"Selfish (Live)"

words and music by Andreas Duus Pape
(c) 2003-2004 Andreas Duus Pape
(listen)


chorus:
I decided today to be a little more selfish
I decided today to be a little more mean
It ain't in my nature, but neither is success,
and I'd rather be dirty then a f*ckin' failure and clean
yeah I'd rather be dirty than a f*ckin' failure and clean.

I decided today to be a little more selfish
I decided today to start demandin' my way
Momma always told me "what goes around, comes around, boy,"
But it seems the sh*t done come around anyway
Oh, it seems the sh*t done come around anyway

Oh.

So people who've heard this song before know what's coming next. There's a
particular reason i wanted to record this song live, because there's an audience
participation component of this song. There's this weird thing about "I don't want to sing
in public," but I think it's a very cathartic song and, once you get over that, it's actually
very liberating. So it's fairly simple: I'm going to say the words of the chorus, and you're
going to repeat them after me. And then I'm going to sing the chorus, and immediately
I'm going to sing it again, and at that point, you know the words, you know the tune, and
you can just sing along. Alright? So you're all ready?
(chorus x3).
That was pretty good guys. There's more trickery, actually, so the next time I get to the
chorus, I'm going to scream the word "chorus," and you all know what to do, right? You're
all well-practiced, right?

How many times you seen the nice guys finish last?
How many times ya seen the assh*le get the girl?
My Mr. Nice Guy days are a thing of the f*ckin' past;
I say, if you don't swing your balls around, who will?
Oh, if you don't swing your balls around, who will?
If you don't swing your womb around, who will? yeah. chorus!

(chorus)

So that's, that's, that's the show. So we're going set up things for the album cover shot.

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