Have it Now is the New Way to See

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”