The Pretzel Sisters (Mamie and Trixie)Meet Me in Iceland
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As I said, our first collaboration was born one weekend on a visit I paid him in Jacksonville. Due to our limited time, we apply my "instant classic" method of recording by taking something existing and mucking around with it. He had some recordings my brother had sent him, and I selected one my brother had titled "Meet Me in Iceland". |
Meet Me in Iceland (Original Version)
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Meet Me in Iceland
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Meet Me in Iceland (Pretzel Sisters Mix)
Well, that's all very nice and good, but it needed
something. That's where we came in. It took some time to
figure out where his verse/chorus scheme was (after all,
it wasn't really written that way), but I doped it out
and together we wrote lyrics. Iceland, honestly, is the
not most topic-rich subject I could imagine. I basically
made a list of keywords: Reykjavik,
glaciers,
volcanos,
geothermal
energy, whaling,
Mid-Atlantic
Ridge. It became a song mostly about how hard it
is to rhyme anything with Reykjavik. |
Meet Me in Iceland
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Lyrics I walk as a lonely child Along the icy Tundric shore I am afraid to be alive My walrus tusks are showing Meet me in Iceland Take the last train to Reykjavik Walk from my glaciers to my volcanoes What rhymes with Reykjavik? How do you spell Reykjavik? R E Y K J (betcha didn't expect that) A V I K It's really just like it sounds Meet me in Iceland Along my Mid-Atlantic Ridge The sad baby whales will be spawning We can always go back to Reykjavik What will we do when we're in Reykjavik? Pet the sad baby kitties in the animal shelter? Strangle a clown with piano wire? Have a nice dinner in a small cafe? Wanna be Donna Summer Got to be Donna Summer Wanna be Donna Summer Got to be Donna Summer Ba bah bad da bo doh - Yeah Yeah Ba bah bad da bo doh - Yeah Yeah Meet me in Iceland Let's go back to Reykjavik Two sad babies is too many babies Why did I try again to rhyme with Reykjavik? |
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