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Bob Dylan gets an electric toothbrush

"The next one is a hard-rockin', kick-ass, take-no-prisoners tune we wrote about turning sixty."

"I've always been a big Otis Redding fan."

"Wow, thanks. I'm a big fan. I've downloaded all your stuff."

'This one writes some fine lyrics, and the other one has composed some beautiful music, but they just done't seem to hit it off as collaborators.'

"Listen up, my fine people, and I'll sing you a song, 'bout a brave neurosurgeon who done something wrong."

'If only I could write music that would have that much influence over people.'

Elton John

'This next song is about setting boundaries, and how now I wish I had.'

Rick decides to save his real lyrics for when someone is actually listening.

'Darlin', what's an adjective for a two-timin', heart-breakin' outlaw that rhymes with iPod?'

'I'm a huge fan of yours, I've downloaded all your songs from the internet!'

"This is my own arrangement...of a song I wrote...about me."

The Beatles

Paris, 1922, George Gershwin and Franz Kafka try to write a musical.

George Michael

"Actually, I'm a singer-songwriter bird."

"Well I woke up this morning and I got myself a fifth of...no, that's not gonna work."

Band alternating between whiney and angry songs.

'This next song is about putting your dreams on hold and doing whatever it takes to pay the rent.'

"Hey guys, here's one I wrote about the loneliness of Lockdown."

"Beans, Them Beans, Them Beans, Beans, Beans..."

Leonard Cohen.

An Old Song Gets A Slight Rewrite.

'Here's one I didn't write... I never learned... and can't play.'

John Lennon

"Here's a little song I wrote in prison. Actually, I was at Motor Vehicle renewing my license, but it SEEMED like prison."

'This is a song about losing something you dearly love, searching for it everywhere and finally finding it only to lose it again. I call it 'Lookin' for my remote in all the wrong places'!'

'First I'll do some covers, then I'll play some derivative, cliche-ridden original material.'

Bob's girlfriend provided him with inspiration...and sex.

Bob Geldof.

"That was 'Salt Peanuts'."

"The days of great lyrics are over. Let's aim for greeting card lyrics."

Lovebird and the Song Birds

'Here's a straight from the heart tear jerker that was inspired by a hashtag.'