HEAVE-HO
HEAVE-HO
The longest song in the whole album, not to mention the most verbose! Nevertheless, this is a friggin' awesome song.
[CONFESSION: Perhaps I’m getting old, but I just can’t relate to their problems with the whiny neighbor. Well, to be brutally honest, perhaps it’s just that I’m totally dense to begin with: I’m the sort of person who don’t particularly go to parties and goochy goochy goo gaga s*** like that. But I *do* understand (I’m not *that* dense!) the dilemma the song is trying to convey... This confession is just an absolutely necessary fact as my life will be a reflection on how I interpreted this song.]
I don’t even know why I had to humiliate myself with that confession since the song is fairly self-explanatory: the narrator lives in this apartment; and since he loves having fun with his friends, noises are eventual consequences; unfortunately, they have a whiny neighbor who keeps complaining to their landlord.
But it is this verse that is worth looking over closely:
Maybe someday when I’m jadedNothing worse than a Smash Mouth member scorned, huh? Hehe. But this shows how hatred would continue and cultivate through time. It’s like a virus that spreads. Here we have a fun-loving, free-spirited group of individuals who are gonna get the old “heave-ho” for celebrating life. And it is all because of one uptight neighbor who is in dire need to just “F*** it” and say, “Let’s rock!”
9 to 5 at a job I hate
I’ll come home and razz my neighbors too
But I’d have a strategy
And catch them when the rent is late
And all the other bills are overdue
After all this is the neighborly way
You know what, here are the lyrics anyway:
Neighbor ![[Newman]](newman1.jpg)
called my landlord (1)
She said that she was pissed
Up all night making noise
And she can't get no rest
She said we was running a flop house
Full of thieves and thugs
Musicians and hooligans and we were
all on drugs
So she got bent and raised the rent
Said it would only take one more
Phone call from my whiny neighbor
What's up with my neighbor
What's it gonna take to get a break
She's got us tiptoeing around in fear
Church mice at St. Leo's down my street
Have moved so far away
She has sent them packing and running
scared
How much more does she think we will
take
Maybe someday when I'm old and fat
and bored
I'll understand why my neighbor makes
me feel like hell
I can't even watch TV or sneeze or
fart can't even breathe
For fear my landlord will come and
ring my bell
How much more does she think we will
pay
No more flop house no more fun
I've got a whiny neighbor
I've got a whiny neighbor
Shooting cans with BB guns
I've got a whiny neighbor
I've got a whiny neighbor
She says these punks have to go
I think we're gonna get the old heave
ho
Neighbor called my landlord
It was a Sunday afternoon
She couldn't hear the TV set
We were having a barbecue
We were listening to Louis Prima (2)
And drinking Meisterbrau
If she would have come to talk it
over
And wasn't a lazy cow
So she got bent she raised the rent
Said it would only take one more
Phone call from my whiny neighbor
Maybe someday when I'm jaded
9 to 5 at a job I hate
I'll come home and razz my neighbors
too
But I'd have a strategy
And catch them when the rent is late
And all the other bills are overdue
After all this is the neighborly way
No more music no more fun
I've got a whiny neighbor
I've got a whiny neighbor
Barbecues in the sun
I've got a whiny neighbor
I've got a whiny neighbor
She says that these punks must go
I think we're gonna get the old heave
ho
Don't even hide the dog
Or put the bong away
We don't want to live here anyway
Neighbor called my landlord
She said we didn't care
The lawn is dead
Dogs and cats are stinking everywhere
She said that we had crazy parties
every night
The yard is littered with bottles
and cans
Skateboards and bikes
She didn't get bent
Didn't raise the rent
We only got a note
In 30 days we'll get the old heave
ho
WAAAAAOO.....WAAAAAaaAAOO..... [i just love this part!...]
No more music no more fun
I've got a whiny neighbor
I've got a whiny neighbor
Barbecues in the sun
I've got a whiny neighbor
I've got a whiny neighbor
She says that these punks must go
I think we're gonna get the old heave
ho
don't-make-my-foot-get-stuck-up-in-yo-ass-notes:
(1)
i know the neighbor is a "she," so why did i put a picture of newman--seinfeld's
neighbor--in? well, i felt that his expression is so priceless!...Come
to think of it, he looks androgynous.
(2) ![[Louis Prima]](louprima.jpg)
"i'm just a gigolo, and everywhere i go, people know the part i'm playing..."
and, no kiddies, that ain't david lee roth--it's the one & only louis
prima!