Naked In The Danger
- Genre: Rock
- Time: 04:13
- Released: 9/11/2004
- Label:
- Album: Mood Swings
- Credits:
- Artist: Steve Sobek
- Location: West Chester, Pa.
- Sounds Like: Fluid folk-pop alternative, with an electronic flavor.
Song Information:
There once was a Sunday comic called "Bloom County," and a spinoff of it called "Outland." In one of them, world-famous penguin Opus and his buddy Steve Dallas decided to "drop out" by stripping off their clothes and laying naked in the daisies. It was great, the strips showed them laying in a field of yellow and green on top of a hill. Eventually, they tired of the boredom and went back to society. But the idea was still in my head when there was a news magazine show on whether we were scaring ourselves to death with all of the things we worry about today. The idea was that the stress caused by worrying about cancer or being in an airplane crash was more likely to hurt you than the thing you were afraid of. That's where this song came from. Also, that looping melody you hear in the beginning of the song and after the first chorus is actually a GarageBand loop of a fiddle.
Song Lyrics:
So the rat race has got you down
Everybody's pushing you around
Don't worry, just shrug it off
Everyone's got a new complaint
Government with a new restraint
I'm still alive, where are the risks?
When you look at the sky at night
Tell me now, is everything alright?
That's what I thought
Sometimes you've got to take the risk
And give death that fatal kiss
Headfirst, into the abyss
Don't you talk to me like that
Tell me I'm going to die
I'll take my chances today
And live my life
I know there's danger out there
It's nothing new
It's hard enough to live sometimes
Without being afraid
So I take off all my clothes
And quietly go to sleep
Lying naked in the danger
So you switch on your TV set
Thinking x-rays will get you yet
You want to bet?
There are funny things in the air
Drink the water, if you dare
You're still there
I'm willing to speak my mind
Just give me a little time
To say, do what you want
As for me, I live for today
With danger, I'll always play
Someday, I'll die, anyway
Don't you talk to me like that
Tell me I'm going to die
I'll take my chances today
And live my life
I know there's danger out there
It's nothing new
It's hard enough to live sometimes
Without being afraid
So I take off all my clothes
And quietly go to sleep
Lying naked in the danger
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