The Demented Ice Cream Truck
Channel: Julia Bloom
Date: 2018-08-17

Week 33 #songaweek2018. Cowritten with and performed by my son Silas Bloom. With cicadas and squeaky doors and circular saws chiming in.

Silas wanted me to write a song for him to sing, so I wrote one earlier in the week and it pretty much sucked and he didn't want to sing it (and I didn't blame him!). So I suggested we write a song together. He didn't know what to write about, and then the ice cream truck drove past, with that creepy Doppler effect of the music degrading as it passes, and he got inspired. It was playing "Lullaby" so that's the tune we used. He wrote most of it and typed it into the computer while I sat behind him and played the guitar and made a few lyrical suggestions.

Here it comes down the street the demented ice-cream truck
Selling kids icecream shaped like cartoons. If you stray too close they will suck out your soul. But other wise it’s a jolly good time.

There it goes up the road making boat loads of money.
Be careful they’ll get mad if you stand there too long. Then they might leave the block cuz time is money and there rent on the truck is almost overdo.

It’s not even a truck it’s really more of a van
With some speakers and a freezer and a driver slash cashier you may call it what you like but you better beware they will catch your credit card and will make you go broke.