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Rove Gate as a Rock Opera

By Jeralyn, Section Off Topic
Posted on Mon Jul 18, 2005 at 06:04:57 AM EST
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Just for fun...forget the made-for-tv movie, I see a rock opera in this. A possible working title (subject to change as events unfold or better suggestions from readers): "Scooter, Can You Hear Me?"

For those of you on summer vacation, or just needing a creative outlet, we need music for the opera, so here's a place for appropriate lyrics. My first suggestion (from this post yesterday): REM's Losing My Religion:

"I've said too much,
I haven't said enough,
...I've said too much,
I set it up"

Your turn.

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    Rove Gate as a Rock Opera | 6 comments (6 topical)
    Re: Rove Gate as a Rock Opera (none / 0) (#1)
    by Quaker in a Basement on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:20 PM EST
    Old Beatle tune: Listen (ooh wah ooh) Do you want to know a secret? (ooh wah ooh) Do you promise not to tell? Ohh ooo ohhh oohh

    Re: Rove Gate as a Rock Opera (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:21 PM EST
    "I Am The Owl" (Dead Kennedys) I am your plumber No, I never went away I still bug your bedrooms And pick up everything you say It can be a boring job To monitor all day your excess talk I hear when you're drinking And cheating on your lonely wife I play tape recording Of you to my friends at night We've got a girl in bed with you You're on candid camera, we just un-elected you I am the owl I seek out the fool Wipe 'em away Keep America free For clean livin' folks like me If you demonstrate Against somebody we like I'll slip on my wig And see it I can start a riot Transform you to an angry mob And all your leaders go to jail for my job But we ain't the Russians Political trials are taboo We've got our secret Ways of getting rid of you Fill you full of LSD And turn you loose on the freeway I am the owl I seek out the fool Wipe 'em away Keep America free For clean livin' folks like me Send you spinning Send you spinning Send you spinning all over the freeway Spinning on the crowded freeway Spinning on the freeway The press, they never even cared Why a younth leader walked into a speeding car In ten years or so we'll leak the truth But by then it's only so much paper You know, Watergate hurt But nothing really ever changed A teeny bit quieter But we still play our little games We still play our little games But we still play our little games I am the owl I seek out the fool Wipe 'em away Keep America free For me

    Re: Rove Gate as a Rock Opera (none / 0) (#3)
    by The Heretik on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:21 PM EST
    Did somebody say Opera? Opera needs lot of high notes and this one has so many low notes. But to stay in that Beatles mode: I'm A Loser, Help, and of course: Hey You've Got to Hide Your Rove Away

    Re: Rove Gate as a Rock Opera (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:21 PM EST
    It all starts in Texas... Act 1 Scene 1 The first time they meet: Bushie wearing his leather bombardier jacket..... Rove sees him and bursts into song: (with apologies to the late Texan Stevie Ray Vaughan and "Pride And Joy") "Well, I love my bushie all long and lean ya mess with him ya see a man get mean (chorus) He's a sweet little thang He's my pride and joy He's my sweet little bushie I'm his little leaker boy" Other's worth mentioning: Aerosmith: Dude Looks like a Leaker Beatles: You Never Give Me Your Money (You Only Give Me Your Funny Papers) Scene: Judith's room on a hot July night in DC meeting between Miller and her source music: "One Way Out" by the Allman Brothers Scene: Judith Miller prior to her sentencing to the Alexandria Detention Facility... Santana "You've Got To Change Your Evil Ways" Scene: Rove, Libby and Others to be named on the phone with the media they leak to: playing in the background... Steppenwolf's "The Pusher" ... or Chris Issaks "Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing" and, of course, somewhere needs to be the Mission Impossible theme and the Peter Gunn theme Suzanne

    Re: Rove Gate as a Rock Opera (none / 0) (#6)
    by Dadler on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:21 PM EST
    And for the younger kids: Rove Rove Rove your boat Through the poop and pee Muckily Muckily Muckily Muckily Jail's not a dream. (egad that's bad.)

    Re: Rove Gate as a Rock Opera (none / 0) (#7)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:22 PM EST
    And so they sent you to Afghanistan Too bad you're workin for their Master Plan I think that maybe for the CIA And when you're through they're gonna put you away They're gonna put you in an institution And put a wire up into your brain Because you know about the revolution That kinda thing can drive a boy insane, Better talk to the Lawyer Professional liar! David Lyndley From "Win This Record!"

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