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Biodegradable Man

from Turn Up For The Books by Robbie McIntosh

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about

The song is about re-cycling, but not as in what goes in your bins, but when everything dies it becomes part of something else. I suppose it's a crude extension of the idea that 'we are stardust', because we are all made from elements and traces of elements that were created in massive suns or super-nova.
It's not about reincarnation, it's about physically coming back; being burned or buried and those atoms eventually becoming part of something else. But there's nothing spiritual about the song, at all.
It's supposed to be light hearted.

I wrote the song some time ago. I used to do it very much in a sort of Little Feat style, but when I did the track for the album I had the whole song in my head. I had a click track and I just did the acoustic guitar part from beginning to end with no vocal. I then put on a rough vocal so I had reference points. Then I did the drums, then I put the bass on, then the electric guitar and then the proper vocal. I was ready to mix it and then I thought it would be nice to have an electric piano on it, so Steve Smith put the Wurlitzer on and we mixed it that day.

lyrics

Well I'm a Biodegradable man,
you can take me for what I am
Just a great big lump o' ham sitting in the pig pen

You can throw me on the compost heap
you can bury me down real deep
you can stand around and weep but I'll be back again

Arms like twigs, a trunk like tree
a head like a cabbage and a brain like pea
with a couple of potatoes hanging down below
Well I'm carbon based from head to feet
plenty of fat, plenty of meat
Deep down just sinew and bone

Well you are, what you eat
Sometimes sour and sometimes sweet

Well I'm a biodegradable man etc.

I make a whole lot of methane gas
I'll make flowers grow out of your arse
I'll do anything that you ask, which way'd the wind blow

Well you are, what you eat
Recycle me into something sweet

Well I'm a biodegradable man etc.

credits

from Turn Up For The Books, released September 7, 2013
RM: Guitars, Drums, Bass, Vocals,
Stephen Darrell Smith: Wurlitzer

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Robbie McIntosh Weymouth, UK

Robbie McIntosh is well known as a sideman/session player (Paul McCartney, The Pretenders, Talk Talk, Norah Jones, Tears For Fears, to name but a few)
As a solo performer and singer, he has released 8 albums:
Seaworld,
Fortuneswell,
Turn Up For The Books,
Widescreen, Emotional Bends
3 albums of instrumentals:
Unsung, Hush Hour and Christmas Carols.
Also the Let’s Put It All Together EP. ... more

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