So 13 years ago I wrote this song after Mary Fleener said she was going crazy because her husband heard me playing Something Else in my shop and for a week he'd been singing the words "Hairy Rag, Hairy Rag" over and over. Not the whole song, just those words. When we recorded it I naturally wanted her to do the vocal and told her to sing "it's Ray DAVIS this, and Dave DAVEEZ that" to give a nod to that particular "Kink Kontroversy". But of course she pronounced both names as DAVEEZ and as we did it live in one take before an audience that was that.
KINXOUT
I'M NOT CONTENT TO BE WITH YOU
YOU PLAY THE KINKS THE WHOLE DAY THROUGH
AND ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT IT'S MORE OF THE SAME
IF YOU DON'T QUIT-- I'LL GO INSANE
GET THE KINKS OUT NOW
I REALLY DON'T CARE HOW
JUST GET THE KINKS OUT NOW
IT'S A DEAD END STREET WHERE THE NOISE NEVER STOPS
AN AURAL ASSAULT FROM THOSE MOP TOP FOPS
IT'S RAY DAVIES THIS, AND DAVE DAVIES THAT
ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT IN OUR 2 ROOM FLAT
GET THE KINKS OUT NOW
I REALLY DON'T CARE HOW
JUST GET THE KINKS OUT NOW
(BRIDGE)
I'M AT MY END--WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?
I FEEL I'VE MET MY OWN WATERLOO
I SHUT MY EYES TO GET 40 WINKS
AND DREAM ABOUT THAT GAP TOOTHED JINX
GET THE KINKS OUT NOW
I REALLY DON'T CARE HOW
THEY'VE REALLY GOT ME NOW
Of course for me, the first time I heard Waterloo Sunset I finally realized I preferred the Kinks to the Beatles and the Stones.