Sunday, September 8, 2013

History in the Form of Song Lyrics

HISTORY IN THE FORM OF SONG LYRICS:

Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state.  Then nearly fourteen billion years ago, expansion started.  Wait.  (Barenaked Ladies)
I'm comin' out, so you better get this party started.  (Pink)
Cloudy.  My thoughts are scattered and they're cloudy.  They have no borders, no boundaries.  (Simon & Garfunkel)
Starry starry night, paint your palette blue and gray.  (Don McLean)
And superstars get sucked into the supermassive.  (Muse)
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.  It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.  It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light years thick, but out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.  (Eric Idle)
Someday you will find me caught beneath the landslide, in a champagne supernova in the sky.  (Oasis)
All we are is dust in the wind.  Everything is dust in the wind.  (Kansas)
Here comes the sun.  Here comes the sun, and I say it's all right.  (The Beatles)
Ooh, hot lava.  Ooh, hot lava.  (The B-52s)
I've seen a bad moon rising.  (Creedence Clearwater)
Here comes the rain again, falling on my head like a tragedy.  (Eurythmics)
I can see clearly now, the rain is gone.  (Johnny Nash)
I'm alive, and the world shines for me today.  I'm alive.  Suddenly, I am here today.  (Electric Light Orchestra)
I got bugs.  I got bugs in my room.  (Pearl Jam)
Fish heads, fish heads, rolly-polly fish heads.  Fish heads, fish heads.  Eat them up.  Yum.  (Barnes and Barnes)
She's got legs, and she knows how to use 'em.  (ZZ Top)
Open the door.  Get on the floor.  Everybody walk the dinosaur.  Open the door.  Get on the floor.  Everybody walk the dinosaur.  (Was Was Not)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.  (REM)
Ice, ice, baby.  Ice, ice baby.  (Vanilla Ice)
You and me, baby, ain't nothin' but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.  (The Bloodhound Gang)
Welcome to the jungle.  We got fun and games.  (Guns'N'Roses)
Hey, hey, we're the Monkees, and people say we monkey around.  (The Monkees)
So, stand in the place where you are.  (REM)
It's rainin' men.  Hallelujah, it's rainin' men.  (The Weather Girls)
Come on, baby, light my fire.  (The Doors)
If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning.  (Peter Paul and Mary)
Flintstones.  Meet the Flintstones.  (Flintstones)
I'm a traveling man, who's made a lot of stops all over the world.  (Rick Nelson)
North to Alaska.  (Johnny Horton)
Old MacDonald had a farm, ee ie ee ie oh.  (Traditional)
What goes up must come down.  Spinnin' wheel got to go round.  (Blood, Sweat and Tears)
Stonehenge! Where the demons dwell, where the banshees live and they do live well.  Stonehenge!  Where a man's a man, and the children dance to the Pipes of Pan.  (Spinal Tap)
Walk like an Egyptian.  Walk like an Egyptian.  (The Bangles)
We're the Mesopotamians.  Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh.  (They Might Be Giants)
Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia, King Tut.  (Steve Martin)
You came in through the door like a Trojan Horse.  You came onto the floor like a Trojan Horse.  (Luv)
I am iron man.  (Black Sabbath)
The Lord, by Moses, to Pharaoh, said, oh, let my people go.  If not, I'll smite your first-born dead.  Oh, let my people go.  (Traditional)
Waiting for a sign to turn blood into wine.  The sweet taste in your mouth turned bitter in its glass.  Israel.  In Israel.  Israel.  In Israel.  (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
Smile on, little Buddha, smile on.  (Toad the Wet Sprocket)
Near to the east, in a part of ancient Greece, in an ancient land called Macedonia, was born a son to Phillip of Macedon, the legend, his name was Alexander.  (Iron Maiden)
Caesar never got them back, 'cause they killed his ass in the second act.  Brutus spoke, then Anthony said, 'My girlfriend's cat is smarter than me.  Friends, Romans, can't you see?  My girlfriend's cat is smarter than me.'  (Spin Doctors)
Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ.  Who are you?  What have you sacrificed?  Jesus Christ.  Superstar.  Do you think you're what they say you are?  (Jesus Christ Superstar)
Sharia don't like it.  Rock the Casbah.  Rock the Casbah.  By order of the Prophet, we ban that boogie sound.  Degenerate the faithful with that crazy Casbah sound.  (The Clash)
Hell awaits behind Gaul's gates.  The Roman's stand only to fall.  They will die by his sword, the barbarian lord.  Attila hears victory call.  (Iced Earth)
Darkness imprisoning me.  All that I see, absolute horror.  (Metallica)
Myriad lights.  They said I'd be impressed.  Arabian nights, at your primitive best.  (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
I come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow.  Hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands to fight the hoards that sing and cry 'Valhalla, I am coming.'  (Led Zeppelin)
Christian sons with hearts of anger bring the book, the cross, the chancre.  Hallelujah, hallelujah.  Kiss the cross or they will burn ya.  Hallelujah, hallelujah.  They have come to rape and murder.  (Inkubus Sukkubus)
The Inquisition.  What a show.  The Inquisition.  Here we go.  I know you're wishin' that we'd go away, but the Inquisition's here, and it's here to stay.  (Mel Brooks)
Lion- Lionheart, defender of the faith.  Lion- Lionheart, protector of the state.  Lionheart.  (Saxon)
Genghis Khan, he could not keep all his kings supplied with sleep.  (Bob Dylan)
A place where nobody dared to go, the love that we came to know.  They call it Xanadu.  (Olivia Newton-John)
The bell tolls.  The black plague has struck.  Diseased eyes roll upwards, as if knowing which direction their souls will travel.  (The Animals)
Take a look.  It's in a book.  A reading rainbow.  (Reading Rainbow Theme)
A whole new world.  A new fantastic point of view.  No one to tell us no, or where to go, or say we're only dreaming.  (Aladdin)
From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli.  (Marines)
I'm Henry the Eighth, I am.  Henry the Eight, I am, I am.  (Herman's Hermits)
Well, to be or not to be?  To be or not to be?  Am gonna have you for me?
I call on the resting soul of Galileo, king of night-vision, king of insight.  (Indigo Girls)
Living in America.  I live in America.  (James Brown)
We're not gonna take it.  No, we ain't gonna take it.  We're not gonna take it anymore.  (Twisted Sister)
We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin'.  There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.  We fired once more, and they begin to runnin' down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.  (Johnny Horton)
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest.  Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.  (Traditional)
My, my, at Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender.  (Abba)
I don't need your civil war.  It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.  (Guns'N'Roses)
It's such a change for us to live so independently.  Freedom, you see, has got our hearts singing so joyfully.  Just look about.  You owe it to yourself to check it out.  Can't you feel a brand new day?  Can't you feel a brand new day?  (The Wiz)
I've been workin' on the railroad all the live-long day.  (Traditional)
Then from dawn till setting sun, he practiced with that deadly gun, and hour on hour I watched in awe.  No human being could match the draw of Ringo.  (Lorne Greene)
In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines, we've often been told to keep up with the times.  For our skills are not needed.  They've streamlined the job, and with sliderule and stopwatch our pride they have robbed.  (Dropkick Murphys)
We gonna rock down to electric avenue, and then we'll take you higher.  (Eddie Grant)
Here in my car, I feel safest of all.  I can lock all my doors.  It's the only way to live, in cars.  (Gary Numan)
I believe I can fly.  I believe I can touch the sky.  (R. Kelly)
Hooray for Hollywood!  That screwy ballyhooey Hollywood.  (Doris Day)
She blinded me with science.  She blinded me with science.  (Thomas Dolby)
War, huh, good god, y'all!  What is it good for?  Absolutely nothin'.  (Edwin Starr)
We've been spending most our lives living in a gangster's paradise.  (Coolio)
I ain't got no money, but I sure got a whole lotta love.  (Bob Seger)
It's springtime for Hitler and Germany.  Winter for Poland and France.  (Mel Brooks)
Atomic, oh atomic.  (Blondie)
Back in the US- back in the US- back in the USSR.  (The Beatles)
Living in the plastic age.  Plastic age.  (The Buggles)
Video killed the radio star.  Video killed the radio star.  (The Buggles)
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land, Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion, Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania, Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson, Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex, J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say!  (Billy Joel)
And it's one, two, three, what are we fightin' for?  Don't ask me.  I don't give a damn.  Next stop is Vietnam.  (Country Joe and the Fish)
By the time we got to Woodstock, we were half a million strong.  (Joni Mitchell)
Fly me to the moon, and let me play among the stars.  Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars.  (Frank Sinatra)
Don't turn around, uh-oh.  Der Kommissar's in town, uh-oh.  (After the Fire)
I want my... I want my... I want my MTV.  (Dire Straits)
Tear down the wall!  Tear down the wall!  (Pink Floyd)
What ya wanna do?  Wanna be hackers?  Code-crackers?  Slackers?  Wastin' time with all the chat room yackers?  Nine-to-five, chillin' at Hewlett-Packard?  (Weird Al Yankovic)
It's early fall.  There's a cloud in the New York skyline.  Innocence dragged across a yellow line.  (U2)
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.  Now, it looks as though they're here to stay.  Oh, I believe in yesterday.  (The Beatles)
Right now, hey, it's your tomorrow.  Right now, come on, it's everything.  Right now, catch a magic moment, do it, right here and now.  (Van Halen)
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow.  You're only a day away.  (Annie)
Things are goin' great, and it's only gettin' better.  I'm doin' all right, and gettin' good grades.  The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.  I gotta wear shades.  (Timbuk 3)
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.  Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.  (Styx)
Star Trekkin' across the universe, on the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk.  (The Firm)
We're hoppin' star to star through the galaxy.  We're flyin' high.  Let the world pass us by from here to eternity.  To eternity.  (Brian Setzer Orchestra)
Black hole sun, won't you come and wash away the rain.  Black hole sun, black hole sun, won't you come.  (Soundgarden)
This is the end, my only friend, the end.  (The Doors)
Let's do the time warp again!  (Richard O'Brien)
You go back, Jack, do it again.  Wheel's goin' round and round.  You go back, Jack, do it again.  (Steely Dan)
And it all started with a big bang.  (Barenaked Ladies)

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  1. Here is the video version: (I made some changes.)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArrFbH96BwQ&list=UU10vIHMUxYahjRdwD8LOnoQ

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