Walking on 10th Street
The guy in front of me, Walkman headphones on, The Stones cranked
The thing that caught my ear, singing loud and clear
Well every couple of steps I heard "Woo-woo"
And he said it so un-self-consciously
Like it never would occur to me
That he'd reveal himself and I'd offer a blue
I'd offer a blue

I was drunk the night we met
I might try to forget
Except I know so were you
I don't really care 'cause we went on from there
And I try not to hide from what is true
The other night I had this dream
You told me what you want from me
I gave it to you instantly
And I woke up without a clue

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I can't make out all of the words, but I'm pretty sure it should be, "And he sang so unselfconsiously/Like it never would occur to me" (meaning, Ira would be more reserved, himself)

Interesting little song...two seemingly-unrelated little observations making up each of the two verses. Both poignant in their own peculiar way (though the first verse is definitely the more peculiar of the two)

The title is probably neither here nor there. Electr-O-Pura has a lot of deliberate weirdness: like, have you noticed how all of the times listed (on the back cover) for the songs are way off? The epic last song, "Blue Line Swinger", is listed as being only three-minutes-and-something: but it's more like eight or nine minutes. (When I heard that one live, I thought Georgia was going to bust right through the drum heads...)

I read an interview where they said their longest songs were often panned by the critics, so they tried to fool people into thinking the long songs were shorter.

There seem to be all kinds of inside jokes in the song titles. Such as the repetition of "Hot Chicken", though there seems absolutely no connection to the earlier song also containing those words in the title. Or the fact that the line "Straight down to the bitter end" doesn't actually appear in the song of that title, but rather in "False Alarm".

I can't make out all of the words, but I'm pretty sure it should be, "And he sang so unselfconsiously/Like it never would occur to me" (meaning, Ira would be more reserved, himself) Interesting little song...two seemingly-unrelated little observations making up each of the two verses. Both poignant in their own peculiar way (though the first verse is definitely the more peculiar of the two) The title is probably neither here nor there. Electr-O-Pura has a lot of deliberate weirdness: like, have you noticed how all of the times listed (on the back cover) for the songs are way off? The epic last song, "Blue Line Swinger", is listed as being only three-minutes-and-something: but it's more like eight or nine minutes. (When I heard that one live, I thought Georgia was going to bust right through the drum heads...) I read an interview where they said their longest songs were often panned by the critics, so they tried to fool people into thinking the long songs were shorter. There seem to be all kinds of inside jokes in the song titles. Such as the repetition of "Hot Chicken", though there seems absolutely no connection to the earlier song also containing those words in the title. Or the fact that the line "Straight down to the bitter end" doesn't actually appear in the song of that title, but rather in "False Alarm".

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foreverdroneon September 16, 2007 Link
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Hot Chicken refers to Prince's Hot Chicken Shack - a restaurant in Nashville where the album was recorded.

TobintheGnomeon January 06, 2011