"Comme d'habitude" ([kɔm dabityd(ə)], French for "As usual") is a French song about the setting in of routine in a relationship, precipitating a breakup.
It was composed in 1967 by Jacques Revaux, with lyrics by Claude François and Gilles Thibaut.
In 1969 Paul Anka wrote English lyrics for the song and gave it the title "My Way," which became one of Frank Sinatra's signature songs.
- The screenplay for Superman IV called for a Russian cosmonaut to sing a Russian version of "My Way",
- but the music supervisor realised that commissioning original Russian lyrics for Revaux' tune would cost much less than acquiring translation rights to Anka's lyrics,
- and that non-Russophone audiences would not notice the difference.
- David Bowie said that in 1968 – the year before Paul Anka acquired the French song – his publisher asked him to write English lyrics for "Comme d'habitude" but that his version, titled "Even a Fool Learns to Love", was rejected.
- This work became the starting point for his 1971 song Life on Mars.
- Chris O'Leary wrote that David Bowie felt "using Comme d'habitude (...) wasn't theft (...) more a statement of rightful ownership."
what did you do this week
dug a french drain around hanford, little boy diapers filled
whatd you do this week
mopped up, repackaged what nagasaki spilled
cc yer manager hell cc me
send it up the chain to hell hell know where to find me
taxing the contractions
aping the apostrophes
nixxing ebonics make room for eugenics
what nuthin you do with week on your dime or with mine
fired my booster rockets went like clockwork
revved my chain of command saw
the buck roger stop here
dressed down the joint chief
made him look like a caddy
took my number named boy to the office forgot his number
did some lines off the resolute peed in a paper cup
just find a tree I told lil wee wee
I learn you how to mow government
on the job learning all for yer betterment
what'd you do this week made Paul Bunyan the Lord
fell two million suckers with a feint toward the sword
gutting and cutting and deleting that's fair
demoting and nazi saluting embracing the snare
setting up bowling pins to blast from above
a catbird seat from olympus my habitude
clear my schedule the cutting block floor
clear my schedule the cutting block floor
you break it you buy it
my gloat moat rubber fucky
stayed in my lane all nine thousand mile wide
swear what you did I'll run it past hr
ill run it gasless and toss it
earth a junker ole car
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whatcha doing
tossing some spare parts
how do you know theyre spare parts
see em in the pile there? they spare
can you spare that abbie normal brain
no its got obsolescence value
the studebaker museum on mars has a cranial opening
right next to plankton and civil rights
sorry to bother you
no bother appendix spine
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