When your favourite TV drama doesn’t get renewed for next year
Cause the network didn’t get it, you sing a sad song.
And when your favourite NHL team doesn’t do so good at hockey
Even though you bought their jersey, you sing a sad song.
Because you’re sad so sad,
Sad so sad,
Sad sad sad sad sad,
Then you bring in the cello.
Yeah you bring in the cello.
One single sad solo cello.
That was cello up one octave.
That’s a cel-low as in a low C, the very lowest note on the cello.
Anyway!
When you read on Facebook that your old work colleague’s pet died
Even though you barely knew her, you sing a sad song.
And when our politics and our media have decided facts don’t matter
And that ignorance is a virtue,
You go and register to vote even if you need six forms of ID.
It’s sad so sad,
Sad so sad,
Sad sad sad sad sad,
That’s why you bring in the cello!
Then the cello goes mellow.
Staccato fortissimo pizzicato.
Give it up for the cello fellow!
From forte to piano, from bass to soprano,
From mega to nano, you gotta have a cello.
For wide and for narrow, for slings and for arrows
That pierce to the marrow, you gotta get a cello.
For a sadder tomorrow overloaded with sorrow
You must beg steal or borrow a motherflippin’ cello!
A motherflippin’ cello!
Even Metallica used a cello!
They used multiple cellos on the album S&M.
Cello cello cello!
You gotta get a cello.
credits
from Metric System,
released November 4, 2022
Robbie Ellis · vocals, piano, bass guitar
Hope Shepherd DeCelle · cellos
Dan Waldron · cor anglais
Justin Amolsch · horns
Victoria Moreira, Naomi Culp · violins
Susan Bengtson Price · viola
Jake Dewar · acoustic and electric guitars
Jono Sawyer · drum kit
Vocals recorded by Matt Griffo at Chicago Recording Boutique.
String quartet recorded by David Lopez at Gravity Studios, Chicago.
Piano recorded in the Fay & Daniel Levin Performance Studio, WFMT Chicago.
Drums recorded by Louis Bernstone at Ellamy Studios, Auckland.
Edited by Robbie Ellis.
Mixed by Matt Griffo at Chicago Recording Boutique.
Chicago-based New Zealander Robbie Ellis makes comedy songs. He also composes concert music; is a music director for improv and sketch; and presents classical music radio.
Robins decided to release the recording of his 2016 comedy tour during the Covid-19 shutdown at the behest of fans. Bandcamp New & Notable May 29, 2020
Comedian Chris Gethard’s hilarious new surprise album is devoted to the great state of New Jersey, and the great state of New Jersey alone. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 18, 2019
