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Oh yes
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I know that it's any early song in the set list if it makes it on stage, but it would be fun to see him play around with a Cobain/grohl costume change.
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tonynation wrote:I know that it's any early song in the set list if it makes it on stage, but it would be fun to see him play around with a Cobain/grohl costume change.
Al and Bermuda can just trade wigs so that Al can be Dave Grohl and Bermuda can be Taylor Hawkins.
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Fantastic track. I kept wondering how Al would top the last thing he said he saw with his "own eyes," yet he kept doing it. Another song that I feel I'll need to listen to another few times to pick up on all the jokes.
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LYRICS
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My Own Eyes -- Style Parody of Foo Fighters
I saw a baby drive a truck,
I saw a junkie eat a tuba,
I saw a stripper kiss a duck,
Behind a dumpster in Aruba,
I saw this fat, psychotic guy,
His underwear was made of crickets,
He pawned a skeleton to buy,
Some old expired lotto tickets,
I saw a naked vagrant,
Giving mouth-to-mouth resucitation to his cat,
I probably could have gone my whole life without seeing that
Chorus:
With My Own Eyes,
I see things that'd drive a normal man insane,
Wish I could disconnect my brain,
From My Own Eyes
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I saw a mime get packed to death,
With an imaginary cleaver,
I saw an old man's final breath,
I watched him die from Bieber Fever,
I saw these diabetic chicks,
In an abondened 7-Eleven,
I watched them snorting pixie sticks,
While they were belching Stairway To Heaven,
I saw two drag queens trying to see how many crackers they could shove up each other's nose,
I'd like to erase my mind completely, but I suppose,
That's just the way it goes
Chorus:
With My Own Eyes,
I see things that'd drive a normal man insane,
Wish I could disconnect my brain,
From My Own Eyes, My Own Eyes,
Those visions haunt my memories,
Oh, there's so much I wish I could have seen,
With My Own Eyes
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Some priest got drunk and stole a circus zebra and he trained it to massage his back,
My guinea pig committed heartacurie, so we used him to play hackey-sack,
My neighbor's kids sold weapons, grey plutonium, and frosty ice-cold lemonade,
They took MasterCard and sometimes human organs in trade,
That's how we paid, I forgot to say that it was really darn good lemonade,
Chorus:
With My Own Eyes,
I've seen thing that'd drive a normal man insane,
Wish I could disconnect my brain from My Own Eyes, My Own Eyes,
Those visions haunt my memoy,
Oh, there's so much I wish I could have seen,
With My Own Eyes, With My Own Eyes, With My Own Eyes, Wiith My Own Eyeeees
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mrbellamy wrote:
Bruce the Duck wrote:
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the music during the instrumental part and the end of the song is the exact same tune as the bit in "Polkarama" between "I Kissed a Girl" and "Candy Shop". Interesting
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I noticed that too! Not "I Kissed a Girl", though, "Slither" by Velvet Revolver is the song that leads into "Candy Shop" and that's where the riff is taken from.
Oh yeah, you're right. As soon as I heard that, I kept thinking "I know Al's used that in a polka before" and it was bugging the hell out of me.
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I'm biased because I'm a huge Foo Fighters fan, but this is one of my favorite songs on the album. So glad this thang happened.
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Couple corrections here.
Alinite27 wrote:LYRICS
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I saw a mime get packed to death,
With an imaginary cleaver,

Oh, there's so much I wish I could have seen,
With My Own Eyes
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"I saw a mime get packed to death" should be "hacked to death".

"There's so much I wish I could have seen," should be "There's so much I wish I could unsee," This happens twice in the song.
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I love this :D
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Without fail, as "Word Crimes" fades out I'm already laughing in anticipation of the first line of this song. I can't explain it at all!
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