My latest contribution to the Marioke video game karaoke canon – first performed 15/09/2017.
My self-imposed writing brief this month was to find songs by artists that have so far been absent from the Marioke songlist, and to favour the stupidest jokes possible.
“Where The Streets Are Of Rage”
– after “Where The Streets Have No Name” by U2
I want to punch
I want to slide
I want to throw down and brawl
And keep walking right
The cops’ll help out
Just once per stage
Where the streets are of rage
Ah ah ah yeah
I wanna kick
Bikers in the face
I’ll put Donovan and Galsia
Back in their place
We’ll beat up a wrestler*
In the pouring rain
Where the streets are of rage
Ho-hum
Where the streets are of rage
Where the streets are of rage
We’re still stinging from your Grand Upper
Your Grand Upper
And when I go there
I go there with you
As your Player 2
The city’s corrupt
The streets filled with punks
We’ll beat them with blows to the chin
And knees to the junk
Eat chickens from bins
Roasted and stuffed with sage
Yeah
Where the streets are of rage
Ah huh
Where the streets are of rage
Where the streets are of rage
We’re still stinging from your Grand Upper
Your Grand Upper
Yuzo Koshiro
Has wrote us some tunes
All of the tunes
The streets filled with punks
We’ll beat them with blows to the chin
Blows to the chin
Oh yes you know
See the streets filled with punks
I will beat them with blows to the chin
Blows to the chin
Oh when I go there
I go there with you
It’s Bare Knuckle 2
*Yes I know it’s actually a barman that you fight in the rain in SoR2, but wrestler fits the line better.
Tags: Grand Upper, karaoke, marioke, one life left, sega, sega mega drive, Streets of Rage, streets of rage 2, U2, where the streets have no name
