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| - Song Name: Tunnel of Life Artist: DEVO Run Time: less than 2 minutes (segue from Booji Boy's Funeral tour film) Years Performed: 1980 Writing Credits: Mark Mothersbaugh Alternate Versions: without lyrics, this music is called Booji Boy's Funeral Demo Versions: None Known Song Connections: Booji Boy's Funeral (same music)
* This song is just the end of Booji Boy's Funeral with lyrics.
* In the Freedom of Choice tour, the performance of this song is preceded by a tour film with General Boy and Booji Boy. The first part is set in a factory, where General Boy accidentally crushes Booji's head in a press, after warning him of the danger. The second half is in the hospital as a nurse unwraps Booji's bandages, revealing his head to be horribly disfigured.
* Only the first half of the Booji Boy's Funeral tour film survives intact, and appears on We're All DEVO! and The Complete Truth About Devolution. The second half only appears on DEVO Live 1980, recorded as projection.
* The lyrics are related to an entry in Booji Boy's book, My Struggle.
* After the Booji Boy's Funeral film clip is played, the music playback continues. Booji appears on stage in a collared raincoat with his mask as it appeared in the clip, turned inside out and smeared with Vaseline. Booji sings lyrics to the audio playback. The river of time conveyed my tunnel of life yanked me from deep inside the capsule where I slept darkness that shrouded me burst with a sickening light when I was born my hands were small but they grew big to pick the fruit that made me think forget the ways so I could go reverse the flow back where I came from to the tunnel of life to the tunnel of life
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