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Barenaked Ladies - It's All Been Done

Barenaked Ladies - It's All Been Done Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Stunt
Released: 1998

It's All Been Done Lyrics

I met you before the fall of Rome
And I begged you to let me take you home
You were wrong, I was right
You said goodbye, I said goodnight

It's All Been Done
It's all been done
It's all been done before

I knew you before the west was won
And I heard you say the past
Was much more fun
You go your way, I go mine
But I'll see you next time

It's all been done
It's all been done
It's all been done before

If I put my fingers here, and if I say
"I love you, dear"
And if I play the same three chords,
Will you just yawn and say

It's all been done
It's all been done
It's all been done before

Alone and bored on a thirtieth-century night
Will I see you on The Price Is Right?
Will I cry? Will I smile?
As you run down the aisle?

It's all been done
It's all been done
It's all been done before

It's all been done
It's all been done
It's all been done before

It's all been done
It's all been done
It's all been done before

Writer/s: PAGE, STEVEN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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It's All Been Done

This song appears to follow the stages of a relationship.

We start from when the couple initially meet:
"I met you, before the fall of Rome and I bet you to let me take you home."

The next verse is a date that didn't go so well:
"I knew you before the west was won. I heard you say, 'the past was much more fun.'"

Though he knows that they we get together again:
"You go your way, I'll go mine but I'll see you next time."

The couple then go on to make love, though she is bored:
"If I put my fingers here and If I say I love you dear and if I play the same three chords will you just yawn And say, 'Ah, I hate it.'"

They then split up, and he wonders if he'll ever see her again:
"Alone and bored on a thirtieth century night will I see you on The Price is Right?"

He also considers what he will do when she finds somebody else:
"Will I cry, will I smile as you run, down the aisle?"
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Suggestion credit:
Rich - London, England

Steven Page wrote this song and sang lead.

This was used as the theme song for the short-lived animated TV series Baby Blues.

Barenaked Ladies - Enid

Barenaked Ladies - Enid Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Gordon
Released: 1992

Enid Lyrics

Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Enid we never really knew each other anyway.

It took me a year to believe it was over,
And it took me two more to get over the loss.
I took a beating when you wrote me those letters,
And every time I remembered the taste of your lip gloss.

Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Maybe we always saw right through each other anyway,
But Enid we never really knew each other anyway.

There were times when I wanted to hurt you,
And there were times when I know that I did.
There were times when I thought I would kill you,
But can you blame me I was only a kid.

Tell me why we never respected each other.
And tell me why I never believed that you were a person too.
I always thought that you fancied my brother.
I may not have liked it, oh but memory is a strange thing, oh, and Enid?
Enid I remember you.

Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Maybe we always saw right through each other anyway,
But Enid we never really knew each other anyway.

It took me a year to believe it was over,
And it took me two more to get over the loss.
I took a beating when I wrote you those letters,
And every time you told me to get lost.

Now it's not fair to say that it's
Cause I was three inches shorter then,
And it's not fair to say that it's 'cause
I was only fifteen years old.
But maybe it's fair to say it was a lack of communication,
I took a phone message, oh and speaking of communication,
Oh, and Enid,
Enid you got a cold.

I can get a job I can pay the phone bills
I can cut the lawn, cut my hair, cut out my cholesterol
I can work overtime I can work in a mine
I can do it all for you,
But I don't want to.

Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Enid we never really knew each other anyway.
Maybe we always saw right through each other anyway,
But Enid we really never knew each other anyway

I can teach you how to dance, how to sing, how to knit,
How to make things that you never ever made before
Enid, I can teach you how to use cookie cutters
To make crazy things out of Play-Doh.

Little houses, little farms, little accessories for your mom,
For your Barbie set, for your friends and your family
Enid, I can teach you how to snowmobile, cross-country ski, snowshoe,
But I don't want to!

Enid we never really knew each other anyway
Enid we never really knew each other anyway
Maybe we always saw right through each other anyway
But Enid we really never knew each other anyway

I took you dancing, paid for your night school.

Writer/s: PAGE, STEVEN / ROBERTSON, ED
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Enid

The band got the title when they were eating in a diner. They found it amusing that they were being served by a waitress named Enid, which is "dine" backwards.

A track from the band's first album, "Enid" was written by Steven Page and Ed Robertson , with Page singing lead. The song is about a guy who is desperately trying to get back together with Enid, his ex-girlfriend. We learn that he was 15 when they split, and now it's a few years later and he's still nowhere near over her. Typical of Barenaked ladies, there is plenty of humor in the song, as this guy's passion is tempered with laziness. He thinks of all the things he can do to get her back (cut his hair, work overtime), but decides it's too much work ("I can do it all for you, but I don't want to).

This is one of the few Barenaked Ladies songs with a horn section, which is credited as "The Jimmy Crack Horns" (they made up goofy names for outside musicians who performed on their tracks). When the band performed the song live, they would sing the horn parts.

An Ontario musician named Lewis Melville played the pedal steel guitar on this track. Melville also appears on recordings by another Canadian band, the Rheostatics.

Barenaked Ladies - Leave

Barenaked Ladies - Leave Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Stunt
Released: 1998

Leave Lyrics

I've informed you to Leave
'Cause I can't afford to lose more sleep
I get ill when I get tired
So I'll try to rest if you'll stand guard

[Chorus]
Do do do do do do do do whoa
Do do do do do do do

I've informed you to leave
'Cause I can't stand to hear you breathe
I chew up and I choke down
The scraps you choose to leave around

[Chorus]

Apparitions still won't leave me alone
It's as if you never left
How am I supposed to remember you
When you won't let me forget?

I've informed you to leave
'Cause I can't afford to lose more sleep
There's your shoes, and there's the door
Please don't come here anymore

[Chorus]

Writer/s: PAGE, STEVEN / ROBERTSON, ED
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Leave

Ed Robertson wrote this song for his brother, Doug, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1993. Ed dreamed about him a lot, hence the lyrics: "Apparitions still won't leave me alone. It's as if you've never left. How am I supposed to remember you, when you won't let me forget?"

Barenaked Ladies - One Week

Barenaked Ladies - One Week Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Stunt
Released: 1998

One Week Lyrics

It's been One Week since you looked at me
Cocked your head to the side
and said I'm angry
Five days since you laughed at me saying
Get that together come back and see me
Three days since the living room,
I realized it's all my fault, but couldn't tell you
Yesterday you'd forgiven me
But it'll still be two days till I say I'm sorry

Hold it now and watch the hoodwink
As I make you stop, think
You'll think you're looking at Aquaman
I summon fish to the dish,
Although I like the Chalet Swiss
I like the sushi
Cause it's never touched a frying pan

Hot like wasabe when I bust rhymes
Big like Leann Rimes
Because I'm all about value
Bert Kaempfert's got the mad hits
You try to match wits
You try to hold me but I bust through

Gonna make a break and take a fake
I'd like a stinkin, achin shake
I like vanilla, It's the finest of the flavors
Gotta see the show,
Cause then you'll know
The Vertigo is gonna grow
Cause it's so dangerous,
You'll have to sign a waiver

How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad
Trying hard not to smile though I feel bad
I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral
Can't understand what I mean?
Well, you soon will
I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve
I have a history of taking off my shirt

It's been one week since you looked at me
Threw your arms in the air and said you're crazy
Five days since you tackled me
I've still got the rug burns on both my knees
It's been three days since the afternoon
You realized it's not my fault not a moment too soon
Yesterday you'd forgiven me
And now I sit back and wait till you say you're sorry

Chickity China the Chinese chicken
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'
Watchin X-Files with no lights on,
We're dans la maison
I hope the Smoking Man's in this one
Like Harrison Ford I'm getting Frantic
Like Sting I'm Tantric
Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy

Like Kurosawa I make mad films
Okay I don't make films
But if I did they'd have a samurai
Gonna get a set of better clubs
Gonna find the kind with tiny nubs
Just so my irons aren't always flying off the back swing
Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon
Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes
That make me think the wrong thing

How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad
Trying hard not to smile though I feel bad
I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral
Can't understand what I mean?
You soon will
I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve
I have a history of losing my shirt

It's been one week since you looked at me
Dropped your arms to your sides and said I'm sorry
Five days since I laughed at you and said
You just did just what I thought you were gonna do
Three days since the living room
We realized we're both to blame, but what could we do?
Yesterday you just smiled at me
Cause it'll still be two days till we say we're sorry

It'll still be two days till we say we're sorry
It'll still be two days till we say we're sorry
Birchmount Stadium, home of the Robbie

Writer/s: ROBERTSON, ED
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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One Week Song Chart

The band has said that this is about a big fight in a relationship. The lyrics are essentially meaningless, but entertaining. (thanks, Kelly - Portland, OR)

Fittingly, this spent one week at #1 in the US.

This was the first big hit for Barenaked Ladies. They have been around since 1988 and developed a large cult following, especially in their native Canada and among college students. This brought them mainstream success, which they took advantage of by playing every US radio station concert they could find.

The reason why many of the lyrics are just a hotchpotch of cultural references is that the song was written as a freestyle. Singer-guitarist Ed Robertson explained to Billboard magazine: "I wrote the chorus structure of the song, but I couldn't figure out the verses at all. I got together with [singer] Steve [Page] a bunch of times and said 'I have this idea for a song, and I couldn't figure out where to go with it.' And finally Steve said to me at some point, 'Just freestyle it! Just do what you do onstage every night. It's gonna be great.'"

"There were some extra verses and stuff," he added. "I just culled it down to what I thought were my favorite lines. But it was written as a freestyle."

The last words of the song are "Birchmount Stadium, home of the Robbie." This refers to an annual soccer tournament held for charity at Birchmount Stadium in Scarborough, Ontario. Steven Page and Ed Robertson have said that these are are the hardest words to say in the song.

The Robbie (officially The Robbie International Soccer Tournament), began in 1967 when some area soccer fans started a boys' tournament to raise money for 3-year-old Robbie Wimbs, who had Cystic Fibrosis. The tournament grew, and later became a benefit for Muscular Dystrophy research as well.

Weird Al Yankovic did a parody of this called "Jerry Springer" on his 1999 album Running With Scissors. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ)

The lyrics in the liner notes contain some extra lines (with Star Wars references), but these lyrics are not in any performed version of the song. Ed Robertson decided to include them with the album notes even though they were left off the song. (thanks, Kelly - Portland, OR)

Mitsubishi used this in a 2002 commercial.

Barenaked Ladies - The Old Apartment

Barenaked Ladies - The Old Apartment Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Born On A Pirate Ship
Released: 1996

The Old Apartment Lyrics

Broke into The Old Apartment
This is where we used to live
Broken glass, broke and hungry
Broken hearts and broken bones
This is where we used to live
Why did you paint the walls?
Why did you clean the floor?
Why did you plaster over the hole I punched in the door?
This is where we used to live

Why did you keep the mousetrap?
Why did you keep the dishrack?
These things used to be mine
I guess they still are, I want them back

Broke into the old apartment
Forty-two stairs from the street
Crooked landing, crooked landlord
Narrow laneway filled with crooks
This is where we used to live

Why did they pave the lawn?
Why did they change the locks?
Why did I have to break it, I only came here to talk
This is where we used to live

How is the neighbor downstairs?
How is her temper this year?
I turned up your TV and stomped on the floor just for fun
I know we don't live here anymore
We bought an old house on the Danforth
She loves me and her body keeps me warm
I'm happy there
But this is where we used to live

Broke into the old apartment
Tore the phone out of the wall
Only memories, fading memories
Blending into dull tableaux
I want them back

Writer/s: PAGE, STEVEN / ROBERTSON, ED
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

The Old Apartment Song Chart

This was the first Barenaked Ladies song to do well in the US. They were popular in their native Canada, but had to tour relentlessly to break into America.

Jason Priestley directed the video. He is also from Canada and a big fan. Later in 1996, Priestley had them on his show Beverly Hills, 90210. Priestley also directed their movie Bare Naked in America, a documentary of their tour. (thanks, Dan - West Hartford, CT)

The line "We bought an old house on the Danforth" refers to Danforth Avenue in Toronto. It is the main street in Toronto's Greektown, popular for its large Greek population and outdoor patios. (thanks, Nick - Toronto, Canada)

A live version was released on a special double-CD of their album Stunt in 1999. The live version was also included on the single to "It's All Been Done."

This was included on their album Rock Spectacle. That album is actually pronounced "Rock Spec-tak" because that is the French pronunciation of that word. Canada is a bilingual country.

In the liner notes for Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits, Steven Page says that "To answer one of the most common questions I get, the protagonist is still with the same woman - it's the new tenants of his old place that he's intruded upon." (thanks, Tara - Parma, OH)