Reaching For Stars

PART 4: WORDPLAY

This was the second Mraz song I got obsessive with.  Even now, when I listen to it, I can’t do it just once.  I’m still obsessed.  And I can proudly sing all the words =]

The music video for this song is STRANGE.  He’s playing guitar and singing (barefooted)… sitting on a log on a hillside.  It ends with blood and village people (not the band) and rocks.  I’m NOT posting this music video.

The song is like his lyrical anthem.  I’ll post the lyrics and let you interpret what I mean.

I've been all around the world/ I've been a new sensation/ But it doesn't really matter/ In this regeneration/ The sophomore slump is an uphill battle/ And someone said that ain't my scene/ 'Cause they need a new song/ Like a new religion/ Music for the television/ I can't do the long division/ Someone do the math/ For the record label puts me on the shelf up in the freezer/ Gotta find another way to live the life of leisure/ So I drop my top/ Mix and I mingle/ Is everybody ready for the single and it goes/

Ha La La La La/ Listen closer to the verse I lay/ Ha La La La La/ It's all about the wordplay/ Ha La La La love/ The wonderful thing it does/ Because, because/ I am the wizard of ooh's and ah's and fa-la-la's/ Yeah The Mr. A to Z/ They say I'm all about the wordplay/

And it's time to get ill, I got your remedy/ For those who don't remember me/ Well let me introduce you to my style/ I try to keep a jumble in the lyrics never mumble/ When the music's makin' people tongue-tied/ You want a new song/ Like a new religion/ Music for the television/ I can't do the long division/ Someone do the math/ For the people write me off like I'm a one-hit wonder/ Gotta find another way to keep from goin' under/ Pull out the stops/ Got your attention/ I guess it's time again for me to mention the wordplay/

Ha La La La La/ Listen closely to the verse I lay/ Ha La La La La/ It's all about the wordplay/ Ha La La La love/ The wonderful thing it does/ Because, because/ I am the wizard of ooh's and ah's and fa-la-la's/ Yeah The Mr. A to Z/ They say I'm all about the wordplay/

I built a bridge across the stream of consciousness/It always seems to be a flowin'/ But I don't know/ Which way my brain is goin'/ Oh the rhymin' and the timin'/ Keeps the melodies inside of me/ And they're coming/ 'Till I'm running out of air/ Are you prepared to take a dive into the deep end of my head/ Are you listening to a single word I've said?/

Ha La La La La/ Listen closer to the words I say/ Ha La La La La/ I'm Stickin' to the wordplay/ Ha La La La Love/ The wonderful thing it does Because/ because I am the wizard of ooh's and ah's and fa-la-la's/ Yeah the Mr. A to Z/ They say I'm all about the wordplay

Ha La La La La/ I'm all about the wordplay/ Ha La La La La/ I'm stickin' with the wordplay/ Ha La La La Love/ I love the wonderful thing it does/ Because, because/ The ooh's and ah's and fa-la-la's fall back in love/ For the Mr. A to Z they say is all about the wordplay

Long song, but a wonderful one.  And those lyrics rip FAST, man!  But it's so impossibly great.  My favorite parts are "Because because the oohs and ahhs and fa la la's fall back in love" and the vibrato at the end of "Are you listening to a single word I've said?".

Tomorrow's song:  DID YOU GET MY MESSAGE, in honor of He's Just Not That Into You.