On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Tara Lee Wittchen wrote:
Well, she wrote a whole bunch of stuff, actually, but the crux of
it was this:
> more sloan net related: has anyone tried to figure out the lyrics for the
> songs on either _sticktoitiveness_ or _mock up, scale down_ by the (duh)
> Super Friendz??
Well, by request (I liked it so much I just _had_ to use it
again), I have attempted to decipher some of them (all off the CD).
Karate Man
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Karate Man, Karate Man,
Dressed in plainclothes, no one knows who you are.
Karate Man, you step into the bar,
Looking for the skinhead boys who pushed your brother too far.
Karate Man, Karate Man.
You never threw a punch, your knowledge and confidence were power more
than enough.
Karate Man, your blood, it feels the shame,
But you brought honour and stuck it to your family name.
Karate Man, Karate Man,
You step into the dark, dark bar where no one even knows who you are.
Karate Man, though you never threw a punch.
Your knowledge and confidence were more than enough.
Undertow
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It was late last summer that you got caught in the undertow.
It carried you four miles offshore, to a rock where you spent the fall.
Didn't think that you would last the winter
and decided to learn how to swim.
But you wouldn't quit smoking and so the undertow kept pulling you in.
You were too scared to sleep, I hear, because of those Arctic nights.
They can last six weeks, I guess,
and you were scared you couldn't dream that long.
Got thinking of high school then, and all your non-conformist views.
You should have stuck to your guns, my friend,
that would have been better for you.
Didn't you think it was strange to build a home out of rocket wreckage?
Broken bits and fuselage, you'd find washed up on the shore.
You'd find washed up on the shore.
You'd find washed up on the shore.
The same day you disappeared we all had a search party for you.
We followed a trail of popcorn that you still had when you left that film.
You hit the Bermuda Triangle then, with its weeds and its aliens.
But you were feeding on blue-green algae, and Manitoba water hens.
Didn't you think it was strange to build a home out of rocket wreckage?
Broken bits and fuselage, you'd find washed up on the shore.
You'd find washed up on the shore.
You'd find washed up on the shore.
Come Clean
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She takes shells and grinds them down, levels them into sand.
What once was a home, hard and safe, she pours from hand to hand.
And he robs bells and melts them down, pours them into bullets.
What once could ring, can only crack, if he decides to pull it.
But you know, if you want to be free, you just have to ask to.
And you know, if you wanna come clean, you really don't have to,
Have to, have to, have to.
The nights are lean and the days are fat, with guilt and reservation.
But sleep won't come the whole night through
the warnings on the radio station.
And empty hall's like the country songs, and 23 skidoo.
When you had your voice you knew he'd raise
the price of a cold war with you.
But you know, if you want to be free, you just have to ask to.
And you know, if you wanna come clean, you really don't have to,
Have to, have to, have to.
You KNOW, if you wanna come clean, you really don't...
And you know, if you wanna come clean, you really don't have to,
Have to, have to, have to.
Rescue Us From Boredom
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"Can we talk to you?
You're cool beyond repair.
We love you."
We just stared and smirked, doin' a cool jerk.
Said, "You kids can make me sick.
I'd like to see you try.
Don't you know my life is such a drag to me.
All this heavy metal, all this heavy irony.
I wanna be back home, watching my TV."
"I don't love you. Why you love me?
I don't love you. Why you love me?"
"We need you to rescue us from boredom.
We need you to rescue us from boredom."
Drove two-hundred miles,
My clothes were out of style
By the time we arrived.
That day they got so high
He slept through half the show,
In the back of the car.
The first thing that I did,
I went home, got my records,
And started smashin'.
Dad was so uptight, he saw a chance to fight,
Said, "I really don't know why we love you."
Why we love you. Why we love you.
Why we love you. Why we love you.
There's no one to rescue you from boredom.
There's no one to rescue you from boredom.
There's no one to rescue you from boredom.
Stone Alone
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Get me out of here tonight.
Yeah, I'll help you steal a car.
Show me how to drive.
Make no mistake, I'm looking to get lost.
Let's do something stupid, for once, just because.
Why oh why should I wait, (???) to come on.
Don't want to sit inside my room, stone alone.
Now we are seeing all our dreams fulfilled.
If most of them are bad ones, that's something we can't help.
(Country twang slide guitar solo)
They call it a dog's life.
It's not so bad, I guess.
The hardest part you'll find is to run with the chain around your neck.
The chain around your neck.
Better Call
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I'm the husband of Lady Chatterly
And I'm a mean and jealous staggeredly.
Where does it leave me?
Yeah, I know that it leaves me.
They wonder, for a man wants more than friendship,
With his (???) surpassed around you.
Where does it leave me?
Yeah, I know that it leaves me.
You don't owe me anything,
But you'd better call,
Yeah, you'd better call.
You don't owe me anything,
But you'd better call,
Yeah, you'd better call.
He's a cap-tossing giver-of-speeches
And he thinks he's got something to teach us.
Where does it leave me?
Yeah, I know that it leaves me.
I trust a woman who cheats her boyfriend.
I trust a friend who betrays a friend.
So where does it leave me?
You don't owe me anything,
But you'd better call,
Yeah, you'd better call.
You don't owe me anything,
But you'd better call,
Yeah, you'd better call.
You'd better call.
Yeah.
One Day
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One day, I was so rocked upon your waves
That I went overboard.
I put aside my pride and my path
And besides, there was money in it.
Well, we forgot that favour
Was a favour, not a money-saver.
I bet you wish you had never,
Even ever...
One day,
Between the city and the country,
I'd make the same mistake, twice.
One day, I was so rocked upon your waves
That I went overboard.
I put aside my pride and my path
And besides, there was money in it.
Well, we forgot that favour
Was a favour, not a money-saver.
I bet you wish you had never,
Even ever...
One day,
Between the city and the country,
I'd make the same mistake.
One day,
Between the city and the country,
I'd make the same mistake.
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Well, that's all I feel like doing for now. If anyone can figure
out the parts I couldn't get, I'd kinda like to know what they are. And
if anything of mine is wrong, lemme know. Ta.
Matt
"The best thing I saw on TV was that SQ cop catching a bullet with his
teeth. Condolence, Madame Canadiana, but your husband was a fucking
(stuck) pig."
"(I Want To See) Oka Everywhere," by those crazy left-wing punks
from Propagandhi at their dogma-wielding best. Oh, how I do enjoy them.
