Just thought I'd give y'all a heads up about a great track on the radio right now.  Ben Folds has apparently done a rerecording of Rockin the Suburbs featuring none other than WILLIAM SHANTER as "Bill" the disgruntled neighbour!  If you haven't heard it, go over to itunes or something and check it out!  Or, since you're probaly not going to do that, here are the lyrics.  Enjoy! 
Let me tell y'all what it's like
Watching idol on a friday night
In a house built safe and sound
On indian burial ground
Sham On
We drive our cars everyday
To and from work both ways
So we make just enough to pay
To drive our cars to work each day
We're rocking the suburbs
Around the block just one more time
We're rocking the suburbs
Cause I can't tell which house is mine
We're rocking the suburbs
We part the shades and face facts
They got better looking Fescue
Right across the cul de sac
Hotwheels take rising stars
Get rich quick seminars
Soap opera magazines
40,000 watt nativity scenes
Don't freak about the smoke alarm
Mom left the TV dinner on
Yet we're rocking the suburbs
From family feud to Chevy Chase
We're rocking the suburbs
We numb the muscles in our face
We're rocking the suburbs
Feed the dog and mow the lawn
Watching mommy balance the checks
While daddy juggles credit cards
Hi, sorry to bother you 
The name's Bill 
I live just across the street 
Yeah that's right over there 
No, no not that house, the one next to it with the extra flower bed 
Oh, and here's all your papers from the last few days, they were just piling up on the driveway where the...whole neighborhood could see them 
Not that that's a problem of course 
But that and the grass being a little overgrown 
Might give someone the impression that you Were out of town 
And you wouldn't want that 
I've got to be going shortly to a little 
class I've been attending I just... 
No, no, no, no not pottery or anything like that it's uh... 
An ANGER MANAGEMENT class 
Actually, 
and speaking of that very class 
They've been emphasising finding some common ground 
With people before you confront them 
to avoid becoming violent, you know? 
Well actually we do have a few things in common 
Here could you take these papers 
They're getting my suit wet 
and as I was saying 
we do live on the same cul-de-sac 
That's common ground 
and I believe we actually have the same house plan, except the reverse, your garage is on the left and mine's on the... 
No, it wasn't me that dialled 911 at 6:31pm Wednesday about your son's noisy rock band 
anyway it's about your dog 
And of course about our garbage 
And the neighbor's garbage can 
No, I'm sorry it is your dog 
Who's been strewing garbage around the block 
And I have digital evidence 
Complete with red eye reduction 
which I will e-mail to you 
to prove that it is in fact your dog 
Now, I should warn you that I have a black belt in in karate too 
and I'm certainly don't mind using it if necessary 
No, not on you man 
ON...YOUR...STINKING...DOG 
We're rocking the suburbs
Everything we need is here
We're rocking the suburbs
But it wasn't here last year
We're rocking the suburbs
You'll never know when we are gone
Because the timer lights come on
And turn the cricket noises on each night
Yeah, yeah, we're rocking the suburbs
Yeah, yeah, we're rocking the suburbs
-D
 

5 comments:
what a great song! And Kirk singing!
who would have thought!
He's a native Citizen!
And slurpee's made from Venicine!
-Dave
Hi Dave,
Is that "venison" ie deer meat?
Love, Mom XX
yes, deer meat in deed! it is from a five iron frenzy song... "let's go to canada..." i am sure you have heard dave play it before.
We have our birth certificate, now we just have to hit the road!
Janie
Mom & Dad say:
WHOOOOHOOOOOO!
Love, Us XX
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