Flight of the Conchords - Band Reunion (Live in London) lyrics

Thank you thanks, London

Now you see the lights have come
Up a bit, you see it is us

And you probably noticed
That we're a bit older

Than, uh than we were formally
We're not ill

We've been trying to stay young

We're trying to preserve ourselves
Like those sexy man-boys

That you saw ten years ago on the TV

Um -'Cause we know that
People don't like characters

That they know from television to get older

I think, to them, it's disturbing

I mean, it's difficult for us to see
You 'cause you're older as well

But the lights are quite dark, so
It's quite flattering on you guys

Yeah, but us being up here
And we remind you of your own
I guess, your own mortality

Sorry about that

Having said that, let's enjoy

The fleeting moment yes!
The time we have left

Let's try and have a good time yeah

Anyway, you see how fast it's going

Yeah, it's gone it's great
To be here in London

This is a bit of a reunion gig for us

Uh, we haven't played since last night, and

It's just great to have the whole band here
Um We don't know if you've heard these jokes

You might be exactly the same people

We're one of the biggest
Bands in New Zealand now

Uh in terms of the number of members

Yeah yeah

We're a two-person band

Most bands in New Zealand
Are one-person bands

Um, you've probably heard of John

Jemaine: Rob bret: Lucy

Lucy's great yeah, yeah, brilliant

It's a very good band

Even our national orchestra's
A one man band it's very

When we combined, we formed the super group

Bret used to be in a band, didn't you?

My old band was called "The Bret"

And yeah

And Jemaine was - Your band was
Called, what, The Jemaine and?

No, it was "Jemaine and the No one Else"

That's right, yeah

How we got together was
We were billed on the same night

At the same time by accident

And most of our songs have
The same chords anyway

So we just sang at the same time, and
That's how we wrote a lot of our songs

Yeah, and that's how
This electricity got started

Bret: yeah, yeah that's right

We're gonna do some songs
This next one is, uh

It's another du-et

Um, and

It it's kind of groundbreaking for us

Um, because we're really challenging

The gender stereotypes that exist
Uh, within the band and

And for those of you
Who know some of our songs

I often play the ladies in our songs

And and you do it well, Bret

You do it well thank you

Uh, but this next song, we're doing
A gender reversal reversal

So, what we usually do is we gender
Reverse it, so Bret's the lady

But we've reversed it back on it'self

Full 360 till he's back to a man

Yeah

Yeah, he's very excited
To be playing the very macho

Ian a guy called Ian

A British a very, um

It's a very macho name

He's a very macho, sexual British guy mm

And Jemaine takes the role of Deanna

Yeah uh, it's an office place romance

And she's a very complex character

A lot of layers that you've put in there

Yeah, I've put in two layers

I've added another dimension
To what I usually do

To make a fully two-dimensional character

Yeah uh, I've really embraced the role

I've studied a woman that's right

And I just watched little things she did

It's like this kind of thing

You'll see that come you'll see it

I won't do it now save it, save it

I'll save it for the performance

When you see me become Deanna

You'll see it oh, it's a transformation

Yeah thank you!

Thank you but one last detail

Um, before we do play the song, it's just

You know, I think we want to
Point out that we are aware

That comedy is a very
Male dominated industry

Unfortunately
You know, we're writing the roles

For women, but, um

The problem is the band
Itself is very male dominated

And it's systemic

Yeah, it's it's systemic, a systemic problem

It's the fucking patriarchy
That's what it is

Yeah, so we're sorry about that

But we're trying we're trying, yeah, yeah

What? Too fast?

What do you think?
Probably too rocking for us

Tone it down a little bit
People are moshing at the front