Roleplaying

Roleplaying
A filk of "Mr. Jones"
Apologies to the Counting Crows
By Caduceus-kun

Wai, wai wai wai wai wai...
Uh huh
I was down at the field Hospital, staring at this cute red-eyed nurse
Lightsider strikes up a conversation with this blue haired Largo-fangirl*
You know she snatches his glasses and he's knocked out
Because she's so kawaii
Well we all want something kawaii
Man, you know I wish I was kawaii

Some come heal the fanboys on this fine morning
Wai wai wai wai wai wai wai wai wai... uh huh, yeah...
Come on, Mizuno!
Show us some of your famous glompings, and
Pass me a hard drive, Lightsider!
Just buy from me
Whenever you need equipment
Then we'll invest your money in MT, yeah

Lightsider and me talk about VR systems
And are glomped by kawaii women
He's passed out again. Oh no, damn, they're coming for me
Hanging out in chat rooms
'ccused of being bishonen
We're caught forever writing for everyone in MT

Well I'm staring at her picture
Just staring at my gorgeous Lady of Grey
Her cool compassionate features are making me feel sane again
Yeah well you know Grey is my favorite color
I seem so important, some strange way
If I knew Gallagher
I would filk upon a grey keyboard and say

"Lightsider and me planning out more RPs
Yeah we listen to Miss Shadowdancer
'She's glaring at you. Uh, I don't think so. She's glaring at me.'
They can have the spotlight
I'll just stick to my grey filking
I'm caught forever writing for everyone in MT
For everyone in MT
Said it's for everyone in... MT"

I wanna be in comics
E-everybody wants to be in art
We all wanna shake the RPs, yeah but very few can really do that
Just buy from me, 'cause I can supply you anything
And I want to be more influential, in RPs, in RPs, yeah!

Lightsider and me wandering through Shinjuku
Yeah we're glomped by the kawaii women,
He just passes out, man, I'll probably just die of blood loss
I wanna pull power plays
Lightsider wishes he was someone who hadn't done such bad things
When you're telling your story, ah man, nobody cares about anything that you did

Lightsider and me staring at RP forums
When I stare at the RPing threads I wanna see me affecting the story
We all wanna run factions unless we control our silly egos
But when we all work together
Our own stories can rival most professional stories
Lightsider and me: we're gonna have great fun...

*-pronouncing "girl" as if it has two syllables makes this scan a bit better. Only a bit, though.

Mr. Jones
Counting Crows

Sha la la la la la...

I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with this black-haired flamenco dancer
You know she dances while his father plays guitar
She's suddenly beautiful
Well we all want something beautiful
Man, you know I wish I was beautiful

So come dance this silence down through the morning

Cut up, Maria!
Show me some of them Spanish dances, and
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Believe in me
Help me believe in anything
Cause I want to be someone who believes

Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
And we stare at the beautiful women
'She's looking at you. Ah no, no, she's looking at me.'
Smiling in the bright lights
Coming through in stereo
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely

Well I'm gonna paint my picture
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful
Yeah well you know gray is my favorite color
I felt so symbolic, yesterday
If I knew Picasso
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play

Mr. Jones and me look into the future
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
'She's looking at you. Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me.'
Standing in the spotlight
I bought myself a gray guitar
When everybody loves me I will never be lonely
I will never be lonely
Said I'm never gonna be..lonely

I wanna be a lion
Everybody wants to pass as cats
We all wanna be big, big stars, yeah but we got different reasons for that
Believe in me, 'cause I don't believe in anything
And I want to be someone to believe, to believe, to believe, yeah!

Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
'She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for me.'
I wanna be Bob Dylan
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
When everybody loves you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be

Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
When I look at the television I want to see me staring right back at me
We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why and we don't know how
But when everybody loves me
I'm gonna be just about as happy as I can be
Mr. Jones and me: we're gonna be big stars...

[!filk] The notes are after the filk today, because there are a lot. First of all, the scansion is off, but with the way it's sung, that's not surprising. It takes a lot practice just to be able to sing along, let alone replace the words and have the scansion right. Secondly, I was originally going to call it "Lightsider", since that was the character author I used to replace the phrase "Mr. Jones" in the song. However, it didn't seem right, because the filk isn't about Lightsider any more than the original song is about Mr. Jones, whoever he was. So I change the title to what it was about. Finally, I probably could have as easily used "Asimov" or "Nightwalker" to replace "Mr. Jones"; it was just that Lightsider was the first character/author I thought of with the right number of syllables. Probably because I've enjoyed his posts and his story the most, recently. It's not meant as a slight to those I didn't use or mention, though. Anyway, that's it, I think. Hope you enjoyed. ^_^ [/!filk]

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