We're Here Because We're Here

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I’m trying to remember what movie/show this is from. A character (a clown?) is singing We’re Here Because We’re Here. He realises it’s inappropriate (or something) and sort of trails it off. Like:

♫ *We’re here because
We’re here because
We’re here because
We’re… here… :frowning: * ♫

Am I trying to remember Star Trek: Voyager, ‘The Thaw’?

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It’s a World War I song. Perhaps you saw it in a movie about that war:

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Brendan Behan’s version.

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It sounds like it be from Oh, What a Lovely War.

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The bells of hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling
For you but not for meeeee…

6

The lyrics in the OP made me think of that awful Rush song.

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The song does show up in a Stephen Baxter story (one of the ones in Vacuum Diagrams, as I recall).

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You’re really confusing me, especially since it’s the 10th anniversary of Anathema’s album We’re here because we’re here.

And I just learned the album was named after the WWI song. I prefer the album.

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Nope - Twilight Zone, ‘Five Characters in Search of an Exit’.

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Thanks! :slight_smile:

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Travesties, by Tom Stoppard, has the characters sing a few lines. The play takes place in Zurich during WWI, the song was a sarcastic song, supposed to have been sung in the trenches, similar to “The Yanks are coming / the Yanks are coming / but they won’t get here until it’s over, over here.”