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Why Can't We Be Friends Lyrics
Chorus:
Why can't we be friends? (x4)
I seen ya
I seen ya
I seen ya 'round for a long, long time
I really
I really
I really remember when you drank my wine
Chorus
I seen ya
I seen ya
I seen ya walkin' down to China Town
I called ya
I called ya
I called ya, but you did not look around
Yeah, yeah
I paid my
I paid my
I paid my money to the welfare line
I seen ya
I seen ya
I seen ya standin' in it every time
Chorus
The color
The color
The color of your skin don't matter to me
As long as
As long as
As long as we can live in harmony
Yeah, yeah
I'd kinda
I'd kinda
I'd kinda like to be the president
Then I could
Then I could
Then I could show you how your money's spent
Chorus
Sometimes I don't speak right
But did I know what I was talkin' about?
I know you're workin' for the C.I.A.
They wouldn't have you in the Maf-i-a
Chorus
Why can't we be friends? (x4)
I seen ya
I seen ya 'round for a long, long time
I really
I really
I really remember when you drank my wine
I seen ya
I seen ya walkin' down to China Town
I called ya
I called ya
I called ya, but you did not look around
Yeah, yeah
I paid my
I paid my
I paid my money to the welfare line
I seen ya
I seen ya
I seen ya standin' in it every time
The color
The color of your skin don't matter to me
As long as
As long as
As long as we can live in harmony
Yeah, yeah
I'd kinda
I'd kinda
I'd kinda like to be the president
Then I could
Then I could
Then I could show you how your money's spent
But did I know what I was talkin' about?
I know you're workin' for the C.I.A.
They wouldn't have you in the Maf-i-a
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Why can't we be friends...???
maybe... hmm... why can't we be friends?
maybe she is a trained assassin out to get whoevers singing. or even the other way round. whoevers singing is on a mission to kill this person but theyve fallen in love and he dont wanna kill her any more but has to
i reckon its something to do with the CIA bit, but maybe thats just because ive just been reading Scorpia and Ark Angel
ive only ever heard the reel big fish cover of this but i dont think its no different :s this song is cool!
this is War's song, but why aren't they even on this site? c'mon.
i think the song's about racism. some about white people at the same social level as the blacks singing it. they are almost the same, but the whites think they're better for some reason.
also you can be racist in the cia but not the mafia. and both are corrupt.
blacks and whites have been together for a long long time. beginning of time or something.
it's a stretch but with the wine thing maybe they're saying that jesus was black and there were whites following him and drinking his miraculous wine.
I think it has something to do with a couple, who were serioulsy in love, then, they broke up, and the guy still likes her. or something along inbetweenmolecules words.
Not their best work...
hehe me and my band played this at our school leavers gig. all the emos and jocks started hugging each other i loved it!
To be fair, this song mostly concerns itself with the topic of beef, and beef in society. There are many stigma and social taboos attached to beef, but mostly it just says that beef is rad and a brother. Also, what the fuck is Smash Mouth? How is it relevant to bovine meat?
I think the song about two people (both men), who run into each other very often in different kinds of situations, but despite that they still didn't become friends and (maybe) didn't even talk to each other.