What's your theme song?

[flamingyouth]

The one song where you hear it and think, man, how did that guy get in my head and write those lyrics?

Mine is "I'm Not Like Everybody Else," by the Kinks. I'm feeling somewhat giddy today; I almost posted "Fox on the Run" by the Sweet, but I thought better of it.:evilgrin:

I won't take all that they hand me down,
And make out a smile, though I wear a frown,
And I won't take it all lying down,
'Cause once I get started I go to town.

'Cause I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else.

And I don't want to ball about like everybody else,
And I don't want to live my life like everybody else,
And I won't say that I feel fine like everybody else,
'Cause I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else.

But darling, you know that I love you true,
Do anything that you want me to,
Confess all my sins like you want me to,
There's one thing that I will say to you,
I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else.

I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else
And I don't want to ball about like everybody else,
And I don't want to live my life like everybody else,
And I won't say that I feel fine like everybody else,
'Cause I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else.

Like everybody else,
Like everybody else,
Like everybody else,
Like everybody else.

If you all want me to settle down,
Slow up and stop all my running 'round,
Do everything like you want me to,
There's one thing that I will say to you,
I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else.

I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else.
And I don't want to ball about like everybody else,
And I don't want to live my life like everybody else,
And I won't say that I feel fine like everybody else,
'Cause I'm not like everybody else,
I'm not like everybody else.

Like everybody else (like everybody else),
Like everybody else (like everybody else),
Like everybody else (like everybody else),
Like everybody else.

[commander bunnypants]

1. I always appreciated Close to the Edge

by Yes

DDQM

[commander bunnypants]

3. but lately

Photograph in honor of The Cattbutt

DDQM

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. Gotta be 'I Am The Resurrection' by the Stone Roses.

Down down, you bring me down
I hear you knocking at my door and I can't sleep at night
Your face, it has no place
No room for you inside my house I need to be alone

Don't waste your words I don't need anything from you
I don't care where you've been or what you plan to do

Turn turn, I wish you'd learn
There's a time and place for everything I've got to get it through
Cut loose, you're no use
I couldn't stand another second in your company

Don't waste your words I don't need anything from you
I don't care where you've been or what you plan to do

Stone me, why can't you see
You're a no-one nowhere washed up baby who'd look better dead

Your tongue is far too long
I don't like the way it sucks and slurps upon my every word

Don't waste your words I don't need anything from you
I don't care where you've been or what you plan to do

I am the resurrection and I am the light
I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I'd like

I am the resurrection and I am the light
I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I'd like

;-)

[flamingyouth]

Nice choice

:thumbsup:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. It combines my overweening arrogance with my inflated sense of self.

parfait!

[flamingyouth]

13. I agree

Again, good call.:D

[SeanQ]

5. 'Where is the love'

For the moment anyway :)

[vivalarev]

10. "Bad Day" by Samiam

it's been another bad day
just saw a dog get hit out on the freeway
with my stomach in my mouth
i almost hit a truck driving in the next lane

spent all my money on beer
and i've got rent to pay
i was late again this morning
i'm laying in the bed i've made

but if i had a fall out shelter
i could lock myself inside and sleep
somebody could come and drop a bomb on me
maybe then something would change

lately i can't stand people
they're always rubbing me the wrong way
i don't feel like smiling
it wouldn't look right on my face
that's just the way i feel
it's been another bad day.

[JVS]

4. "Face down, Ass up" by 2 live crew

[flamingyouth]

6. You really like this song, I sense

[JVS]

8. What makes you say that?

[flamingyouth]

15. The prom theme thread?

:shrug:

[JVS]

18. I only know like 8 songs

and 4 are from church

I try to pick the most appropriate one at any time.

Sometimes I goof up.

Boy did the people at church get mad when I sang "face down ass up"

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. Well, you'd better watch out

And you'd better beware
'cause they're coming from all sides of the country
And you'd better beware.

RETURN OF THE RAT!
RETURN OF THE RAT!
RETURN OF THE RAT, OH NO!
RETURN OF THE RAT!
RETURN OF THE RAT!
RETURN OF THE RAT! OH, NO NO NO NO!

I tells ya, I'm on a Wipers kick. :P

[flamingyouth]

11. If I had to pick a Wipers theme

It would (15 years ago) been "Youth of America." AFAIK, he doesn't have a song directed at 35-year-olds.

Oh, maybe "Over the Edge" too. :D

[LiberalVoice]

12. Sean Cullen - the chimp and the woman(I'm the chimp!)

Sean Cullen - the chimp and the woman

There was an old woman who lived alone
No one called her on the telephone
She went into the woods one day
Found a young chimp, who had gone astray
She took that little primate home
So she wouldn't have to be alone

They spent the winter together
Warm in their love, despite the harshness of the winter weather
The chimp and the woman
Living together in a house of stone
The chimp and the woman
They made that house a home

The chimp and the woman were happy there
The chimp was safe; the woman had found a friend
But when the townsfolk heard of this bizarre affair
They said how could she love a creature that is covered with hair?
They came with axes and torches
They burnt the front and back porches
They kicked in the door
Shouting "Death to the chimp-loving whore!"

But she was gone; no one knew where they went
Years went by, the world spun around
Then one day a strange creature walked into town
It came in from the wild
It was a half human half chimp hybrid child
And it said:
I am the chimpy child, on whom fortune has smiled
If we could live in peace, then all hatred would cease
If we could live with love, with blessings from up above
If we could just hold hands, then maybe we'd understand

And the people, the people...
They beat him to death with a rock.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. I'm the only gay Eskimo (in my tribe)

I'm the only gay Eskimo
I'm the only one I know
I'm the only gay Eskimo
In my tribe

I go out seal hunting with my best friend Tarka
But all want to do is get into his parka

I'm the only gay Eskimo
In my tribe

Well me and Nukflukchukbuk
We both like blubber
But me I've got this crazy fetish for rubber

I'm the only gay Eskimo
In my tribe

I make a wish on the Northern Lights
That I can find a decent pair of whaleskin tights

I'm the only gay Eskimo
In my tribe

And the seals they sing now...


These cold winter nights
Are taking their toll
I even get excited when I see the North Pole
See the North Pole...

I'm the only gay Eskimo
Only gay Eskimo
I'm the only one I know
The only one I know-oh-oh-oh
I'm the only gay Eskimo
In my tribe

[Fenris]

14. "Wait and See"

Watch out what you say
Don't get in my way
I'm gonna get that
Wait and see
I saw her today
She came by my way
I'm gonna win her love
Just for me
And together we'll go walking
In the evening still be talking
She's the kind of girl you never hardly see
Have you seen her eyes
Do you realize
How much a love like that can mean to me
I know she knows me
Today I could see
The way she held her head when she walked by
And before the night is over
I think I'm gonna love her
And if it lasts forever I don't care
And now she is mine
I told you all the time
How could I let a girl like that go by
And before the night is over
I think I'm gonna love her
And if it lasts forever I don't care

[XNASA]

16. "Love on a Farmboy's Wages"

[The Great Escape]

19. "Life In One Day" by Howard Jones

Life in One Day - Howard Jones


The old man said to me
Said don't always take life so seriously
Play the flute
And dance and sing your song

Try and enjoy the here and now
The future will take care of itself somehow
The grass is never greener over there
Time will wear away the stone
Gets the hereditary bone

CHORUS:
Don't try to live your life in one day
Don't go speed your time away
Don't try to live your life in one day
Don't go speed your time away

The old man said to me
Said you can't change the world single handedly
Raise a glass enjoy the scenery
Pretend the water is champagne
And fill my glass again and again
While the wolves are gathering round your door
Time will wear away the stone
Gets the hereditary bone

CHORUS

The old man said to me
Said don't always take life so seriously
Play the flute
And dance and sing your song

Try and enjoy the here and now
The future will take care of itself somehow
The grass is never greener over there
Time will wear away the stone
Gets the hereditary bone

I tried to live my life in one day
Don't go speed your time away

I bit off more than I can chew
Only so much you can do

Wolves are gathering round my door
Ask them in and invite some more

I tried to live my life in one day
Don't go speed your time away

Don't try to live your life in one day

[Screaming Lord Byron]

22. I'm changing mine to 'Jacky' It totally sums up my life.

And if one day I should become
A singer with a Spanish bum
Who sings for women of great virtue
I'd sing to them with a guitar
I borrowed from a coffee bar
Well, what you don't know doesn't hurt you
My name would be Antonio
And all my bridges I would burn
And when I gave them some they'd know
I'd expect something in return
I'd have to get drunk every night
And talk about virility
With some old grandmother
That might be decked out like a christmas tree
And no pink elephant I'd see
Though I'd be drunk as I could be
Still I would sing my song to me
About the time they called me "Jacky"

(Chorus)
If I could be for only an hour
If I could be for an hour every day
If I could be for just one little hour
Cute in a stupid ass way

And if I joined the social whirl
Became procurer of young girls
Then I could have my own bordellos
My record would be number one
And I'd sell records by the ton
All sung by many other fellows
My name would then be handsome
Jack And I'd sell boats of opium
Whisky that came from Twickenham
Authentic queens And phony virgins
I'd have a bank on every finger
A finger in every country
And every country ruled by me
I'd still know where I'd want to be
Locked up inside my opium den
Surrounded by some china men
I'd sing the song that I sang then
About the time they called me "Jacky"

(Chorus)

Now, tell me, wouldn't it be nice
That if one day in paradise
I'd sing for all the ladies up there
And they would sing along with me
And we be so happy there to be
Cos' down below is really nowhere
My name would then be "Jupiter"
Then I would know where I was going
Become all knowing
My beard so very long and flowing
If I could play deaf, dumb and blind
Because I pitied all mankind
And broke my heart to make things right
I know that every single night
When my angelic work was through
The angels and the Devil too
Could sing my childhood song to me
About the time they called me "Jacky"

[SarahB]

20. There are two.

"Landslide" for one part of my life. "Through the Fire" by Chaka Khan for another. :D Edit: What the heck, here's the lyrics.

"Landslide"

I took my love and I took it down
I climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide brought me down

Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love
Can the child within my heart rise above
Can I sail thru the changing ocean tides
Can I handle the seasons of my life

Well, I've been afraid of changing 'cause I built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Children get older
I'm getting older too
Well...

Well, I've been afraid of changing 'cause I built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Children get older
I'm getting older, too
Well I'm getting older too

So, take this love and take it down
Year and if you climb a mountain and ya turn around
And if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills
Well the landslide brought me down
And if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills
Well maybe
Well maybe
Well maybe the landslide will bring you down




"Through The Fire"

I look in your eyes and I can see
We've loved so dangerously
You're not trustin' your heart to anyone
You tell me you're gonna play it smart
We're through before we start
But I believe that we've only just begun
When it's this good, there's no saying no
I want you so, I'm ready to go

Through the fire
To the limit, to the wall
For a chance to be with you
I'd gladly risk it all
Through the fire
Through whatever, come what may
For a chance of loving you
I'd take it all the way
Right down to the wire
Even through the fire

I know you're afraid of what you feel
You still need time to heal
And I can help if you'll only let me try
You touched me and somethin' in me knew
What I could have with you
Now I'm not ready to kiss that dream goodbye
When it's this sweet, there's no saying no
I need you so, I'm ready to go

[CO Liberal]

21. "I've Gotta Be Me" by Sammy Davis, Jr.

Whether I'm right or whether I'm wrong
Whether I find a place in this world or never belong
I gotta be me, I've gotta be me
What else can I be but what I am

I want to live, not merely survive
And I won't give up this dream
Of life that keeps me alive
I gotta be me, I gotta be me
The dream that I see makes me what I am

That far-away prize, a world of success
Is waiting for me if I heed the call
I won't settle down, won't settle for less
As long as there's a chance that I can have it all

I'll go it alone, that's how it must be
I can't be right for somebody else
If I'm not right for me
I gotta be free, I've gotta be free
Daring to try, to do it or die
I've gotta be me

I'll go it alone, that's how it must be
I can't be right for somebody else
If I'm not right for me
I gotta be free, I just gotta be free
Daring to try, to do it or die
I gotta be me

http://www.webfitz.com/lyrics/Lyrics/1969/761969.html

[underpants]

23. "White Tornado"

R.E.M.

Intrumental surf tune-I like the name mostly-it was the first song on our wedding album.

[noise626]

24. I would go with Rush's Marathon

It's not how fast you can go
The force goes into the flow
If you pick up the beat
You can forget about the heat
More than just survival
More than just a flash
More than just a dotted line
More than just a dash

It's a test of ultimate will
The heartbreak climb uphill
Got to pick up the pace
If you want to stay in the race
More than just blind ambition
More than just simple greed
More than just a finish line
Must feed this burning need
In the long run...

From first to last
The peak is never passed
Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes
One moment's high, and glory rolls on by
Like a streak of lightning
That flashes and fades in the summer sky

Your meters may overload
You can rest at the side of the road
You can miss a stride
But nobody gets a free ride

More than high performance
More than just a spark
More than just the bottom line
Or a lucky shot in the dark
In the long run...

You can do a lot in a lifetime
If you don't burn out too fast
You can make the most of the distance
First you need endurance
First you've got to last...

That song makes me happy :bounce:

pax
ant

[flamingyouth]

25. As an addendum

I'd like to add this favorite lyric by the Modern Lovers, from "Hospital":

I go to bakeries all day long
Because there's been a lack of sweetness in my life
And there's been pain inside
You can see it in my eyes

There's been pain inside
You can see it in my eyes
Makes me think about me
And how I've lost my pride

But I'm in love with this power
That resides in your eyes

[Gildor Inglorion]

26. "Within You and Without You"

by the Beatles

[dolo amber]

27. "Stepback" by Slam

I don't think it has any words except for 'Stepback'...but it's a cool dark echo-y techno song. It makes me feel like a big stompy evil robot. :D

[flamingyouth]

28. Oh, hon, you're such a big stompy evil robot to me

:loveya:

[dolo amber]

29. YAY!!

That's what I'm coming back as if I get reincarnated...I've already filled out the forms and everything!! :bounce:

:loveya:

[pagerbear]

30. "Love for sale"

Love for sale
Appetizing young love for sale
Love that's fresh and still unspoiled
Love that's only slightly soiled
Love for sale

Who will buy?
Who would like to sample my supply?
Who's prepared to pay the price
For a trip to paradise?
Love for sale

Let the poets pipe of love
In their foolish way
I've known every type of love
Better far than they!
I have known the thrill of love
I've been through the mill of love!
Old love, new love
Every love but true love

Love for sale.
Appetizing young love for sale.
If you want to buy my wares
Follow me and climb the stairs.
Love for sale.

[Dukkha]

31. "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" by The Smiths

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
I was happy on the haze of a drunken hour
but heaven knows I'm miserable now

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
and heavens know I'm miserable now

In my life
why do i give valuable time
to people who don't care if I live or die

Two lovers entwined passed me by
and heavens knows I'm miserable now

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
and heavens know I'm miserable now

In my life
why do i give valuable time
to people who don't care if I live or die

What she asked of me at the end of the day
Caligula would have blushed

"You've been the house too long" she said
and I naturally fled

In my life
why do I smile
at people who I'd much rather kick in the eye

I was happy on the haze of a drunken hour
but heaven knows I'm miserable now

"You've been the house too long" she said
and I naturally fled

In my life
why do i give valuable time
to people who don't care if I live or die

[Magrittes Pipe]

32. If Rush Limbaugh had never existed...

...I'd say "My City Was Gone" by the Pretenders.

I mean, I still love the song, but I can't call it my "theme song" without y'all calling me Rush. ;)