Treehouse

Lyrics by Maureen S. O'Brien, 3/11/98
To the tune of: "We Want a Rock" by They Might Be Giants,
                     from their album Flood.

Dedicated to Fox's charming lawyers, who are shutting
down treehouse.simplenet.com. I wish they would take
a lesson from J. Michael Straczynski and Babylon 5.

This parody protected by free speech and a Supreme Court 
decision, just in case they were thinking of writing _me_.
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Maybe you just forgot --
The show that you are making
Was written by some fannish kid
Who once had Kolchak for his thing --
An image to pretend around.

Everybody wants to have
A tree they can pretend around
You cut down every X-Phile's tree
That they can play pretend around.

Chorus 1:
Throw the cell door wide.
Make the people crawl inside.
Someone in your town
Is gonna burn our Treehouse down.
They wanna stop the ones who want
A tree they can pretend around.
But everybody wants to have
A tree they can pretend around.

(repeat chorus 1)

If I were a Fox exec, I'd
Leave the kids their Treehouse. I'd
Be thankful for publicity
I didn't have to pay for, and I
Wouldn't ever shut it down.

Everybody wants a zillion
Jpegs, transcripts, avi's.
And I don't see the Fox site give those
Jpegs, transcripts, avi's.

Chorus 2:
Throw the cell door wide.
Make the people crawl inside.
Someone in your town
Is gonna burn our Treehouse down.
They wanna stop the ones who want some
Jpegs, transcripts, avi's.
And I don't see the Fox site give those
Jpegs, transcripts, avi's.

Chorus 3:
Throw the cell door wide.
Make the people crawl inside.
Someone in your town
Is gonna burn the jpegs down.
They wanna stop the ones who want
A tree they can pretend around.
But everybody wants to have
A tree they can pretend around.
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Maureen S. O'Brien
http://www.dnaco.net/~mobrien/filk/sf/xfiles/
http://www.dnaco.net/~mobrien/fanfic/