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Song for Free Boomers - Koryimran - 11-19-2003
Well after rereading chapter 14 for the third or forth time now and after playing around with iTunes Music Store this song popped up. It seems to oddly fit what some boomers might feel after being freed. It's Switchfoot - "Meant to Live". Anyway enjoy.
Shawn Earl
Re: Song for Free Boomers - Bob Schroeck - 11-21-2003
I'll have to look for the song to comment meaningfully, Koryimran...
In the mean time, I just came from the Straight Dope website, where today's question is about raising chickents -- and as god is my witness, with that fresh in my mind, I saw the title of this thread as "Song for Free-Range Boomers".
(Let's not even go into the 30's-vintage WB cartoon imagery of boomers pecking at a farmyard and flapping their arms which came to my mind before I reread the title...)
-- Bob
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"Flan on!" -- The battlecry of the Human Dessert
Re: Song for Free Boomers - Koryimran - 11-22-2003
Bob said, "with that fresh in my mind, I saw the title of this thread as "Song for Free-Range Boomers"."
Laugh. I can see it now, chicken boomers. What is the world coming to.
Anyways here's a link for the Lyrics if needed:
www.lyricsondemand.com/s/...yrics.html
Also another Switchfoot song off the same album that looks promising as well "Dare You to Move"
www.lyricsondemand.com/s/...yrics.html
Shawn Earl
Edit: Added link for the Lyrics
Re: Song for Free Boomers - Bob Schroeck - 12-01-2003
I'll check them out at lunch time. Thanks!
-- Bob
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"Flan on!" -- The battlecry of the Human Dessert
Re: Song for Free Boomers - WengFook - 12-08-2003
I swear, I thought I had found the PERFECT song for freeing boomers, but now that I looked up the song... well... its not... at all. but it is good for a few laughs, so here it is for your laughing pleasure.
Free your mind by En vogue.
Prejudice, wrote a song about it.
Like to hear it? Here it go.
I wear tight clothing, high heeled shoes
It doesn't mean that I'm a prostitute, no no
I like rap music, wear hip hop clothes
That doesn't mean that I'm out sellin' dope no no
Oh my forgive me for having straight hair, no
It doesn't mean there's another blood in my heir yeah yeah
I might date another race or color
It doesn't mean I don't like my strong black brothers.
Why oh why must it be this way
Before you can read me you gotta learn how to see me, I said
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be color blind, don't be so shallow.
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be color blind, don't be so shallow
So I'm a sistah
Buy things with cash
That really doesn't mean that all my credit's bad, oooh
So why dispute me and waste my time
Because you really think the price is high for me
I can't look without being watched, and oh
You rang my buy before I made up my mind, OW!
Oh now attitude, why even bother
I can't change your mind, you can't change my color
Why oh why must it be this way?
Before you can read me you gotta learn how to see me, I said
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be color blind, don't be so shallow
Why oh why must it be this way?
Before you can read me you gotta learn how to see me, I said
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be color blind, don't be so shallowFREE YOUR MIND!
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Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.
Re: Song for Free Boomers - Duane Peters - 12-09-2003
AAAGH! He's not a boomer! He's a CHICKEN! A GIANT CHICKEN!
(Chicken boomer, chicken boomer, you're not a man you're a chicken boomer...)
Duane
Re: Song for Free Boomers - Bob Schroeck - 12-09-2003
Quote:You know what's funny? Those are not the lyrics I know from the copy of the song I have. They look more like someone's idea of a parody. What's weird is that every website I just checked right now lists those and they sure as hell aren't right. Okay, let me dig out the MP3 disk and do a little transcription.
I swear, I thought I had found the PERFECT song for freeing boomers, but now that I looked up the song... well... its not... at all. but it is good for a few laughs, so here it is for your laughing pleasure.
Free your mind by En vogue.
(Six minutes later...)
Okay, this is what the copy I own sounds like:
Let's come together, be as one
Mother and father, daughter and son, yeah yeah
We stand united, apart we fall
Make your contribution whether big or small, yeah yeah
??? forgive me, ??? heaven and ???are
You never knew me, so why do you care?
Beauty's only skin deep, so just look inside
Let's start a love train, come and take a ride
Why oh why must it be this way?
Before you can read me
You've got to learn how to see me, I say
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be colorblind, don't be so shallow
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be colorblind, don't be so shallow
Black, white, red or brown
Let's join together, clean up this town, oh
You might dispute me, and waste my time (???)
I might show you something that might blow your mind
You don't know everything
Opinions we're entitled, that's why we sing
Make a decision, it's up to you
Do unto me as I do unto you
Why oh why must it be this way?
Before you can read me
You've got to learn how to see me, I say
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be colorblind, don't be so shallow
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be colorblind, don't be so shallow
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be colorblind, don't be so shallow
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be colorblind, don't be so shallow
Free your mind
Why oh why must it be this way?
Before you can read me
You've got to learn how to see me, I say
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be colorblind, don't be so shallow
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be colorblind, don't be so shallow
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be colorblind, don't be so shallow
Free your mind
-- En Vogue, Free Your Mind
Now this MP3 is one I ripped myself, off a promotional CD that Coca-Cola gave away around the time of the 1992 Olympics; the first track on that disk is Freddie Mercury and Monserrat Caballe singing "Barcelona" (a hell of a good song, too, I might add). I've been listening to this track for a good 11 years now. The enunciation is remarkably clear -- only the two lines marked with question marks above are difficult for me to understand, and the second one is only slightly garbled; the first couple syllables don't quite sound like my reconstruction here, but this is what makes the most sense in context.
Now this version of the song I had been seriously considering for use in DW2, for obvious reasons.
-- Bob
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And all the girlies say I'm pretty dry for a wet guy...
Re: Song for Free Boomers - Koryimran - 12-10-2003
Well I support your lyrics Bob. They more closely resemble the ones in my mind anyways. I'll see if I can dig up my copy somewhere among all the cds I have and tapes that I own.
Shawn Earl
Re: Song for Free Boomers - Bob Schroeck - 12-10-2003
You know what I thought of this afternoon after posting that -- what if there are two versions? The semiraunchy one you quoted, and this one, which is a lot more socially conscious and which was made for the Olympics disk?
But no, that doesn't tie in with my memories of the video, which I know used the lyrics I posted.
I'm confused.
-- Bob
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And all the girlies say I'm pretty dry for a wet guy...
Re: Song for Free Boomers - WengFook - 12-10-2003
now that sounds more in line with what I was aiming for when I was looking for that song... I wasnt really paying attention when the song came over the radio, and all the websites I went to had significantly different lyrics so I did not pick up on the fact that there were different lyrics
.. I think vogue did two versions of the same song... it is the most obvious conclusion
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Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.
Re: Song for Free Boomers - jpub - 12-10-2003
I thill think Rush's "Presto" would be good.
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Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
www.yggdrasil.org
Re: Song for Free Boomers - Bob Schroeck - 12-10-2003
Note to self -- Buy more Rush albums at the Princeton Record Exchange...
-- Bob
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And all the girlies say I'm pretty dry for a wet guy...