Chocolate Cake
Neil Finn/Tim Finn
Not everyone in New York would pay to see Andrew Lloyd Webber
May his trousers fall down as he bows to the queen and the crown
I don’t know what tune that the orchestra played
But it went by me sickly and sentimental
Can I have another piece of chocolate cake
Tammy Baker’s got a lot on her plate
Can I buy another cheap Picasso fake
Andy Warhol must be laughing in his grave
The band of the night take you to ethereal heights over dinner
You wander the streets never reaching the heights that you seek
And the sugar that dripped from the violins bow
Made the children go crazy, put a hole in the tooth of a hag
Can I have another piece of chocolate cake
Tammy Baker must be losing her faith
Can I buy another cheap Picasso fake
Andy Warhol must be laughing in his grave
And the dogs are on the road
We’re all tempting fate
Cars are shooting by
With no number plates
And here comes Mrs. Hairy Legs
I saw Elvis Presley walk out of a Seven Eleven
And a woman gave birth to a baby and then bowled two-fifty-seven
The excess of fat on your American bones
Will cushion the impact as you sink like a stone
Can I have another piece of chocolate cake
Tammy Baker, Tammy Baker…
Can I buy another cheap Picasso fake
Cheap Picasso, cheap Picasso fake
Can I have another piece of chocolate cake
Kathy Straker, boy could she lose some weight
Can I buy another slice of real estate
Liberace must be laughing in his grave
Can I have another piece of chocolate cake
Song appears on:
Crowded House - Woodface (1991 album)
Live: Fangradio broadcasts 2020-2021
“It came from an overhead conversation in a restaurant in America which I was talking to Neil about when we were writing and throwing ideas around. I’d heard this woman saying, at the end of a long meal, ‘I don’t know. Should I have another piece of chocolate cake or the cheque?’”
“It was just a little story but it sparked off this song and actually we wrote that in about 20 minutes. It was very fast and we threw in a whole lot of satirical lines about consumption and greed. It came together very easily.”
