| The Smiths – Rusholme Ruffians Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Victoria Wood's "Fourteen Again" seems to have been a major inspiration for this song: I want to be fourteen again, When sex was just called number ten, And I was up to seven and a half. Boys were for love, girls were for fun. You burst out laughing if you saw a nun. Sophistication was a sports car and a chiffon scarf. I want to be fourteen again, Tattoo my self with a fountain pen, Pretend to like the taste of rum and Coke, Chuck my school hat in a bush, Spit on my mascara brush, Buy Consulate and teach myself to smoke. I want to be fourteen again, Free rides on the waltzer off the fairground men For a promise of a snog the last night of the fair— French kissing as the kiosks shut Behind the generators with your coconut, The coloured lights reflected in the Brylcream on his hair. I want to be fourteen again, For all the things I didn't know then. When I was funny, I was famous, I was never ignored, I was a crazy girl, I had to laugh. I had Ilya Kuriakin's autograph. I had no idea you could wake up feeling bored. |
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| Pixies – Monkey Gone to Heaven Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Just to add another reference - possibly Frank was thinking of the clapping rhyme: "Three-six-nine, the goose drank wine The monkey chew tobacco on the street car line The line broke, the monkey got choked And they all went to heaven in a little row boat" I've always thought this was an environmental song, and that the monkeys are we humans. I kind of hate to read too much into a scratch lyric, but Frank obviously tapped into something deep, even if he didn't mean to. |
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