Uh huh. That's why Rachel in the Dick Van Dyke Show stuff didn't seem off. But when they went all Bible on it, I at least expected to see Puck rolling his eyes or something.
Murk: But you're a God! The Sacred Glorificus! Glory: I'm a God in exile. Far from the Hellfires of Home and sharing my body with an enemy that stabs my boys in their fleshy little stomachs!
'Dirty Girls'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
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brenda m - Dec 14, 2011 6:36:14 am PST #4768 of 8625
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Jesse - Dec 14, 2011 6:37:01 am PST #4769 of 8625
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I can definitely see Rachel getting into Christmas for the glitter and presents, but seriously, just have a line about it.
Also, TLo reminded me of how weird/gross it was to sing "Tonight thank God it's them instead of you" to the people in the homeless shelter or whatever. I mean, seriously.
In short: Seriously.
brenda m - Dec 14, 2011 6:45:54 am PST #4770 of 8625
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Also the huge grins all through that song drove me nuts.
Amy - Dec 14, 2011 12:16:18 pm PST #4771 of 8625
Because books.
"Tonight thank God it's them instead of you"
It baffles me how anyone ever thought that line was a good idea.
brenda m - Dec 14, 2011 1:00:52 pm PST #4772 of 8625
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Really? I think that's possibly the most honest line in all of these type of songs put together.
Amy - Dec 14, 2011 1:17:51 pm PST #4773 of 8625
Because books.
It's honest, I guess, but the idea of thanking god that someone else is suffering while you're home stuffing your face full of cookies and making snowmen just strikes me as ... a weird thing to put in a song.
erikaj - Dec 14, 2011 1:24:41 pm PST #4774 of 8625
Always Anti-fascist!
Unless it's the Asshole Song. I use public toilets and pee on the seat On warm summer days, I say "How 'bout this heat?"
billytea - Dec 14, 2011 3:41:03 pm PST #4775 of 8625
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
It's honest, I guess, but the idea of thanking god that someone else is suffering while you're home stuffing your face full of cookies and making snowmen just strikes me as ... a weird thing to put in a song.
I'm pretty sure it's supposed to make the audience feel uncomfortable. You don't get Bono to sing that line if you're intending to endorse privilege.
On which note, I think it's the most powerful line in the song. The rest of it is all "isn't this awful?"; this is the line that asks, "If you think it's awful, what are you going to do about it?"
Morgana - Dec 14, 2011 3:58:03 pm PST #4776 of 8625
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
On which note, I think it's the most powerful line in the song. The rest of it is all "isn't this awsful?"; this is the line that asks, "If you think it's awful, what are you going to do about it?"
Yes, but the audience is supposed to be other priviledged people in the position to provide help, not people in a homeless shelter.
brenda m - Dec 14, 2011 4:06:14 pm PST #4777 of 8625
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
not people in a homeless shelter.
For sure.
I'm pretty sure it's supposed to make the audience feel uncomfortable. You don't get Bono to sing that line if you're intending to endorse privilege.
This is why it drove me crazy that they were all doing their huge performance grins all through the song. You're singing about droughts, ffs, and people starving. Put on your Serious Face.