It's time to set the record straight: Trump has a history of sabotaging Medicaid and ACA subsidies, so it's hard to believe him as an angelic healer, and Roy Ayers-- who made some very groovy jazz/funk-- could have done better with the chorus of his 1976 tune "Everybody Loves Sunshine"— he must have heard America's "Horse With No Name" and been inspired by the lyric "there were plants and birds and rocks and things" because his bridge, "just bees and things and flowers," gets FOUR repetitions . . . he could have said "trees" or "leaves" instead of "things."
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Plants. Plants and birds and rocks and things. Not ants. Plants.
That doesn’t make it less boring. It might be more boring to have plants than ants. Ants are actually fascinating to observe. Plants… less so. Despite Stevie Wonder’s 1979 album Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants, which gives them way more credit than they have earned. Plants are obviously important to our existence, but a secret life worth singing about? No, Stevie. Except maybe the Venus Flytrap, but only if you can segue that into lyrics about Norfolk-born Tim Reid’s namesake character on “WKRP in Cincinnati”; that cat was worth lyrical inclusion.
So ants may in fact be more interesting to sing about than plants. But you have to get the lyric right, Dave. This is America.
i just improved the song with a typo! or how about "birds and ants and rocks and plants"? that's not bad
Nice work!
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