52 Makeup Challenge is a fun little song.
This week’s installment of myWhere do songs come from? In this case, from 1. Seeing a big black cat in my back yard, 2. Tweeting about it, and 3. Noticing the nice rhythm of the phase “Big black cat in my backyard”.
Big black cat in my back yard, staring in at me through the window.
— Tom Swiss (@tom_swiss) March 25, 2017
“Staring in at me through the window” is not quite as rhythmic, and “window” doesn’t have a lot of good rhymes; a minute’s reflection shows that “Staring through the window at me” works better as a song lyric, And from there’s we’re off.