| Squeeze – Goodbye Girl Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The line that's got me confused is "A kettle and two coffees, Her number on the door". Is a kettle and two coffees supposed to be a pictoral representation of what the numbers on the door are, or is it just a curious observation of his that she's alone in the room but keeps two coffee cups there, or is that how much they drank (that's a lot of caffeine!) ...or am I just way over-thinking it...? |
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| Phil Collins – Sussudio Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Invisibe Touch is right. Collins, like a lot of artists, would work on a tune first and write words to fit as he went along. He just never came up with anything better to replace "Sussudio" with. I refer to any song with bizarre lyrics now as suffering from "Sussudio Syndrome". (You know the type. Sometimes when you understand why they wrote the song it makes sense, and other times the symbolism in the songs only makes sense to the one who wrote it.) |
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| Peter Gabriel – Shock The Monkey Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| toolmusik: Either do the drugs, or type; but don't do both. | |
| Kate Bush – Cloudbusting Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Re: the reference to yo-yo's... During the early-mid twentieth century, some glow-in-the-dark things such as toys and watch and clock faces were painted with what turned out to be a dangerous radioactive substance. I'm not a physicist so don't hold me to it, but I want to say it was radium. Maybe J R or some one can clarify that point (I'll check into it too). So it's possible that the reference there is to a glow-in-the-dark yo-yo. There's also the possible symbolic reference to dangerous feelings that the main character feels the need to keep hidden. |
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