May 24th, 2006
Lyricist Wednesday: 88 Seconds In Greensboro
Artist: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Song: 88 Seconds In Greensboro
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88 Seconds
Is all it takes
88 Seconds
Don’t make mistakes
We’ve seen you
We can see you
In red and blue
In black and white
Under crystal skies
In full daylight
You know it
God you know it
88 seconds
Is all it takes
In 88 seconds
We don’t make mistakes
We know you
Oh, yes we have known you
Times are changing
But not in our street
Once we played there
Like the good times
You know it
God, you know it
They’re heading for
a shallow grave
With a big black cross
by a tall white house
to a place down south
We won’t forget
To be stabbed in the back
by a man they met
In 88 seconds
In Greensboro
In 88 seconds
In Greensboro
88 seconds
In Greensboro
is all we take
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The song won’t play for me. The link loads an embedded windows media player (Firefox and IE), but the file appears to be missing. “Play” never becomes an option.
You got to keep in mind this song plays like an 80’s pop song. It’s weird, you want to get up and dance and bob your head up and down like you are feeling an Oingo Boingo Tune, then you hear the lyrics and you sit your ass down and cry.
Tried it in a stand alone player: “No data available for this resource.”
This sample worked for me:
There was a band in Greensboro in the ’80s called the Othermothers that had a song with the same title. It was a lot faster. In fact, almost all their stuff was fast and angsty. Great live shows, too.
it was a weird tune…
i’ll see if i can fix the filethanks, roch. i replaced the song link with your file.Check out Deaconlight.com and NC Music History blog for more on The Othermothers version of “88 seconds in Greensboro”