You know the ‘L’ word that you sometimes just can’t say out loud without blushing or feeling weird? Well, Formidable Vegetable has saved the day with a made-up alternative that you can say as much as you like: Fluff!
This is an anthem for Fluff and all of the places where it’s most needed right now (hint: it’s everywhere!) featuring Harry Angus from The Cat Empire on trumpet.
lyrics
Sometimes this crazy world
Gets carried away
But deep down I feel
Its gonna all be OK
Can’t say where we’re going
Or what’s up ahead
But we can wonder about the future
Or just make it up instead
Here’s something made up
It’s powerful stuff
And it needs a fun word
So let’s call it 'Fluff'
It’s not mine to keep
But it needs to get out
So if you’ve got it, go get it
And share it around
Give Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff to everyone
Have Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff
And make everything out of
Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff
Cos there’s always enough
Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, that’s the stuff
Sometimes I see that Fluff
On faces in the crowd
Young or old it doesn’t matter
It’s there hanging out
I see it in Mum
I see it in Dad
I see it in my friends
And I am so glad we have
Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff for everyone
Give Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff
And make everything out of
Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff
Cos there’s always enough
Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, that’s the stuff
Lately I’ve come to realise
That Fluff is all around us
Inside and outside
And I’m glad that it found us
And the more that we share it
The more that there’ll be
And it’s time to set all this Fluff free
So Fluff into the sky
And Fluff into the land
I Fluff all over you
Well, I hope you understand
That the thing about Fluff
Is it never, ever ends
So Fluff with me now
And Fluff on all your friends
Give Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff to everyone
Have Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff
And make everything out of
Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff
Cos there’s always enough
Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, that’s the stuff
Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff for everyone
Have Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff
And make everything out of
Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff
Cos there’s always enough
Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, Fluff, that’s the stuff.
credits
from In Real Life,
released March 23, 2022
Written & Produced by Charlie Mgee & Formidable Vegetable.
Mixed by James Newhouse at Lambchop Records in Gelorup WA
Mastered by Jim Moynihan at MoonSpoon Studio in Kinglake, VIC
Performed by Formidable Vegetable:
Charlie Mgee - ukulele, vocals, drums
Tim Bennett - bass
Mal Webb - slide trumpet, trombone
Alex Burkoy - violin
Harry Angus - trumpet solo
With a wheelbarrow full of dirty
electro radish-beets, crusty jazz ukulele, swingin' strings and hyperactive horns, Formidable Vegetable are here to sow the garden of your mind with seeds of future-resilience in the funkiest way possible.
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