The Houseplant Song by Audio Adrenaline
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Once I read a book, and this is what it said
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“If your music has a beat, then you’re gonna wind up dead
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It doesn’t really matter if it’s Christian or not
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If it’s syncopated rhythm then your soul is gonna rot”
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And this book was called, “Ha You’re Gonna Burn”
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And in the second chapter I went on to learn
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Take two houseplants and put them to the test
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Set them both in front of speakers and let the music do the rest
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The first one you play Mozart or something lovely like that
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The second one you play that Petra or that MegaDeath
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Doesn’t really matter what kind of rock it is
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So I took my two houseplants and I put them to the test
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Set them both in front of speakers and let the music do the rest
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I powered up my Pioneers and let the music roar
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But twenty minutes later someone’s knocking at my door
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I opened up my door, and there my neighbor stood
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He said, “Man I’d like to get some sleep, if you think I could?”
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I said, “Man, can’t you see here, I’ve got this moral dilemma that I’ve got to get clear”
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He said, “What kind of moral dilemma could you have at this time of night
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That could make me so angry that I just want to fight?”
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So I pointed to the page in that open book
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That had a picture of a potted plant and I said, “Go have a look”
And he read…
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Take two houseplants and put them to the test
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Set them both in front of speakers and let the music do the rest
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The first one you play Mozart or something lovely like that
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The second one you play that Petra or that MegaDeath
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Doesn’t really matter what kind of rock it is
[interlude riff]
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“First of all,” he said, “That’s Vogner that you’re playing,
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I’ve never heard of Petra, and isn’t MegaDeath all dead?”
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And secondly, emphatically, he asked me what’s the sense
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of hanging out with houseplants when, “Hey, I live right across the fence?”
And I thought to myself, “You know, that’s a good point”
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So I took my two houseplants, and I put them both back outside
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And me and my neighbor, well, we went out for a drive
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We talked about all the things that really matter most
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Like life and love and happiness and then the Holy Ghost
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Now my two houseplants can sit out in the sun
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But as for my neighbor, well, our friendship has become
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A meaningful relationship that’s headed straight to heaven
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But as for now we like to sit around and listen to Audio Adrenaline
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Cranked to eleven!
