This is a non-FAWM track. In fact, it's the first track Scooter Picnic ever recorded! This is a song about being woefully, woefully male at Christmas and being unable to wrap a simple present.
lyrics
Ian: Iiiiiiiiiiiiiii'm terrible at wrapping Christmas gifts
No matter what size, I always get miffed
'cause i can't ever seem to cut the paper right
or i run out of tape and it takes all night
i never can judge how much paper to use
when wrapping gifts i just get confused
my taping is sloppy, my wrapping ain't nimble
I once used a whole roll just to wrap a thimble
I get so annoyed by ribbons and bows
and I think I've got tape stuck to the edge of my nose
I used to spread the paper out over my bed
"it was a flat surface to cut on", i said
but one year my mom turned as red as a beet
cause when i cut through the paper, i also cut my sheets
I once wrapped up a book, but it looked like a bonnet
So I just tossed it in a bag and threw tissue paper on it!
Chorus:
I can't wrap. It's a matter of fact.
I can't even hack keeping the presents intact. Bring back
the ice pack 'cause I don't have the knack. Can't wrap,
so I'm having an anxiety attack. Chap,
it's a mishap. Don't sarcastically clap.
My thumb is entrapped and I spilled cocoa on my lap.
I think I need a map or I'll finally snap
So just to recap, I cannot wrap.
Kyle: Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'm terrible at wrapping gifts for my friends
Is it something 'bout testosterone that ultimately lends
itself to failure in keeping wrapping neat?
I can't be discreet. My failure is complete.
I'm Kyle! My wrapping skills are vile!
I'll ruin it with a smile! The present I'll defile! I'm
not living in denial! I think I will beguile you.
My incompetence, baby, is'a shining on through!
I got a page of sunday comics and some scotch tape
With a bit of desperation, you can do a lot, mate!
It looks like a 5-year-old got hold of a glue gun.
It's a total disaster, but you can tell that I had fun!
Somehow, I've got staples embedded in my face
I've reduced the scarf I got you to a piece of toxic waste.
I must insist that all my failure has a little charm.
Excuse me now, I must remove the scissors from my arm.
(CHORUS)
Ian: How do girls do this? I can't understand?
I use tape to seal the (BOTH:) paper cuts on my hand!
Yo Kyle! (Kyle:) Yes Ian? (Ian:) I think I have a plan
to help us with these presents, & it comes from Japan!
Kyle: You mean a present wrapping robot? (Ian:) Yo, you read my mind!
Kyle: But something like that might be tough to find!
Ian: It's the only way we'll be a Christmas Survivor
We'll build it ourselves (BOTH:) like our name was MacGuyver!
Kyle: Yeah. MacGuyver. I think I'll go watch some…
Ian: Focus, Kyle! Focus! Kyle: R-right. Getting work done.
Ian: Look, while you were talking, I bought us the mech!
Kyle: Look at that guy go! He's so high tech!
Our problems are over! Ian, you're a genius!
*half-line huge explosion* Ian: Oh no! I can't believe this!
Kyle: Well, way to go, dingus. It looks like all hope is lost.
Ian: Aw, what's Christmas without a nuclear holocaust?
the great Luke Ski, Scooter Picnic's #1 fan, who appears on "I'd Buy That For A Dollar", and who occasionally has Ian and Kyle appear on his songs. Scooter Picnic
Kyle has a gift for creating earworms—catchy tunes that you just cannot get out of your head until they've achieved their purpose. (Which is? That would be telling...) At the moment I'm particularly fond of "I Don't Know Why There's a Bug in Here," which I predict within five years will dominate campfires and school buses. Brother Osric
This album is pretty much "all good" as they say. I like all the tracks, but somehow, "The Games I Used To Play" was my life in the '80s. Ian, you've done it again! roboknight