Scorpions lyrics
Why? Because I find them amusing, and I need no other reason. (Well, and Mark sang these lyrics last Saturday at the Littlefox--how did he say them with a straight face?):
"You stand in front of the band
with all those scarves in your hands;
I see you play imaginary guitars.
You people shaking your heads
right till the end of the set,
You really turn me on
wherever we are.
Can't live, can't live without you.
Put your hands in the air
So I can see you are there;
I want to see all your lights shining on.
Want you to stand up and dance,
Gonna leave you no chance,
To take a breath between each single song.
Can't live, can't live without you.
Stand up and shout,
we're ready to rock,
we're ready to roll.
Stand up and shout,
Are you ready?
Are you ready?"
"You stand in front of the band
with all those scarves in your hands;
I see you play imaginary guitars.
You people shaking your heads
right till the end of the set,
You really turn me on
wherever we are.
Can't live, can't live without you.
Put your hands in the air
So I can see you are there;
I want to see all your lights shining on.
Want you to stand up and dance,
Gonna leave you no chance,
To take a breath between each single song.
Can't live, can't live without you.
Stand up and shout,
we're ready to rock,
we're ready to roll.
Stand up and shout,
Are you ready?
Are you ready?"
posted by Sarah Goss at 11:03 AM
20 Comments:
Hmmmm ... Remember *this* catchy lyric?
Tell me how you feel.
Tell me that you're really real.
Why must you make a big deal
Over how I cook a meal?
We shoulda kept plugging away at it! We'd be stars. :o)
In our defense, were we doing that thing where we went back and forth, with each one of us adding a word??
In the Scorpions' defense, I don't think they are native English speakers. We don't quite have that excuse on our side.
Well, we had more glorious lyrics, including a song we wrote as young girls in praise of marijuana, LSD, and heroin. My mother was amused, but I can't remember if yours was...?
The Scorpions are German, so no, English isn't their first language.
On the plus side for them, they were incredibly popular in my high school German textbooks:
1. Was machst du am heute abend?
2. Ich gehe aus die Scorpions Koncert.
1. Wie schon! Ich finde die Scorpions ja gern! Sie ist meine lieblingsband.
I'm really not kidding about that being one of our exercises when we were learning about "hobbies and interests." In the book the Scorpions and Falco were everybody's "lieblingsband" (favorite band)
True, we did create that gem one word at a time. And we were still young artists, only just beginning to blossom. All things considered, it was brilliant.
Yes, we later penned the LSD song, and it was definitely a high point in our One-Word-at-a-Time career. I seriously doubt I even attempted to share those lyrics with my mother. She had not developed as ... keen an appreciation as your mom had for our musical talents.
OMG, I love that, Beth! Weren't the Scorpions kind of a dated example at that point? Or, maybe not...are we that old? :-)
Jenny, do you remember our masterpiece to which the chorus went, "I vibrate under heated pools"?
Why do I ask? Of course you do!
Of course! Another tour de force!
No, it was very dated even lo those many years ago. I think our books were published in the late 70's (maybe early 80's) and we were reading that exchange in the early 90's.
Those lyrics are a thousand times more amusing when sung by the very enthusiastic Klaus Meine on their live album- I think it's called "World Wide Live". Gotta love them Scorps.
Whew! That's what I thought...thanks, Beth!
Cousin Rache!! I just read your comment to Mark. He highly approves of your amazing hard rock knowledge. You kick my ASS in this department!
I actually used to have a vinyl copy of World Wide Live--came with a load of other records a friend was giving away out of the trunk of his car one day, and I just took 'em all. The cover is really an accomplishment in the annals of cheeze. This all reminds me of when some friends and I were first discovering the fun-potential of web-based language-translating software--one guy fed the lyrics to "Rock You Like a Hurricane" into one of the programs and translated it into Japanese and then translated the results back into English. I wish I'd kept what came out 'cause it was hysterical, but I can tell you that the title became "Rocks You Like Hurricanes"--actually very close, but just off enough to be amusing...
BTW, "I vibrate under heated pools" could easily be passed off as a Robyn Hitchcock line.
Rocks you like hurricanes! Isn't it amazing how even the *smallest* variations can produce hilarity? I could never explain why that's so funny, but it is.
If you remember the name of that translation program, please refresh my memory...Jenny and I have been dying to try it again. (Isn't there one called Tower of Babble, or something?)
I just can't allow there to be 13 comments. There need to be 14. It's simply too near my due date to be taking any chances with ridiculous superstitions.
Babelfish was the most popular web translator, but I don't remember if that's the one we were using...or if it's still around, for that matter.
OK, looks like there are any number of services going by Babelfish these days, many of which are less open-access than the one I remember, but you can still go and use the one at http://babelfish.altavista.com/ easily. Here are new English-Italian-English results for our Scorpions opus...
Cliff the sun appreciate a hurricane
Is morning in advance payment comes towards an outside
the past night was churning and enough strongly
my cat purring and scratches my skin therefore that
what is wrong with an other sin
that the female is starved
she must say to so as to gives the inches to it
and the sink feeds it more
days in order to come
new places to go
I have.got to leave
it is time for an exposure is
Here, oscillates them
appreciate a hurricane
here that they are,
oscillates them
appreciate a hurricane
my body is burning
it begins to scream
desire is coming
it bursts strongly
lust is in just cages
finchè loosens you of the breaches of the storm must make them
with that it chooses
the night is calling
I must go
the lupo is hungry
functions to the exposure is leccando
its labbri is waits for in order to win this evening
on trying for love to the first one sting is
Here, I oscillate them
I appreciate a hurricane
here that they are,
I oscillate them
I appreciate a hurricane
here are,
I oscillate them
I appreciate a hurricane
here are,
I oscillate them
I appreciate a hurricane
As I recall, "Jumpin' Jack Flash" got some funny results as well...
OK--just because, here are English-German-English results for the song that started this whole thing off...
They stand for that scarves before the volume with all in your hands;
I see you to play conceited Guitarren.
They bevoelkeren your heads to the end of the sentence,
you to the right shake really put on me, where we are.
Cannot live, cannot live without you.
Insert your hands into air,
therefore I can see that you are there;
I would like to see all your lights to shine on.
Wish you stand above and dance and go
leaving to you no probability to take a breath between each individual song.
Cannot live, cannot live without you.
Stand above and cry you,
we are ready for swings,
we are ready to roll.
Above and, are are available you cry?
Are you ready?
THANK YOU, MICHAEL!! These are brilliant!
I just did an English-to-Chinese-back-to-English translation of the first set of Scorpions lyrics:
You stand in front of the belt with possess these scarves in yours hand;
I see the guitar which you shoots fictionalizes.
You occupy to swinging your head until the set, your terminal truly causes me to be frantic regardless of where we are.
Does not live, cannot not live you.
Invests your hand in the air therefore I can look at you in there;
I want to look possesses your light to shine. Want you to stand up and dances, the remove or retain for you the opportunity, adopts the breath between each only song.
Does not live, cannot not live you.
Stands up and shouts, we prepare to rock, we prepare to roll.
Stands up and shouts, you prepare? You prepare?
YES! Yes, I prepare! GOD, yes!
Yes, it's often the simple things in life that bring the most pleasure. One of the most important things I learned by going to college in a small, small town and not owning a car is the value of cheap, creative ways of entertaining myself. ;)
I not prepare! For what is coming...oh, God, I not prepare!
:-(
I am far too cognitive to be prepare. I just keep reading over all my notes instead of practicing my pelvic rocking. Once a disembodied brain in a jar, always a disembodied brain in a jar...apparently.
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