Lyrics What Have They Done to My Song Ma? - Live - Melanie

Look what they've done to my song, ma
Look what they've done to my song
Well, it's the only thing that I could do half right
And it's turning out all wrong, ma
Look what they've done to my song

Look what they've done to my brain, ma
Look what they've done to my brain
Well, they picked it like a chicken bone
And I think I'm half insane, ma
Look what they've done to my song

I think if they were going to make the movie of my life
This would probably be the theme
The irony of the petty folks
This has turned into every kind of commercial, speaking of ironic
Look what they've done to Ramada
Look what they've done to my oatmeal

Look what they've done to my lifeboy
Lifeboy was a soap
I don't know if you had Lifeboy, did you have it?
I remember the ads in nineteen something
And it said Lifeboy has hexachlorophene
You know what hexachlorophene is?
It's a deadly, horrible poison, but they find this out later, you know
And they take Lifeboy off the market

Now the new bad chemical is triclosan or tric-losan
I think they have already removed it from all the shelves here
But they are giving the United States two years
Just two more years to make people deadly ill

(Oh no) Yeah, well you know I'm roaming off like this and I'm thinking
In my movie I haven't had, like you know
Like an event to happen, you know
That would make a big dramatic moment in the movie
Like in this song I'll be singing
Like you know like Loretta Lynn and coal miner's daughter, she just like looses it
She's on the road, she's on the road, she can't think anymore
She's doing all kinds of things to keep her awake

And here she is in front of thousands and thousands of people
And phew, because this is my movie and you are it!
You are in the movie, you are thousands and thousands of people
Yeah, and you're clapping, and you're happy and I'm happy
And we are all on the stage, and there is some huge band

And all of a sudden Melanie, who I thinks should be played by Holly Hunter
I would be so perfect, she's got this perfect demonic smile
I think, wouldn't she be a great role, I think so
Any way
So the movie, the movie end now
Melanie is losing her mind on the stage in front of you
thousands and thousands of people
La da da da, Lifeboy, and they have poison in Lifeboy, so

(Oh my God) And then it is like all silent and wierd
And the fish-eye lens, you know, goes and focusses on
Someone who is going "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!"
Oh, oh, oh! And the band is like
And then somebody call out in the blackness
Sid! 'Cause there is always a Sid

Sid comes out on the stage and comes to get me
I said, I'm okay Sid. Ehm, they are my friends, I'm just eh talking
And telling them everything. I'M OKAY SID!
Everybody, you know, got the wrong idea
You know with brand new key that just got the wong idea
It was, it was not about the cue, IT WAS ABOUT SEX!

Okay, okay, I am going, and then, okay
The film reads: 6 months later
And I'm back, and you're so happy for me
I'm back and I'm all better, and you're so happy!
And you stand up and cheer!
Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up
Because I'm all better! Thank you!

I maybe, maybe I'll be all right
Maybe, it'll all be okay
Well, if the people are buying tears
I'm goin' to be rich girl someday, ma
Look what they've done to my song
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Look what they've done to my song, ma
Look what they've done to my song
Well, they tied it up in a plastic bag
Turned it upside down, pa pa
Look what they've done
Well that's done to save the law mama
Look what they've done to my (now right here, the credits are goin' to roll)

I know you need a big finish
To my
Song, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah