Stories From The Head

”It’s The Right Thing For Her” A song is like an animal. It lives, it breathes, it hunts for food. Jekkit and Kjempehode had been composing as long as they could remember (two minutes to be exact), but they were getting nowhere. Only one line had they been able to get down on paper before they were called off to fight in the war against Gæbt and his fearless Plutos: ”It’s the right thing for her”. A brilliant way to start a song. Even Børre, composer of such hits as ”Mektige Pave”, ”Hulter, get off my nikterpast” and “Yes, there WILL be trouble if you go”, thought the first line had potential. However, NOBODY could think of a second line. NOBODY had written a few songs before, and was considered a major talent in spite of his complete disregard for the record-buying public. When Kjempehode returned from the war (Jækkit had been killed in hand to hand combat with a tiny insect which no one had believed dangerous until now), he listened carefully to NOBODY’s second-line-proposal. First line: ”It’s the right thing for her”, second line, or NOBODY’s proposal for a possible direction in the second-line department: ”Exactly when the snør”. ”WHAT?!” thought Kjempehode. ”It’s terrible. It’s the worst second-line-proposal EVER. Anything would have been better. ”Yucca palme is ahør” is better. ”Septic-lasso cannot trør” is a poetic triumph compared to ”Exactly when the snør”. JESUS!”. Unfortunately, people wouldn’t listen. The 24th of May, 26431, a song called ”The Message” was published, containing nothing but the lines: It’s the right thing for her Exactly when the snør The public embraced it, as did the critics. Kjempehode on the other hand HATED it and went back to the war, only this time he fought for the other side. The ruthlessness of the music industry had created a monster. As he carried the flag of Gæbt and his fearless Plutos, Kjempehode uttered the words ”YOU CAN NEVER HAVE GEHØR!”. Now THAT would have been a great second line. The next day Kjempehode was killed, murdered by his own men. ”Of course”, NOBODY thought. ”How could you let a man with such second-line-writing-skills live?” He grinned, counted his money and went to sleep. He never wrote another song...

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