Check Out: Ted Leo writes a song
Ted Leo showed off his amazing musicianship last night, particularly his ability to write and record a brand new song in under two hours. And a pretty good song at that.
Appearing on the WFMU’s The Best Show, Leo and host Tom Scharpling invited listeners to call in and contribute lyrics for a new song. Some two hours later, “The World is in the Terlet” was alive and kicking across the world of live internet radio.
Scharpling also recently sat down with Leo for an interview.
Check Out:
“The World is in the Terlet”
Full show complete with song writing process
“The World is in the Terlet” lyircs: (via)
Big Steve is on the drum set
Counting it four by four
Little Jimmy jamming the six-string
Giving the people more
Count Violence bringing the low-end
Cuz that’s all that he knows what to do
And my name’s Ted
That’s what I said
And the western world will perish in fifteen years
And then in the year sixteen when the world is clean
Clean of this hipster scene
Well all their ghosts will scream for what their souls have seen
And the tapas they could have been eating
But
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
And we’re all gonna die.
Aw
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
So don’t ask why
Come on!
Nothing to drink I’ve got nothing to eat
I’m barely alive I’m dead on my feet
The East River boiled and belched up a cadaver
The corpse walked to Enid’s for a drink and some pelaver
And
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
And we’re all gonna die
Yeah
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
So don’t ask why
[guitar]
Cuz
The proof is in the pudding
The proof is in the pudding
The proof is in the pudding
And you don’t ask why
I said
The proof is in the pudding
The proof is in the pudding
The proof is in the pudding
So give it a try
It
Was
Supposed
To Be
My
Moment
of
Triumph
Ted Leo 2008 Tour Dates:
06/12 - Toronto, ON @ The Mod Club Theater
06/13 - Toronto, ON @ Dundas Square
06/19 - Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Center *
06/20 - Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Center *
06/21 - Richmond, VA @ Gallery 5
06/22 - Washington, DC @ Verizon Center *
06/24 - New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden *
06/25 - New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden *
06/26 - Poughkeepsie, NY @ Cunneen Hackett Theatre
06/27 - Hartford, CT @ Dodge Amphitheater *
06/28 - Mansfield. MA @ Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts *
06/30 - Mansfield. MA @ Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts *
07/17 - New York, NY @ Castle Clinton
* = w/ Pearl Jam
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