Carly Simon: Report to Damage Control! STAT!!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

You’ve No Brian (To the tune of You’re So Vain – Carly Simon)

Well you loped into the U.N.
Like it was kegger time back at Yale
Then you proceeded to try and tell the world
It’s all their fault that you fail

It’s the time for selling terror cuz
Election time draws nigh
Your rubber stamp boys
Won’t be running congress, be running congress

You’ve no brain, I bet you don’t know this song’s about you
You’ve no brain, I bet you don’t know this song’s about you

As Iraq unravels you still crow
About it’s necessity
When the car bombs explode, you have Condi claim
They’re the birth pangs of liberty

Well you lost a world that once believed
And one of them was me
I hear them scream at the hands of the Blackhawk
Hands of the Blackhawk

You’re insane, that’s prolly all we need know about you
You’re insane, that’s prolly all we need know about you

Well you speak as if you’ve donned Ceasar’s toga
It’s your will that must be done
But the aftermath you’ve left’s been so atrocious
That now a total collapse has begun

Once again you’re saber rattling
You’re forging a new myth
Let’s hope the world sees through your lies and deceptions
Lies and deceptions

War and pain, your legacy speaks volumes about you
War and pain, your legacy speaks volumes about you


(Repeat each chorus once, then fade out)

[Sydnie]

1. Love it!

Great job! :)

[IChing]

2. Really, quite good

I can almost hear her voice doing it.
good work.

[Berry Cool]

5. Just watch out for those transpositions.

For a second there I thought "He's no Brian Who?"

[QuestionAll...]

3. ha! good stuff! nt

[MasonJar]

4. Keep it up. Carly

[Lars39]

6. hehe. Excellent,SCE !

"You’re insane, that’s prolly all we need know about you" :D

[acmejack]

7. Stick with me Kid, I'll make you a Star!

Or at least a minor Planet...

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

8. Who's Brian?

And you just made a parody with what I consider to be my absolutely most hated song of all time, with exception to maybe, just maybe, I love the nightlife...

[SalmonChantedEvening]

9. I'm happy with the silver medal

In fact I'm so proud of it, the first thing I'm gonna do is get it bronzed.

:hide:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

15. Good grief I just noticed that.

Mind is in park again :eyes:

[liberalhistorian]

19. My mother loved the name Brian and wanted

me to give that name to my son. I love it, too, but I'd seen it turned into "brain" and vice versa way too many times and didn't want him to have to deal with that! :evilgrin:

[acmejack]

10. Always wanted to know who she wrote it about?

Any ideas? Lots of speculation...

[SalmonChantedEvening]

11. I had heard some of it might have been Warren Beatty

Urban myth? Never looked it up, now I'm gonna have to :)

[Swamp Rat]

12. Her former lover

Mick Jagger

:kick:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

13. Your Swampness!!

How's by you Holmes?

:pals: :bounce: :yourock: as always :)

[Swamp Rat]

14. Way'at brah!

:hi:



:D

[Sugarcoated]

20. I don't think it's about Jagger

but he does sing backup on it. You can hear him pretty clearly on the chorus, 'don't you, don't choo, don't choo . . . '.

It's probably about Warren Beatty, but the lead singer of Cheap Trick, Robin Zander actually said in an interview that the song was about him, LOL

[Swamp Rat]

22. Maybe it's about Dumbya?

Carly is a prophet! :D

[ralps]

16. LOL Good one SalmonChantedEvening!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[BigBearJohn]

17. I love it! GREAT! Kicked and Recommended

[Freedom_from_Chains]

18. Great stuff, thanks for posting

:hi:

[Sugarcoated]

21. Very kewl

I love it!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

24. Well thankya neighbor!!

A fellow Phillyburbian! :hi: :bounce:

Greetings from the home of U.S. Olympian Kim Gallagher ;)

[fooj]

23. You rock!

So does Carly. B-)

[Generic Other]

25. Your version so much better than the original

I really hate that song! LOL.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

26. I love it, just cuz of Mick's harmony

It came on the truck radio this morning and I couldn't decide which version to sing, so I kept switching until his part came on to sing.

Those poor other drivers in traffic. What horrid sounds they had to endure. :rofl: