Same Old Song

"(I Got the) Biopic Blues"

Music & Lyrics by Craig
(c) Porlock Records 2009

Why just last Fall I was a-lookin' for sleepers

When a title fell on my pair o' peepers

Wasn't 'til I watched the DVD that I said, Jeepers,

Cadillac Records certainly ain't for keepers.

The movie's disappointin', the movie's pretty lame

It's got a great cast that it puts to shame

Jeffrey Wright and the others all got game

Yet the only standout is Beyonce's Etta James.

(Chorus)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got the biopic blues

You'd better start a-spreadin' the news

'Cause we ain't got a-nothin' to lose

'Cept all those cliches the movies like to use.

The true story of Chess Records is an interestin' one

So why did the writer-director leave out all the fun?

There's sex and there's drugs and there's a-shootin' a gun

In biopics that's all that's ever under the sun.

(Chorus)

Oh, oh, oh, I got the biopic blues

Those tortured musical artists had so much to lose

'Tween marital strife and the drugs they abused

We never see any complexity or nuance or hues.

The most interestin' topic in the film is race

Embodied by Beyonce with fire and grace

So fully that nobody else can keep pace

It's a subject too deep for A. Brody's smug face.

(Chorus)

Say, say, say, I got the biopic blues

Walk the Line and Ray already turned these screws

There's a-nothin' left to say that hasn't been news

The makers of Cadillac Records were in need of a muse.

Yeah, yeah, yeah

The biopic blues

Oh, oh, oh,

The biopic blues

Say, say, say,

The biopic blues

The biopic, biopic

Hey, the biopic blues