Song Lyric Sunday

Helen Espinosa chose an examination of anger as the Song Lyric Sunday theme this week.

I suspect love’s betrayal is the most common subject of anger in music. Carrie Underwood’s Louisville Slugger revenge song, Before He Cheats, came to my mind first, then Chicago’s murderous rage song, Cell Block Tango.

But I settled on another kind of anger altogether: alien megalomaniacal anger like Little Shop of Horrors’ Audrey II’s “fightin’ mad” song sung by the Four Tops.

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What is it and why is it so angry?  

 

Mean Green Mother from Outer Space

by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken

Better wait a minute.
Ya better hold the phone.
Ya better mind your manners.
Better change your tone.

Don’t you threaten me son.
You got a lot of gall.
We gonna do things my way.
Or we won’t do things at all.

Ya don’t know what you’re messin’ with.
You got no idea.
Ya don’t know what you’re lookin’ at
When you’re lookin’ here.

Ya don’t know what you’re up against,
No, no way, no how.
You don’t know what you’re messin’ with,
But I’m gonna tell you now!

Get this straight!
I’m just a mean green mother from outer space
and I’m bad.
I’m just a mean green mother from outer space
and it looks like you been had.
I’m just a mean green mother from outer space,
So get off my back, ‘n get out my face,
‘Cause I’m mean and green
And I am bad.

Wanna save your skin boy?
You wanna save your hide?
You wanna see tomorrow? (Ha-Ha!)
You better step aside.
Better take a tip boy.
Want some good advice?
Ya better take it easy,
‘Cause you’re walkin’ on thin ice.

Ya don’t know what you’re dealin’ with.
No, you never did.
Ya don’t know what you’re lookin’ at,
But that’s tough titty, kid!

The Lion don’t sleep tonight,
And if you pull his tail, he roars.
Ya say, “That ain’t fair?”
Ya say, “That ain’t nice?”
Ya know what I say? “Up yours!”

Watch me now!
I’m just a mean green mother from outer space
And I’m bad.
I’m just a mean green mother, a real disgrace,
And you’ve got me fightin’ mad.
I’m just a mean green mother from outer space,
Gonna trash your ass! Gonna rock this place!
I’m mean and green,
And I am bad.

Don’t talk to me about old King-Kong.
You think he’s the worst? Well, you’re thinkin’ wrong.
Don’t talk to me about Frankenstein.
He got a temper? -HA!- He ain’t got mine.

You know I don’t come from no black lagoon.
I’m from past the stars and beyond the moon.
You can keep the thing,
Keep the it,
Keep the creature, they don’t mean shit!

I got garden style, major moves.
I got the stuff, and I think that proves,
You better move it out! Nature calls!
You got the point? I’m gonna bust your balls!

Here it comes!
I’m just a mean green mother from outer space
And I’m bad.
I’m just a mean green mother from outer space
A real hard case. You can’t beat this trouble, man.
I’m just a mean green mother from outer space
So just give it up. It’s all over, ace.
I’m mean and green.
(Mean green mother from outer space.)
I’m mean and green.
(Mean green mother from outer space.)
I’m mean and green.
(Mean green mother from outer space.)
And I…am…bad!

Lyrics from AZ Lyrics

Song Lyric Sunday

Author: Sue Ranscht

Having survived valve repair surgery and an experimental cardiac bypass at age 5, three years before it was an accepted medical procedure, Susan grew into the size of her overworked and enlarged heart. Maybe she thought she had enough to give it away -- twice. Both times, she had to retrieve the shattered pieces and puzzle them back together. She thanks her Dad for the only advice of his she ever followed to the letter: "Never get married. Learn to take care of yourself." So of course she is a writer. Susan has co-written a YA SciFi novel, and has three more novels in various stages of evolution. She's had several short stories published in other people's anthologies, some of which were contest-related. Let her tell you a story...

25 thoughts on “Song Lyric Sunday”

    1. No, you’d have to be Bill Murray or Jack Nicholson (who played Wilbur Force, a masochistic undertaker who visited the dentist’s office in the 1960 non-musical version) to enjoy the dentist Steve Martin played. 🙂

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    1. So do I! There have been times when I’m up all night sewing and I’ve put Little Shop on and watched it 3 times in a row. lol. Great music, great casting, fun stylized acting, and terrific story.

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