1. Standard memberDrKF
    incipit parodia
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    06 Oct '10 22:05
    We can do anything that we want, we can, we can,
    we can, we can do anything that we want

    Why you gotta play that song so loud?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Why you always run around in crowds?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Why d'you always have to dance all night?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Why d' you always say what's on your mind?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!

    Don't try to tell me
    What I already know
    Don't critisize me
    'Cos I'm running this show
    Some revolution
    Is going to happen today
    I'm gonna chase the dark clouds away
    Come on and help me sing it

    We can do what we want to do
    We can do anything
    Free to be who we want to be
    Just tell yourself you can do it!

    Why you gotta play that song so loud?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Why you always run around in crowds?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Why d'you always have to dance all night?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Why d' you always say what's on your mind?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!

    I'll throw a party
    For the world and my friends
    We'll take life easy
    The music never ends
    Perfect solution
    To the stress and the strain
    I know the sun will follow the rain
    Come on and help me sing it

    We can do what we want to do
    We can do anything
    Free to be who we want to be
    Just tell yourself you can do it

    Why you gotta play that song so loud?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Why you always run around in crowds?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Why d'you always have to dance all night?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Why d' you always say what's on your mind?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!

    We can do anything that we want, we can, we can,
    we can, we can do anything that we want

    So shake it, move it, use the groove
    Go with the flow and take over the show
    Let me tell you it's sweet and it's an up-beat
    Me and the crew, there's nothing we can do

    If you wanna catch this vibe then get with us

    Come on and help me sing it
    We can do what we want to do
    We can do anything
    Free to be who we want to be
    Just tell yourself you can do it

    Why you gotta play that song so loud?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Why you always run around in crowds?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Why d'you always have to dance all night?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Why d' you always say what's on your mind?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
  2. Standard memberRagnorak
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    06 Oct '10 22:08
    Originally posted by DrKF
    We can do anything that we want, we can, we can,
    we can, we can do anything that we want

    Why you gotta play that song so loud?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Why you always run around in crowds?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Why d'you always have to dance all night?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Why d' you always say what' ...[text shortened]... u always say what's on your mind?
    Because we want to! Because we want to!
    Ha! Great lyrics. Pity about the song.
    YouTube

    : D
  3. Standard memberkaroly aczel
    The Axe man
    Brisbane,QLD
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    06 Oct '10 23:23
    Originally posted by Gatecrasher
    Too busy brewing up a Halloween sentence. Here's a vid:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmBqVjGt5C0
    Ah yes. That transported me to some horrible 80's dream.
    I think I like Tainted Love better. Also nice lyrics. Kinda childish but nice.
  4. Unknown Territories
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    07 Oct '10 04:04
    Originally posted by Gatecrasher
    So who neglected to take their Soft Cell capsules? You don't expect Marc Almond to under-act/sing them, surely?

    The lyrics are interesting as they reference the 1977 George Romero film Martin.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL3nYMyrGVo
    I'll give you that, it's just hard to look past a guy (?) who wants to play tough whilst kicking at puffs of smog made from an off-stage machine.
  5. Standard memberGatecrasher
    Whale watching
    33°36'S 26°53'E
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    07 Oct '10 13:40
    I never thought it would happen
    With me and the girl from Clapham
    Out on a windy common
    That night I ain’t forgotten
    When she dealt out the rations
    With some or other passions
    I said you are a lady
    Perhaps she said I may be
    We moved into a basement
    With thoughts of our engagement
    We stayed in by the telly
    Although the room was smelly
    We spent our time just kissing
    The railway arms we’re missing
    But love had got us hooked up
    And all our time it took up

    I got a job with Stanley
    He said I’d come in handy
    And started me on Monday
    So I had a bath on Sunday
    I worked eleven hours
    And bought the girl some flowers
    She said she’d seen a doctor
    And nothing now could stop her

    I worked all through the winter
    The weather brass and bitter
    I put away a tenner
    Each week to make her better
    And when the time was ready
    We had to sell the telly
    Late evenings by the fire
    With little kicks inside her

    This morning at 4:50
    I took her rather nifty
    Down to an incubator
    Where thirty minutes later
    She gave birth to a daughter
    Within a year a walker
    She looked just like her mother
    If there could be another

    And now she’s two years older
    Her mother’s with a soldier
    She left me when my drinking
    Became a proper stinging
    The devil came and took me
    From bar to street to bookie
    No more nights by the telly
    No more nights nappies smelling

    Alone here in the kitchen
    I feel there’s something missing
    I’d beg for some forgiveness
    But begging’s not my business
    And she won’t write a letter
    Although I always tell her
    And so it’s my assumption
    I’m really up the junction

    YouTube

    This song is also a movie reference:

    YouTube
  6. Standard memberBosse de Nage
    Zellulärer Automat
    Spiel des Lebens
    Joined
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    07 Oct '10 14:06
    There was a man of Thessaly
    And he was wondrous wise
    He jumped into a quickset hedge
    And scratched out both his eyes
    And when he saw his eyes were out
    He'd reason to complain
    He jumped into another hedge
    And scratched them in again
    (Traditional)
  7. Unknown Territories
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    07 Oct '10 14:41
    Here's one from a forgotten singer/songwriter popular here in the states, 70's through the early 80's, Dan Fogelberg. Died a year or so ago from prostate cancer.

    Souvenirs

    Here is a poem that my lady sent down
    Some morning while I was away
    Wrote on the back of a leaf that she found
    Somewhere around Monterey

    And here is the key to a house far away
    Where I used to live as a child
    They tore down the building when I moved away
    And left the key unreconciled

    And down in the canyon the smoke starts to rise
    It rides on the wind 'til it reaches your eyes
    When faced with the past the strongest man cries...cries

    And here is a sunrise to set on your sill
    The ghosts of the dawn moving near
    They pass through your sorrow and leave you quite still...
    Sitting among souvenirs

    California 1971
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    07 Oct '10 22:211 edit
    Fishbone - Sunless Saturday

    I see the pestilence outside my window
    I see the dung heaps piled at least a mile high
    I see the shards of shattered dreams in the street
    I face the morning with my customary sigh

    I hear the sounds of children laughing aloud
    A stumbling wino has attracted quite a crowd
    My breakfast finished now I brave the outside
    But clouds have hidden all the warmth inside

    Chase these clouds away
    I hate this sunless Saturday

    Freedom come
    For us now
    Light our sky
    Burn away these clouds

    Perhaps the charcoal grey and brown around me
    Is just the mirror image of tainted soul
    I think the sun will never visit my sky
    Until the truth is seen by each and every eye

    I see the helpless and I see the insane
    I see a pauper singing in the pouring rain
    I see the means of help elude us again
    I think the sun will never visit me again
  9. Donationrwingett
    Ming the Merciless
    Royal Oak, MI
    Joined
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    08 Oct '10 01:23
    Solidarity Forever (sung to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic)

    When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
    There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun
    Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
    But the union makes us strong.

    CHORUS:
    Solidarity forever,
    Solidarity forever,
    Solidarity forever,
    For the union makes us strong.

    Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite,
    Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?
    Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?
    For the union makes us strong.

    Chorus

    It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade;
    Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;
    Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made;
    But the union makes us strong.

    Chorus

    All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone.
    We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone.
    It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own.
    While the union makes us strong.

    Chorus

    They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
    But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
    We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
    That the union makes us strong.

    Chorus

    In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
    Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
    We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
    For the union makes us strong.
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