Bad Idea

Bad Idea is a bonus track on Hip to the Javabean.

Bad Idea
Song
Artist	Lemon Demon
Written by	Neil Cicierega
Appears on	Hip to the Javabean
Sung by	Neil Cicierega
Duration	4:14
Tempo	169
Genre	Rock
Language	English
Links:	Original lemon demon website download

Lyrics

Every once in a while there is a shooting star
People say they're good luck, but even if they are
There's not a star in motion that could help me now
I'm in serious trouble, and I don't know how
A pack of deadly creatures followed me back here
I am desperately hiding as they're drawing near
I wish I knew what to do or where I lost my way
So I'm carefully thinking back to yesterday

I was just a normal chap
But I shoulda brought a map, I shoulda
Shoulda, woulda, coulda, woulda
Shoulda, woulda, coulda, woulda

I got lost and I wound up on a dirt road
I saw signs, and in retrospect they did bode
Bad things, but I shrugged and I still drove
Through to a town where my bad luck overflowed
Everybody in town was nowhere to be seen
So I parked near a house that was marked thirteen
I went up to the door, but there was no one there
And when I turned around, my car was gone, I swear
So I ran to a pay phone but there was no tone
I had an eerie feeling in my very bones
And soon it started to rain, and there was no way out
I couldn't hold my frustration, and began to shout:

"Maybe this was a bad idea, oh no
Maybe this was a bad idea, oh no"

I was stuck in the rain and I was mad as hell
So I began to run, but then I slipped and fell
I tumbled down a hill into a cemetery
I shouldn't have to tell you it was freaking scary
I tried to stand back up, but something held me down
A dead, rotting arm was reaching from the ground
I was utterly helpless till I saw the Sword
I quickly sliced my captor yelling, "PRAISE THE LORD!"

Then I saw the living dead;
It was then I shoulda fled, I shoulda
Shoulda, woulda, coulda, woulda
Shoulda, woulda, coulda, woulda

But I stood like a pillar in a hallway
I knew I'd be slaying demons that day
I stared at the rotting heaps of pure decay
And I charged with the force of a gamma ray
It happened in slow motion, I began the fight
Some sort of power kept me going through the night
With that mysterious sword beheading beasts and ghouls
Just me versus them, without any rules
But many more kept rising up from shallow graves
I did my best to fight them, but they came in waves
And soon it was too much, just demon after demon
So I ran as quickly as I could, screaming

"Maybe this was a bad idea, oh no
Maybe this was a bad idea, oh no
This was a bad idea"

So here I am, hiding from fate
I can't win, it's just too late
But something must be done
Yes sirree, this war must be won
I know this, I won't die hiding
I know this, I must keep fighting
I don't know who the winner's gonna be
But there's just one way to see

It's time to kick some zombie ass, la la la la la la!
It's time to kick some zombie ass, la la la la la la!

Trivia

• The music video for this song is by Andrew Kepple, as is the video for I’ve Got Some Falling to Do. It shares some elements with it, for example, it opens with the guy flying through space, the way the Falling to Do video ended. Somehow, the same guy is also the protagonist of this video, and as a nod to the original, when he falls into the cemetary his head rapidly flashes between several frames of frightened expressions.
• The sound effects at the end are from the computer game Doom.