[ti:Talk Backwards] [ar:Steve Goodman] [al:Affordable Art] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talk Backwards - Steve Goodman [00:09.89]Hey everybody wherever you are [00:11.62]There's a new way of talking and it's gonna go far [00:13.63]You take the letters in the words [00:14.96]Turn 'em all around you say the last ones first [00:17.04]And you check out the sound [00:18.26]Talk Backwards [00:22.66]I know what you're thinking [00:23.58]That sounds strange [00:24.31]You've talked forward so long that it's hard to change [00:26.48]But it's just like metric once you get the drift [00:28.67]You twist your tongue and you give your palate a lift [00:31.04]You take your favorite phrase [00:32.19]And you read it in the mirror [00:33.04]Practice that about a half a year [00:35.01]And then sdrawkcab gnikiat mi em ta kool [00:37.18]You're a regular talking bassackwards fool [00:39.28]Talk backwards [00:48.49]Talking backwards is sweeping the nation [00:50.28]Talking backwards is the new sensation [00:52.36]You amaze your friends when you start to rap [00:54.27]Don't say pass the butter say rettub eht ssap [00:56.49]Rettub eht ssap Rettub eht ssap [00:58.08]And if you're out with a girl and she's a little bit shy [01:00.44]Don't say I love you say Uoy evol I [01:02.92]Uoy evol I and I always will [01:04.33]Now see if that doesn't take off the chill [01:06.77]Talk Backwards [01:15.76]The other day now I was walking down the street [01:17.83]There's this little girl I thought I'd like to meet [01:19.47]I said excuse me miss but [01:20.86]Sserd taht teg uoy erehw thgin ta tuo emoc [01:23.75]Yeht srats ekil era hteet ruoy [01:25.77]And I said am I getting through to you yet [01:27.85]She said you're a gent in the first degree [01:29.93]And I love it when you talk backwards to me [01:32.10]Talk backwards [01:49.68]Never can tell one of these nights [01:51.04]Those who talk backwards will demand their rights [01:53.35]They'll rise up angry and get a solution [01:55.54]In the form of an amendment to the constitution [01:57.52]That guarantees 'em freedom of reverse elocution [01:59.96]And then every TV show that airs [02:02.04]Will have to be captioned for the forward impaired [02:04.01]Talk backwards [02:08.21]Talk backwards [02:12.45]Talk backwards [02:16.72]Talk backwards