Steve Goodman - Talk Backwards lyrics

Hey everybody wherever you are There's a new way of talking and it's gonna go far; You take the letters in the words, Turn 'em all around; you say the last ones first And you check out the sound Talk Backwards I know what you're thinking; That sounds strange You've talked forward so long that it's hard to change But it's just like metric once you get the drift You twist your tongue and you give your palate a lift. You take your favorite phrase, And you read it in the mirror, Practice that about a half a year, And then sdrawkcab gnikiat mi em ta kool You're a regular talking ba**ackwards fool Talk backwards Talking backwards is sweeping the nation Talking backwards is the new sensation, You amaze your friends when you start to rap Don't say pa** the bu*ter, say rettub eht ssap. Rettub eht ssap? Rettub eht ssap And if you're out with a girl and she's a little bit shy Don't say I love you; say Uoy evol I. Uoy evol I and I always will, Now see if that doesn't take off the chill Talk Backwards The other day now I was walking down the street There's this little girl I thought I'd like to meet. I said excuse me miss but Sserd taht teg uoy erehw. thgin ta tuo emoc Yeht srats ekil era hteet ruoy And I said am I getting through to you yet She said you're a gent in the first degree And I love it when you talk backwards to me Talk backwards Never can tell, one of these nights Those who talk backwards will demand their rights. They'll rise up angry and get a solution In the form of an amendment to the constitution, That guarantees 'em freedom of reverse elocution; And then every T.V. show that airs Will have to be captioned for the forward impaired Talk backwards Talk backwards Talk backwards Talk backwards