Lick the Bowl - 11/29/10

Scapey's Essay/Intro to the song:
Ok, so like, here we go, once upon a time, hello. My name is Scapie. This is my third song of the semester, and again, I had to focus on a layer of the song because that is the assignment. So, the layer I focused on this time was, ok, the lyrics. So the first thing that I did was to say "Hey, self, Scapie," (that is me), "What do you want this song to be about?" And what happened was just before I wrote the song Dad had had lunch, and he had a soup that was made out of cheese and broccoli and chicken, and I was like "Hey, dad...that smells pretty good, do you want to give it to me?" and he was like "No!" but when he finished eating he put down his bowl and guess what? It had lots of little...of the juice, you know, on it from the food, and I was like "Heh heh heh, I will lick it," and so I licked it, and so when I sat down to write the song, I was like "What is something that means a lot to me?" and I was like "Well, getting to lick the bowl after somebody eats is really...awesome, and I should try to write a song to convey how great it is." So, I did.

After I wrote all the words, all of them, then I wrote a little melody like in my head, like "Humma numma humma," like that, in my head, and then I was like "Dad, here's the melody, I'm gonna sing it--SING!" and I sang it, "And you figure out how to play ukulele underneath it," and he did, and I was like "Do it like this, like this, like this," like that, and, uh...he did, and he played it "Ka-chang, ka-chang," and that was the ukulele part, and then I was like "I'm gonna sing again, but I'm gonna sing different notes this time." That's what we call harmony, ok? That was good. And finally, we had some snapping fingers that we put in to keep like a rhythm, but that was the last part we added. So, overall I think this song ended up being really sensitive, ok? And really emotional, ok? Because I wrote it about such a topic that is near and dear to my heart. Yes. Thank you.