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    Posted: June 15 2004 at 03:55

Have you ever noticed that one man's poetry is another's mumbo-jumbo?

To that end, I've concocted this little game whereby we re-write lyrics in our own personal way so that they speak to everybody from our own viewpoints.

ENJOY!!!

Two rules;

1. Lyrics must be from an album in the archives.

2. Interpretations should be humourous and inoffensive to the band/artist/poster.

EXAMPLE:

"So here I am once more in the playground of the broken hearts
One more experience, one more entry in a diary, self-penned
Yet another emotional suicide overdosed on sentiment and pride
Too late to say I love you, too late to re-stage the play
Abandoning the relics in my playground of yesterday
I'm losing on the swings, I'm losing on the roundabouts
I'm losing on the swings, I'm losing on the roundabouts
Too much, too soon, too far to go, too late to play, the game is over
The game is over"

= "I just split up with my girlfriend and life sucks."

"I act the role in classic style of a martyr carved with twisted smile
To bleed the lyric for this song to write the rites to right my wrongs
An epitaph to a broken dream to exercise this silent scream
A scream that's borne from sorrow"

= "I pretend to my mates that I dumped her, although she dumped me. There's no way I can come clean about it, not even to my best mate, and it's driving me mental."

"I never did write that love song, the words just never seemed to flow
Now sad in reflection did I gaze through perfection
And examine the shadows on the other side of the morning
And examine the shadows on the other side of mourning
Promised wedding now a wake"

= "I'm really hacked off now - I can't think about anything else but what might have been"

"The fool escaped from paradise will look over his shoulder and cry
Sit and chew on daffodils and struggle to answer why?
As you grow up and leave the playground
Where you kissed your prince and found your frog
Remember the jester that showed you tears, the script for tears"

= "Especially 'coz I know that initially she really fancied me, but  I acted like a complete wnker,  psed her off big time and saw it all coming but didn't do anything about it. What a total tser I am"

"So I'll hold my peace forever when you wear your bridal gown
In the silence of my shame the mute that sang the sirens' song
Has gone solo in the game, I've gone solo in the game
But the game is over
Can you still say you love me"

= "Oh well, I'm off to my room for a wk"

 



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How about a challenge response;

Try to precis these lyrics into simple humourous sentences (100 bonus points if you can tell me who it is):

In upstairs rooms
The meals are eaten
The cars in the garage ready to go go
Disco baby shed no tear
Hot light overhead
Shaking meat meet
Ho ho weekend ha ha party
Moo moo sacred cow
The White House somedays
On the lawn
Well kept pedigree
Snap over bones
Surplus requirements
Appetite angel going down

Meanwhile below reports flop into the in-trays in-trays
Meanwhile below reports flop into the in-trays

She stares out of her window
Her will is still in bed
She has no memory of herself
For care has drained her head
The poster on the billboard
Says she should paint her lips
Like the smiles on the TV people

[FILE 1:]
"If the thought processes of an individual can be permanently limited to the
point of strict conformity to an outside source of thought the said individual need no longer be considered as such. The enforcement of order becomes possible for anybody with enough power of control what is projected"

See?
It's all quite simple ...

This woman's place is in a home
Society has judged
She does not fit official standards
And they cannot be budged
There's something on her eyes that says
The struggle's gone too deep
And there's no comfort in the thought of
Watching acolytes of doubt try hard to fight
Their problems out
Excess profit has the clout to spread the message:

"We are sane
Not insane ..."

She reads about a will to power
In papers full of lies
She hears that every time she breathes
Some foreign kiddy dies
She's convinced it's her fault
She's tortured by the strain
As words of judgement pour out of the
Mouths of those who make their mark by keeping
People in the dark
Those who bite worse than they bark
Are loudly shouting

"We are sane
Not insane"

And the chorus says
"It's all quite normal" la-la-la
And the chorus says
"It's all quite normal" la-la-la

The choruses
Are happy as they know no different way except
What they've been told today
Accepting their limited 'truth' and blankly humming
"We are sane
And we are not to blame
We must protect the claim"
Praise those who hold power
They shall save the last hour
Using sacred science
They can stamp out defiance
Wheeeee!

[FILE 2:]
"Technician we want you to build a component
For each of our workers to be with them always
At all time watch closely so we can keep track of
Their actions their interests their morals their time out
Some musak to maim them some fear to contain them
Policy will judge them brute forces degrade them.
Practical behaviour the cleanser the saviour
A private vocation has no sense of nation

The maintenance of power can be fulfilling
Just as long as all the slaves are willing

So this is an order
We must curb thought disorder
With a miniature transmitter
We can pavlov the litter and train it to do as we
Tell it state surgeon the seed plant thought soon get
A new slant so tiny a dogma idea turn to quagmire
Thrum-humming transistor a brain wave insistor
Closed circuit hypnosis an inbuilt psychosis
Not one self expression deliberate surpression
A cycle to squeeze out anyone who we doubt
Will must be pliable to be reliable"

Tuned into the media system
Picture getting hard to see
How did you end up as a prisoner
When you were supposed to be free?
(Oh wouldn't you like to know?)

Lebensraum for megalomania
Endless song with one refrain
All eyes fixed upon the conductor
Baton taps inside the brain ...

(Good Luck! )
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1 - simple sentence = "I meant to write a lucid condemnation of totalitarianism in the workplace, but made the schoolboy error of getting stoned first"

2 - I claim my 100 bonus points - the lyrics are by Twelfth Night, but I'm b***ered if I can remember the name of the track - I just know it from Live & Let Live @ the marquee, an album I've not heard for a long, long time (but you don't forget lyrics like that in a hurry - BTW, under FILE 1 shouldn't there be something along the lines of "would you file this please, Mary"?)


Later edit - name of the track - "We Are Sane"????






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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

1 - simple sentence = "I meant to write a lucid condemnation of totalitarianism in the workplace, but made the schoolboy error of getting stoned first"

That would ordinarily be very funny - except I don't think Geoff Mann (R.I.P.) ever  took drugs. I could be wrong - but as he entered the clergy after 2 years with TN, I'd say the assumption is fairly safe! This is an extraordinarily lucid lyric - compared to many, and totalitarianism in the workplace is the main thrust, but there are some interesting sub-themes that my sad little mind finds humour in... I'll wait and see if anyone else has a stab!!

2 - I claim my 100 bonus points - the lyrics are by Twelfth Night, but I'm b***ered if I can remember the name of the track - I just know it from Live & Let Live @ the marquee, an album I've not heard for a long, long time (but you don't forget lyrics like that in a hurry - BTW, under FILE 1 shouldn't there be something along the lines of "would you file this please, Mary"?)

See above - the lyrics are by Geoff Mann - who did indeed join Twelfth Night as vocalist for but two out of their many years together as a band. OK. I nit pick!! It's also on "Fact and Fiction" (the non-live version, which is superb!). The line "Would you file this please Mary" is not printed among the lyrics on the sleeve - but Geoff does use it - twice!

Later edit - name of the track - "We Are Sane"????


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