| Porcupine Tree – Voyage 34 (Phase I) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Where did you hear this? And what propaganda specifically? I'd like to know more about it. | |
| Ben Folds – Levi Johnston's Blues Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Is that "I'm a fuckin' redneck..." stuff really from his myspace? | |
| Ben Folds – Belinda Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I haven't heard anything from Folds or Hornby directly but to me the story is pretty clear, and has been stated already, but here's my version including some subtler things. An Ageing rockstar still tours and his biggest (or only) hit is about his ex - Belinda. He mostly plays to old folks of his generation. I think the "a lot of forty-somethings..." actually refers to the offspring of couples who got together/conceived/whatever to the song, and if for arguments sake we say the "present" is 2010 that would put the release of the song in the 60s - his hay day. This probably makes him and his fans around 70. Anyway the lyrics of the song are "Belinda I love you, don't leave me, I need you", but the songs he sings in his head are what really happened - he left Belinda for an air hostess (plane + champagne), who was superficially great (younger, breasts, etc), but whom he probably never really had a connection with. Not sure if Cindy is the same girl but either way her song comically has the same generic lyrics (perhaps just a metaphor for very similar lyrics). The last lyric is wrong - it should simply be "Belinda, i love you / She gave me complimentary champagne (X2)" And i think that's important because this time it's just him saying it, and for the first time he dropped the "ed" from the end of love - confessing that he does in fact still love her, and then repeats the champagne lyric to pathetically try to explain he was tempted away. One last thing - i think the "hidden" extra bit at the end could be a representation of what the song actually sounded like - it sounds like it could be from the 60s. |
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