Styx parody lyrics
Old War
For use with Cold War
(What does the markup on these lyrics mean?)
I’m tired of your repeating
That you show on the T V
And if I could only talk to you
I’m sure that I could make you see
Cause time has a way of bringing most entertainment down, down, down
Annoyed hordes are coming
I suggest you re - veal new ground
Well I say that’s a thing of the past
And it ain’t gonna last
No matter what you say or do
We all seen enough of you
You’re news free, you just attempt
To make-us watch the (same old) president
And you frust - rate us so easily
Why not believe you’re annoyance sent
But time has a way of bringing most entertainment down, down, down
There’s an annoyed horde a-coming
I insist you show us new ground
You talked talk and you got so intense
That you didn’t make sense
And that’s what scared me the most
About the re runs of celebrity times
It’s bad timing, baby
Can’t you see it in my eyes
It’s an old war
Running on the TV
And everybody you meet thinks it’s going down, don’t you know
Old war, blowing on the air
Everyone everywhere says it’s time to get rid of the old war
You should look now cause the fan boy’s becoming a man.
I say there are new lines to draw
And you can’t repeat it all
Or you’ll die young trying to make it
Into something that ain’t gonna last
You ought to reconsider
Cause you’re going fast
With the old war
Running on the TV
And everybody you meet thinks it’s going down, don’t you know
Old war back on the air
Everyone everywhere says it’s time to get rid of the old war
Looking at me from the-screen (of) every TV
There’s a bored man running from an old war
You should look now, cause the fan boy’s an un - interested man
Behind the scenes
- This dates all the way back to the fall of 2012, when my old characters, the Comic Five were the only influence in my parodying and things were still pretty rough. (It originally changed
make you
to bring you to
for no good reason, so I fixed that when typing it in.)
- Still, I have thought for quite some time that it was one of the better parodies the Five did, generally doing reasonably well at rhyming and leaving words unchanged when possible. Another good thing about it is that it is the only parody the Five ever wrote that was devoid of topical content. (The rest were at least as inside-jokey as
Lego Pieces of Eight,
the only other Comic Five parody on the site, and almost all assumed you had read the comic strip I was drawing for my friends at the time.) So, even though it breaks the rules of everything else on the site, I decided I might as well put it out.
Old War
is the only one of the pre-Squiddy Haze
parodies I have released in any form, all the rest of which I have long since disowned for reasons explained here. As you can see on that page, it was an anomaly for the time.
Categories: Parodies about summer re-runs, completely different takes on songs, parodies that are accessible to everyone