BLOW UP DOLL (T. Kerns/R. Kerns)

Song #2 to have first appeared on the Static In Stereo cd. This one is more stripped back the way it was meant to be. My brother Ryan and I wrote this one together.  Ellis abandoned a straight AC/DC line for a more walking early Gene Simmons walking line that gives it real swagger and dirty groove. Brent's got a 2 octave melody solo going on. The Stonesy/70's glitter rock 'ooh oohs' are much more prominent in this version the way they were meant to be. Lyrically my brother brought up the idea of singing 'won't you be my blow up doll' which I suppose means 'I don't want to hear what you have to say or think. Just be available for sex.'  My demented brain immediately went to Dennis Hopper's character from a film called River's Edge where he had a blow up doll as a girl friend and everyone referred to her by name as if it were totally normal. The song starts off talking about her being made of polyurethane and having a helium brain and ends with me being made of polyurethane and having an alien brain. Who's really the blow up doll? Sounds like an adult Twilight Zone episode. One of my fave lines is- 'You're wasted with your cold Barbie-Rella eyes and your sili-clone implant disguise' Yet another Bowie reference-'Cyberspace Major Tom'


You're weightless
You've never been one to complain
Your rubber soul and a helium brain
Never alone, bubble wrapped styrofoam
Like the real thing
Plastic but never pretend
My polyurethane friend
Never alone, bubble wrapped styrofoam
Like the real thing

You're wasted
With your cold Barbie-rella eyes
And your siliclone implant disguise
Interface CD-Rom
Cyberspace Major Tom
Like the real thing

Blow up doll, won't you be mine
Blow up doll, won't you be my
Blow up doll, won't you be mine

I'm wasted
I'm always the one to complain
My rubber soul and an alien brain
Always alone, bubble wrapped styrofoam
Like the real thing

Chorus