{"id":2278,"date":"2009-09-24T07:48:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T15:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2009-09-24T07:49:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T15:49:15","slug":"rockin-the-beer-gut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/24\/rockin-the-beer-gut\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockin&#8217; The Beer Gut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you download the explanatory video, the skinny male in the Trailer Choir says the inspiration was the girls at the fair.\u00c2\u00a0 Wearing their bikini tops, sporting their muffintops, their beer guts.<\/p>\n<p>I know we&#8217;re supposed to never eat.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re supposed to be so thin that we look skinny on television, which legendarily adds ten to fifteen pounds.\u00c2\u00a0 But you need food to live.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not alcohol or dope.\u00c2\u00a0 You may be addicted, but you can&#8217;t live without it.\u00c2\u00a0 And if at times you overdo it&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 Like my shrink says, if you never cross the line, you don&#8217;t know where it is!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re living life too safe.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to brag about getting less sleep, which the &quot;New York Times&quot; just said makes you more prone to being sick <\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\">\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/22\/health\/22real.html?_r=1&#038;ref=science\">The Claim: Lack of Sleep Increases the Risk of Catching a Cold. <\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>do you want to go to the gym for four hours a day so you need to inject fat in your cheeks like Madonna, or do you want to live?<\/p>\n<p>Life is really tough.\u00c2\u00a0 If you sacrifice all the good parts, you&#8217;ve got nothing left.<\/p>\n<p>I was driving up Chautauqua, punching the buttons on my XM radio, and I heard a song by the Trailer Choir.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe because there&#8217;s a comedy group in Canada entitled the Trailer Park Boys my first thought was I&#8217;d hit the wrong button, that I was on the comedy channel.\u00c2\u00a0 But I was on the Highway, the country station.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">There&#8217;s a million different types of girls all around the world and they&#8217;re all so beautiful<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">No one knows any better than me &#8216;cuz I stare so constantly<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re always checking out the merchandise.\u00c2\u00a0 And what entices us is not always what the magazines tell us is desirable.\u00c2\u00a0 Those tall skinny girls, you&#8217;d break &#8217;em in bed.\u00c2\u00a0 And how could they put out when they&#8217;re starving?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">But I think I met my match last night at the club<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">She was sippin on a Bud, hangin with her friends on a Friday night<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We want to meet our match.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, some people want someone to dominate.\u00c2\u00a0 Hell, some want to be dominated.\u00c2\u00a0 But most of us are looking for someone we can play verbal tennis with, before we go for a spot of tongue hockey.\u00c2\u00a0 We like to riff.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, we start with looks, but then we go to conversation.\u00c2\u00a0 And in a moment, we know if we want to go in hot pursuit.\u00c2\u00a0 You open your mouth and it&#8217;s instantly yea or nay.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Five foot something, cherry bomb<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">She had everything going on<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The first thing that caught my eye<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">She was rockin&#8217; the beer gut<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">And I love the way she&#8217;s not ashamed<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Rockin&#8217; the beer gut<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Well it&#8217;s just some extra love around her waist<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Rockin&#8217; the beer gut<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">She&#8217;s more than hot<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">She&#8217;s everything<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">And with the blue jeans a little tight around her butt<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Rockin&#8217; the beer gut<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wear &#8217;em tight and we don&#8217;t care how big your ass is.\u00c2\u00a0 Just wrap up those buns and we&#8217;re ready to eat.\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;re irresistible.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, everybody is beautiful, in their own way.\u00c2\u00a0 And nothing turns us on as much as confidence.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Well Toby Keith never looked so good hanging out right there on the front of her black t-shirt<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">As I walked up to the bar and said, &#8216;Can I buy you a drink girl?&#8217;<\/span><br style=\"font-style: italic;\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">She spun me around and grabbed my hand and said, &#8216;First things first we&#8217;re gonna dance, if you can cut a rug boy after that, well you can&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just a t-shirt.\u00c2\u00a0 With your boobies adding definition.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s all we need.\u00c2\u00a0 Designer clothing might lighten your wallet, but it won&#8217;t get us stirred up as much as you in your jeans and t-shirt&#8230;well, we&#8217;d prefer you naked!<\/p>\n<p>They say you&#8217;re nothing if you&#8217;re not on TV.\u00c2\u00a0 But a confident woman needs no cameras to star in her own movie.\u00c2\u00a0 And even if you&#8217;ve got a bit of extra padding around the middle, despite all the online hoopla, we&#8217;re still interested, VERY interested!<\/p>\n<p>Because your extra pounds are evidence that you like to live, that you&#8217;re sensual, that you&#8217;ll tie us in a knot in bed.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t feel inadequate, flaunt it!<\/p>\n<p>Is this a real band or a one off?\u00c2\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t matter, they&#8217;ve delivered a stroke of genius.\u00c2\u00a0 Truth wrapped up in a humorous ditty that tells us even though we may not be perfect, don&#8217;t work on Wall Street making millions, that doesn&#8217;t mean we&#8217;re not desirable, that doesn&#8217;t mean we can&#8217;t have fun!<\/p>\n<p>This is a track that you can&#8217;t stop playing.\u00c2\u00a0 Not quite as good as Joe Nichols&#8217; &quot;Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off&quot;, but not every track is legendary.\u00c2\u00a0 But &quot;Rockin&#8217; The Beer Gut&quot; was made not by machines, but real people.\u00c2\u00a0 And that&#8217;s what we love about you, your imperfections.\u00c2\u00a0 The looseness of this track is its appeal.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not about getting it seamless, but making sure the life is retained. 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