So this song came to me in a dream. In this dream I was leaving a restaurant with a bunch of my friends from high school, and we spotted another guy that was a few years older than us, but had also gone to our school. He walks by and all my friends start laughing. I ask what was so funny and they say, “Didn’t you hear, dude?”
“No,” I say.
“That guy accidently cut off his own penis!”
“Whatttt??”
“Yeah, man.”
At this point, my friend, Chris, takes out an acoustic guitar and begins strumming the very chords that you will hear should you listen to this song. My other friend, Jeff, takes the lead on the vocals and sings the words to the first little stanza in the song about the kung fu knife. On the last line of the stanza about a dozen of my friends join in the chorus of saying, “It was quite sharp.” So all of that is verbatim from my R.E.M.’d mind. The second stanza I just made up to make the song a little longer. Enjoy, or don’t.
