Alex BakerThe Ballad of Erika Stallings
The Ballad of Erika Stallings.
(partly in the key of Bmi)
© 2020 Alexander C. Baker, J.D.
Post Modern Justice Media Project
a Neveda Nonprofit Corporation, 501(c)(3) status pending
Publishing - Write Hear Music (BMI)
all rights reserved
featuring the 100% true life story
of corrupt BMI attorney Erika Stallings
(enter groove, 116 BPM)
Erika why are you stalling?
I know you know I'm 'posed to get paid
Erika reality's calling
For all of the music I made
To be or not to
Be am I just
Dirt upon your floor? (muffled, barely heard) FREE SPEECH!
To be or not to
Be am I a
Page that you once tore? (muffled) FREE SPEECH!
To be or not to
Be am I, to
Be am I, oh
What am I? to
B M I ?
Erika, last name of Stallings
Is it greed or the
Color my skin? Huh!??! Why You...
Smile when you know that I'm falling
And Laugh at the Prison I'm in?
To be or not to
Be am I just
Dirt upon your floor?
To be or not to
Be am I a
Page that you once tore?
To be or not to
Be am I, to
Be am I, oh
What am I? to
B M I ?
Look at the mess that you
Left when you Left me depressed
Cause you Pressed all my
[BAP BAP BAP BAP]
Buttons of distress
[mini solo]
Look at the lie that you
Lie all the time and the
Crime That you find so UH....
...musingly sublime
[mini solo]
Erica Stallings is the
BMI lawyer and she
Say you aint got no right to
Hear This [HEAR THIS]
I say fuck her in the "A"
I'm gonna say this anyway
Erika Baby you come on and you
Fear This (FEAR THIS)
Erika Stallings you are
Chargeably guilty foe yo'
Crime that you did on my
Money [MONEY]
You made up some bullshit about a
Dispute hold and then ya
Went ahead and paid Clair
Marlo [MARLO]
But you
Stop payin' me, yeah
You my only disease
Ain't no reason be
Why you treatin' me like I'm
No One. (NO ONE)
You are clearly in breach of your
Fi-Duiciary - DuTEE or Don't you
Even think you that you even
Owe one? (OWE ONE)
(Increase tempo even more, back to regular time)
(Chorus melody, alt lyric]
BMI is the
Government
They are a
State Actor fo' show
Yo' Consent Decree is
Federal Law ya' see and all you
Go to do is read on page foe
[Here comes where it modulates to the key of BMI]
(D mi) BMI
(Bb) Is legally Required
To PAY any writer with a
(Dmi) Song [Just One Song]
(D mi) EriKKKA
(Bb) Only inference
(A) Is you got bought
(G) Constructive fraud
(F#7) Means you got bought
(Lead vocal only)
(Bmi) And you got bought
(F#7) Right Erika?
(G) Only inference
(F#7) Is you got bought
(Two part harmony)
(Bmi) And you got bought?
(F#7) Right Erika?
(G) Constructive fraud
(F#7) Means you got bought
(Three part harmony)
(Bmi) And you got bought?
(F#7) Right Erika?
[slam cut to verse groove in A mi]
(solemn voice)
Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth Erika? The Whole truth? and Nothing but the truth?
[Synth solo and vocal cuts played on solemn voice samples]
[Solo hyperactively over verse, repeating sampled solemn voice to absurdity]
Truth Erika? T-T-T-T Truth Erika? Truth? FREE SPEECH. etc.
(D.C., Back to top, original tempo and feel)
Erika why are you stalling
I know you know I'm 'posed to get paid
Erika reality's calling
For all of the music I made
\
To be or not to
Be am I just
Dirt upon your floor?
To be or not to
Be am I a
Page that you once tore?
To be or not to
Be am I, to
Be am I, oh
What am I? to BMI