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#11: Rock Star Girl April 16th, 2006

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Let me be your rock star girl
just because I think that I could love you
more than everyone already does
We could show each other
how to see and to be seen
Don’t you think that we’d be perfect
in every magazine?
I will be your rock star girl
if you’ll be my rock star boy
Happily ever after until next year comes around
Writing songs that are much too long
Pretending we are profound
Don’t look now
I see your makeup streaming down

Let me be your rock star girl
Don’t get me wrong;
I understand that we are hopeless
but it’s okay just as long
as we both swallow our ambitions
Turn your good face to the man
Don’t you see, they see right through
your visionary plans?
I will be your rock star girl
if you’ll be my rock star boy
Happily ever after or until we both pass out
Writing songs that are much too long
Pretending we are profound
And we’ll freak out with our makeup streaming down

It’s amazing just how free you are
when you’re doomed before you begin
in some kind of psychic sellout
where the highest concept wins
I will be your rock star girl
if you’ll be my rock star boy
Happily ever after or until we hit the ground
Writing songs that are much too long
Pretending we are profound
And we’ll break up with our makeup streaming down

Posted on Sunday, April 16th, 2006. Comments are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

11 Comments to “#11: Rock Star Girl”

  1. At 10:01 pm on April 16th, 2006, Nick wrote:

    I’m so glad you reposted this (in case you haven’t caught me talking about it in various posts of late)!

  2. At 10:04 pm on April 16th, 2006, unbottled soul » Blog Archive » “You (by E.B. Red)” wrote:

    […] Songs that didn’t make the final poem, only the ones written just before that failed worse: Lindsey Kuper’s Rock Star Girl R.E.M.’s Losing My Religion […]

  3. At 10:06 pm on April 16th, 2006, unbottled soul » Blog Archive » “and we’ll break up with our makeup streaming down” wrote:

    […] The title for this post is a Lindsey Kuper lyric, from her song Rock Star Girl, which hasn’t yet been re-released via Shoebox Full of Tapes. I’m assuming, hoping that it will be someday (I mean, Try Not to Stare was…) [Edit 2006.04.17 01:04 Rock Star Girl now posted!]. It could describe parts of a dream I had last night (kinda nice to remember a dream again, for the first time in maybe a month or two) but I used it because of my emotional, my sadness, my unshed tears for this place. […]

  4. At 6:04 am on April 17th, 2006, Lindsey wrote:

    Nick — you can pretty much assume that any song I’ve ever written (except for the really awful ones) will turn up on SFoT sometime. I don’t write nearly enough of them to have the luxury of not using some.

    Thanks!

  5. At 8:54 am on April 19th, 2006, Des Traynor wrote:

    I stumbled my way here from, emm, 37 Signals maybe?

    Anyways, Rock Star Girl is a really good song, well done.

  6. At 5:44 am on April 20th, 2006, Lindsey wrote:

    Thanks, Des! Yep, it seems a few people have stumbled over from here.

  7. At 3:08 pm on May 7th, 2006, unbottled soul » Blog Archive » grok bowl wrote:

    […] A note to no one in particular, not even me: I just now gorked this line in Lindsey Kuper’s Rock Star Girl: Don’t you see, they see right through your visionary plans? […]

  8. At 3:01 pm on May 28th, 2006, unbottled soul wrote:

    blog it while it happens…

    From the blog-it-while-it-happens department comes my review of Lindsey Kuper’s latest—a rockafied version of Practice [just add a(n awesome) drummer!].

    Holy shit.

    This is something you grin to and alternately close and/or have damp eyes to. …

  9. At 7:37 am on June 3rd, 2006, unbottled soul » Blog Archive » saving the world, anyone? wrote:

    […] And, finally, by way of a bit of last-post-follow up—that poem, the parody of Kuper’s Rock Star Girl, which I mentioned in yesterday’s post, saying I’d probably publish it yesterday afternoon…well, I printed it out to work on it and it seems like a piece of shit now. OK, it’s not that bad, but it’s nowhere near as good as I was thinking it was. (Don’t I say that about all of my poems the day after though?!) I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because a lot of the words are Kuper’s and the whole poem is basically just a bastardization of what is a great song (but perhaps doesn’t work at all as a poem??). I don’t know. But time to run and go to Great Things. Well, at least take a bath and do something halfway mediocore. […]

  10. At 7:56 pm on July 2nd, 2006, Shoebox Full of Tapes » #19: Fake Plastic Trees wrote:

    […] We worked on adding new things to our repertoire at band practice tonight, since sometime soon, someone’s going to expect us to know more than five songs. I’d been kind of worried about “Rock Star Girl” since I hadn’t played it in so long, but it felt great to dust it off and to hear what Brian’s drumming adds to the song. “Reverting” was a bigger challenge — we’d actually tried to do this one a couple months ago, and it hadn’t gone well, so we’d left it alone for a while, but after tonight I’m pretty happy about how it’s starting to take shape. […]

  11. At 9:42 pm on July 15th, 2006, unbottled soul » Blog Archive » Tie Dyed Boy wrote:

    […] This poem was written at the beginning of the summer and is based upon a Lindsey Kuper song, Rock Star Girl. Both works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Not all of my poemcasted poems will be Kuper parodies, I swear. […]