Somewhere With DEVO (live)

Song Name: Somewhere With DEVO

Artist: DEVO

Album: Now It Can Be Told (live album version)

Run Time: 11:20 (live album version)

Year Recorded: 1988

Year Released: 1989

Years Performed: 1988-1990, 1991(at Perkins Palace)

Sung By: Mark Mothersbaugh, Gerry Casale, Bob1

Alternate Versions: Studio demo version, unreleased demo

Trivia / Info:

Rereleased on Somewhere With DEVO: Live At The Palace 1988 + Remix Set

Somewhere With DEVO is a vast medley of songs often performed on the tours between 1988 and 1991, closing the show. (The NICBT album calls this medley a "suite.") It includes:

The released demo adds "Social Fools" and quotes "Over The Rainbow."

Onstage Behavior:

Directly before "Somewhere", the band would abruptly grab a random audience member, take him onto the stage, "inspect him" (as the "Shout" lyrics claimed, which usually involved running around him in circles or marching in place,) and putting him back in the crowd. Mark Mothersbaugh then proceeded to stage-dive.

Lyrics:

(Gerry:) Shout!

Shout!

(Mark:) I'm shouting

(Gerry:) About the world outside

(Mark:) I'm shouting

(Gerry:) Because you just can't hide

(Mark:) I'm shouting

(Bob1:) From the plain honest truth

(Mark:) I'm shouting

(Mark:) There's so much we could do!

(Gerry:) Shout!

(Mark:) I'm shouting

Shout!

I'm shouting

Shout!

I'm shouting

Shout!

I'm shouting

(Bob1:) And when you put it all together

And when you roll it in a ball

And when you watch another pyramid

As it's about to fall

(Mark and Gerry:) Remember you were there

Remember if you care

For those who held their ground

When it all came down, say...

(Gerry:) Shout!

Shout!

(Mark and Gerry:) Well baby this one's for you

Shout!

(Mark and Gerry:) For everything that you do

Shout!

(Mark and Gerry:) Until the battle is won

Shout!

(Mark and Gerry:) We'll live to fight on and on

Shout!

(Mark and Gerry:) Well baby this one's for you

Shout!

(Mark and Gerry:) For everything that you do

Shout!

(Mark and Gerry:) Until the battle is won

Shout!

(Mark and Gerry:) We'll live to fight on and on

(Gerry:) Shout!

(Mark:) I'm shouting

(Gerry:) Are you ready?

(Gerry:) Shout!

(Mark:) I'm shouting

(Gerry:) Are you ready for inspection?

Shout!

I'm shouting

Are you ready?

Shout!

I'm shouting

Are you ready for inspection?

(Gerry:) He's ready!

To die!

(Mark and Gerry:) There's a place for us

Somewhere a place for us

Peace and quiet and open air

Wait for us

Somewhere

There's a time for us

Somewhere a time for us

Time together with time to spare

Time to love

Time to care

Someday

Somewhere

We'll find a new way of living

We'll find a way of forgiving

Somewhere

Someday

There's a place for us

A time and place for us

Hold my hand and we're halfway there

Hold my hand and I'll take you there

Somehow

Someday

Somewhere

I'm a disco boy

(Mark:) I'm a disco dancer

But I've got no place to go

(Gerry:) (I'm a disco boy)

Oh no

I'm a disco dancer, baby

And my feet won't touch the floor

(I'm a disco boy)

Woah, no

I been sleeping twenty years or more

I remember long time ago

(I'm a disco boy)

(Femmes DEVO) Ja

Ja

(Mark:) I been looking for a dance to do

(Mark:) I been looking for some answers too

(Mark and Gerry:) Now I'm back to change your minds

(Mark and Gerry:) Now I'm moving right in time

(Mark and Gerry:) In a world that's turned unkind

(Mark and Gerry:) I see what's going on behind my back

(Gerry:) (I'm a disco boy)

(I'm a disco boy)

(Mark:) I'm a disco dancer

And I keep dancing on and on

(I'm a disco boy)

Oh no

I'm a disco dancer, baby

But I think that something's wrong

(I'm a disco boy)

Oh no

I been sleeping twenty years and more

I remember long time ago

Now I'm back to change your mind

Now I'm moving right in time

In a world that's turned unkind

I see what's going on behind my back

Ja

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Be Stiff EP (1978) \| E-Z Listening Disc (1987) \| Now It Can Be Told: DEVO at the Palace (1989) \| Hardcore DEVO Vol. 1 74-77 (1990) \| Hardcore DEVO Vol. 2 1974-1977 (1991) \| DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years (1992) \| DEV-O Live (1999) \| Recombo DNA (2000) \| Live In Central Park (2004) \| DEVO Live 1980 (2005) \| New Traditionalists: Live 1981 Seattle (2012) \| Something ELSE for Everybody (2013) \| Miracle Witness Hour (2014) \| Live at Max's Kansas City - November 15, 1977 (2014) \| Butch Devo and the Sundance Gig (2014) \| Hardcore DEVO Live! (2015) \| Art Devo 1973-1977 (2023)
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