Songs:NH Valley Girl (123792)

Lyrics

When it’s hot outside I like to hop into my little car
turn the AC up full blast, down the steaming asphalt fly
to the food court at the mall, eat sizzling fajitas and hot coffee
not noticing it’s hot outside at all.
That’s the vision from my hill, bending nature to my, bending nature to my will.
When it’s cold I should stay put
like nature’s wisest creatures do
but I know that the big, strong truck
will push the ice and snow away
so I can go to some small, chic café, sip my iced espresso, nibble on biscotti
until winter goes away.
That’s the vision from my hill, bending nature to my will, bending nature to my will.
Yes, I like my fruits and veggies,
especially when they’re free from flaws,
uniform in size and color through the use of chemicals.
Lawns should all be carpet like even where it never rains
and we should have Scots 4-step plan
in our groundwater and drains.
That’s the vision from my hill, bending nature to my will, bending nature to my will.
People were not meant to fly or we
would have been born with wings
but still I like to cross the ocean and
have croissant on the Seine
and buy a lot of duty free and fly right home again.
Mangoes and Papayas are not native to New England,
neither is Guava fruit, but I like it anyway
and grapes from Chile in December,
strawberries from California in May.
That’s the vision from my hill, bending nature to my will, bending nature to my will.
When I was a young girl I desired big,
fat hair that I did not have
so I gave myself a headache half the size of Cleveland
sleeping in those great, big, pink sponge rollers over night.
Now that I am older if I see a line or furrow I do not like
can simply Botox it away, and
spend a minor fortune that could
feed a family of four in China for three weeks
and take a bath in Oil of Olay.
That’s the vision from my hill, bending nature to my will, bending nature to my will.
But of course I know that youth
won’t last despite what Cher and Suzanne Sommers
tell me in their infomercials on late night TV and I know I should leave this earth in used by good condition as a legacy.
But what can one small person do?
I know what—I’ll leave it up to you.
Bending nature has a risk, but it’s one that I will take.
When you bend a thing too much,
there’s a chance tha t it will break.
But that’s a risk that I will take,
And that’s the vision from my hill.