Oingo Boingo's one pissed off band.

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Not the party band they used to be. Off their EDITED...12 year old album, thanks to Queen Boingo down there who demands that I bow before her superiority on Boingo history ....and weren't they ahead of their time? Now is that gratitude? one...

Insanity

I’m so sorry, please forgive me
Who do I pray to to straighten out this problem?
Straighten out this problem, straighten out my mind.
Straighten out this crooked toungue...
My mind has wandered, from the straight and narrow.
My mind has wandered from the flock you see.
My mind has wandered, the man just said so.
My mind has wandered, I heard it on tv.
And the flock has wandered away from me.

-chorus-
All around the world now
Like a big bright cherry cloud
Traveling from home to home
Tv sets and telephones
Here it comes just like a storm
Bathe in it and be reborn
Time to let the world know
Welcome madness, say hello
Like a wave we cannot see
Washing over you and me
Hiding here and hiding there
Madness hiding everywhere
Such a curiosity
Here it comes to set us free
Plenty left for you and me
Say hello insanity

I am the virus, are you the cure?
I am morally, I’m morally impure
I am a disease and I am unclean
I am not part of god’s well oiled machine
Christian nation, assimilate me
Take me in your arms and set me free
I am part of a degenerate elite
Dragging our society into the streeet
Into the abyss and to the sewer don’t you see
The man just told me, he told me on tv

Do you think you’re better than me
Do you want to kill me or befriend me

And the alchoholic bastard waved his finger at me
His voice was filled with evanglical glee
Sipping down his gin and tonics
While preaching about the evils of narcotics
And the evils of sex, and the wages of sin
While he mentally fondles his next of kin
My mind has wandered from the flock you see
And the flock has wandered away from me
And he waved his hypnotizing finger at me

Let’s imitate reality
Let’s strive for mediocrity
Let’s make believe we’re all the same
Let’s sanitize our little brains
I’d love to take you home with me and tuck you into bed
I’d love to see what makes you tick inside your pretty head
I’d love to hear you laugh tonight, I’d love to hear you weep
I’d love to listen to you while you’re screaming in your sleep

Christian sons, christian daughters
Lead me along like a lamb to the slaughter
Purify my brain and hose down my soul
White perfection, perfection is my goal

Do you think you’re better than me
Do you want to kill me or befriend me

Christian nation, make us alright
Put us through the filter and make us pure and white
My mind has wandered from the flock you see
And the flock has wandered away from me
Let’s talk of family falues while we sit and watch the slaughter
Hypothetical abortions on imaginary daughters
The white folks think they’re on the top ask any proud white male
A million years of evolution, we get danny quayle

(chorus)

I’d love to take you home with me, I’d love to tuck you in
I wish I could protect you from the wages of our sin
I’d love to hear you scream tonight, I’d love to hear you cry
Protect you from the madness that is raining from the sky

(chorus)

I’d love to take you home with me and tuck you into bed
I’d love to see what makes you tick inside your pretty head
I wish that I could keep you in a precious chinese box
On sundays I would pray for you so it would never stop
I’d love to hear you laugh tonight, I’d love to hear you weep
I’d love to listen to you while you’re screaming in your sleep
I’d love to soothe you with my voice and take your hand in mine
I’d love to take you past the stars and out of reach of time
I’d love to see inside your mind, to tear it all apart
To cut you open with a knife and find your sacred heart
I’d love to take your satin dolls and tear them all to shreds
I’d love to mess your pretty hair, I’d love to see you dead.

[walldude]

1. Wow... is Elfman back in the band? n/t

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2. Yeah.

They got horns on this one. Sounds like the Michael Keaton Batman soundtrack until the bongos and xylophones kick in.

[AspenRose]

3. That's a far cry from "Capitalism"!

WoW.

[ocd liberal]

4. Um, duh!

This is OLD!!! This song is on an album called "Boingo" released in 1994! Where have you been? I heard them do this live at the Warfield in San Francisco BEFORE the album came out and the part about "Danny Quayle" just gave me the chills at the time.

BTW, Danny Elfman was never NOT in Oingo Boingo.

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7. I didn't know. I just found it last week.

I thought it was new. Do you usually treat people with this kind of jerk-off behavior? I didn't check the release date on this, which I now know is a greivous sin. How will I ever earn your forgiveness?:eyes:

And...I thought Boingo was a 1987 album, with "Tell me where my friends go", so that's probably why I didn't know about this one.

[ocd liberal]

11. Yes, I can be a jerk off

but when I saw the Oingo Boingo reference as NEW, I almost came unglued! Then when I realized this song and my knowledge of it exceeded yours, I became a jerk off. Now I am extremely apologetic, since we are all on the same team here. Oingo Boingo doesn't play anymore so I get kind of excited when someone beside me mentions them at all. Sorry sorry sorry. I just love to be right. That's why I hang out here at DU, where most everyone is right, in a left kind of way. Sorry again.

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12. Welcome to posting at DU.

Sorry about the DB thing if you saw it. :hi:

[ocd liberal]

15. I didn't! Should I know what you mean or leave it alone? n/t

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17. Since you're a woman it wouldn't apply anymore anyhow.

...but think Bob Novak. :crazy:

[JuniperLea]

19. I used to work with Elfman's personal assistant

I could have sworn she said OB is OUT... calling now...

[ocd liberal]

5. Look, I have a PhD in Oingo Boingo

and I think you should amend this post to say that this song is 12 years old and weren't they ahead of their time?

[C_U_L8R]

8. a PHD on Oingo Boingo !!!!

How cool.

[ocd liberal]

9. Thank you.

I've been waiting a long time to be recognized.

[C_U_L8R]

16. Bingo Boingo

I'm still trying to sear images of the Forbidden Zone outta my noggin :-)

[Dhalgren]

6. One more album I will have to check out! Thanks!

[earth mom]

10. Oingo Boingo used to be one of my favorite bands...

will check this out...thanks!

[ocd liberal]

13. Thanks!

And I'm a she and I am now extremely flattered....

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14. Will edit some more...

*stand by*

[ocd liberal]

18. You're sweet

and you quoted from another one of my favorites, "Gratitude" which is actually from Danny Elfman's only solo album!

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20. Hey. I thought I knew them.

..but you got me beat. This may be 12 years old, but it's new to me.

Maybe you should do the honors and post the words to "War Again", another before their time.:hi:

[ocd liberal]

21. OK

I could do that from home tonight. Good idea!