[critique] Filk: Is there anybody here?

[Martin Julian DeMello <mdemello@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Is There Anybody Here"
(TTTO the Phil Ochs song of the same name,
http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics/is-there-anybody-here.html)

Is there anybody here
  Who doesn't know the difference between right and wrong?
Is there anybody here
  Who cannot keep his hands of someone else's song?
Is there anybody here
  With greed within his heart
Who'll twist another's tune
  And pass it off as art?
I want to meet him, I want to ask him if he wants to join our band
I want to suck him in, make a filker of the man

Is there anybody here
  Who knows a hundred variants on common time
Is there anybody here
  Who'd sacrifice his children for a triple rhyme
Is there anybody here who sits up through the night
  Tweaking at a verse until he's got it right
I want to meet him, I want to ask him if he wants to join our band
I want to suck him in, make a filker of the man

Is there anybody here twisted to the core
  Who's left his sense of taste and judgement at the door
I'd like to ask him when he's going to act his age
  I'd like to ask him if he'll get up on the stage
Is there anybody here who thinks that gathering at midnight is an early
start
Is there anybody here who's torn into a luser with a rhyming lart
Is there anybody here
  Who, when the chips are down,
Thinks that 'Kipple' is a verb
  And that 'mundane' is a noun
I want to meet him, I want to ask him if he wants to join our band
I want to suck him in, make a filker of the man

	-- Martin DeMello