In response to John Green's offer to give away a copy of his book Paper Towns - watch it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMpCYAVxTp4 - I wrote a song about me not having said book. Yet. Writing the lyrics to this song was fun, because I could arrange the actual books accordingly. Once I had recorded everything I made a video to illustrate this process - and also to clarify what I'm actually singing about - watch it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8sB8p1slIg.
Lo and behold: The song actually won me signed copy of Paper Towns. John commented: "Wow, this is amazingly awesome. (...) Thanks for being awesome; this made my day!"
lyrics
I have the best German fairytale, the best Scholastic book
I have comedies and screenplays that are really, really good
I have My Heart So White and a book about you
About the end of the world and about aliens, too
I have Looking for Alaska as you can see
An Abundance of Katherines belongs to me
I have many books from A to Z
But I must confess I don't have Paper Towns, yet
I have books that sound dirty but are really all right
I have books that sound nerdy but are dirty inside
I have Reasons to Be Pretty, I have reasons to be smart
I have books about emotion but none about art
I have Looking for Alaska as you can see
An Abundance of Katherines belongs to me
I have many books some of which are red
But I must confess I don't have Paper Towns, yet
I have The Devil's Dictionary and books about Gods
The complete works of Shakespeare, a book about odds
I have books that are funny and some that are sad
Some are amazing and some are rather bad
I love Catching Fire; I wonder how it ends
I have The Elements of Style in your pants
I have Looking for Alaska as you can see
An Abundance of Katherines belongs to me
And for full disclosure I also have The Fountainhead
But as of now I don't have Paper Towns, yet
credits
from The Happiest Man,
released October 19, 2011
Written and played by Johannes Schult.
Recorded 13th September 2009 at W7, Trier.
Vocals, acoustic guitars, keyboards, harmonica, recorder, programming.