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Oregon Lyrics
Oregon is bad
Stop it if you can
Here it comes
Here it comes
Now it's after you
Flee to some place new
Run away
Run away
From the penthouse
To the prison
To the humble pied-�-terre
Are they taking up the cry?
In the brothel
In the castle
On the crowded boulevard
Do they sing the dreadful words?
Oregon is bad
Stop it if you can
Here it comes
Here it comes
Oregon is bad
Stop it if you can
Run away
Run away
Stop it if you can
Here it comes
Here it comes
Now it's after you
Flee to some place new
Run away
Run away
To the prison
To the humble pied-�-terre
Are they taking up the cry?
In the castle
On the crowded boulevard
Do they sing the dreadful words?
Stop it if you can
Here it comes
Here it comes
Stop it if you can
Run away
Run away
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I think this is my favorite song on the record.
Why?
Hmm. Let me think.
I think it's the absurdity of the lyric, combined with the stepwise choral voice-leading of the accompaniment.
It lends a kind of gravitas to the message of the lyric.
Of course, this collides interestingly with ideas one already has about Oregon.
What do we think? Progressive state laws (euthanasia, marijuana), Rajneesh, Ken Kesey/Pranksters/Cuckoo's Nest, Pacific Northwest weather pattens, apples, a state sort of "in the middle"; somehow strangely lost and forgotten between Washington State and California.
Oh yeah: And IT'S BAD! RUN AWAY!