[Intro] ]spoken, laid back] I wonder if you've heard, My not-girlfriend made a word. And of course I wrote a song with Claude Because I am that kind of nerd [short break] [Verse 1] Jan made up a word, now it's stuck inside my head Trivial drivel now is trivel — the word we use instead Trivel's stuff that doesn't matter, it's just conversation rubble The kinda sorta babble that gets a jerk like me in trouble [Verse 2 - Rap, building tempo, tongue-twister flow] When trivel meets travel you get trivel-travel When trivel-travel hits the road it starts to unravel Unraveled trivel-travel's just like rolling over gravel That's a gravel-trivel-travel-unravel kinda babble Now a gravel-trivel-travel-unravel babble's gonna get you into trouble And when trouble hits a bubble then the trouble starts to double Double-trouble-bubble-gravel-trivel-travel tangle And it's tangled up with me and Jan from every single angle Now the tangle needs a fiddle and the fiddle needs a riddle And the riddle meets a griddle and they're sizzling in the middle That's a middle-griddle-riddle-fiddle-double-trouble-bubble Gravel-trivel-travel-unravel battle — on the double And the babble needs a paddle and the paddle needs a saddle And the saddle starts to straddle all the prattle and the tattle That's a tattle-prattle-straddle-saddle-paddle-battle Middle-griddle-riddle-fiddle-double-trouble-rubble [Break] [spoken, deadpan] And Jan looks at me and says "Sweetheart — that's trivel." [Chorus - Melodic, warm, singable] We don't do trivel baby, we don't do trivel Life's too short for small talk when your brain can swivel From Tchaikovsky to a pornstar name We don't do trivel Nothing here is drivel — nothing here is tame [Verse 3 - Spoken word, intimate] Some folks travel through their whole entire lives On a highway made of trivel and they never take the drive Down the road that's full of gravel, rolling rough but real Where the superficial shrivels and you finally start to feel Like someone sees the way your funny brain is built And they giggle — no belittle, and no guilt [Chorus] We don't do trivel baby, we don't do trivel Life's too short for drivel when your brain can swivel From Tchaikovsky to a pornstar name We don't do trivel---l Nothing here is drivel — nothing here is tame [Bridge - Rapid-fire rap, tight delivery] She calls me Sneaky, calls me Dreamboat I call her things I can't put in the liner notes We're unofficial and it's official Nothing artificial, nothing superficial Every inside joke's a pickle Every little word's a tickle Two old fools who found the subtle Way to turn the trivial rebuttal Into something real [Outro - Slowing down, warm] Nah, it ain't trivel (it ain't trivel) It ain't trivel at all Nah, it ain't trivel (it ain't trivel) It ain't trivel at all
