Bizarre Love Triangle

Bizarre Love Triangle, by New Order, is a song on the Lancaster Canon (High Holy). Commonly known as "BLT," it is one of the more popular songs in the Canon, aided in no small part by one of Lancaster's most unique traditions. During BLT, many students take off their pants and dance around in their underwear -- boxers only, please -- brandishing their unworn legwear. Meanwhile, many more students and staff line up in two parallel rows and hold hands to form a human tunnel, through which the underdressed dancers pass as they circle the quad. This tunnel seems to get longer every year, and likely stretches well over a hundred feet. It is customary for the tunnel makers to slap the behinds (or other body parts) of people the know (or don't). However, a rule against this is slowly being enforced. Some people also drop their arms in front on people they know, but this has been know to cause injury to the neck/head/chest and is not encouraged by students or staff.

BLT has been de facto Canon for at least a decade, and the tradition of dropping trou is likewise around ten years old. Perhaps surprisingly, the administration has tolerated the students' ecdysis with little resistance. Students choosing to go pantsless must wear boxers, and may not run or swing their pants over their heads. So long as they abide by those regulations, though, they are free to take it off, baby! Take it allpartially off!

The non-running-or-swinging regulation was added sometime after 1999...

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BLT is also sometimes called the "Underwear Song" or "Boxer Dance," for obvious reasons.

Lyrics

Every time i think of you

I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue

It's no problem of mine but it's a problem I find

Living a life that I can't leave behind

There's no sense in telling me

The wisdom of a fool won't set you free

But that's the way that it goes

And it's what nobody knows

While every day my confusion grows

Every time I see you falling

I get down on my knees and pray

I'm waiting for that final moment

You'll say the words that I can't say

I feel fine and I feel good

I'm feeling like I never should

Whenever I get this way, I just don't know what to say

Why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday

I'm not sure what this could mean

I don't think you're what you seem

I do admit to myself

That if I hurt someone else

Then I'll never see just what we're meant to be

Every time I see you falling

I get down on my knees and pray

I'm waiting for that final moment

You'll say the words that I can't say