Song #3 in the 2026 Song-A-Month project, this little cocktail contemplation started off as an experiment using the Looper modules in the BandLab app.
I was playing around with it and came up with a jazzy rhythm section – drums, bass, piano and an acoustic guitar – that I could then play actual guitars, fake marimba and organ to, as well as find something to sing on top of it all. Disclaimer: that flute is a loop. You might even say it’s a “flute loop” if you’re cereal-minded. Ha.
Anyway, I’d recently finished reading “The Magpie Murders” as part of a book club, so that inspired the lyrics. The book was okay, not really my bag baby, but it must have spoken to me somehow to make those words spill out. (“You don’t have to like something to be influenced by it.” ~ Macca)
It’s all a bit repetitive, and I think of it as more of an exercise than anything else, but it ended up pleasantly enough and so I’ve decided to share it with you despite a few musicianly reservations. I hope you’ll enjoy it for what it is.
The video footage is from “Point of Return” (1965) and is used with a Creative Commons license from archive.org.
LYRICS
I read your letter
But it made no sense to me
Why you would end it all
By leaping from the balcony
Now I’m stuck inside of my head
With the your head blues again
You had everything
That an ass like you could want:
A boyfriend and admirers
An ex-wife and drama in the restaurant
So why did you go why did you go
Why did you go and do that crazy thing?
Yes why did you go why did you go
Why did you go and do that crazy thing?
Now I’m stuck inside of my head
With the your head blues again
Yes I’m stuck inside of my head
With the your head blues again
Presto MusiCo 