Monday, March 30, 2009

Mannequin/Heads without faces, seen in all the places

I was sitting down listening to a pirated version of punk goes pop, embarassingly enough I've become a listener of this ridiculous series of cover albums; but hey we all have our guilty pleasures. Anyways me and my friends were wondering why the bands picked the songs that they picked (four year strong's cover was awesome by the way) and I was like hey we should do one. After about an hour and a half we had an acoustic remix/cover of Katy Perry's mannequin. I wrote it in about 35 minutes and I think it turned out pretty awesome. About 90% of this is from a song I wrote a while ago called "Heads without faces, seen in all the places", but it fit so well that I had to use it. Im not sure about recording it but you never know. The song choice was obviously mine, I think Mannequin is the best song on her album, it shows how good of a voice she really has and its so perfectly written, you can really visualize/feel/relate to the relationship in the song. If you haven't seen her perform this live your life is missing something. Here it goes.

I don't come with batteries or instructions
There's no button for push to start
You shove me just to see, if the lights come on

With us there is no receipt, oh
cause when they made me
they must of broke the mold
So much inside
but I don't know why
I still feel hollow

Cause Im just a man
And you want a mannequin
You just don't feel that my heart is real
But im just a man

I don't know about you
But is this how it concludes
Maybe its true
is it best to put it out of our heads

You wanna leave just to see
How long it will take me
To see that I was just a toy in disguise

But im not a man
Im just a mannequin
And I just don't feel that my heart is real
Im just a man

1 comment:

Jasmine-Renee said...

I'm not much of a fan of Katy Perry, but I admit I'm guilty of listening to Pop Goes Punk, even though my favorite in the series is Punk Goes Crunk. I like the lyrics, record it.