Talk Backwards - Steve Goodman

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 bassackwards 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 pass the butter, 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