Saturday, March 28, 2009: Presidents of the United States of America - "Peaches"

Have you ever started to drift back into consciousness from sleep in the morning and before you even open your eyes you have some random song running through your head? Maybe it’s a song you heard before you went to bed, or on the ride home from work, or is still burned in your ears from the club the night before. Well, that happens to me what seems about every morning. And typically I can’t even put my finger on where the heck it came from. It can be anything from some random children’s song (thanks to my little ones for making my musical interest that much more eclectic) to some hard screaming metal or punk song.

So yesterday I got the idea that I would start keeping a log, writing them down, figured why the heck not, right? So, here we are with the creation of my “Song-In-The-Head”, or S-I-T-Head Report (feel free to add whatever additional consonants you feel are appropriate, I’m sure there is one that is just SCREAMING out). Very likely I’ll have a pretty wide range here over time.

Today’s S-I-T-Head is from Presidents of the USA. Before I opened my eyes I had the lyrics “Movin’ to the country gonna eat a lot of peaches. I’m moving to the country I’m gonna eat me a lot of peaches.” Of course I started singing it which prompted my wife to ask “Is that a real song, I mean it sounds like a real song, but is it?” As you can probably imagine, my rendition of the song did it little to no justice. And it likely doesn’t help that most people who know me know that only about 5-9% of what comes out of my mouth is ever serious.

“Peaches” was on the band’s self-titled debut album released originally by PopLlama Records in 1995 (the band was actually signed by Columbia Records shortly after the release of the album and it was re-released by Columbia in July ’95). The following excerpt is from the website presidentsrock.com (http://www.presidentsrock.com/) regarding the inspiration for the lyrics:

“The lyrics for “Peaches” were written about a crush (Chris) Ballew used to have
on a girl. According to him, she had a peach tree in the front yard, and
when he finally summoned the courage to go talk to her, he stood under the tree
and smashed peaches in his fist until he decided not to talk to her.”

So, for your viewing pleasure, below are the lyrics to the Presidents of the USA song “Peaches” as noted on lyricsmode.com (http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/p/presidents_of_the_usa/peaches.html.

Movin' to the country gonna eat a lot of peaches
I'm movin' to the country I'm gonna eat me a lot of peaches
I'm movin' to the country I'm gonna eat a lot of peaches
Movin' to the country I'm gonna eat a lot of peaches
Peaches come from a can they were put there by a man
In a factory downtown
If I had my little way I'd eat peaches everyday
Sun soakin bulges in the shade

Movin' to the country I'm gonna eat a lot of peaches
Movin' to the country I'm gonna eat a lot of peaches
I'm movin to the country gonna eat a lot of peaches
Movin' to the country gonna eat a lot of peaches

I took a little nap where the roots all twist
Squished a rotten peach in my fist
And dreamed about you woman
I poked my finger down inside makin' a little room for a ant to hide
Nature's candy in my hand or can or a pie

Millions of peaches peaches for me
Millions of peaches peaches for free
Millions of peaches peaches for me
Millions of peaches peaches for free

Look out

Millions of peaches peaches for me
Millions of peaches peaches for free
Millions of peaches peaches for me
Millions of peaches peaches for free

Look out


Got a song that was stuck in your head this morning? Share it with me. I’d love to know I’m not alone!! (And prove to people that I’m not COMPLETELY crazy…only just a little. :) )

Stay tuned for more S-I-T-Head Reports coming soon…