Saturday, February 06, 2010

Rewriting The Rewrite

At Fraters, I posted about how Cheap Trick changed their song, "Dream Police," to "Green Police" in order to make an Audi commercial for the Super Bowl:

Cheap Trick took the lazy way out when re-recording their hit. They changed the name of the song to "Green Police," and merely changed the word "Dream" to "Green" throughout the song, leaving all other lyrics intact.

Since we have extensive experience re-writing songs for parody purposes here, I thought I'd help Cheap Trick out with a more appropriate (and less lazy) rewrite:

The green police watch you wherever you are.
The green police, they want you out of your car.
The green police, they're coming to arrest you, oh no.

You know that talk is cheap, unless you are Al Gore.
And when gub-mint says no, it means you get no more, oil, oil.

'Cause they're watching for you.
Taxing what you do.
Ev'ry single night they'll drive you quite insane.
Those carbon counting pains.

The green police watch you wherever you are.
(watch you wherever you are.)
The green police, they want you out of your car.
(want you out of your car.)
The green police, they're coming to arrest you, oh no.

Well, you can not drive, 'cause they're watching you.
And they won't let you turn the heat up, wear a sweater you fool, fool.

'Cause they're watching for you.
Taxing what you do.
Ev'ry single night they're drive you quite insane.
Those carbon counting pains.

You want to drive, they say car pool, how dare you go alone.
They tell you take a "staycation", how dare you leave your home.
They spy on you, don't try to hide, they won't let you alone.
They'll persecute you, they're the judge and jury all in one.

'Cause they're watching for you.
Taxing what you do.
Ev'ry single night they'll drive you quite insane.
Those carbon counting pains.

The green police watch you wherever you are.
The green police, they want you out of your car.
The green police, they're coming to arrest you, oh no.

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