Years ago I wrote a satirical variant of Billy Joel's "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me." Not an improvement, and probably hasn't aged well. But I don't think I published it anywhere, so might as well put it up now:
“What’s the matter with the
song I’m playing
Will you tell me that it’s not
the time?
Maybe I should sing of fame and
fortune
And pretend that everything is
fine
Nowadays everybody wants
something sunny
Guarantees of fancy cars, and
piles and piles of money
Everybody’s pushing all this
new style on me
‘Have it now’ is the new way to
see
What’s the matter with the way
they’re thinking?
It just seems like a twist of
time
Back in old days things weren’t
as easy
But there wasn’t nearly so much
whine
Nowadays people go dancing all
around town
They have tons of fun while
their love of working goes down
Good days, good pay, good
times, all the way
‘Have it now’ is the new way to
see
Oh, we get up every morning and
we see in the paper
More bad news that we’ve
already seen
Scientists working oh so hard
everyday
To find the reason for every
bad thing
Try to keep it all running
How
about signing up with big business,
Where
you use all of your great wit?
We can
say for sure that you’ll love it
And
you’ll never want to call it quits
You know
if you say ‘no’ that you’ll get weaker
But
saying ‘yes’ will make you a great and rich speaker
Oh man,
what a plan, get it now, while you can
‘Have it
now’ is the new way to see
Best of
all it’s not considered cheating
And
there can never, ever be too much
Once you
get your foot in the door and make money
You’ll never, ever lose your touch
Good
days, good pay, good times, all the way
‘Have it
now’ is the new way to see
Everybody’s pushing all this
new style on me
‘Have it now’ is the new way to
see”
