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Fri 28 Jul, 2006 06:27 am
I am look for help with a moving pictures song. I just can't find it anywhere, some of the lyrics are:
"Man builds/gets? a gun, man goes to war"
There is also a lot of oh-oh-oh-oh-oh in the song.
Thanks in advance,
Kate
It actually sounds a lot like Joe Jackson's 'Real Men'
See the last verse for the lyric you mention...
Take your mind back - I don't know when
Sometime when it always seemed
To be just us and them
Girls that wore pink
And boys that wore blue
Boys that always grew up better men
Than me and you
What's a man now - what's a man mean
Is he rough or is he rugged
Is he cultural and clean
Now it's all change - it's got to change more
'cause we think it's getting better
But nobody's really sure
And so it goes - go round again
But now and then we wonder who the real men are
See the nice boys - dancing in pairs
Golden earring golden tan
Blow-wave in the hair
Sure they're all straight - straight as a line
All the gays are macho
Can't you see their leather shine
You don't want to sound dumb - don't want to offend
So don't call me a faggot
Not unless you are a friend
Then if you're tall and handsome and strong
You can wear the uniform and I could play along
And so it goes - go round again
But now and then we wonder who the real men are
Time to get scared - time to change plan
Don't know how to treat a lady
Don't know how to be a man
Time to admit - what you call defeat
'cause there's women running past you now
And you just drag your feet
Man makes a gun - man goes to war
Man can kill and man can drink
And man can take a whore
Kill all the blacks - kill all the reds
And if there's war between the sexes
Then there'll be no people left
And so it goes - go round again
But now and then we wonder who the real men are
More clues! Man? Woman? Duet? etc. Anything you can remember will help.
Moving Pictures has it's own page on artistdirect, you know. You can look at a couple albums and maybe you'll find the song that way.
OCCOM BILL wrote:More clues! Man? Woman? Duet? etc. Anything you can remember will help.
Moving Pictures was an Aussie band that had their big times in the early eighties.
Quote:Moving Pictures was a rock music band formed in Sydney, Australia in the early 1980s.
The group was comprised of Alex Smith (vocals), Garry Frost (guitar), Andrew Thompson (saxophone), Charlie Cole (keyboards), Ian Lees (bass) and Paul Freeland (drums).
The band had several hit singles and albums in their native Australia, including the single "What About Me", which remained at number one for two months in 1982. Its success led them to America where it also became a hit, reaching #29 on the Billboard singles chart. In fact, "What About Me" stayed in the Hot 100 for such a long time that it managed to make Billboard's year-end Hot 100 list for 1983, at #88 [1] - a rare feat for a single with such a low peak position.
They contributed one song, "Never", to the Footloose movie soundtrack but were unable to capitalize on their initial success. They returned to Australia, and achieved a few minor hits, but their career quickly faded.
"What About Me" returned to the top of the Australian music charts in early 2004, as a virtually identical cover version by Australian Idol runner up Shannon Noll.
Didn't realize that was the name of the group.
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