From the recording 3. Roller Coaster Lover
I got an upgrade to my music-production software. This upgrade enabled me to speed up and slow down the overall tempo of any part of a completed song and I wanted to try out this feature, so I conceived of a song that uses the metaphor of a roller coaster. This is currently my only song (in all 5 of my albums) that changes the tempo throughout the song. For the rising and falling of the roller coaster, I play the guitar using bottleneck-slide technique.
Lyrics
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ROLLER COASTER LOVER
Michael Dyer
© 2007
Being with you's like being on a roller coaster ride.
You've got my heart all liquified.
Sometimes we're on, top of the world. I see us goin' far,
But then we plunge. Drop so low and so fast. How can we last?
Sometimes we slide and glide up, so slow and, oh, so mellow,
Then swoop down, fling ourselves around, so aghast and so fast,
What's still to be, is already, now in the past.
Wow! What a ride you've got me on.
Feel the rise. Feel the fall.
Feel the plunge, from a thousand-foot wall.
Feel the highs. Feel the lows.
Feel what comes and feel what goes.
Feel the Gs of defied gravities!
What a roller coaster ride you've got me on.
Now I'm astride, a gorgeous Jekyll and Hyde, on the far side,
About to collide, my heart all liquified.
I'll agree you're full of thrills,
But can I survive the fever and chills, down my spine?
But without you, I mope and pine.
Mope and pine, for our crazy times.
Grope and grind, for our wicked crimes.
Wow! You're my roller coaster lover,
My day-glo poster, poppin' toaster lover,
My gotta-have-the-most-of-her, roller coaster lover.
My burnin'-bright-hot-lava-site roaster lover.
My leap-with-delight-outta-sight roller coaster lover.
This coaster ride just cannot be denied.
Cannot be denied.
Cannot be denied.
Cannot be denied.