Fliptop Twister

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Tweaked the lyrics of Fliptop Twister to fit Snakes in the Old West days. In doing so, I also discovered how the relationship ended. The girl really sounds like a femme fatale in part of the song, so I altered the last part to have her continuing to cheat on Snakes and he finally gets fed-up and breaks it off, even though he knows he'll be alone again.

The full, tweaked lyrics and musings are here: https://sites.google.com/site/w3andperry/songs-for-the-characters/fliptop-twister

Comments

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Oooh, yes, perfect! :D

Yep, I always assumed the mattress of paper greens was a metaphor for rolling in money they won and that the trouble/fight happened soon after that because they were winning too much. The knuckle sandwich line in the second verse seems to support that since they were winning too much at the slots at that point, LOL.

LOL, I was about to ask why you changed the line about the Cokes and then the explanation showed up. Heh. I wonder if Snakes took to soda pop once he was in the modern day....

Yesss, I like the femme fatale angle very much.

Was the original narrator in the song cheating on the girl, though? I took the roaming line as that he couldn't sit still and had to keep moving on and maybe she wanted to settle down in one place, so they disagreed and parted ways because of that.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

LOL. That could be! Some of those lines are so cryptic I can't figure out what was supposed to be meant and I just have to take a stab in the dark.

Good question! Something I've never really addressed. Or did I? It almost seems like I mentioned empty soda pop bottles or cans strewn around his apartment.... I'll have to go back and look at that.

It definitely seems to fit with the part talking about the girl liking to get boys' wicks up.

I'm pretty sure he was cheating. The original line said "the funky monkey still flips his chips about", and didn't we mutually decide that the song Funky Monkey was very, very dirty?

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

LOL, indeed.

Neat!

Yep.

Yeaaaaaaaah that was. *headdesk*

Of course, I am the person who interpreted "dancing with the top down" in Bodyboard as dancing on the hood of an open convertible. Although, in my defense, this is because my mom actually saw someone doing this. Said person was drunk, had just ran the car into a pole, and got up and just started dancing on the hood. And this was shortly after she'd arrived in America so it was definitely a strange first impression.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so I figured another reference to that would lead in the same direction.

LOL. That's a nice way to look at it, although I don't think I'd ever be able to think of the song in that way. That sounds like a hilarious sight. **snerk.**

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

And I don't think I can think of it in any other way than the car. *snerk* Indeed--it's one of those things that should not be funny but is. Helps that the girl was alright. Poor Mom had hurried over to check on her when she just ignored her and started dancing.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

LOL. Yeah, that would be pretty indelibly imprinted on your mind!