FAWM: "Clown"

Clown

2 weeks ago by @elltarune

Clown

elltarune

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Liner Notes

This one used to be about a boy. But who needs boys when you got clowns, am I right? So this one's just about bein silly and my weird love for clowns. #singersongwriter #pop #girlwithguitar

Lyrics

People say I'm pretty funny
They laugh at my jokes
and I make a silly noise
and my friends are on the ground in the blink of an eye
I've always been a running gag
I've always been the comic relief
The one who's got it In the bag

my friends will look at me and suddenly start to laugh
and it's like little cars and pies and things like that

I think I'm just a clown
Some people are scared of me
some people laugh
and I could drive you crazy
(x2)

The guys in my grade act funny
one says that he's scared of me
but that's my purpose my goal
to get them all to scream and curl
up in a ball and I laugh as they
scream like little girls at my face
my laugh makes them all run away
and that's the game that I always play

The guys will look at me and run away like that
and it's like popping balloons the creepy little laugh

I think I'm just a clown
some people are scared of me
some people laugh
and I could drive you crazy
(x2)

and all that bigtop
got me on the center stage
but it's all in
my brain it's got me crazed I
paint my face white go to school
I've given up trying to be cool
I'll make em all laugh
I'll make em all scream
maybe she's just as crazy as she seems

I think I'm just a clown
some people are scared of me
some people laugh
and I could drive you crazy
(x2)

Comments

@odilongreen 2w

Such a great tuneful toe-tapper. The slide whistle and other effects very much set the mood, but even without them, the guitar strumming on its own has a wacky upbeat (but also kind of dark) carnivalesque feel. I quite enjoyed the happy-but-disturbing funhouse mirror quality of this!

@everydayangels6 2w

I love this song! A total bop! You can’t help but groove along with it

@artie 2w

Slide whistle = FAWM achievement unlocked! I love your irreverence for conventional song writing. The outcome is always fantastic.

@flower 2w

Tritones FTW

@richaaaay 2w

Brilliant work. Fun and totally entertaining. Intoxicating, as expressed below, is a good description. Really appreciate the playfulness of the music and vocal delivery.

@samthom 2w

Shout out the silly sound effects absolutely love this!!! Love the wordplay and references :)

@jimeddy9 2w

The playfulness and tunefulness of this is intoxicating. This for me is a type of "dance around the kitchen" song, the wordplay and rhymes support the nice melodic flow. The clown references, and the notion of people being scared of the main character as a clown, reminds me of this Deep Thought from Jack Handy: "Some people think clowns are kind of funny. I think they're scary. Maybe this stems from the time that we went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad."