"Marching Band Happens to Me"
[Everything Happens to me - Tom Adair]
We march into the sun and then we march back out again,
We'll feel so happy if this long parade will finally end.
The temperature extremes shall cause our wits to finally bend,
Marching Band happens to me.

As we walk in the band room everybody here would like,
to have the chance to laugh at him about his motor bike.
He'll give us a weird look and then compare us to a tyke,
Marching Band happens to me!

TC and his dooht-do-do stand in the shade,
Out of the sun he is feeling swell.
While we have the occasional Gatorade,
If we make him mad he starts to yell!

"I said you need to be in shape,
you wouldn't breath so hard.
You could of gone out and marched around in your back yard."
We know he's right so we glare back at him extremely hard,
Marching Band happens to me!


"Overall"
[Turn the Page - Metallica]
Was a long and grueling season,
workin' night and day,
Sold my soul to music
now the devil makes me pay.
I watch the truck be loaded,
The drums are dragged across the floor.

At the show you see me wandrin'
Like I always do.
When I watch the other marchers
I wish they would be through.
I don't seem like I'm listnen', but I watch their every move.

Overall, some are pretty good.
Overall, others just can't play.
There they go, on the field again.
Watch them go, play again!

Football players on the field,
workin' for their fame.
Gridiron around me,
I'm feeling like a slave.
You think it doesn't bother me, but its drivin' me insane!

As I'm taking off my uniform
thinkin' 'bout the game.
Only one or two performances
before that fateful day.
I was hoping we'd do better, last year wasn't too great.

Driving down, down to Framingham.
Driving down, looks like it's today.
What is it now, bus is slowing down.
Here we are, Finals Day!
ho, oh

Yeah, I guess I'm nervous
still think that some can't play,
Every eye upon us,
watchin' us in every way
Drum major puts her arms up,
it's our turn in the rain!

As we're lining up out on the field
our drill is past and done.
Then that voice, it cuts right through the air.
It makes my heart rate run.
As we listen to our scores I feel just like a setting sun.

Overall, got two stars again.
Overall, can't control my rage.
Overall, guess that's it for us.
Overall, try again!
Overall, try again!


"Take this Band and Shove it"
Dedicated to the survivors of Band Camp 2003
[Take this Job and Shove it - Johnny Paycheck]
Take this Band and shove it,
I ain't marchin' anymore!
My mind done left, and took all the reasons
I was playin' for.

Better not try to stand in my way
As I'm walkin out that door.
You can take this Band and shove it,
I ain't playin' here no more.

I been workin' in this Band
Now on 'bout three years.
All this time I watched my life,
Drownin' in grass and tears.

I've seen a lot o' people faint,
My blisters need to go away.
I'd strip the lacquer off my sax,
If I had the guts to say.

Take this Band and shove it,
I ain't marchin' anymore!
My mind done left, and took all the reasons
I was playin' for.

Better not try to stand in my way
As I'm walkin out that door.
You can take this Band and shove it,
I ain't playin' here no more.

Our drill is a regular dump.
I'm sweating, wet as a pool.
TC's got a shaved-off moustache,
Boy, he thinks he's cool.

One of these days I'm gonna blow my top.
That sucker, he's gonna pay.
I can't wait to get the nerve,
to walk up to him and say.

Take this Band and shove it,
I ain't marchin' anymore!
My mind done left, and took all the reasons
I was playin' for.
Better not try to stand in my way
As I'm walkin out that door.
You can take this Band and shove it,
I ain't playin' here no more.

Take this Band and shove it!


"This is Marching Band"
[Iron Man - Black Sabbath]
This is Satan's Band!

I am Marching Band.
I'll squish you until you fit in a can!
When the night is new,
Tony's missing mustache comes after you!

He writes his own drill.
Kids like us he's out to kill!
We are not alone.
That's why we are all Band Drones!

Getting home at Midnight.
We will never
Get any sleep it is time to go back again
This is a horror will it ever end my friend?

Why are we playing so loud?
The reason is simple it
Is because Courounis has no more facial hair.
It would absorb all the sound we could hide in there!
Marching Band is here and you can't escape.
When you leave by then it will be too late.

Death to all whom dare chance to enter here.
Why can not we please just go home?

Why spend Saturday
Working on a drill we hate anyway?
We are trying to mend
A crazy show that doesn't end.

Pete has his own reign.
Those clicking sticks drive me insane.
Basics everyone.
Evil demons are never done.

Courounis is coming, and
You can't get away.
When Band comes
You'll never see, another free day.

It shall be the end of free life!

We are thirsty can we take a water break?
Get back on the field now.

We are tired can we go swim in the lake?
Get your selves back to work.

It is getting late can we go home and sleep?
You will stay here and play.

My chops are getting sore can I take a break?

Let us stop!
One more time!
We are done!
One more time!
This is good!
One more time!
Band is mine!


Don't Worry. I'm not THAT much of a band geek. *cough* *shifty-eyes*