My girlfriend’s run off with my car
And gone back to her ma and pa
Tellin’ tales of drunkenness and cruelty
Now I’m sittin’ here
Sippin’ at my ice cold beer
Lazin’ on a sunny afternoon
'Cause I get home at five o’clock
And I take myself out an ice cold beer
Always seem to be wondering
Why there’s nothing going down here
It seems to me I could live my life
A lot better than I think I am
I guess that’s why they call me
The working man
Workin’ for a livin’
(Workin’)
Workin’ for a livin’
(Workin’)
Workin’ for a livin’, livin’ and workin’
I’m taking what they’re giving ‘cause I’m workin’ for a livin’
I been ballin’ a shiny black steel jack-hammer
Been chippin’ up rocks for the great highway
Live five years if I take my time
Ballin’ that jack and a drinkin’ my wine.
Get your motor running
Head out on that highway
Looking for adventure
And whatever comes our way
So open up your eyes,
I got a big surprise,
It’ll feel all right,
C’mon I wanna make your motor run.
Paradise by the Dashboard Light – Meat Loaf
-“BB”-
Touch that dial
Turn me on
Start me like a motor, make me run
Lovin’ every minute of it (Lovin’)
Lovin’ every minute of it
That’s right, folks… Don’t touch that dial
Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin’ along on your living room floor
I am the slime from your video
Uh-uh, don’t touch that dial!
I must offer to you a confession
I like movies that give me a fright
If the subject is horror, I got to see more or
I won’t be contented all night
You may call it my ghoulish obsession
It’s a subject on which I get chatty
But the worst one it seems, haunting all of my dreams
Was the cockroach that ate Cincinnati!
Baby, if you’ve ever wondered
Wondered what ever became of me
I’m living on the air in Cincinnati
Cincinnati WKRP
Got kinda tired of packin’ and unpackin’,
Town to town, up and down the dial
Maybe you and me were never meant to be,
Just maybe think of me once in awhile.
Whatever happened to theme songs with words on TV? (Excluding The Big Bang Theory.)
♫ ♫ ♫
Now this is the story all about how,
My life got flipped - turned upside down,
And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there,
I’ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air.
Well the first thing you know ol’ Jed’s a millionaire,
The kinfolk said “Jed move away from there”
Said “Californy is the place you ought to be”
So they loaded up the truck and they moved to Beverly
Hills, that is. Swimmin’ pools, movie stars.
Beverly Hills
That’s where I want to be
(Gimme-gimme, gimme-gimme)
Living in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills
Rolling like a celebrity
(Gimme-gimme, gimme-gimme)
Living in Beverly Hills
Let me tell you what I do
I sit here in this chair
I pour myself some whiskey
And watch my troubls vanish into the air
Rollin’, rollin’
Ain’t gonna worry no more
Rollin’, rollin’
Ain’t gonna worry no more
Rollin’. Randy newman
We could’ve had it all (You’re gonna wish you never had met me)
Rolling in the deep (Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
You had my heart inside of your hand (You’re gonna wish you never had met me)
And you played it to the beat (Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)
(Out of play: producers and networks frown on them now, due to a belief that viewers have shorter attention spans than they used to. It’s felt that a long theme song distracts from the show, and encourages viewers to change channels. Cite)
Roll in my sweet baby’s arms
Roll in my sweet baby’s arms
Lay around the shack ’til the mail comes back
And I’ll roll in my sweet baby’s arms
Yet the streaming services promote binge-watching, and even ordinary cable TV channels have marathons devoted to things like the Harry Potter, James Bond, Karate Kid, Toy Story, Back to the Future, or selected movies by specific directors (think Mel Brooks’ comedies) – and Catchy TV (which used to be ‘Decades TV’) runs weekend programming featuring shows like Happy Days, Newhart, Taxi, Wild Wild West, and others running in sequence starting with the first one and going in order from there. So they must think people have SOME sort of attention span.
-“BB”-
I’ll be here when you’re ready
To roll with the changes
Roll with the changes
(Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes) turn and face the strange (ch-ch-changes)
Don’t wanna be a richer man
(Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes) turn and face the strange (ch-ch-changes)
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me but I can’t trace time