Everybody Calm Down

[MC Eric B]

Everybody Calm Down - MC Eric B
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Drivers on the road
suddenly filled with rage
poking poking with a stick
a lion in a cage

Waiting for a table
standing in a line
all the stress and anger
an emotional land mine

Chorus
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Everybody Calm Down
Everybody Calm Down
just open your eyes
to the beauty all around

Everybody Calm Down
Everybody Calm Down
sit back relax
take a good look around

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I see it in their faces
and feel it in the air
the pot is boiling over
and no one seems to care

We shout about religion
We yell about the war
all this screaming at each other
man, that's not what life is for

Chorus
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Everybody Calm Down
Everybody Calm Down
just open your eyes
to the beauty all around

Everybody Calm Down
Everybody Calm Down
sit back relax
take a good look around

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[signboy]

Dude, what's the longest it's ever taken you to write lyrics? An hour? You rock. 8)

[jeff robertson]

The sky is surely fallin!
Don't you hear the devil callin?
Hurricanes are turnin'.
Our oil supply we're burnin'.

Calm down everybody.
Everybody, calm down.
Calm down everybody.
Cause the Blues is comin' to town.

Spider Man, Spider Man,
Spider Man owns your southern can.
Spiders do what spiders do
but I'm the Spider Man of the Blues.

Calm down everybody.
Everybody, calm down.
Calm down everybody.
Cause the Blues is comin' to town.

Investment banks are failin'!
Politician's flailin'!
We don't know what we're doin'!
And the dogs and cats are screwin'!

Calm down motherfuckers.
Everybody, calm down.
Calm down motherfuckers.
Cause the Blues is comin' to town.

[Lyricburglar]

Everybody Calm Down
Lyrics by MC Eric B, Jeff Robertson and Lyricburglar

Drivers on the road
suddenly filled with rage
poking poking with a stick
like a lion in a cage
Waiting for a table
standing in a line
all the stress and anger
an emotional land mine

I see it in their faces
and feel it in the air
and the pot is boiling over
and no one seems to care
shout about religion
yell about the war
all this screaming at each other
man, that's not what life is for


Everybody Calm Down
Everybody Calm Down
just open your eyes
to the beauty all around
Everybody Calm Down
Everybody Calm Down
sit back relax 'cause Mr Blues is coming to town

The sky is surely fallin!
Don't you hear the devil callin?
Hurricanes are turnin' all the oil burnin'.
All the banks are failin', politician's flailin'!

We don't know what we're doin'! And the dogs and cats are screwin'!
While the ice caps are a meltin, it’s a bad hand we’ve been dealt
And world is struck dumb blind and deaf
By a gun-totin VPILF

Everybody Calm Down
Everybody Calm Down
just open your eyes
to the beauty all around
Everybody Calm Down
Everybody Calm Down
sit back relax 'cause Mr Blues is coming to town

Na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na

Everybody Calm Down
Everybody Calm Down
just open your eyes
to the beauty all around
Everybody Calm Down
Everybody Calm Down
sit back relax 'cause Mr Blues is coming to town

[j$]

How can you steal a lyric and not use what is clearly the runaway best line (in this instance 'I'm the Spiderman of the blues')? i am worried that Lyricburglar's standards are slipping lower than ever.

[bz£]

Well, it was replaced with what is clearly the runaway best acronym I've seen in a while, so I'll give him a pass!

[Lyricburglar]

How can you steal a lyric and not use what is clearly the runaway best line (in this instance 'I'm the Spiderman of the blues')? i am worried that Lyricburglar's standards are slipping lower than ever.

Damn right 'I'm the Spiderman of the blues' is the runaway best line - exactly why I left it alone. The two songs seemed to dovetail together nicely in the same sort of theme I was thinking about writing anyway - so I thought I'd save myself the effort. Jeff obviously though is heading a slightly different direction with the Spiderman stuff - thought it best not to detract from his song by trying to shoehorn it into mine.

[fluffy]

An honorable lyric thief?

[Aardwolves]

Everybody Calm Down

Everybody calm down, there's nothing to fear
This is just a minor snag we've hit, so why don't you listen here?
I know that you've all come tonight to see the spelling bee
But I know my strange appearance has become the sight to see

I apologise for the inconvenience and the state of my attire
But I suppose I should explain things - the events that have transpired
You may have noticed that I've sprouted fur though I was bald before
I now have claws and massive jaws and the tail's hard to ignore

But rest assured, I'm tame you know; my shots are up-to-date
The full moon thing's a minor flaw, a scheduling mistake
I'm still strictly vegetarian, so please stay in your seats
You're really not that appetizing... unless you've rolled in luncheon meats

Is anybody listening? I don't mean to be a bore
But it seems this small digression has you running for the door.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Love it Tiff, very aardwolfish.
Except one little flaw. You say you're a vegetarian, but then speaking to the people you say, "you're not very appetizing unless you've rolled in luncheon meats". Shouldn't it be sugar beats, or sauteed leeks?

[reve]

do you vote change? or reform?
who's populist bullshit are you voting for?
do you like b-rock? or do you heart mccain?
which candidate plainly titillates your taint?
do you despise those fascists on the right?
or do you deplore those commie whores? bores?
it's a false choice: reform or change
our options are more along the lines of like or the same.
(punk solo)
everybody calm down now, please relax
take a short step back and objectively examine the facts
they both want solar power and they they both want out of iraq.
they both want to be bipartisan uniters under balanced budgets, more programs and less tax
but true believers (!!) paint the others as others (!!)
but the others is me!!! and the others is you too!!! tgats why i vote:
OCTOTHORPE FOR PRESIDENT!!!
THE MIGHTY OCTOTHORPE FOR PRESIDENT!!!
(i'm r. mosquito and I endorse this message.)

[fluffy]

at the risk of a last-minute lyric burglary,

Sockpuppet - Everybody Calm Down
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Relax, calm yourself,
There's nothing to be afraid of
Relax, ease your mind
The giant monster's just in love

Nothing's gonna change
I know it might seem strange

Everything will be alright
Everything will be alright
Everything will be fine tonight
Everything is always fine tonight

Nothing's gonna change
Nothing is so strange

Relax, calm yourself
He isn't ever gonna hurt you
Relax, ease your mind
And if he does what could you do

Nothing's gonna change
The city's gonna rearrange
Nothing's gonna change
He's here on a monster exchange

Relax, calm yourself
There's nothing to be afraid of
Relax, calm yourself
And show the monster all of your love

[nyjm]

Originally posted in the lyric mart, but it turns out I have a free evening...

every body calm down
noah mclaughlin

there was panic attack in the back of my pack
with the cats in front coming out of the sack
and the dogs they were chasing were chasing their tails
in a vortex of fur i picked up my flail

and said sit, stay
calm the fuck down

so this chick from the north with a full set of lips
joined a codger on south with her sashaying hips
the crowds went wild with her vim and her grit
but her lies overshadowed her vacuous wit

she said what? no...
calm the fuck down

got a bomb got a scare got us living in fear
gotta bail out the banks that are failing this year
foreclose all the roads that head into town
this shit that we built we'll burn to the ground
there is more than a change on the foul-smelling wind
no more homes on the range no more parks for the kids
the keys to the car i have locked them inside
gotta walk gotta run find somewhere to hide

slow down now

and if you take your time
and you live your life
all those days gone by
are more than just a memory

if you breathe in fear
you turn a deaf ear
then year after year
you spread the disease to your own unease and nothing can please it's like living with fleas

all on your knees never heeding the pleas
they scream from the trees from the polluted seas
can you score me G this is so stressing me
i got too much to see before i can leave

hey!
calm the fuck down!

[Aardwolves]

Love it Tiff, very aardwolfish.
Except one little flaw. You say you're a vegetarian, but then speaking to the people you say, "you're not very appetizing unless you've rolled in luncheon meats". Shouldn't it be sugar beats, or sauteed leeks?

It was intentional. Werewolf humour, oy vey!
Thanks, though!

[Billy's Little Trip]

Love it Tiff, very aardwolfish.
Except one little flaw. You say you're a vegetarian, but then speaking to the people you say, "you're not very appetizing unless you've rolled in luncheon meats". Shouldn't it be sugar beats, or sauteed leeks?

It was intentional. Werewolf humour, oy vey!
Thanks, though!

You crazy Aardwolves, I can't believe you don't have your own sitcom yet. Cha! *laughing about luncheon meats and the fact that I'd like a sangwich right now*.
Not sure what the *star meant, cuz I'm not leet and shit.
....*hi*

>>>>>>*y0, look at me*....
...it's really just an Asterisk.

[Billy's Little Trip]

OK, I'm just freaking out, hello. Would you like to buy a trinket?

[j$]

Everybody Calm Down
By mister Johnny cashpoint

I’m no Leonard Cohen but the way that things are going I’d be
Most surprised if we survived one week based on this showing
I’m not pessimistic but we’ve got the world so twisted when I
Squat alone to wail and moan I’m being realistic
Even Nostradamus would stay home in his pyjamas soon as
He foresaw what lay in store, fates lining up to harm us
I’m no laughing Len, no, I’m more upbeat than Jay Leno, but not
Many smiles in single-file the way of the damned dodo

Everybody calm down as destruction rains down
Brought it down on ourselves - can’t blame anyone else
Everybody calm down

There’s no improvising round this doom of our devising, ‘cos the
Credit crunch had us for lunch food prices keep on rising,
Innuits are in for it, poles melting by the minute, the
Ozone layer was our first scare, the global warm continues it
Formula’s simplistic, even Bush himself ain’t missed it, add the
Resource drain plus climate change means we’re all getting fisted
Banks are on their last shout and the stock market’s been wiped out; if Earth
Needs a priest it means at least no Palin in the White House

[chorus]

Praying for so long but must have got my prayers wrong, ‘cos either
God’s an awkward sod or he’s just left his answer-phone on
Only a short distance to the end of our resistance, but no
Need for gloom - let’s get a room and fuck out of existence

[chorus]

[Billy's Little Trip]

Everybody Calm Down
By Billy's Little Trip

This space is way too small,
for all the people packed inside
The door is slammed shut,
the lever locks me in air tight

I need serenity now
I need serenity now
I need serenity now
Everybody calm down

I think I'm freaking out
I think I'm freaking out

I focus on the exits,
like a horny dog in heat
I try to settle down,
look out the window at thirty thousand feet

I need some Valium now
I need some Valium now
I need some Valium now
Everybody calm down

I think I'm freaking out
I think I'm freaking out

The girl right next to me,
looks like she's about to fucking queef
Hey miss, can you get this girl
an air sick bag, toot sweet?

I need a xany bar
I need a xany bar
I need a xany bar
Everybody calm down

I think I'm freaking out
I think I'm freaking out
I think I'm freaking out
I think I'm freaking out

[Spud]

Everybody Calm Down
by Octothorpe

I don't get it,
I just don't understand.
What are they doing,
Who is this band?
Why no production,
Where's the melody?
Is it rebellion,
Or mediocrity?

chorus: (Everbody!)
Calm down,
And find your inner ear.
Calm down,
And shortly you will hear.
Calm down,
Some things can't be explained.
Calm down,
And forget you have a brain!

Oh, that's much better,
I'm starting to relax.
I'm feeling groovy,
I'm chilling to the max.
It's not a problem,
To recognize what's here.
I think I get it,
It's all becoming clear.

(repeat chorus)

[alt]

(Because I'm unintelligible.)



Steven's prickly words will stick in your skin
Serifs attaching like burrs, discontent held within
He is so convinced of his opinions
It's a contrived attempt to appear brilliant

Jeremy won't take no for an answer, barking commands like an angry field marshal
A principled man, his home is his castle but his wife ran away and his kids think he's an asshole
He must not show weakness, come what may
He can only pretend he is really this way

When Rachel's upset, she tends to cry out - screaming injustice
You're always against her, preventing her from something
But her complaining comes from a time in her life that only she remembers
And continues til she finally closes her eyes

I don't know whether you've noticed
Maybe no-one told you
The consequence of aggravation
Is simply propagation of society's misery
So is it worth the pain
to get your own way?
Shouldn't you refrain
from negativity?

Have you ever heard anyone complain that there's too much love in the world?
I didn't think so, I didn't think so
So calm down, everybody calm down
Everybody calm down