This week's installment is one of the older Bob Spelled Backwards songs. In fact, you could call this Pre-Bob. There were a handful of songs that Josh O'Connor and I wrote together before we joined with the rest of Bob. We had formed a heavily Spinal Tap influenced "mock" band called "Soundbox". We wrote 4 songs that would later be used by Bob and/or Great Awakening. "Used to be My Heaven" was one of them, along with "Stupid Woman", You're My Girlie" and "Alternative Girl". Josh and I also joined together in writing the song "The Girl I Love is Dead", joined by Mike Shaffer, that would become the biggest "hit" of Great Awakening. The "band" Soundbox was mainly influenced by Spinal Tap in that it wasn't ever supposed to be a real band. It was a group of imaginary characters, and we wrote the above songs as those characters. This is why the aforementioned songs happen to comprise the core of Bob's most masogynistic songs. All of these songs were written in the same spirit as the well known Ben Folds Five song, "Song for the Dumped", in that they were mostly post-relationship, angry break-up songs. All tongue-in-cheek, of course.

"Used to be My Heaven" is a song sung by a person to their former lover about how they were going to die of mysterious causes that couldn't possibly be pinned on the singer.

Used to be My Heaven

You used to be my Heaven,
But now you are my Hell,
But, baby, I think you'll die before me

Don't call the police, Ain't nothin they can do.
Cuz it won't be yours truly, that puts an end to you.

Keep smoking all them cigarettes, at least a pack a day.
You're drinking too much coffee, or at least that's what they'll say.

You used to be my Heaven,
But now you are my Hell,
But, baby, I think you'll die before me

Get two hours of sleep at night, for at least a month or so.
I think I see Porphyria, coming down the road.
And if I am subpeona'd, I'll have nothing to hide.
For the coroner's report will simply say it's suicide.

You used to be my Heaven,
But now you are my Hell,
But, baby, I think you'll die before me
And, baby, I bet you'll die before me.

The song was already attached to my Valentine's rant here. It is also available for purchase to the right--------->