Putting this song together was as quick and spontaneous as My Schtik Weighs A Ton was in 2005. That time a studio musician friend , Greg Den Hartog, called me up and said he had a piece of music that sounded right for me so I went into his studio and laid down a vocal the next day. And that was pretty much it.
This time I found a piece of music we had worked on for a film or tv project and started sing a lyric to it and again, that was it. The music was just guitar with a touch of keys and a tambourine. A circular kind of reel, like an Irish jazz thing.
The words? I did just write it down at some point, thinking of how Warren beatty used to say such and such was a "funny guy". That was it. The words people use in conversations, getting around things and trying to suggest things and finding ways to not say things. But yes, the times we are living through. We will look out the window today or in a few years and say "Everything Was Funny".
Everything was funny
don’t laugh
don’t get funny
I mean funny – like
“you’re a funny guy”
funny like , Warren Beatty funny
“I liked it – it was funny”
“there was somethin’ funny about that guy”
“somethin’ not quite right”
Everything was funny
Everything was funny
everything
well
if there was somethin’ funny goin’ on
that’s what I tuned into
and took away
that was my take away
Everything was funny
Everything was funny
except the stuff people laughed at
Everything was funny
right from the start
mostly it all stank
some things just went funny
I’m not funny
you’re funny
don’t get funny
Everything was funny
Everything was funny
Everything Was Funny- Dave Graney and Clare Moore album out now
itunes link
https://music.apple.com/au/album/everything-was-funny/1583892134
Bandcamp Compact Disc or digital album link
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