Oingo Boingo - On The Outside (w/ Lyrics) video free download


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Uploaded: 2009/09/21

A track from Oingo Boingo's first full-length album, "Only a Lad."

They laugh at me aloud

They say I'm just a clown

That I ain't got no pride

I'm on the outside

The girls look really cute

They really make it work

They think I'm just a jerk

I'm on the outside

I never could sit still

I never was too hip

I never caught the ride

I'm on the outside

I'm on the outside, I'm on the outside now

This is where it all begins right here

On the outside lookin' in, I'm on the outside

I never was a punk

I never shot junk

I never even tried

Counter culture passed me right by

(I'm on the outside)

Don't talk to debutantes

Don't eat in restaurants

The patrons sit and stare

The waiters make wise cracks behind my back

(I'm on the outside)

Teachers there in school

They flunked me by the rule

They say I had no motivation, brains or dedication

I guess the imbeciles were right I'm on the outside

I'm on the outside, I'm on the outside now

This is where it all begins on the outside looking in

Looking in

At you

I'm just an alien through and through

Tryin' to make believe I'm you

Tryin' to fit

Just a stranger on the outside looking in

The disco makes me sick

I wear the wrong clothes

I say the wrong things

You know I can't dance

My feet are much too wide (I'm on the outside)

You think you set the trends

You wear your hair just right

Your clothes are outta sight

Your house is modern really kitsch

You get so macho when you're with your bitch

(I'm on the outside)

I see them go to work

I see them go to sleep

I see them on T.V.

I see them laugh and cry

I'm on the outside. I'm on the outside. I'm on the outside

(Repeat chorus)

I'm on the outside. I'm on the outside now

I'm on the outside

I'm on the outside now

Comments

9 years ago

ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM

#Truthers ...need to eat...this is a man. Who Spoke up. #WakeUp #Silence 

9 years ago

TornadoAnni

These days, I'm perfectly happy to be on the outside.

9 years ago

ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM

Gateway Grotto...Spins Time....Cubed!!! 

9 years ago

William Parker

I wonder if Danny's content. 60% of oingo songs deem to be about feeling alienated in one way or another... This ones more straight forward then some others

9 years ago

Alex C

Saw Boingo many times in the early 80s. Now my daughter likes Echosmith's rehash of this song called "Cool Kids"Much respect to Danny, Steve and the boys.

9 years ago

Rocco DeRobertis

I think we all feel like we are on the outside looking in sometimes and its not always a bad thing. I am happy just being an observer now and then.

9 years ago

Jerome Fried

I'm reposting this because while it may now be considered classic rock, it rings true with mne. 30 years later, I still am "on the outside". It's from my high school days (does anyone remember those?), and today, at least, I feel older than I was yesterday...for the first time.#OntheOutside 

9 years ago

Jerome Fried

Nothing ever changes...

9 years ago

Jerome Fried

#ResIpsaLoquitur - I am. On the Outside...

11 years ago

Jason Darter

Your video for "what you see" no longer works any chance you could repost?

12 years ago

steve albini

there new wave, with a libertarian under tone.

12 years ago

leslietunes1

STILL THINK THIS WAS THEIR BEST SONG. CAN SOOOOO RELATE

12 years ago

reelphresh

@eatmydonuts could you put up stuff off the boingo album, i was looking for useless the none farewell version, and be looking for others off it.

12 years ago

Will Neill

@Pastalet Well, they played so much most of them developed hearing problems...

12 years ago

cutedude420

one person got lost tryin to find a stupid justin bebier or lady gaga song and ended up here .... poor soul

13 years ago

SqueezyCow

lol, pedo-rock. The fuck?

13 years ago

Octoberchic25

@Pastalet agreed...!

13 years ago

SpookySkeleton

I heard this on The Best Of Oingo Boingo!!!! I LOVE YOU DANNY ELFMAN!!!!!! <3333333333

13 years ago

Pastalet

Damn. All the members are alive and well but there is no Oingo Boingo. "FML"

13 years ago

explosivoification

What genre is oingo boingo, I've always called it "pedo rock". I like it but since I don't know the genre and a lot of it is really perverse that's what I called it.

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