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Good Cops Love Rock and Roll
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It's Friday night, there's gonna be some action We're cruising to the beat of "Satisfaction" We're good cops and we love rock and roll Half the town's rocking at the teenage dance We're checking it out, we'll give peace a chance Because we're good cops and we love rock and roll All good cops love rock and roll Rocking out at the Super Bowl Knocking them out when it's goal to goal We got a job to do, we're gonna do it with soul Because we're good cops and we love rock and roll We're good cops and we love rock and roll Jazz!.... We can take it or leave it! Opera!... We want to hurl it and heave it! We're good cops and we love rock and roll Disco.... It doesn't work anymore White rap!.... Should be against the law We're good cops and we love rock and roll All good cops love rock and roll Rocking out at the Super Bowl Knocking them out when it's goal to goal We got a job to do, we're gonna do it with soul Because we're good cops and we love rock and roll We're good cops and we love rock and roll |
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Credits: Guitars: Philip Gnarly Bass: Eric Morton Drums: Dean Butterworth Vocals: Peter Cross and the Crossants Recording in LA: Philip Gnarly and Jimbo Head Recording in SF: Jay Bowman and Lance Thomason Final Mix: Mark Needham Commentary: Once again reaching back into the mists of time for available material, this song had a previous incarnation as "Have Fun" which was performed and recorded by the last incarnation of Magic. The song had no message in the lyrics outside of a sort of mindless rock and roll invocation to party. Apparently Peter Cross had nothing of real importance to say in those early years. But years later, having survived his holocaust, he is excercising regularly at a The Big C Health Club for no particular reason at all except that everything else he really wants to do is either illegal, immoral, or unhealthy and he has too many hours in the day to fill up. Sometimes they play rock and roll in the excercise room at the Big C, and truckloads of cops excercise there every day (they're all mesomorphs with an aura of impending violence). One day while miserably pulling himself up on the Gravitron, Peter is struck by an especially large cop lifting weights and singing along to The Doobie Brothers' "Taking it to the Streets", a song which at one time was an anthem for anti-war demonstrators, the type of radical student commie pothead that peace officers used to like to practice their nightsticks on. The disparity between the 60's and 90's (which has been referred to as the 60's standing on its head) was too much for Peter Cross, and the song title popped into his head. The rest of the song wrote itself between the Gravitron, the sauna, and the shower. Considering his checkered past in the rubber room, Peter Cross writing a song with a positive message about police is another dichotomy which cannot be explained with a rational approach to the universe. Instead, all that can be truly said is "God works in STRANGE ways". |
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