"Customer Service"

The pop gem is finally complete.  I coulda had it done sooner, but there are two things that I'm not very good at that stood in my way:

1.  not procrastinating
2.  playing the drums

Just to catch you up to speed--a little over two weeks ago, I asked my audience to give me a subject for Calvin's pop gem.  All I had in mind was that it was going to be about a girl.  I was going to think up a bunch of questions to try and get a picture of what I should write it about.  Thankfully, Alex had a plot in mind that was complete the way it was. 

• "The girl works at the coffee shop, and the narrator nurses the idea that the girl loves him because she is always nice to him and knows his order, even though in his heart he realizes that it is her job to be nice to him and know his order because that's how coffee shops get schleps like himself to come in every day and spend that much on coffee.

  The middle section could be when he encounters her at a bar or some public place and tries to strike up a conversation and she doesn't know who he is (being out of context) and even when she does, she kinda blows him off to talk to her friends. needless to say, his heart is broken

  ending: he goes into the coffee shop after staying away a week and she says, I'm so sorry I didn't recognize you the other night yadda yadda and the spell is once again cast"

So whoomp here it is.  It's called "Customer Service".  It's in the key of A.  There's a key change during the bridge.  There are backup vocals.  Length--3:30.  Pop. Gem. 

Download Customer Service

(if you listen closely, in the background you can hear Chris Paul tear his groin, and the Hornets blow a 17 pt. lead to the Blazers)

Lyrics after the jump

I was going to put lyrics after the jump, but I'm still figuring out how to do that.  I put "split extended entry" where I wanted my page break, but it's still not working.  Also my formatting's effed up.  As technologically challenged as I am, I'm going to blame typepad until I figure this out.  Anyway, here are the lyrics:

Customer Service

I think of the smell of coffee brewin'

each time I think of your face

and I know you wonder what the hell I'm doing

each time I come into this place

on the surface, I know I look nervous

but you used to give the worst customer service

until the day you remembered my name

and I noticed things weren't quite the same

then when I saw you

out of our element at the club

you didn't even know who I was

it was just like something

right outta the end of The Breakfast Club

at least I know where I stand and thanks for the snub

they say that there's no education in the second kick of a mule

so forgive the stress but this coffee's the best a

nd I already felt like a fool

but then you explain

you really did remember my name

you had alcohol and fear on the brain

cause the next day there was a plane

that you were supposed to catch

and a shady plan a man wanted to hatch

he'd already arranged for the trip

you had to find a safe way to give him the slip

and now you'll be getting a really huge tip

as your spell is cast all over again

Comments

[Alicia]

I woke up with it in my head!

[cokane]

OMG! I dig the story of this pop hit, I love the guitar--it reminds me of that comp I told you about, 60s Cambodian garage rock.
You can make the jump in the post with the little button above the body of the post in compose mode, it looks like a page breaking, then it inserts a dotted line that can only be seen in compose.

[Calvin]

Leash-thanks, sweetie! Although I think it was b/c I held your jambox up to your ear, with the song on repeat while you were sleeping last night.

Cokane-thanks, & thanks for the typepad help. I need to hear that comp at some point. I used the button that looks like a page breaking, and it put a dotted line with "extended entry" in the middle across my page. Do I have to be in edit html mode? Am I using the wrong button? What's happening to me? Where did I come from?

[bernhard]

What brand of guitar did you use on this track?

Interesting organic chaos to end the track. Nice background vox by...yourself.

[Calvin]

I am a very lucky boy in that my Dad bought a Gibson ES 335 back in '67, then put it in a closet until I dragged it out when I was 15 and just learning to play. I used it on all three guitar tracks. One of those I ran through my Memory Man to get that Leslie/vibrato sound.

That organic chaos you here is just me trying to end a song on drums.

And who better to complement Calvin, than Calvin? Great job, Calvins!

[Adam]

This one's kinda sad, or maybe wistful? I like how the lyrics tell a story, almost as if it could be in a conversation. Never been able to do that.