Boombox (feat. Julian Casablancas)

Imagine in your mind

A posh country club

The stuffy old money

Where the poor kid's snubbed

The spread is bland

Sauerkraut and boiled goose

There's no way these people

Will ever cut loose

But then, I walk in the room

Hold my boombox high

And what happened next

Will blow your mind!

Everything got outta control

The music was so interesting

Everyone got out on the floor

It was a bunch of old white

People dancing

Now picture, if you will

A bunch of business men

Stuffed in the board room

Like pigs in a pen

The ties around their necks

Are like a hangman's noose

In the middle of the table

There's a boiled goose

The old people smell

Makes you wanna puke in the sink

These dude's will never dance

Yeah, that's what you think

I stride in the room, all young and hip

Hold up my boombox, and say

Listen to this!

Then everyone started to move

People rejoiced instead of financing

Your pre-conceived notions were shattered

By the super-old white people dancing

The Big Apple, where people never dance

Spirits go down while profits expand

The cops or the dealers

Who's got the juice?

The street vendors peddling

Their boiled goose

So many types of people

They'll never get along

'Till I bust out my boombox

And play this song!

The music washed away all the hate

And society started advancing

Every demographic was represented

It was a rainbow coalition of dancing

Whoa

Everyone was wearing fingerless gloves

Whoa

I saw a Spanish guy doing the Bartman

Transport now to an old folks home

Where the elderly are tossed

On their brittle bones

The orderlies are stealing

There's no excuse!

Every day for lunch they eat

Boiled goose

So I grabbed my boombox

And hit the Turbo Bass

And what happened next

Was a total disgrace!

Everybody started having sex

The music was way too powerful

A bunch of old people fucking

Like rabbits

It was disgusting to say the least

Oh, a boombox can change world

But you gotta know your limits

With a boombox

This was a cautionary tale

A boombox is not a toy!