https://soundcloud.com/michael-zaneski/when-two-worlds-collide

Hi All,

Back in 2001 I wrote a treatment for a short sitcom based on the book title "Women Are From Venus, Men Are From Mars" --I thought it might be funny if this were literally true--especially if crossed with some TV tropes of men and women from old shows like "The Honeymooners," and the pilot episode was basically all the storytelling in this song (which would've been the theme song, in shortened form)--100 men preparing for the trip to Venus, told from the POV of one..the singer..

Then I found this song in sketch form a few weeks ago and decided why not do it up..and I've made a vow to mix country with other forms of music, so be prepared for some bossanova banjo electronica.. ..bossabanjotronica?

My sole intention is to induce a few laughs..

If there is anything in here that makes you wince--any line in here that you think goes too far, let me know! I can easily dial some words back a notch or two..

I grew up listening to and loving Ray Stevens' stuff, and so I pay him a tiny little homage in here..can you catch it?

https://soundcloud.com/michael-zaneski/when-two-worlds-collide

When Two Worlds Collide

I
I really love Mars
Smelly sports bars
And bellies that bump at the game
Too bad
Too bad all the girls
Are on their hot little world
Every last Venusian dame
Cuz

Six-hundred sixty-nine days a year
chock full of cigarettes, hot dogs, and beer
And I'm

Ready, ready for that
Magic carpet ride
To Venus, Venus
You know love sparks fly when two worlds collide

I
I really love Mars
Soupin' up cars
And whoopin' it up with the boys
All
All us liquored up loons
Who howl at the moons
I love that manly noise
But

I'll never get used to pom-pom guys in short skirts
Just the thought of that makes my head really hurt

So i'm ready, ready for that
Magic carpet ride
To Venus, Venus
You know love sparks fly when two worlds collide

So there I was, posing as an intergalactic
exchange student, boarding the first spaceship
to Venus. Halfway through the flight, an oxygen
tank malfunctioned and we were forced to land on an
intermediary rock. But luckily for us

Girls
A hundred of them
Had a similar plan
And like us they crash landed here
All
All the rumors were true
They're hot blooded and blue
And a few of them even like beer
But

They found out I told a lie and oh well
Now I'm a slave to a Venusian belle but

I'm ready, ready for that
Magic carpet ride
To Venus, Venus
You know love sparks fly when two worlds collide
Yeah, love sparks fly when two worlds collide
Yeah, love sparks fly, love sparks fly
When two worlds collide

Bad Martian..
Bad Martian..

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Words and Music by Michael Zaneski
(C)2001 & 2016 Michael Zaneski
All Rights Reserved

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 03/05/16 04:21 PM.
Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice

-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon)
from the song "Songs of Love"
from the album "Casanova" (1996)