Instruments used in this song:
Accordion, Banjo, Cello, Coke-Bottle Carbonation, Chains, Marimba, Oil Barrel, Tire Rim
Non-Instruments: Stomping
lyrics
Cookies For Dinner
Dwight Evan Young/Paul Trahey/Vince Rostkowski
Cookies for dinner!
It me favorite food!
Crunchy, chewy, round or square,
They always taste real good.
When me hear the oven beep
It put me in the mood
To gobble all the cookies up
Cause that’s what monsters do.
Fire up the oven!
Grease the pan and stir the mix!
I need to get my fix.
Me mother say I need a balanced diet every meal,
She hid them in a jar, when I was ten I learned to steal.
She warned of diabetes, said they’d chop me at the knee,
But that’s good enough for me!
I had my first cookie in the second grade,
By 3rd I ate a pack a day.
Now I got myself my own Keebler Elf
Cause I can put a whole gross away.
The girly scouts used to visit my house
But I paid with a counterfeit bill…
I had crumbs on my face when the feds took my place,
And they locked my sorry ass in jail.
But me Cookie Monster!
Me no got restraint!
And I can’t be what I ain’t.
My doctor say I need a balanced diet every meal,
But he’s a quack, and he don’t know how cookies make me feel.
He said they’ll find me dead within a year, I beg to disagree
Cause they’re good enough for me!
And it’s cookies for dinner cause it’s all I can afford
With the chinawoman bleeding me dry!
Hounding me for rent, but she won’t get a cent
Cause I got fired in September, and I’ll need to get a tent
And my cheating wife left with the postman
Cause she needs more stability!
If she wanted stability she shouldn’t have married a “Cookie.” “Monster.”
But I’ll do what I want,
I’m my own monster,
I don’t got a problem!
Oatmeal Raisin— And you know what?
She acts like she’s so much better than me.
“Moderation!”
Moderation, my furry blue ass!
That cheating skank said I need a balanced diet every meal,
She ran away and took my children Horace and Lucille.
I sold my kidney just to eat, now I piss blood each time I sneeze,
But they’re good enough for me!
I told myself I need a balanced diet every meal,
But I’ve lost so much that cookies are the only thing that’s real.
My cookie may have crumbled, you’ll say my life is not ideal,
But it’s good enough for me!
Good enough for me….
Good enough for me.
credits
from Cookies for Dinner,
released October 21, 2016
Paul Trahey: Vocals, Banjo
Beth McElroy: Marimba, Backing Vocals
All other instruments performed by Dwight Evan Young and Vince Rostkowski.
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