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Song Parodies -> "7/7 WAS..."
Original Song Title:
"7 AND 7 IS..."
Original Performer:
Love (written by Arthur Lee)
Parody Song Title:
"7/7 WAS..."
Parody Written by:
Paul Robinson
The Lyrics
You would really have to know or hear this song to get the impact of this piece. I remember sitting on the beach at Playa Del Rey here when I was 16, getting my little pale ass sun-burned and listening to this song on a little portable transistor AM radio...It blew my mind...Never realized I would come to associate the sounds within it to such a horrid event...Yes, I realize most of you probably are DKTOS to the Original Song and I can only offer a site with a snippet of it down in the bottom section here...BTW - this in no way rationalizes for or excuses the perpetrator's of these foul acts & deeds...we all have, or should have, the ability to think and reason and connect to humanity...and disdain and reject the putrid calls of blind hatred...from whatever their source...pulpit, prayer mosque or political pose...
[Hard driving rock intro to...]
When I was a boy I heard about belief in this "Islam"
I'd sit inside a prayer mosque and listen to a blind imam
He intoned of doom and violence in some future day to come
Didn't know that I would be the one bearing bombs, they'd go
BOOOMM...and would rip folks to shreds
[Hard Driving Instrumental Break]
I believed that imam because folks told me that he was wise
My faith learned in "Madrassas"; didn't know it was all lies
I was told that suicide would be my only path to grace
"Wrong" was told me as if "Right"; now I explode this bomb
BOOOMM...and leave so many dead
[Hard driving Instrumental to...]
One...
Two...
Three...
FOUR!!!!
[Hard Driving instrumental building to...]
(BOOOOMMMMM!!!!!)
{That does not do Justice to the Sounds & Fury of the MASSIVE EXPLOSIONS in the London "Tube" and ill-fated Bus}
[Fading to quiet, solemn grave-site memorial scenes with only
~ ~ ~
the soft squalls of gulls soaring above, headed to the sea]
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p~e~a~c~e
When I was a boy I heard about belief in this "Islam"
I'd sit inside a prayer mosque and listen to a blind imam
He intoned of doom and violence in some future day to come
Didn't know that I would be the one bearing bombs, they'd go
BOOOMM...and would rip folks to shreds
[Hard Driving Instrumental Break]
I believed that imam because folks told me that he was wise
My faith learned in "Madrassas"; didn't know it was all lies
I was told that suicide would be my only path to grace
"Wrong" was told me as if "Right"; now I explode this bomb
BOOOMM...and leave so many dead
[Hard driving Instrumental to...]
One...
Two...
Three...
FOUR!!!!
[Hard Driving instrumental building to...]
(BOOOOMMMMM!!!!!)
{That does not do Justice to the Sounds & Fury of the MASSIVE EXPLOSIONS in the London "Tube" and ill-fated Bus}
[Fading to quiet, solemn grave-site memorial scenes with only
~ ~ ~
the soft squalls of gulls soaring above, headed to the sea]
~ ~ ~
p~e~a~c~e
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Good one! I think a link to listen is at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000346Y/ref=pm_dp_ln_m_2/002-2049751-6852038?v=glance&s=music&vi=samples
Thanks, Pat! I see that what I entered for links didn't work, mainly because I don't know what I'm doing in that particular realm. OS Lyrics link is: Thanks
well written....tough song to parody.....5s
Thanks, alvin. I had been thinking about trying to do some of Love's old songs from "Forever Changes" and some of their other ones for a while but they really are very tough to do because the OS lyrics are so strange, quirky and often oddly-paced to begin with, what with Lee's habit of holding back the last word of a line until the start of the NEXT line...hard to make that work parody-wise...But, since I enjoy revisiting the music I keep looking for possible ways/ideas to use them with...this one sort of popped into my head rather suddenly last night. The rambling, frantically-paced, off-kilter thinking of the OS sort of seemed like the way some nut-case potential suicide-bomber might be processing thoughts. Good thing Arthur Lee is non-violent, huh?
I was on holiday when it happened. It shocked me terribly. My family have speculated that the war in Iraq led indirectly to it. Recently the Labour MP Robin Cook died, and since I found out that he was opposed to the war in Iraq (he resigned from the cabinet), I have seen him less as the figure of fun the Dead Ringers cast made him out to be.
Yes, Cook certainly looks like he was more plugged into reality than a lot of other American and British political figures. It's speculation, yes, but there is a good chance the Iraq situation was in the mix of mix-up thinking involved. It's never a good idea to let loose the Dogs of War unless you know what the Hell you are doing...It doesn't appear that current American leadership were in that boat at the time...or that they really are now...guess I will leave it at that...Thanks
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