Spin Like a Top

Story Behind The Song

Sometimes, the best way to take revenge on a couple of rotten people is to transform them into evil characters in a song--and take poetic license to get rid of them, but only in the song!

Song Description

The "Spin Like a Top" hook is a catchy and aggressive setting for a story of crime and revenge, with the good guys winning in the end--but only with the same tactics as the bad guys. Manny and Rod go on a crime spree, taking lives and money, but the community gets tired of it. Taking the law into their own hands, the victims make quick work of Manny and Rod, burying the thugs and returning their neighborhood to its normal tranquility.

Song Length 3:55 Genre Pop - Rock, Rock - Modern
Tempo Medium Fast (131 - 150) Lead Vocal Female Vocal
Mood Outraged, Stressed Subject Violence, Crime, Theft
Similar Artists Sheryl Crow, Avril Lavigne Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

Hey, hey, hey!

Manny and Rod were out playing god with other people's lives
Manny said, "What say we blow him away, cuz I don't like what he drives"
The bullet goes in, the bullet goes out, listen to them whistle and shout
The tires all blew, the body did, too, nothing we can do but watch him

Chorus
Spin like a top, spin like a top
Pop 'til they drop, sit and watch 'em
Spin like a top, spin like a top
Ain't gonna stop until--until what?

Manny and Rod moved onto fraud and to stealing other people's coin
Live and let die, and just wave 'bye-'bye, cuz it's a club you ain't gonna join
They promise her this, they promise him that
Dash with the cash in nothing flat
Getting away with everyone's pay
Big money day, and the neighborhood will

Chorus
Spin like a top...Ain't gonna stop until someone,

Someone stands up to shout, "Get 'em out
Show their faces 'round the street, sound the warbeat
Lyin', killin', stealin', chillin'
Ain't gonna let 'em, gotta go out and get 'em
And then, and then, we're gonna watch 'em spin
We're gonna dump 'em in to the big bin
Got no use for this team of human abuse
Spin like a top--it's gotta stop"

Manny and Rod are pushing up sod in the middle of the neighborhood
We got tired of the sins the boys sired, yeah, the two were no damn good
Don't know when, don't know where
Don't know how, and we don't care
But nobody cried when Manny and Rod died
Cuz we got our block, and we sit and rock
And we talk all day while the children play
With toys, with toys, with toys, with toys that

Spin like a top, spin like a top
Pop 'til they drop, laugh and watch 'em
Spin like a top, spin like a top, ain't gonna stop, no no no...
Hey, hey, hey, watch 'em
Spin like a top.

Lyrics Susan Greenbaum Music Susan Greenbaum
Producer John Morand/Susan Greenbaum Publisher Susan Greenbaum
Performance Susan Greenbaum

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