I LOVE the Rocky Horror Picture Show. My friends and I would go into the University District in Seattle every Saturday night to attend the midnight showing of RHPS. I know all the words to all the songs and almost all of the dialect word for word. And yes - I even got to the point where we would go in character and in costume.
For those who have never seen the RHPS - well, Google it. It would take several other posts to fully explain the movie, plot and subplots. You only need to know that the iconic song, and dance, is called The Time Warp as seen in this movie clip below.
"That is all well and good" you say, even as you are a bit bemused by what you have just seen if it was your first exposure to it, "But what does any of this have to do with Mermaids?"
To answer that I have to pass the buck to a local artist I know. A very gifted woman with a strong attachment to all things mermaid. She posted a draft of some new mermaids she had drafted a while back - Columbia, Magenta and Janet with a comment "...It's just a swim to the right .. " And then she noted that her significant other was trying to come up with more mermaid appropriate lyrics for the song.
As most of you know, I enjoy re-writing songs and stories in my own weird way. Which is how I came up with changing the Time Warp into The Mermaid.
The Time
Warp
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The
Mermaid
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It's
astounding
Time is fleeting Madness takes its toll But listen closely Not for very much longer I've got to keep control I remember doing the Time Warp Drinking those moments when The blackness would hit me And the void would be calling Let's do the Time Warp again Let's do the Time Warp again It's just a jump to the left And then a step to the right With your hands on your hips You bring your knees in tight
But
it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane Let's do the Time Warp again Let's do the Time Warp again It's so dreamy Oh, fantasy free me So you can't see me No, not at all In another dimension With voyeuristic intention Well secluded, I see all With a bit of a mind flip You're into the time slip And nothing can ever be the same You're spaced out on sensation Like you're under sedation Let's do the Time Warp again Let's do the Time Warp again Well I was walking down the street Just a having a think When a snake of a guy gave me an evil wink He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise He had a pick up truck and the devil's eyes He stared at me and I felt a change Time meant nothing, never would again Let's do the Time Warp again Let's do the Time Warp again It's just a jump to the left And then a step to the right With your hands on your hips You bring your knees in tight
But
it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane Let's do the Time Warp again Let's do the Time Warp again |
It's astounding
Tides are fleeting
Currents take their toll
But listen closely
Not for very much longer
I've got to keep control
I remember doing The Mermaid
Drinking those moments when
The blackness would hit me
And Poseidon would be calling
Let's do The Mermaid again
Let's do The Mermaid again
It's just a flick to the left
And then a tail to the right
With your hands on your scales
You bring your gills in tight
But it's the dorsal thrust
That really drives you insane
Let's do The Mermaid again
Let's do The Mermaid again
It's so dreamy
No seaweed can cage me
Starfish cannot see me
No, not at all
In another dimension
With crustacean intention
Well secluded, I see all
With a bit of a tail flip
You're into the scale slip
And nothing can ever be the same
You're spaced out on salinity
Riding waves into infinity
Let's do The Mermaid again
Let's do The Mermaid again
Well I was swimming in the Gulf
Just a having a think
When an eel of a fish gave me an
evil wink
He shook-a me up, took me on an Orca ride
He had tentacles of fire and the
devil's eyes
He stared at me and I felt a
change
Tides meant nothing, never would
again
Let's do The Mermaid again
Let's do The Mermaid again
It's just a flick to the left
And then a tail to the right
With your hands on your scales
You bring your gills in tight
But it's the dorsal thrust
That really drives you insane
Let's do The Mermaid again
Let's do The Mermaid again
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