Boom may refer to:
Boom! is an American reality television series that aired on Spike TV in 2005 and was hosted by Kourtney Klein. It featured a group of demolition experts using explosives to destroy objects such as trailers, houses, boats and cars. Often, the suggestions on what should be blown up were sent in by home viewers via a "BOOM! Mailbag". Each episode covered obtaining the materials (such as the item to be destroyed), cleaning, gutting, and rigging the thing with explosives, and then making the final countdown and pushing the detonator, and watching the devastation.
Boom! is a children's science fiction novel by Mark Haddon published in 2009. It is the revised version of Mark Haddon's Gridzbi Spudvetch!, which was published in 1992.
Boom! tells the story of two best friends, Charlie and Jimbo (a nickname for James). When Jimbo's sister, Becky, says that the teachers are going to send him to a school for mentally ill children, Jimbo and Charlie sneaked into the staff room, where they hid a walkie-talkie to eavesdrop on the teachers' conversation, in order to confirm what Becky said was true. None of the information they hear means anything (turns out Becky was just trying to scare Jimbo), except for the surprising fact that their teachers both Mr. Kidd and Mrs. Pearce is speaking another language. After a while of dangerous investigating (for instance, sneaking into Mrs. Pearce's attic) they were approached by a man in a suit at a restaurant who told them to leave their teachers alone and then promptly burned a hole through the table they were sitting at with his finger. They disobeyed his order, however, and Charlie was kidnapped and taken to the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, where he had to fake happiness or else face certain death. But, Jimbo did not seem to know this. After a while of Jimbo investigating Charlie's "Spudvetch!" notebook (their secret notebook for gathering information) he discovered that his best bet to find him would be on the Isle Of Skye, in Scotland. He and his sister, who he had managed to convince to come with him, eventually arrived there, although with much difficulty, and inside an abandoned shack, a mysterious portal opened. Jimbo got sucked into Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, but his sister stayed on Earth, unaware. He found Charlie and, with much difficulty, escaped.
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(Verse)
I miss to give, I miss to love
But you broke up promises
Just like you broke my trust
Never again, I won't hurt again
I promised myself never to love another man, another man
(Pre-Chorus)
You promised you love me, love me, love me
You promised you'll stay, you'll stay
But I don't feel the same
(Chorus)
You're the one to blame
Why I act this way
You're the one to blame
Why I think this way
You're the one to blame
Blame, blame, blame
You're the one to blame
Blame, blame, blame
(Verse)
Who would've tought, I'd end up this way
Stepping on hearts and throwing love away
But you can't hate the player you gotta hate the game
And I know it hurts to see the monster that you made
That you made
(Pre-Chorus)
You promised you love me, love me, love me
You promised you'll stay, you'll stay
But I don't feel the same
(Chorus)
You're the one to blame
Why I act this way
You're the one to blame
Why I think this way
You're the one to blame
Blame, blame, blame
You're the one to blame
Blame, blame, blame
(Verse)
Our face cold, with great shoulders by the waist I hold her
Her only mistake is I caught her where I can take over
She cooks stake I'm not a carnivore it'd be kind of raw
But the wine is fine, I'm mature and be times that's all woman
Have better talks my teenage daughter
Then we have and you a grown woman
So I be vague when I answer questions
About my life or hustlin', I know you used to first dates
But dudes be all the fun and had this, they want that
Did time and fucked that, beat this they know people
Connections and all that,
You tied up but let's try intellectual higher subject
Like metaphysics or the science of it
That is corny also, let's talk about you being my lawful
But nah, not just yet, maybe later we just met
But for now, I need to keep you around
'Cause this the most perfect all I found in a while
(Chorus)
You're the one to blame
Why I act this way
You're the one to blame
Why I think this way
You're the one to blame
Blame, blame, blame
You're the one to blame
Blame, blame, blame
Blame, blame, blame,
Blame, blame, blame