Robbie Fulks
Текст песни Fountains Of Wayne Hotline

I hung a shingle
Country Music for Hire
No fans, no singles
10 years later I'm tired

Now I've racked my brain
And I've looked all around
But I can't find a way
to freshen my sound

And now who do you call
when you're down to one musical dime?
Fountains of Wayne Hotline

(phone ringback)
— Fountains of Wayne Hotline. Gerald speaking. How can I help you?

· Oh, yeah. Thanks. Uh, hello. Um, yeah, I'm a country singer in a small Midwestern town. And I'm here in the studio today. Uh, let me explain. We're working on a track. And uh we juhs, dih- dih- dih- just did a verse. It was kind of broken down. And at this point I'm not sure where to take it. Where to go from here...

— Sir, sir. Calm down. We can help you. We can help you. What you need to do is employ the "radical dynamic shift"

· The, The radical... yes, uh, wha-, what do you mean by that?

— You know. Full band entry, fortissimo, while maintaining consistent apparent volume on the vocal track.

· Oh. Oh! Yeah, yeah! That's a great idea! Thanks a lot. Thanks for you time.

— My pleasure. We're always here.

In search of strength
to face another filthy stage
Beating these 3 chords
in an early middle rage

I'd be better off with
7 a hand
An analog synth and an
angry young band

Then I could turn my muddy water
into sweet Mexican wine
Fountains of Wayne Hotline

— Slightly distorted melodic solo!
— Check!

(phone ringback)
—Hotline. Department of Bridges and Infrastructure. Grant speaking.

· Oh yeah, hi there. I called a little while ago. I talked to a gentleman. I believe his name was Gerald. And, um, he...

— Sir, we've got about 7 Gerlads here. You're talking to me now.

· Yeah, of course, yeah. The point is I'm in the middle of the song, we're about 3 minutes in, and I'm not sure where to take it from here. We've done a couple verses and its just kind of, um hit a, hit a wall.

— Yeah. Yeah, well, Tell me about your textural variations and harmonic palette that you have going so far.

· Oh of course. Well, um. Two 16-bar verses, the first one broken down, followed by a radical dynamic shift.

— Oh, THAT Gerald.

· A slightly distorted melodic guitar solo. And chordally, let's see, a 1, a 5, a 4, with and without a sub-dominant 7, a 2, 2 minor, and briefly a 9th compound over the tonic.

— Uh, well that 9th, is that telegraphed or just gratuitous coloration?

· Um, a bit of both, actually.

— Oh, OK. Well let's hit the bridge, I'll tell you what you do. No new chords introduced. Get a split bar of 4 in there, and push the one. and then we'll slather the whole hell out of the thing with a semi-ironic Beach Boys vocal pad. And then an asymmetrical back hand. There's your bridge.

· Uh huh.

— Yep.

· Isn't that a lot of information to put in the...

— Sir, I've been on this hotline for 15 years you're gonna havta trust me on this one.

· OK, OK. Thank you very much. I'll give it a try. Thank you.

— You got it, Chief.

Oh, yeah
Now we're getting bigger, full
Oh, yeah
Try a wider interval

Just like this? Oh yeah
More like: Oh yeah!
Check me out: oooooooo, yeah!

I feel invincible and all dialed-in
Can of Long Island with some West Coast sin

So let's cut to the coda
Any old gimmick is fine
Fountains of Wayne Hotline