Song for Free Boomers
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Song for Free Boomers
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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 
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 --------- "Flan on!" -- The battlecry of the Human Dessert
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
I'll check them out at lunch time. Thanks!
-- Bob --------- "Flan on!" -- The battlecry of the Human Dessert
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! _________________________________ Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World. 
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 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. (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 --------- And all the girlies say I'm pretty dry for a wet guy...
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
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 --------- And all the girlies say I'm pretty dry for a wet guy...
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 _________________________________ Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.
Note to self -- Buy more Rush albums at the Princeton Record Exchange...
-- Bob --------- And all the girlies say I'm pretty dry for a wet guy... |
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