Bizarre Love Triangle
"Bizarre Love Triangle" by New Order is a song on the Lancaster Upper Canon. 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, often above the head. For this reason, BLT is sometimes known as the "Underwear Song" or the "Boxer Dance."
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 they know (or don't). However, a rule against this is slowly being enforced. Some people also drop their arms in front of people they know, but this has been known 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 all partially off!
...We would like to apologize for the preceding outburst. Those responsible have been sacked. We now return to your regularly scheduled article...
The non-running-or-swinging regulation was added sometime after 1999.
The version of "Bizarre Love Triangle" used for the Canon is actually a remix of the original New Order song.
During the last dance of 2nd session 2008 BLT was played directly before the song Sexy Back. By that time in the session it had become frighteningly common for students to do what was being called "The Mock-arena" during Sexy Back. Since it was played right after BLT that night, students decided to do the dance pantless.
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
Chorus:
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
Chorus
Ah ah ah ah ah, etc....
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