Update: Da “Sony-Bertelsmann Music Group – Music Entertainment” offensichtlich (wenn auch nicht wirklich nachvollziehbar) das Einbetten des in sehr schlechter Bildqualität auf YouTube veröffentlichten Original-Videos nicht erlaubt (Video-ID: pcJwz7wu8_s) gibt es hier “nur” die extralange Version aus der gleichnamigen TV-Show 
Der Song selbst beginnt ungefähr bei 04:53 (Mitte des Videos); die Geschichte bis dahin ist aber IMHO sehenswert. Das lange Video hat mit dem Sony-BMG-Clip, der mehr oder weniger davon handelt, den “Best Song in the World” in einer Art zum Tonstudio umfunktionierten Photo-Kabine aufzunehmen allerdings nichts zu tun!
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Songtext:
This is the greatest and best song in the world… Tribute.
Long time ago me and my brother Kyle here,
we was hitchhikin’ down a long and lonesome road.
All of a sudden, there shined a shiny demon… in the middle… of the road.
And he said:
[gesungen:]
“Play the best song in the world, or I’ll eat your soul.” (soul)
[gesprochen:]
Well me and Kyle, we looked at each other,
and we each said… “Okay.”
[gesungen:]
And we played the first thing that came to our heads,
Just so happened to be,
The Best Song in the World, it was The Best Song in the World.
Look into my eyes and it’s easy to see
One and one make two, two and one make three,It was destiny.
Once every hundred-thousand years or so,
When the sun doth shine and the moon doth glow
And the grass doth grow…
Needless to say, the beast was stunned.
Whip-crack went his schwumpy tail,
And the beast was done.
He asked us: “[grunzen] Be you angels?”
And we said, “Nay. We are but men.”
Rock!
Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh-ah-ah,
Ohhh, whoah, ah-whoah-oh!
This is not The Greatest Song in the World, no.
This is just a tribute.
Couldn’t remember The Greatest Song in the World, no, no.
This is a tribute, oh, to The Greatest Song in the World,
All right! It was The Greatest Song in the World,
All right! It was the best motherfucking song – The Greatest Song in the world.
This is the greatest and best song in the world… Tribute.
Long time ago me and my brother Kyle here,
we was hitchhikin’ down a long and lonesome road.
All of a sudden, there shined a shiny demon… in the middle… of the road.
And he said:
[gesungen:]
“Play the best song in the world, or I’ll eat your soul.” (soul)
[gesprochen:]
Well me and Kyle, we looked at each other,
and we each said… “Okay.”
[gesungen:]
And we played the first thing that came to our heads,
Just so happened to be,
The Best Song in the World, it was The Best Song in the World.
Look into my eyes and it’s easy to see
One and one make two, two and one make three,
It was destiny.
Once every hundred-thousand years or so,
When the sun doth shine and the moon doth glow
And the grass doth grow…
Needless to say, the beast was stunned.
Whip-crack went his schwumpy tail,
And the beast was done.
He asked us: “(snort) Be you angels?”
And we said, “Nay. We are but men.”
Rock!
Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh-ah-ah,
Ohhh, whoah, ah-whoah-oh!
This is not The Greatest Song in the World, no.
This is just a tribute.
Couldn’t remember The Greatest Song in the World, no, no.
This is a tribute, oh, to The Greatest Song in the World,
All right! It was The Greatest Song in the World,
All right! It was the best motherfucking song – The Greatest Song in the world.
[?]
[gesprochen:]
And the peculiar thing is this my friends:
the song we sang on that fateful night it didn’t actually sound
anything like this song.
[gesungen:]
This is just a tribute! You gotta believe me!
And I wish you were there! Just a matter of opinion.
Ah, fuck! Good God, God lovin’,
So surprised to find you can’t stop it.
[?]
All right! All right!
[gesprochen:]
And the peculiar thing is this my friends:
the song we sang on that fateful night it didn’t actually sound
anything like this song.
[gesungen:]
This is just a tribute! You gotta believe me!
And I wish you were there! Just a matter of opinion.
Ah, fuck! Good God, God lovin’,
So surprised to find you can’t stop it.
[?]
All right! All right!
*draft*
Quelle: youtube/last.fm/metrolyrics/mantrix
