Ever notice how so many songs contain the word "love"? Now, just imagine a simple substitution... "lunch". Sure, in songs where it's used as a verb, this Just Doesn't Work. "She Lunches You (Yeah Yeah Yeah)"? No, no no. "P.S.: I Lunch You"? Definitely out to lunch. "Lunch, Lunch Me Do"? Don't. "I Lunch Rock & Roll"? That's not on a roll.
But... consider a title such as "You Can't Hurry Lunch". (Esther came up with that one.) Now let your mind wander on the original lyrics, and you might come up with:
You can't hurry lunch, no, you'll just have to wait,
She said, it will get greasy, if it's too soon on the plate....
Some additional titles (in italics) and snippets I've thought up:
And they called it Puppy Lunch....
Endless Lunch
I'll send you all my lunch,
Every day in some Tupperware,
Sealed with a burp!I'm at lunch with a big blue frog, and a couple escargot,
It's not as yucky as it sounds, they go great with Merlot!Just an old-fashioned lunch song, comin' down in three-course hominy!
Lookin' for lunch in all the wrong places,
Lookin' for lunch to stuff in our faces,
Lookin' for signs,
Of what we're hungry for....Lunch Hurts
Lunch Stinks
Lunch is a Many-Flavored Thing
Lunch, this is my meal, a meal of ham, and bread, and cheese for you....
Nothing can't be warm, microwave easy,
Nothing you serve cold you can't refreezey,
Nothing you serve hot but you can have it once again,
Though greasy!
All you need is lunch! (No time for breakfast!)
All you need is lunch! (Too late for dinner!)
All you need is lunch, lunch,
Lunch is all you need!
(repeat ad nauseam)
in background:"She lunches you", what the @#$%?Spread your lunch with fries, fries, fries....
Standing in the shadows of lunch,
Waiting for the heartburn to come....That's the time, I feel like makin' lunch, for you,
That's the time, I feel like makin' homemade stew!The lunch shack is a little place where we can eat together!
The purpose of a chef is to cook a dinner,
And the purpose of a waiter is to serve the meal.
So come on baby, let's eat today,
Come on baby, let's pay,
The tab for lunch (lu-unch) lunch (lu-unch) l-l-l-l-l-lunch!Tonight, I regurgitate my lunch, with you....
Walkin' up this lengthy line, wond'ring where the time has gone,
Been so long, since I joined the end.
Many choices, many bucks, Value Meals and Classic Combos,
What language do they comprehend?
(Oooooh!) I want them to know,
(Oooooh!) I want it "to go"...
I'm ready for lunch! Ooh baby I'm ready for lunch....Well I feel like makin' lunch!
Feel like makin' lunch! Feel like makin' lunch!
Feel like makin' lunch for you....
And of course....
Some people want to filk the world with silly lunch songs!
I've finished one complete song on the matter, Can't Buy Me Lunch.
Now imagine if you will... a whole album of these. Titled Silly Lunch Songs, of course. Cover? Picture Supertramp's Breakfast in America. The waitress? In a cheezy gorilla suit. On the tray? A chili dog and a beer.