“AND HOW ABOUT YOU” © 1988, 2015, 2021 WORDS & MUSIC by Elton Houck China Co-op Music Publishing(ASCAP) & Arthur Kaufman/Mad Loon Music Publishing(BMI)…reprint from Elton Houck’s book—THE 6TH DAY—Exiled from the garden” © 2015 Elton Houck—Outskirts Press// “AND HOW ABOUT YOU”…… VERSE 1:….Tape plays dead tunes/And sun slices the moon/Into mediocrity/But it will do/….. VERSE 2:….Black girl in pink/What do you think?/Little boy in blue/And how about you?/……… CHORUS:…Monkey bar man/Better grab hold/While you can/And opposable thumb gets you through/Yellow school bus slides into view/And war planes, exercising wings/Glides overhead too/ Half alive, I’m here/And how about you?/…….. VERSE 3:…..Red brick wall/Tall and indiscrete/Barbwire halls/Emptying into the street./……… VERSE 4:….Homo Erectus/Is still infectious/Bouncing Betties in view/And how about you./…… VERSE 5:….Need an injection/Even out perfection/Fry your mind/In four-four time./…… REPEAT CHORUS:….. VERSE 6:…Coming down through/Traffic mayhem/And air disaster/And how about you./….. VERSE 7:….Do you graduate?/With convictions in ruin/And then simulate/Rome when it burned./….. VERSE 8:….One, two, three/Small doses of reality/Mind troll muddle through/And how about you?/….. REPEAT CHORUS:….. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***NOTE—The digital artwork for the song “AND HOW ABOUT YOU”© is titled—“MIDNIGHT MASQUERADE” © 2020,2021 Elton Houck…..///\\\-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======