Don't Call Me Dude

Album: Here Comes Trouble (1990)
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  • Here's my story, sad but true
    About a girl that I once knew.
    She broke my heart, I became unglued,
    It all started when she called me dude
    Well today I leave the psycho ward
    Cause my sentence did conclude:
    I had killed a man with my bare hands
    Because he called me dude
    The jury said that I was insane.
    Temporally insane - brain strain.
    But now the doctors say I'm A.O.K.
    So I start my new life today.
    This story starts some years ago
    As I vacationed by the sea.
    In the California sunshine
    Just me & my baby.
    I was in love feeling sky high
    When a big blonde lifeguard walked by.
    He looked at her, she looked at him -
    I knew it was good bye.
    He took her by the hand, kicked sand in my face.
    She looked & laughed & said, "Later Dude!"
    They were gone without a trace
    And the waves echoed her laughter
    And her words...Yo Later Dude.
    Later that night I was in such a bad mood
    Sittin' in a bar drinkin' hard, getting stewed
    Thinkin' 'bout that girl & how 'bout I'd been screwed
    When some guy walks in sits next to me & says
    What's up dude!
    I heard the word dude & I became unglued.
    Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch
    And put my hands around his neck, and I squeezed...
    DON'T CALL ME DUDE!
    So that's how I got where I am
    But this ain't where it ends.
    The doctors said they cured me
    I said good bye to my crazy friends.
    I was smiling as I left that place
    My life had been renewed.
    The guard at the gate, he stamped my pass
    And he said, "Yo Later Dude!"
    Slowly I turned... Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Wikipedia from Usa"Don't Call Me Dude" was a top-twenty pop single in Australia. The video received regular rotation on MTV's Headbangers Ball. The story line in the video is based on that of real life guitarist Dude Aeronomy. In the late 1980's, the guitarist began to experience extreme psychotic breaks in reaction to hearing the word "Dude." These began after a romantic breakup with a woman who had used it as a term of endearment. As depicted in the video, the record company with the legal rights to the stage name sent the guitarist to rehab several times in an attempt to cure the phobia. The same video is also featured in the episode "Blood Drive" on MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head.
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