ST802174@BROWNVM.BITNET (02/07/90)
Anyone out there heard of Art Garfunkel's solo album "Fate for Breakfast?"
My buddy Jeff Drayfunkel and I found the album in this record store in
Princeton and we really liked the cover. Look for it if you can. Anyway, we
noticed that there was no song entitled "Fate for Breakfast", and it's such a
great title, so we wrote it ourselves:
Fate for Breakfast (Kaplan & Drayfunkel)
I'm missing a tooth, I haven't much hair
Paul was a wedding cake, I an eclair
I tried to write songs, Paul found them inane
I drank oragnge juice while he drank champaine
Since the Central Park gig we've become estranged
Now I'm just the guy who arranged.
I never found Emily, my skies are still cloudy
And now I'm left eating the dubious brownie
Doubt for Dessert
My idiot hair and my scrawny bare chest
Drive them all wild in West Budapest
I once was a rock and a rock feels no pain
But now Paul has left, my career's down the drain
Although I can sing, I'm a talentless fellow
Thus, all of my songs are by Michael Sembello
I have 68 albums, every one sucks
Now I dine with condiment ducks
I used to wake up in the morning with Kellogg's Cornflakes in my bowl
But now I'm eating destiny - My life's a soggy buttered roll
Yes... I'm eating Fate for Breakfast
************** What do you think, kids?ST601287@BROWNVM.BITNET (Mark Hessman) (02/07/90)
Yes! *Most* amusing. =) Wondering, by the way -- did you
actually buy the album, and if so is it any good? It's interesting
that Simon had all of the writing talent...
-- MarkST802174@BROWNVM.BITNET (Rob Kaplan) (02/08/90)
I did buy the album - it was only 99 cents, and I ripped it apart and stuck it on my wall -- The front cover has a really lame picture of Art in a bathrobe drinking a glass of orange juice with all this weird shit on his table. The back cover is cool too - it's Art eating chicken with bones all over his shirt. At the very bottom it says, cryptically, "Doubt for Dessert." The album was pure shit - pretty much unlistenable, kind of elevator music. Michael Sembello actually wrote a lot of the songs (You know, the guy who had that song "Maniac) I wound up breaking the record in half just so I would never have to hear it again. Poor Art - and I'm probably one of his biggest fans, too.