ChemicalGirl

I asked my baby out for dinner and a show
"Just give me a minute" She said
"And I'll be ready to go"
I should know better to let her
Get herself behind that bedroom door
She keeps her real persona
In those pollyanna vanity drawers
Shes got me in a whirl
But I just can't live without my chemical girl

Fashionably late (as usual)
We're zooming down the street
'How do I look?" She asks and I say
'You look good enough to eat"
She doesn't seem to hear me
Sittin' near me
She brushs out her hair real quick
Then she flips down the visor
Digs in her purse
And reapplies some more lipstick
Shes got me in a whirl
But I just can't live without my chemical girl

Max Factor - Dove - and Almay -
Revlon - Gucci - Faberge -
Noxzema - Nexus - and Biore -
Opium - and Christian Dior -
Feria - and Lancome -
Jergens - Suave - and Mary K -
Matrix - Redkin - and Chanel -
Paul Mitchell - Roc - and Loreal -
Herbal Essence - Vaseline -
Nice N' Easy - and Pantene -
Cover Girl - and Jean Nate -
Neutrogena - and C.K -.
Lady Stetson - and Sensation -
Clearasil - and Exclamation -
Sally Hansen - and Clinique -
Head And Shoulders - and Mystique

Sitting in a restaurant
She taunts
She flaunts
She blossoms like a rose
"Just give me a minute" She says
"I need to powder my nose..."
She passes by a mirror
Draws in nearer
Shes the princess of the ball
She doesn't say a word but I swear I overheard
"Who's the fairest of them all?"
Shes got me in a whirl
But I just can't live without my chemical girl

The lyrics to 'Chemical Girl' was written in 2002 while living at Witchwood in Tennessee. I had picked up one of Peggys magazines and was thumbing through it out of curiousity. The whole thing was nothing but an endless stream of advertisements for womans products. Start to finish! I think the acutal guts of the magazine turned out to be something like ten or twelve pages! I couldn't believe it! For a lark, I started to make a list of just how many products were crammed between the covers when I thought to myself, "Theres a song in all of this somewhere." And there was...
Mark worked out the music when he came down for a Witchwood recording session in July of 2004. We played with the words and the timing, the songs retro rock n' roll style and the unusual middle. It all fell into place pretty fast.
The icing on the cake was Peggys production work, one stand-out being the clever way she threw the word 'whirl' into a sustained delayed echo. Priceless. Good song. Great teamwork.