who what to do.
Kiss my ass,
Goodbye!

Don't give me that bullshit,
You know who I am!
I'm your nightmare, little man.
Vic you stole my lunch money, made me cry.
Jane, remember second grade?
Said you couldn't stand my face!
Rather than kiss me,
You said you'd rather die ...

Now I'm big and important,
One angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces of you.
If you really want to see me,
Check the papers and the TV,
Look who's tellin' who what to do.
Kiss my ass,
Goodbye!

You'll be sorry one day,
Yes, you will, yes, you will.
You shouldn't push me around,
'Cause I will, yes I will.
You will be sorry when I'm big,
Yes, you will, yes you will,
You will be sorry!

Now I'm big and important,
One angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces of you.
If you really want to see me,
Check the papers and the TV,
Now ... look who's tellin' who what to do!
Kiss my ass!

Kiss my ass, kiss my ass, kiss my ass goodbye now!

Kiss my ass, kiss my ass, kiss my ass goodbye now!

September '75 I was 47 inches high ...

September '75, September '75 ...

AHHHHHH!!