The story of a man who goes to the grocery store to shop for an important dinner party he's hosting that evening and in his haste, chooses a cart with a wobbly wheel. The defective wheel makes him late for the party and his guests leave which causes his life to take a tailspin.
TFM Songs That Tell Fictional Stories
TFM tells the story of an aging man whose "river" has become a "stream" and beats that metaphorical horse absolutely to death.
In this song, a young boy asks his farther to teach him to fish. The father is one of these people that believes there is a "right way to do everything" and spends an inordinate amount of time teaching his son the details and minutia of fishing. In fact, he takes so long that by the end of the song he keels over dead of a heart attack.
In this song, a man loses a sock in the laundry and pray to the Saint of Lost Items (St Anthony) for its return.
TFM tells the shocking story of a struggling singer/songwriter whose agent (really, himself) explains that he's just not good enough and does something horrible to generate fan interest.
TFM tells the tale of a man who agrees to try out a time machine his buddy builds and winds up crashing the machine in a prehistoric time among a prehistoric tribe. He tells them about the future (specifically plumbing, Read more
TFM tells the tale of a man who agrees to try out a time machine his buddy builds and winds up crashing the machine in a prehistoric time among a prehistoric tribe. He tells them about the future (specifically plumbing, electricity and toilet paper) and they insist that he provide that for THEM. But he realizes that he doesn't know how anything in the modern world really works and he is helpless.
TFM tells the story of a bumble bee which pesters a man during an outdoor barbecue, causing him to fall in his swimming pool and nearly drown. The man kills the bee in the end with a tennis shoe as "persistence is no match for advanced technology"
TFM tells the story of what would happen after 30 days without electric power.
TFM tells the story of a man who gets a prescription for a drug that grows hair but it has the side effect that he also grows double D breasts.
TFM tells the story of man attempting to make breakfast for his wife but must throw much of it away in order to be aligned with all of the various health related studies; i.e., coffee is bad, butter is bad, cheese is bad etc