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#48

Song #19: “Bizarre Love Triangle” - New Order

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Every time I think of you
I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue
It’s no problem of mine but it’s a problem I find
Living a life that I can’t leave behind
There’s no sense in telling me
The wisdom of a fool won’t set you free
But that’s the way that it goes
And it’s what nobody knows
While every day my confusion grows

Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I’m waiting for that final moment
You’ll say the words that I can’t say

I feel fine and I feel good
I feeling like I never should
Whenever I get this way, I just don’t know what to say
Why can’t we be ourselves like we were yesterday?
I’m not sure what this could mean
I don’t think you’re what you seem
I do admit to myself
That if I had someone else
Then I’ll never see just what we’re meant to be

Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I’m waiting for that final moment
You’ll say the words that I can’t say

This song is very personal to me. I’ve heard several different interpretations of this song, but the one I think of is pretty personal to this song. Being personal, I’m not sharing it. I’ll tell you all the ones I’ve heard, though: 1. It’s about a gay man who’s in love with a heterosexual man in a relationship (or a gay man in denial in a relationship with a woman). 2. It’s about a dude with AIDS (I really can’t see that one). 3. It’s about a woman cheating on her husband from the “other man’s” perspective. 4. It’s about a man who used to be with a woman that just can’t get over her even though she’s with someone else. 5. My personal interpretation that I’m not sharing.

#49

I like this song. I never really listened to the lyrics, so I can’t really comment on any of the interpretations.

#50

Then why mention it?

#51

It’s past midnight, so I’m just going to go ahead and do “today’s” song right now.

Song #20: “She Has a Girlfriend Now”

It takes a while to start the actual video

Lyrics:

She has a girlfriend now
She has a girlfriend now
She has a girlfriend now, she said
“Guys don’t do no more for me”

“You never loved me, like i wanted you to”
(you never loved me, nooooo)
“I said I loved you baby, what do you want me to do?”
(what do you want me to do?)

She said she found someone who’s gonna hold her hand
She said she found someone who’s gonna understand
She don’t need nobody to be her man
She don’t need nobody to be her man

She has a girlfriend now
She has a girlfriend now
She has a girlfriend now, she said
“Guys don’t do no more for me”

She said she found someone who’s gonna hold her hand
She said she found someone who’s gonna understand
She don’t need nobody to be her man
She dont need nobody to be her man

She has a girlfriend now
She has a girlfriend now
She has a girlfriend now, she said
“Guys don’t do no more for me”

Well I never thought it would end like this
Just because I’ve got no tits
I’ll shave my legs
I’ll wear a bra
I’d even cut my penis off for you
(oh, that’s so sweet!)

She has a girlfriend now
(She has a girlfriend now)
She has a girlfriend now
(She has a girlfriend now)
She has a girlfriend now
(She has a girlfriend now)
She has a girlfriend now
Yeah

Kairi’s avatar inspired me to post this song. You’re welcome.

#52

It was an avatar that sparked a war!
Not really.

Cute song. I swear I’ve heard it before this. Maybe on the radio once.

#53

The New Order song is about a guy/dudette becoming a CEO. Or selling out. Or living a life style the narrator doesn’t agree with. And there’s sexual tension or friend tension and vagueness allows many interpretations, anyway.

I prefer small fish.

#54

So, track 10 on my favorites list just started playing moments ago and I thought to myself, “My this song sounds familiar.” It’s never had a name so I didn’t know what it was. It seems I really liked Bizarre love triangle, but had no idea that’s what it was. Song labeled now, yay.

#55

Hey, an interim song! Don’t blame GAP for it.Blame the withdrawal syndrome.

Unnumbered Song: Save me

I hang my head and I advertise a soul for sale or rent

It started off so well
They said we made a perfect pair
I clothed myself in your glory and your love
How I loved you,
How I cried…
The years of care and loyalty
Were nothing but a sham it seems
The years belie we lived a lie
I love you 'til I die
Save, save, save me
I can’t face this life alone
Save, save, save you…
I’m naked and I’m far from home

The slate will soon be clean
I’ll erase the memories
To start again with somebody new
Was it all wasted,
All that love?
I hang my head and I advertise
A soul for sale or rent
I have no heart I’m cold inside
I have no real intent
Save, save, save me
I can’t face this life alone
Save, save, ooooohhhhh…
I’m naked and I’m far from home

Each night I cry I still believe the lie
I’ll love you, 'till I die

Save, save, ohhhhhh, save me
Don’t let me face my life alone
Save, save, ooh…
I’m naked and I’m far from home

It’s Queen (with Freddie sporting fabulous clothes). The lyrics won’t be getting any awards for originality, but Mercury is one of my favorite singers and the instrumental parts fit well, neither cluttering the song nor making it bland. That’s what pop ought to be like.

Oh, did I mention it’s awesome?

#56

Well, I was just about to post a song (since I just came to New York), but we can consider Rig to have done today’s song, especially since it’s Queen. QUEEEEEEEEN!

#57

You were about to do New Yorkx2 and were feeling guilty?

#58

Ew. No. I don’t like that song at all, Rig! I’d never do that one. o.o;

Song #22: “To Live is to Die” - Metallica

The only Metallica instrumental I like

Lyrics (technically):
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.
All this I cannot bear to witness any longer.
Cannot the Kingdom of Salvation take me home?

I only have one thing to say about this: \m/

#59

I do :stuck_out_tongue:

TLITD is good, but it has the usual And Justice… problem. You went to high school, you know the story.

#60

That’s okay, Rig. It’s just not a favorite of mine. Like a penguin.

Song #23: “Beyond the Black Hole” - Gamma Ray

Power metal that isn’t fantasy? Sign me up!

I have come from so far away
From the sunlight of my home
And I have seen it’s the only way
Now my sun is dead and gone

I raise my head in silent anger
Seems there is no place for me
The only way out is to go
Where no one’s gone before

Fly - Beyond the gates of space and time
Another universe is mine
And I can’t wait until tomorrow
Ride - There’s a call from deep within
No I won’t return again
'Cause I will dive into the black hole

Don’t wait for me, 'cause I won’t come back
Oh don’t wait for me, no I won’t come back
Oh don’t wait for me, no I won’t come back
Oh, oh, oh …

Thunder and lightning and fire
Are guiding the trip of my life
Insatiable burning desire
As into the unknown I dive

I raise my head in silent anger
Seems there is no place for me
The only way out is to go
Where no one’s gone before

Fly - Beyond the gates of space and time
Another universe is mine
And I can’t wait until tomorrow
Ride - There is a call from deep within
I know I won’t return again
'Cause I will dive into the black hole

Don’t wait for me, 'cause I won’t come back
Oh don’t wait for me, no I won’t come back
Oh don’t wait for me, no I won’t come back
Oh, oh, oh, don’t wait

There was a trigger, for my decision
It’s right behind my eyes
Into the darkness of my vision
I let my spirit rise

I wanna see the black hole, into the dark
I wanna dive into the black hole, down into the dark
Into the black hole, into the dark
Into the spiral, Into the dark, the dark, the dark

If there’s a possible chance for something that can be
Called future behind the spiral
The only way to find out, is to leave the final frontier
To eternity and fly

I will fly - Beyond the gates of space and time
I leave the universe behind
And I can’t wait until tomorrow

Fly - Beyond the gates of space and time
I know the universe is mine
'Cause I will dive into the black hole

Ride - And there’s a call from deep within
I know I won’t return again
'Cause I will dive into the black hole

Don’t wait for me, 'cause I won’t come back
Oh don’t wait for me, no I won’t come back
Oh don’t wait for me, no I won’t come back
Oh, oh, oh, don’t wait

This is a song about someone that is either profoundly stupid, or desperate. You decide!

#61

Eh, Gamma Ray play too much by the numbers for my taste.

Have you listened to Ayreon’s The Universal Migrator pt2? It’s SF and somewhere on the prog-power axis.

Into the black hole

#62

I have not listened to it yet, though I promise I will when I stop running around like a chicken with its head cut off getting ready for a move I didn’t know was coming.

And they may play by the numbers, but I love them anyway. I have absolutely no idea why, but I love them! <3

Song #24: “Thieves” - Ministry

THIEVES! THIEVES AND LIARS!

Lyrics:
Thieves, thieves and liars, murderers
Hypocrites and bastards
in laughter (get up!)

(get up! get on your feet!)
Hey thanks for nothing!
Morals in the dust
Two-faced bastards and sycophants
No trust

(We are fighting for the liberation of minds, not for the liberation of this pig, and racist society)
Thieves! liar!
Inside, outside, which side, you dont know
My side, your side, their side, we dont know
Which side are they? which side are they?
Which side of their mouth do you suppose that it came?
Which side are they? which side are they?
Which side of the grass is greener?
Inside, outside, which side, you dont know
My side, your side, their side, we dont know

Youre like a great big fucking gun,
Just waiting to get squeezed!

(We’re gonna rip this motherfucker off, we’re gonna tear this motherfucker down)
(get up!)

(Get up, get on your feet!)
Breathe, forfeit erection!
Toxical injection
Geriatric fuck-fest
We still believe in lies
(I hope they realize that this is their last goddamned chance)
(Kill him!)

Thieves! liar!
Inside, outside, which side, you dont know
My side, your side, their side, we dont know
Who started it? who started it?
Which side are they? which side are they?
Which side of their mouth do you suppose that it came?
Which side are they? which side are they?
Which side of the grass is greener?
Inside, outside, which side, you dont know
My side, your side, their side, no one knows

Youre like a great big hit of acid,
Waiting to be taken!

(Power to the people)
(Police Officer!)
(you will not kill!)
(I want peace)
(do you want peace?)
(I can’t hear you!)
(I still can’t hear you!)

Everyone loves Ministry, right? RIGHT!? If you don’t, I’ll rip your fucking face off. I swear it! RARARRARRRRRRRRRARARRRRRRRARR… meow.

#63

Ah, Ministry. Great band. Are you moving to NY then?

#64

Yep. In two weeks I’m moving to NY.

Song #25: “Yakedy Sax” written by Boots Randolph and James Q. “Spider” Rich

Good quality sound

I’ve had to play this song before, though I didn’t know it was part of the Benny Hill show at the time. It was pretty hot and sticky. Supposedly adding this to anything makes for instant comedy, but I fail to see it. I think it’s a good song in its own right.

#65

That song has been irredeemably ruined for me by every tv show and it’s mom, Pavlov’s dog style.

#66

To honor your upcoming move,

Bob Crosby - Way back home

The roads are the dustiest, the winds are the gustiest
The gates are the rustiest, the pies are the crustiest
The songs the lustiest, the friends the trustiest
Way back home
(Back home)

The trees are the sappiest, the days are the nappiest
The dogs are the yappiest, the kids are the scrappiest
The jokes the snappiest, the folks the happiest
Way back home

Don’t know why I left the homestead
I really must confess
I’m a weary exile
Singing my song of loneliness

The grass is the springiest, the bees are the stingiest
The birds are the wingiest, the bells are the ringiest
(The hearts) the hearts the singiest
(The arms) the arms the clingiest
Way back home

(What about the sun?) The sun’s the blaziest
(And the fields?) The fields the daisiest
(And the cows?) The cows the graziest
(And the help?) The help’s the laziest
The boys (are the wittiest)
The girls (are the prettiest)
Way back home

(The pigs are the snootiest, the owls are the hootiest)
The plants the fruitiest, the stars the shootiest
(The grins the funniest), the smiles the sunniest
Way back home

Don’t know why I left the homestead
I really must confess
I’m a weary exile
Singing my song of loneliness

The food is the spreadiest, the wine is the headiest
The pals are the readiest, the gals are the steadiest
The love the liveliest, the life the loveliest
Way back, way back, way back, home
(No place like home)
Sweet home

The lyrics are silly, but it’s a bittersweet ditty that’s kind of an earworm. Besides, what kind of man would leave the hootiest owls to go to the big city? DOES NOT COMPUTE.

#67

And now for something completely different. That’s an old rembetiko song (there’s a 1935 record here).

Pente Magkes ston Peraia

Five guys in Piraeus
were passing outside the smoking house
One of the gang said
let’s go smoke a nargile (hookah)

They went in to smoke
told the owner
Get us one good nargile
with “Persian tobacco”

You are asking for twopence
we are paying three
If our head fills up
we will come again

They smoked but it was no good
they called the owner
-I didn’t get high at all
it was all tobacco

Man, you thought you are dealing
with amateurs
we are neither teenagers
nor addicts

Let’s go to the hill
I have a hookah hidden
let’s go smoke it there guys
let’s skip the smoking house

Man, you thought you are dealing
with amateurs
we are neither teenagers
nor addicts

If they close the smoking houses
in Piraeus
I’ll be taking
my rag to the cave

Back in '35 smoking of both kinds was pretty widespread. Piraeus was a place where refugees from Turkey settled in, ergo the proliferation of smoking houses there.

This is, like, the consumerist of the interwar period. And a good song to boot.