"Take This Town" is a song by Andy Partridge. It was recorded for the 1980 film Times Square and appeared on the soundtrack LP, as well as be released as its own single. It later appeared in 1990 on the odds-and-ends compilation Rag and Bone Buffet.
Single tracklisting[]
- A-side: "Take This Town"
- B-side: The Ruts - "Babylon's Burning"
Quotes[]
Andy: “The only new song especially written for Times Square, this really bad movie. Again [see ‘Happy Families’], it's heard on a transistor radio! We're not going to do any more songs from movies because they're always on transistor radios.”
Lyrics[]
Living in a rabbit tunnel
Keep the doggie in her kennel
Mustn't let her see the world
Oh, no!
Don't treat her like that
Oh, no!
Don't treat her like that
Living under Mum and Daddy
Carry hope just like a caddie
Mustn't let them see you're killed
Shout it clear for all to hear
You won't shoot this bird down
Shout it clear for all to hear
We're going to take this town
Turn a deaf ear to the orders
Keep them as your perfect daughters
Mustn't let them know their minds
Turning on to only music
Breaking from their childhood attic
Mustn't let them open the blinds
It's time she stopped being your ornament
It's time she put that in the past for permanent
You can't hold her if she wants to roam around
You can't hold her dream and keep it gagged and bound.
We're going
We're going to
We're going to take
We're going to take this
We're going to take this