{"id":504,"date":"2005-01-24T11:02:11","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T11:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=504"},"modified":"2005-01-24T11:02:11","modified_gmt":"2005-01-24T11:02:11","slug":"six-layer-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Six Layer Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, for the past year, I've neglected to put any Unrest on my iPod - a terrible mistake. Before they ceased to exist as a band, Unrest could write perfect pop songs - simple, blissful, and irresistably catchy. That they didn't dominate, or even reach, the singles charts (and change the sound of pop music forever), proves just how perverse the world is.<\/p>\n<p>So, I dropped a few Unrest albums onto the iPod over the weekend; and now, Monday morning, the magic of the iPod shuffle presents me with their super-sweet Six Layer Cake. <\/p>\n<ul>i'm up and<br \/>\nyou're with me this time<br \/>\nyou're up and<br \/>\nstill in the shine<br \/>\npull over<br \/>\nyou're getting dressed<br \/>\nall touching<br \/>\nall the right<\/p>\n<p>chrous:<br \/>\n6 5 5 4 3 2 2 1<br \/>\n6 5 4 3 2 2 layer<br \/>\n6 5 4 4 3 3 2 1<br \/>\n6 5 4 3 2 1 layer cake<\/p>\n<p>i've called you<br \/>\nwith my head<br \/>\nmy fingers<br \/>\nyour lips to my hand<br \/>\nFront Royale<br \/>\nbig kitchen day<br \/>\nmy fingers<br \/>\nall over<\/p>\n<p>6 5 5 6 3 2 layer<br \/>\n16 fingers 8 feet high<br \/>\n10 7 6 5 4 3 2 1<br \/>\n6 5 4 4 2 2 layer cake<\/p>\n<p>one layer on halloween<br \/>\nno hands where<br \/>\nthey ought to be<br \/>\nin pockets<br \/>\nkeeping this in<br \/>\nin pants and<br \/>\ni'm so so<\/p>\n<p>10 6 10 6 7 6 layer<br \/>\n10 6 7 6 10 6 high<br \/>\n10 6 5 4 4 3 2 1<br \/>\n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 cake<\/p>\n<p>fingertips show the way<br \/>\nrelax on<br \/>\nUSMA<br \/>\npull over<br \/>\nyou're getting dressed<br \/>\nall touching<br \/>\nall the right<\/p>\n<p>6 6 6 6 6 6 layer cake<\/p>\n<p>with my<br \/>\ni'll give you a slice<br \/>\nof mine\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lyrics rarely hold up without the music, and these are no exception. Without the music, it's probably impossible to appreciate just how fun a song can be when the chorus seems to be just a random stream of numbers; but when you hear it, the blissed-out exuberance of Mark Robinson's delivery makes even \"6 5 5 4 3 2 2 1\" catchy and fun to sing along with. And if it's hard to remember when he sings \"6 5 5 4 3 <b>2<\/b> 2 1\" <i>vs.<\/i> \"6 5 4 4 3 <b>3<\/b> 2 1\", then singing along becomes more like a game of follow the leader. And nobody cares if you get it wrong because it's just a nonsense sequence anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn't find these lyrics anywhere on the net. So I'll post them here in case anyone else needs them - or in case anyone knows what he's saying in the places I missed. <strike>A couple of those lines are definitely wrong, but I just couldn't decipher what he as saying. Maybe they're in the liner notes, I'll check when I get home.<\/strike> Corrected from the liner notes. The things I missed were things that don't make a lot of sense in this context: USMA, Front Royale ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, for the past year, I've neglected to put any Unrest on my iPod - a terrible mistake. Before they ceased to exist as a band, Unrest could write perfect pop songs - simple, blissful, and irresistably catchy. 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