Song Parodies
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 8:21 am
I wasn't sure whether to put this in the Off-Topic forum or the Fun & Games forum, but I wanted to create a topic to let everyone see a few song parodies that I wrote. I don't know if anyone else on this board has ever written any, but feel free to share if you have!
The first one was written to the tune of the Billy Joel song "Just The Way You Are". A friend of mine who was in a band back in the early 1990's actually came up with the first few lines, and then I took it from there. Later today, I will post another song parody that I wrote. Let me know what you think.
JUST THE WAY YOU ARE - Anti-Suicidal Version
[TO: “JUST THE WAY YOU ARE” / BILLY JOEL]
Don't go blowing off your head now
Don't stare so deeply at that knife
Don't be taking no poison pills now
Don't be gambling with your life
Don't go leaping from tall buildings
And don't jump in front of a car
Don't you lie down on the train tracks
We love you just the way you are.
Don't you light yourself on fire
Don't hang yourself from a tree
Don't stick your finger in a socket
Or get stung by a killer bee
Don't put your head in a guillotine now
Don't beat your head with a steel bar
Don't take a boat ride on the Titanic
We love you just the way you are.
We know that you’ve been feeling down so low
That you just want to disappear
But suicide is not the way to go
These are words that you must hear.
So don't go wading into quicksand
Or dive into a pool of tar
Don't take a bath in sulfuric acid
We love you just the way you are.
Don't start drinking Liquid Drain-o
Don't you light a trick cigar
We don't want you to kill yourself now
We love you just the way you are…

The first one was written to the tune of the Billy Joel song "Just The Way You Are". A friend of mine who was in a band back in the early 1990's actually came up with the first few lines, and then I took it from there. Later today, I will post another song parody that I wrote. Let me know what you think.
JUST THE WAY YOU ARE - Anti-Suicidal Version
[TO: “JUST THE WAY YOU ARE” / BILLY JOEL]
Don't go blowing off your head now
Don't stare so deeply at that knife
Don't be taking no poison pills now
Don't be gambling with your life
Don't go leaping from tall buildings
And don't jump in front of a car
Don't you lie down on the train tracks
We love you just the way you are.
Don't you light yourself on fire
Don't hang yourself from a tree
Don't stick your finger in a socket
Or get stung by a killer bee
Don't put your head in a guillotine now
Don't beat your head with a steel bar
Don't take a boat ride on the Titanic
We love you just the way you are.
We know that you’ve been feeling down so low
That you just want to disappear
But suicide is not the way to go
These are words that you must hear.
So don't go wading into quicksand
Or dive into a pool of tar
Don't take a bath in sulfuric acid
We love you just the way you are.
Don't start drinking Liquid Drain-o
Don't you light a trick cigar
We don't want you to kill yourself now
We love you just the way you are…