In a stunning tribute to the Barenaked Ladies, Kat and Mish have decided to X-Wingise some of their songs. These can be found below, and it is warned that some contain spoilers for certain novels besides the X-Wing ones. This will be warned beforehand, so get out your BNL cds . . .
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Hello X-wings
by Kat Halcyon
Based on "Hello City" by the Barenaked Ladies
BNL album: Gordon.
Spoilers: Movies, X-wing books (duh!)
Hello X-wings, hey
Another night at the tapcaf, 'cause there is nothing
else to do
Whoa-oh, uh-huh
The same pilots, the same assholes, the same
droids
and the same black hole
I think this space station is being sucked in
fast
<Chorus>
Hello X-wings
The Empire is my enemy
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh
Hello X-wings (hello X-wings)
Hello X-wings, hey
My second time through this sim run
And my orange jumpsuit just stinks
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh
From the docking bay, to the hangar bay,
To the great dismay of what Wedge says
I think we're going to kick some Imp butt this
mission
<Chorus>
Maybe I vaped you at a bad time
Maybe we should have this dogfight next week
Maybe none of the fault is mine that the sun
doesn't
shine on Alderaan's streets
We're deep into this mission, and I'm sick of
hiding
out
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh
I steal some info and get ready to go
But the ship won't go, and we cry "Oh, no!"
I hope tomorrow that we won't all be shot dead
<Chorus>
A blaster pointing at my head
They don't believe us
'Cause they think we look like Rebels and we
know
It's time to kick butt again
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh
It's time to kick butt again
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh
Hello X-wings, hey
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh
Hello X-wings, hey.
Rebel Helmet and Orange Flightsuit (Wedge's Song)
by Mish Loran
Based on "Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank" by the Barenaked Ladies.
BNL album: Born on a Pirate Ship
Spoilers: Movies, X-wing books
I train the pilots who fight the Imps
Wes and Kell, they want to shoot each other dead.
Admiral Ackbar and that Drayson
are two of a few men who make sure my job's got
worth
<chorus>
I'm Wedge Antilles
I work with my squads all day
put them in mortal peril
but I know the Wraith's'll come out of it okay
Face cried some tears, 'cause Phanan died.
I hope that we'll come out of all this still
alive.
If no-one wavers, if no-one's vaped,
I'll get a medal, then we can all just fly away.
I signed my picture, W and A
Pilot's don't get paid, New Rep don't sign no
cheques
<chorus>
All these Imps I've vaped, I vaped 'em all with
Tych
We took a torp inside the Death Star, Farmboy
got all the cred.
He could've dived back
he could have just said "Wedge did"
I guess he's got an ego
I guess he's just a Jedi
I guess he's a Jedi,
guess he's just a Jedi
Not a real pilot (yeah)
Not a real pilot
Not a real pilot
You say I'm you boss,
you're insubordinate!
Although I have the rank
Kettch gets more respect than me
I know's he's a toy
Know Janson made him
Where's Hobbie to get this abuse, do you think?
<Chorus>
The New Rebellion (Janson's Song)
by Kat Halcyon
Based on "The Old Apartment" by the Barenaked Ladies
BNL album: Born on a Pirate Ship
Spoilers: Movies, X-wing books **This song has nothing to do with the
book "The New Rebellion."**
Defected to the New Rebellion
I was part of the Empire.
Destroyed families, destroyed species,
Destroyed worlds like Alderaan
I was part of the Empire.
Why did they build the Death Star?
Why are they run by Sith Lords?
Why did I stay so long with a group I was forced
to
join?
I was part of the Empire.
Why did they promote Iceheart?
Why did they try to kill me?
I used to fly a TIE fighter, but now I pilot
an
X-wing.
Defected to the New Rebellion
Hidden on a secret base.
Lousy weapons, lousy rations
Lousy droids that mouth off
I was part of the Empire.
Why do they always hunt us?
Why do they send us to Kessel?
Why don't we always end up the losing side of
a
battle?
I was part of the Empire.
How is the current CO?
How is the temper of this one?
I sliced into records and told them you were
a Rebel
just for fun.
I know I don't belong here anymore.
I made my choice and now I live on Hoth.
I support them even though I'm never warm.
I'm happy here.
But I was part of the Empire.
Defected to the New Rebellion
Stole a ship from the Empire
Now they really want to kill me
And I hope they don't catch up.
Don't want to die.
Don't want to die.
He's In That Gunk. (Hobbie's Song / Hobbie's Ode to Bacta!)
by Mish Loran
Based on "I'll Be That Girl" by the Barenaked Ladies
BNL album: Stunt
Spoilers: Movies, X-wing books? X-wing comics?
If I were you (I don't wish that I were you)
'Cause all the things you do, end up with you
in goo.
I suppose, you started working in the Empire
Then left for the New Rep, and got a starfighter
<Chorus>
He's in that gunk - he'll the the one first vaped
If he had a TIE it'd be without shields
And if he had command, Antilles would be worried
And if he had a 'saber, straight into bacta again
If you are not happy with this medbay
Perhaps another dunk?
Perhaps with that your burns will be all gone
But your X-wing cannot be fixed
Even with Jedi magic tricks
You say "c'est la vie"
<Chorus>
It's time to kick start the engine.
Learn how to fly straight down.
It's time to vape some Imps dead,
Show them all how you can do it
'Cause Wedge has already vaped twelve,
And Tycho's got seven
Everyone wonders how you managed
to get into the Rogues but we you have skills
too
When you're done,
With being a superb X-wing pilot
When that gauntlet's run, you can advertise bacta
<Chorus>
Straight into bacta again <repeat 4 times>
<sound of explosion>
I Know (Face's Song)
by Kat Halcyon
Based on "I Know" by the Barenaked Ladies
BNL album: Born on a Pirate Ship
Spoilers: Wraith books
I know why I fight you.
It's 'cause of your power and your evil
And you're species-ist
I have a match: your TIES
My vaping your pilots you can't replace.
You want to kill me?
Our galaxy works in a strange way
I've heard it said that a man with a blaster
may
Frighten stormies or Sith
But a 'saber scares me more.
I know why you hate me.
It's 'cause of my holos and my good looks
And I betrayed you.
I have issues with you:
You forced me to sit on Isard's lap.
You made me touch her.
Win or Die increased your ranks
So I have lots of credits in the bank
And though I really miss acting
I had to go to war.
Tell me, where's the nearest bar for me to drink
in?
Whether or not I keep my scar is whose decision?
I know the rules of inter-race relations.
Bigots are fools, Dia has sexy brain-tails.
If it's possible that I could get a command
Perhaps one day I might say
Performances on the hour, every hour. Imperial
madmen a specialty.
I know why I fight you.
It's 'cause of destruction and disaster
And 'cause I have to.
I have some guilt: my flicks
Your wife has my holos right by Tetran Cowall's.
She doesn't have taste.
Everyone's heard that I died
But I've just been staying low-profile
And now I think you should all know I'm still
alive.
Tycho Celchu. (Mish spelt his name right! Look!! -Oh, um,
as sung by Corran Horn. )
by Kat Halcyon
Based on "Brian Wilson" by the Barenaked Ladies
BNL album: Gordon
Spoilers: Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap (X-Wing books, don'tcha know?)
Through DownTime on Coruscant
Oh-eight-hundred to the hangar bay
Just to shoot down the Empire's TIE fighters.
Call it obsessive, call it possessive, call it
insane.
But when I'm surrounded I have to vape.
It's a matter of training, a matter of piloting,
a matter of fact.
You can call me a Jedi.
Kill my friends and I'll shoot you down - how'd
you like that?
Jan Dodonna, tell me you're not just a General.
Because I am. . .
In Lusankya just like Tycho Celchu was
Well I'm in Lusankya just like Tycho Celchu was.
So I'm stuck in here, just grinding down rocks
all day
Just thinking about how I can escape.
Just wondering and re-wondering about gravity.
And I'm thinking that this place might just be
upside-down
Because I am . . .
In Lusankya just like Tycho Celchu was
Well I'm In Lusankya just like Tycho Celchu was.
And if you want to find me I'll be
Killing Derricote.
Wondering where the hell I have
Gotten to
Going further up or is it maybe further down
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh
I think I'm going to die.
In Lusankya just like Tycho Celchu was
Well I'm in Lusankya just like Tycho Celchu was
I'm in a dream.
Stormtroopers are after me
And though I'm not well hidden
The stormies passed right over my cupboard
The stormies passed right over my cupboard
What have I done here, they passed by my cupboard
What have I done here, they passed by my cupboard
What have I done to get here
In Lusankya just like Tycho Celchu was
Well I am in Lusankya just like Tycho Celchu
was.
Through DownTime on Coruscant
Oh-eight-hundred to the hangar bay
Just to shoot down the Empire's TIE fighters.
Call it obsessive, call it possessive, call it
insane.
But when I'm surrounded I have to vape.
Lusankya (Tycho's song)
By Kat Halcyon
Based on "Alcohol" by the Barenaked Ladies
BNL Album: Stunt
Spoilers: X-Wing books (sung right before "Rogue Squadron")
Lusankya, my previous habitation
Lusankya, you need an invitation
Lusankya, alternative to brutal homicide
Lusankya, I am on the outside.
I hate Iceheart more than I did at the start
Of my trip to Lusankya
Forget the Kessel spice mines
Screw slavery by the Hutts
A jaunt to Isard's prison is like torturing deluxe.
Lusankya, your inmates are
The worst off that I've seen,
But we already knew Iceheart was mean.
I am loyal
Iceheart's plan must have been foiled
I am not a brainwashed spy.
Oh, Antilles, would you please believe me.
I swear I'm telling the truth
Though maybe the point is moot.
I thought the New Republic would always want me
as a pilot
I thought that X-Wings would always be there
for me till I got shot
But now I know that some of them think that my
allegiance was bought,
And I'm an Imp agent who likely hadn't even fought.
I am loyal
Iceheart's plan must have been foiled
I am not a brainwashed spy.
And would you please recall
I escaped from Akrit'tar
Not actually Lusankya.
Oh, Antilles, would you please believe me.
I swear I'm telling the truth
Though maybe the point is moot.
