Moxy Fruvous Lyrics Set #2
(as performed at the Metro Days of Action, in Toronto, on 10/26/96)
Chorus:
Blow, Wind, Blow...
all my troubles away.
(I want you to) Blow, Wind, Blow...
until Judgement day.
Dave:
Well, if you have an accident in your pants,
you got to change your underwear.
But if your government is an accident,
you got to get that government outta there!
(Chorus)
Jian:
Well, I say thank you, Mike, it's like a general strike,
and the people got here pronto.
So I'm happy to say, as I stand here today,
I'm fucking proud to be from Toronto!
(Chorus)
Murray:
Well, scissor beats paper, and paper beats rock,
I mean, we've all heard the stories.
But as I stand here today, I gotta say,
that the people beat the Tories!
(Chorus)
Mike:
Premier Harris says that these action days,
will not touch him and he remains aloof.
But we'll continue to climb, and come election time,
we'll vote and crush that fucking goof!
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
(as performed at the Bottom Line, in New York City, on 12/31/96)
Chorus:
Blow, Wind, Blow...
all my troubles away.
(I want you to) Blow, Wind, Blow...
until Judgement day.
Dave:
Tonight we fill our cup, we kind of gussy up
Maybe some heels and some mascara
But fashion cops will tell you nothing tops
a festive blue tiara
(Chorus)
Jian:
Though NYC is crude, I'm not sexually rude
There's some places that I won't go
But tonight is grand, so with some streamers in hand
I'm gonna tie down a tickle me elmo
(Chorus)
Murray:
Well I can hardly believe that it's New Years Eve
I'm gonna party like I'm in the movies
I'm gonna die my hair, drive to Times Square
And get stabbed in the kidneys
(Chorus)
Mike:
This Bottom Line crowd is lookin' fine
A brand new year will be born
Good tidings abound, but I'm gonna pound
the next jackass that toots a party horn
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
(as performed by Moxy at the end of their 1996 fall tour)
(Chorus)
It's Boo Time
Boo Time
It's Boo Time
(Mike on Lead)
When every wagger's wound up tight,
fridgy, fractious, and forthright,
the ?? hopped up with
troglodyte
(All)
It's Boo Time
Boo Time
It's Boo Time
(Mike)
When obligations grow obtuse,
your necktie's nabbed you like a noose,
The clown, the cleric, the recluse
hang this snoose (??)
on their caboose.
(All)
Something's got you wary,
way down the estuary,
shot in incendiary,
locked in a box of lead I said.
(Mike)
Mr. Metro Moon one day
set sail on seas of cellophane
membrane
our friends all sang 'auf wiedersehn'.
It might be out in ??,
Or strolling naked out doors,
reminds the man ??
(All)
Something's got you wary,
way down the estuary,
shot in incendiary,
locked in a box of lead I said.
(Dave)
Well, it's not forbidden to be what you are
dip into that great big cookie jar.
(Mike)
Where it's always Boo Time
(All)
It's Boo Time
Boo Time
It's Boo Time
Boo Time
It's Boo Time
Boo Time
(Mike scat solo)
(as performed by Moxy at the end of their 1996 fall tour)
(Dave)
I'm all right...
(All)
Look what I'm drivin'.
Look at the curves and the overhead serves,
more than survivin'.
(Dave)
Twist and turn...
(All)
Look at her dancin'.
we're havin' some fun
she's the trophy I won.
Baby's enhancin'.
Get in the car.
Get in the car.
Don't give me that, you know who you are.
(Dave)
The answer is near,
isn't that far.
(All)
isn't that far.
Get in the car.
(Dave)
I'm in love...
(All)
Look what I'm drivin'.
A break-in alarm,
you on my arm.
?? the drive-in.
(Dave)
You fill me...
(All)
with big emotion.
We'll jump in the back,
turn up the 8-track,
we got Billy Ocean.
Get in the car.
Get in the car.
Don't give me that, you know who you are.
(Dave)
The answer is near,
isn't that far.
(All)
isn't that far.
Get in the car!
Get in the car!
Get in the car!
Get in the car!
(as performed by Moxy at the end of their 1996 fall tour)
(Mike on Lead)
moonlight
nothing could slow you down.
A man keeps what
I think you'd enjoy.
And when I turn the dial,
you there and you stood around.
You sound so good,
Heatseeker Boy.
(All)
Boy, boy, boy, boy.
(Mike)
You sang like someone hurt you,
you played with guns alot.
I had a hunch you were the real McCoy
(All)
The real McCoy, the real McCoy.
(Mike)
Agents like
your gonna get this
all major formats
Heatseeker Boy.
(All)
Boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy.
(Mike)
Heatseeker Boy.
(Mike)
If you want my opinion,
guys like you should wear a crown.
Do what you want and do it now.
this week?
When will you reach your peak,
Heatseeker Boy?
(accordion solo)
The girls all loved your eyebrows,
guys loved how the bullets flew.
You had more charms than Helen of Troy.
Now when I ride the subway,
everyone's singin' you.
(All)
Seems you're always in the background,
your the muzak at the dog pound.
(Mike)
You should get around,
Heatseeker Boy!
(All)
Boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy.
(Mike)
Heatseeker Boy!
(as performed by Moxy at the end of their 1996 fall tour)
(Murray on lead)
We are here, to calm your fears,
and turn your world around.
The man to my right, with the headset mike,
will stroll you through the grounds.
So enjoy your stay, it's seafood day,
and surgery's at five.
(Mike)
We can correct what nature supplies
'cause beauty is something money buys.
(All)
Don't say no to the incredible medicine show.
Say no, don't say no.
Don't say no to the incredible medicine show.
(Murray)
Your double chin, can be tucked in,
your wrinkles we can hide.
Some herbal tea and Chromium D
with 'drink me' on the side.
But the little fear when you look in the mirror
gets bigger every day.
(Mike)
It takes some work, but it can be done.
to look 23 at 51.
(All)
Don't say no to the incredible medicine show.
Say no, don't say no.
Don't say no to the incredible medicine show.
Say no, don't say no.
(Mike)
Smoke and mirrors, dogs and ponies,
(Murray)
The President of the United States and his cronies.
(Mike)
Clear and colorful, proud and prudish.
(Murray)
view for the vain and foolish.
(Murray)
This is proof, you're the picture of youth
those lips will last a while.
Carrot juice should help reduce
the creaking when you smile.
(All)
Don't say no to the incredible medicine show.
Say no, don't say no.
Don't say no to the incredible medicine show.
Say no, don't say no.
Don't say no to the incredible medicine show.
(Murray: We are here, to calm your fears)
Say no, don't say no.
Don't say no to the incredible medicine show.
(Murray: We are here, to calm your fears)
Say no, don't say no.
(written and performed on WCMF on 11/3/98)
Who's sneakin' past the offensive lineman?
Scramblin' when they call for the blitz?
Out from the pocket, in for a touchdown,
Everyone knows it's Flutie.
And Flutie is 5-foot-3,
He has tiny hands and feet!
The Bills are the team to beat, in the AFC East
Who's dodgin' sacks from Dolphins built like tanks?
Who's makin' fans go totally nuts?
Who deserves more than Piazza and Jordan?
Everyone knows it's Flutie
And Flutie is 4-foot-1!
But Flutie's heart weighs a ton.
He's now got the QB role,
You're in my soul.
Who spent 10 years in exile in Canada?
Lived in an igloo, ate only snow.
Who's even got his own breakfast cereal?
Everyone knows it's Flutie
And Flutie's got Youngmann's* knees,
And throws like a summer breeze,
And Flutie's pals with the Wease,
The brother Wease, (Cindy, Tommy, House, and everybody else!) ahhh!
* Youngman is a highway in Buffalo, but it could be young man
(Mike on Lead)
Edna Million in a drop dead suit
Dutch Pink on a downtown train
Two-dollar pistol but the gun won't shoot
I'm in the corner on the pouring rain
Sixteen men on a dead man's chest
And I've been drinking from a broken cup
Two pairs of pants and a mohair vest
I'm full of bourbon, I can't stand up
Chorus:
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire, children are alone
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on fire, your children are alone
Schiffer broke a bottle on Morgan's head
And I'm stepping on the devil's tail
Across the stripes of a full moon's head
And through the bars of a Cuban jail
Bloody fingers on a purple knife
Flamingo drinking from a cocktail glass
I'm on the lawn with someone else's wife
Admire the view from up on top of the mast
Chorus
I said, Chorus
Yellow sheets on a Hong Kong bed
Stazybo horn and a Slingerland ride
"To the carnival" is what she said
A hundred dollars makes it dark inside
Edna Million in a drop dead suit
Dutch Pink on a downtown train
Two-dollar pistol but the gun won't shoot
I'm in the corner on the pouring rain
(as performed by Moxy at the end of their 1996 fall tour)
(All)
Everyone has a groovy time with Lazlo.
Everyone has a groovy time with Lazlo.
He speaks poetry and brings us cheer.
We have lots of friends back in Ontario.
But right now, there is no better place than here
for Lazlo's career.
(Jian)
Take some time to change your mind,
this is a place that you will find.
The cat is fat, the cat is fat,
the cat is fat, the cat is fat.
Take some time to change your mind,
this is a place, so be happy.
Are you happy, on your own?
Don't go home.
(All)
Everyone has a groovy time with Lazlo.
We know the effervesence will be near.
We have lots of friends back in Ontario.
But right now, there is no better place than here
for Lazlo's career.
(guitar solo)
(Jian)
Take some time to change your mind,
this is a place that you will find.
He won't go back, he's where it's at,
you gotta pat the man, the hat,
will not go back.
Take some time to change your mind,
this is a place you'll find, you'll be happy.
Are you happy, on your own?
Don't go home.
(All)
Everyone has a groovy time with Lazlo.
He speaks poetry and brings us cheer.
We have lots of friends back in Ontario.
But right now, there is no better place than here
for Lazlo's career.
Lazlo's career.
Lazlo's career.
Lazlo's career.
(as performed by Moxy at the end of their 1996 fall tour)
(Jian on lead)
I wanna taste it,
give me a little taste.
I wanna taste it again.
(All)
No, no, no Raja,
don't you go back to her.
No, no Raja,
don't you.
(Jian)
I wanna smell it,
just a little smell.
I wanna smell it again.
(All)
No, no, no Raja,
don't you go back to her.
No, no Raja,
don't you.
(Jian)
??? so hard,
(a phrase in another language)
it's getting so hard again.
(All)
No, no, no Raja,
don't you go back to her.
No, no Raja,
don't you.
(Jian)
I want it stupid,
just a little feel.
I wanna feel it again.
(All)
No, no, no Raja,
don't you go back to her.
No, no Raja,
don't you.
(Jian)
For Raja, quiesence was wrought from the start.
Now Raja bleeds out his broken heart.
I want it stupid.
Just a little feel.
I wanna feel it again.
(All)
No, no, no Raja,
don't you go back to her.
No, no Raja,
don't you.
No, no, no Raja,
don't you go back to her.
No, no Raja,
don't you.
(as performed by Moxy at the end of their 1996 fall tour)
(Jian)
Well, it was you, me, and Jacko
new
(rest)
I love
about the
(Jian)
You said the politics matter,
but we're all getting fatter.
(rest)
You take what you get,
with this Republican bet.
(All)
Well, have you really changed that much since school?
when any Nazi couldn't swim in your pool?
Your new boyfriend's a bit
of a right wing shit.
(Jian)
We gave the finger to Sony,
then threw macaroni.
(rest)
When we first kissed,
it was bliss.
(Jian)
You said that you would never end up,
with a ball point ?? send up
(rest)
Well that's what this is,
when
(All)
Well, have you really changed that much since school?
when any Nazi couldn't swim in your pool?
Your new boyfriend's a bit
of a right wing shit.
(guitar solo)
(All)
Well, have you really changed that much since school?
when any Nazi couldn't swim in your pool?
You've just got to admit
he's a right wing shit!
he's a right wing shit!
he's a right wing shit!
(as performed at the Metro Days of Action, in Toronto, on 10/26/96)
(Mike on lead)
They started out so very slick,
with the deficit arithmetic.
Hospitals shut down real quick,
so you best be sure you don't get sick.
That's the Harris-Tory shtick.
Cutbacks start, the people snore.
Clinics have to close their doors
If anesthetics cost too much,
Just wack yourself with a 2 by 4.
You might have thought that this can't go on more.
But that's not all they're asking for!
Wall Street spoke to Bay Street then
Bay Street phones their Queen's Park friends.
Welfare turns to excrement.
Well, that's why they bought this government.
Health care is no priority,
you're on your own with your body.
You might be quite tired and poor.
But that's not all they're asking for!
They started with their common sense,
and things for teachers got real tense.
Students saw tuitions soar,
and obstacles became immense.
They got no care for the consequence.
So let McDonald's teach grade three,
let Exxon run my university.
CDO (?) has got to go,
and we can't afford your library.
Sell your bed, sleep on the floor.
That's not all they're asking for!
Wall Street phones up Bay Street then
Bay Street calls their Queen's Park friends.
Send the cops if there's uproar,
Hey! That what hired goons are for.
Education is no priority,
make your mind an employee
of their dirt-cheap workfare core.
But that's not all they're asking for!
It started with their big landslide,
the right wing tide.
They want us to tag along,
but maybe they hope we'd run and hide.
By now we surely realize,
the plan is to demoralize.
Stay at home and watch the game,
and bow down to free enterprise.
Be governed by the banker's whore (?)
That's not all they're asking for!
If you'd like to escape this all,
there's a lovely trip you can take next fall.
A weekend in Temagami,
chained up to a big 'ol tree.
They want (???) thrown down some hole.
They'd sure like to possess your soul.
It's a global ticker-tape attack.
Today's the day that we fought back!
It's a global ticker-tape attack.
Today's the day that we fought back!
Today's the day that we fought back!
Today's the day that we fought back!
Today's the day that we fought back!
(from the 'No Mega-CD')
(Mike on lead)
They started out so very slick,
with the deficit arithmetic.
Hospitals shut down real quick,
so you best be sure you don't get sick.
That's the Harris-Tory shtick.
Cutbacks start, the people snore.
Clinics had to close their doors.
If anesthetics cost too much,
just wack yourself with a 2 by 4.
You might have thought there can't be more,
But that's not all they're asking for!
They started with their common sense,
and things for teachers got real tense.
Students saw tuitions soar,
and obstacles became immense.
And no care for the consequence.
So let McDonald's teach grade three,
let Exxon run university.
TVO has got to go,
and we can't afford your local library.
Sell your bed, sleep on the floor.
But that's not all they're asking for!
Wall Street calls on Bay Street then
Bay Street calls their Queen's Park friends.
Turn welfare into excrement.
That's why they bought the government.
Education is no priority,
make your mind an employee
of their dirt-cheap workfare core.
But that's not all they're asking for!
They started with Bill 103
'cause there is strength in unity.
Strength to shut the people off,
and widdle down democracy.
Download, offload, 1-2-3!
By now we surely realize,
the plan is to demoralize.
Stay at home and watch the game,
and bow down to free enterprise.
Be governed by the banker's whore.
But that's not all they're asking for!
If you'd like to escape it all,
there's a holiday to take next fall.
A weekend in Temagami,
chained up to a big 'ol tree.
They want your body and mind thrown down some hole.
and they'd like to possess your soul.
It's a global ticker-tape attack.
But today's the day that we fight back!
It's a global ticker-tape attack.
But today's the day that we fight back!
Today's the day that we fight back!
Today's the day that we fight back!
(Thanks to the Bill Bowen for these...)
Orbiting Rondelle
You will go to the moon
You'll probably be heading there soon
Someday flowers will grow there
But first you've got to go there
You will go to the moon
You will live 'mongst the stars
Your backyard will probably be Mars
You will ride off on your scooter
And eat off your computer
Oh you will live in the stars
Your stellar smile will always be
Knowing your home and home to stay
And you'll look down upon the earth
And say, "I can't believe we ever lived that way!"
You will go to the moon
There's plans for a hotel and lagoon
You'll be savoring the star fruit
And kicking off your moonboots
Oh you will go to the moon.
You will go to the moon
A paradise to rival Cancun
For once it's always sunny
You'll be raking in the money
Oh you get paid on the moon
It's been our most abiding dream
And a dream is an easy sell
And when the tourists come in droves
You'll be the big cheese on that orbiting rondelle
You will go to the moon
The shuttle leaves at quarter to noon
I tell you flowers will grow there
But first you got to go there
Oh you will go to the moon
I tell you will go to the moon
You will go to the moon!
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