Clint Dempsey: This one's for you!

Discussion in 'MLS: Rumors' started by TimB4Last, Sep 12, 2006.

  1. TimB4Last

    TimB4Last Member+

    May 5, 2006
    Dystopia
    Lights out tonight, trouble in New England.
    Got a head-on collision, smashin' in my guts man.
    I'm caught in a crossfire that I don't understand.
    But there's one thing I know for sure Garber:
    I don't give a damn for the same old played out scenes
    I don't give a damn for MLS playoff teams.
    Sunil I want the heart, I want the soul, I want control right now.
    You better listen to me Gulati:
    Talk about a dream; try to make a deal.
    You wake up in the night with a fear so real.
    You spend your summer waiting for a transfer that just don't come.
    Well don't waste your time waiting

    Bad deals

    You gotta live 'em every day
    Let the broken jaws stand
    As the price you've gotta pay
    We'll keep pushin' till it's understood
    And MLS starts treating us good

    Workin' in the field till you get your back burned
    Workin' `neath Sunil till you get your facts learned.
    Ivan I got my facts learned real good right now.
    You better get it straight Gazidis:
    Players wanna be pros, good pros wanna be Nats,
    And a Nat ain't satisfied till he plays against the best.
    I wanna go to Europe, I wanna find out what I got.
    I believed in the deal that you first gave me.
    Now I believe in the transfer that could save me.
    I believe in the hope and I pray that some day it
    Will raise me above these

    Bad deals

    You gotta live 'em every day
    Let the broken jaws stand
    As the price you've gotta pay
    We'll keep pushin' till it's understood
    And MLS starts treating us good

    For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside
    That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.
    I wanna find one team that ain't looking through me
    I wanna find one league, I wanna spit in the face of these

    Bad deals

    You gotta live 'em every day
    Let the broken jaws stand
    As the price you've gotta pay
    We'll keep pushin' till it's understood
    And MLS starts treating us good

    **********

    [A work in progress - suggestions welcome.]
     
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  2. TimB4Last

    TimB4Last Member+

    May 5, 2006
    Dystopia
    Just trying out new material - feel free to ignore (as you did once before).

    By the time I get to England
    Sunil'll be rising
    He'll read the text message
    I sent to his cell phone
    He'll laugh when he reads the part that says I'm leaving
    Cause he's read Dell'Apa
    so many times before ...

    By the time I make Premiership
    Sunil'll be working
    He'll probably call Nicol, then give me a call
    But he'll just hear my phone keep on ringing
    My hip ringtone that's all ...

    By the time I make Actim's XI
    Sunil'll be fuming
    He'll call Garber and curse my name out loud
    And they'll cry just to think I'd really leave MLS
    Though time and time I tried to tell them so
    They just didn't know I would really go ...

    On a free transfer ...
     
  3. jade1mls

    jade1mls Member

    Jul 9, 2006
    Seattle
    Want me to teach you how rap?
    Here is a fictional response from Don Garber...


    "D-the D - the D-D-Deuce man,
    You've been an asset to the league and our plan
    We'd let you leave if it was worth it
    But those clubs in england we'ren't payin' sh*t

    We ain't gonna sell you out like that
    You got more work to do here and ya know dat
    We got a league to build, we'll cut you off a piece
    Just chill out a bit and your wallet will increase

    But I ain't stacked the cheese by bein a fool
    But check it, this is the machine and you're but a tool
    You too can be replaced once you're gone
    That's why they call me The Don"

    Chorus:
    Yo, door knocker, check it,we play soccer.
    Get...get back to work Deuce...
    Gotta finish the season and win deuce
    Do that and we loosen the noose deuce.

    Yo, door knocker, check it,we play soccer.
    Get...get back to work Deuce...
    Gotta finish the season and win deuce.
    Do that and we loosen the noose deuce."
     
  4. spidergoose

    spidergoose Member

    Nov 2, 2004
    Annapolis
    Club:
    DC United
    *falls down*
     
  5. socks

    socks New Member

    Dec 17, 2003
    oaxaca mexico
    no noose is good noose
    no deuce is no truth
    no truth is no net
    no net is no fish
    in no pan at no time
    my rhyme

    is white lines
    lime lines in my time
    is white clouds in my cleats
    your beat
    like my beat
    your feet
    like my weed
    smoked.

    (if you want more, you'll have to pay)
     
  6. FlashMan

    FlashMan Member

    Jan 6, 2000
    'diego
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    regarding the opening post:

    rock on.

    that's perfect Badlands re Dempsey. i was singing along as i read.

    but is Bruce staying true to Patti? inquiring minds want to know!!! ;)
     
  7. TimB4Last

    TimB4Last Member+

    May 5, 2006
    Dystopia
    Very nice - best post I've read in quite a while. I guess I'd better learn to rap* - although words like fool, tool and noose speak for themselves and make my point for me. Don's got the power, alright - there's no argument about that. You are not inspiring confidence in the process and labor/management balance of power, to say the least.

    I'll have to ask Clint for comment; but while we're waiting, here's what he told me recently:

    No time to eat or sleep, I'm stackin licks that just won't wait
    I'm campaignin for a Benz, on the rims with bubble eye lens
    So I'm stackin every dollar I see hundreds, fifties, twenties and tens
    Do's and pull triggaz close, never be scared of anybody, players get chose
    Hustle and flow, cars close, that's the player life that I know

    Translation, please. What does that mean and why would anyone want to give that lifestyle up? Or is he just packing for a trip overseas?

    Anyway, the transfer window has passed, so we'll have to wait (until December?) and see who's the fool.

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    * I think a thread where all posts had to be in 'rap' would be a great idea. I can see that I'd be at a pretty big disadvantage, though.
     
  8. TimB4Last

    TimB4Last Member+

    May 5, 2006
    Dystopia
    Thanks. Am I really that old? That first post sat there for a week - 200 views - without a single comment. I think I missed my target audience.
     
  9. TimB4Last

    TimB4Last Member+

    May 5, 2006
    Dystopia
    I'm going to have to pass the torch, but before I go, on behalf of CD, here's my 2 cent:

    Don't make me remind y'all what happened to USMNT
    This player ain't Gulati
    He pretend
    He mad at us cause Arena not his friend
    And it seems his little rat turned out to be a mouse
    This bush league is for the fish and the fish swim out
    Every Yank Abroad can vouch
    When the game was on whose goal gave the Nats mouth to mouth

    Hate it or love it the underdog's on top
    And I'm gonna shine Sunil until my heart stop

    Yeah, Yeah envy me
    I'm Revs' MVP
    And I ain't stayin' round here so you can underpay me

    Hate it or love it the underdog's on top
    And I'm gonna shine Sunil until my heart stop

    Yeah, Yeah envy me
    I'm Nats' MVP
    And I ain't stayin' round here so you can underpay me

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    I realize this isn't lyric poetry, but it's pretty scarey how easily the words flow and fit naturally into place. Scarier still is how many posters reflexively side with management on this one, particularly given the obvious imbalance of power in labor/management relations.

    In closing, without changing a word ...

    From the beginnin of the end
    Losers lose winners win
    This is real we dont gotta pretend
    The cold world that we in
    Its full of pressure and pain
    I thought it would change its stayin the same
     
  10. TimB4Last

    TimB4Last Member+

    May 5, 2006
    Dystopia
    Have I created a monster?

    http://www.matchnight.com/?Page=ARTICLE&articleid=19865

    September 21, 2006
    Ian Plenderleith

    You may think it's been a quiet week in soccer, but only because the mainstream media has yet again been sitting on the top stories. As ever, the 'From An Impossible Angle' column does not shirk from writing what others fear to print...

    Arena: Born To Moan

    New York Red Bulls' head coach Bruce Arena surprised soccer journalists today by showing up at a press conference in Asbury Park, NJ, with a bandana around his forehead, brandishing a guitar, and dressed in a checked workingman's shirt, faded blue jeans and hobnailed boots.

    "The boss is here!" Arena announced to the convened hacks, pumping his arm several times in the air before apologizing for his late arrival due to heavy traffic. Or, as he put it, right now "the highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive."

    Asked if he thought that New York's chances of making the playoffs had been damaged by last night's 0-2 home defeat to the New England Revolution, Arena sneeringly dismissed such talk as "idiotic."

    "American rock and roll was a failure in every possible area until I came along and released 'Born To Run' in 1975," he insisted. "I've given the music business the finest 30 years they're gonna see for a long time. The record company heads will try and take credit for my success, but they're just music fans who know nothing about what it takes to change from C to D minor."

    One newshound wondered aloud if Arena was suffering some belated mental effects from being sacked as US men's national team coach this past summer. "You end up like a dog that's been beat too much," Arena conceded, "til you spend half your life just covering up." Down at the unemployment agency, he added, all he'd got was talk "but there ain't nobody hiring. Well, except for some third-rate MLS outfit named after a can of drink."

    And his relationship now with US Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati? "It's easy for two people to lose each other in this tunnel of love," sighed Arena. Gulati was just excited at being the Federation's head and, Arena speculated, "it ain't ever gonna stop. Everybody wants to be the man at the top."

    Queried about the future of the US national team, Arena merely reached for his guitar and began to sing, "The amusement park rises bold and stark/Fans are huddled on the beach in a mist/I wanna die with Youri on the streets tonight/In an everlasting kiss."

    Even as embarrassed journalists shuffled out of the press room, Arena began to admit it had been a mistake to pretend he was still The Boss. "Maybe I shouldn't have said all that," he called out to reporters' backs, adding wistfully to an empty room, "I ain't nothing but tired. Man I'm just tired and bored with myself."

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    Someday, Flashman, I'm gonna lead a better life than this.
     
  11. Pints

    Pints Member

    Apr 21, 2004
    Charm City

    *grabs goose, and pulls him to safety*
     
  12. TimB4Last

    TimB4Last Member+

    May 5, 2006
    Dystopia
    They see me rollin';
    They hatin'. ...

    Know what you thinkin' so,
    I tried to let it go.
    Turn on my microphone
    And then I said it slow.
    And they upset for sure
    'Cause they think they know
    That they catchin' me with plenty of the transfer dough.

    So they get behind me,
    Tryin' to check my bags.
    Look at my account and they smilin',
    Thinkin' they'll catch me on the wrong; keep tryin'
    'Cause they denyin' it's MLS profilin'.
    Nacogdoches, TX, you can check my tags;
    Pull me over, try to check my slab.

    Transfer window, gotta get my cash
    'Cause the crooked agents'll try to come up fast.
    And bein' the baller that I am, I talk to them,
    Givin' a damn 'bout not feeling my attitude.
    When they realize I ain't even playin' dirty
    Bet you'll be leavin' with an even madder mood.

    I'ma laugh at you
    And then I have to cruise.
    I wear the number two
    On some old NE crew.
    You can't resign me plus you can't sue.
    This a message to the league; tells 'em "We hate you."

    I can't be touched and tell 'em that they shoulda known.
    Tippin' down; I'm sittin' crooked on my chrome.
    Bookin' my flight; findin' a team I wanna 'own.'
    Like they couldn't stop me I'mma bout to pull up at Fulham
    And it's on.

    They see me rollin';
    They hatin'. ...

    **********

    Just pluggin' this in from another thread. No hatin' now!
     
  13. Nidal Baba Superstar

    Sep 20, 2006
    Far away
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Nah, it's a classic, man. I first saw this a few weeks ago and it's been periodically jumping into my head ever since. I think your lyrics are starting to supplant the original ones.

    Speaking of Bruce, I was reading that "Where are the WIZARDS going to play next season?" thread over on the KC boards, and, against my will, the words started floating into my mind: "I was bruised and battered, I couldn't tell what I felt/I was unrecognizable...to myself/Saw my reflection in a window and didn't know my own face/Oh brother are you gonna leave me, wasting away/On the streets of PHIL-A-DEL-PHIA, nuh-nuh nananana, nuh-nuh nananana, nuh-nuh nananana..."

    I felt bad about it 'cause those guys are probably the most dedicated, untiring, never-give-up fans in the league and I'm sure their team is gonna make it - but I couldn't get it out of my head.
     
  14. TimB4Last

    TimB4Last Member+

    May 5, 2006
    Dystopia
    {Still pulling together some old stuff ... don't mind me. :eek:}

    With apologies ...

    When the Revs were in New England,
    Let My people go!
    Oppressed so hard they could not stand,
    Let My people go!

    Refrain:
    Go down, SFS,
    Way down in New England;
    Tell old Sunil
    To let My people go!

    No more shall they in bondage toil,
    Let My people go!
    Let them come out with MLS' spoil,
    Let My people go!

    Oh, let us all from bondage flee,
    Let My people go!
    And let us all in European leagues be free,
    Let My people go!

    You need not always weep and mourn,
    Let My people go!
    And wear these MLS chains forlorn,
    Let My people go!

    Your foes shall not before you stand,
    Let My people go!
    And you’ll possess fair Premiership land,
    Let My people go!

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    Needs a little fine-tuning! The capital M in My is a nice touch, though.

    [Edit: January 2007 - Free at last!]
     
  15. MightyMouse

    MightyMouse BigSoccer Supporter

    Jun 19, 2003
    Island paradise east of the mainland
    Club:
    FC Barcelona
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yáll a bunch o Sucka MC's, call me SIRE!
    you can tell yo moms she can bit my WIRE!
    If a city is burnin it must be a CHicago FIRE!
    DC will dump LA and tell Beckham to RETIRE!

    WORD...
    BIZATCHES!
    Feel the shizzie my nizzies!!!
     

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