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| New Order – Paradise Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is a very disturbing song lyrically and in Sumner's delivery. I can't quite make sense of it (this is New Order after all), but it seems pretty clear that the singer is obsessed with "Jolene" and from the line about "lifeless eyes," Jolene is dead. The tone of the song is threatening and obsessive--wanting, even needing, to be with Jolene but if it doesn't work out he will haunt her, track her down, ("I will live in you forever", "There's no place where you can hide") and maybe he even murdered her? But the talk about limits and levels in the second verse makes me wonder if perhaps this is really yet another song about drugs...which would be a lot less creepy. |
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| New Order – Paradise Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is a very disturbing song lyrically and in Sumner's delivery. I can't quite make sense of it (this is New Order after all), but it seems pretty clear that the singer is obsessed with "Jolene" and from the line about "lifeless eyes," Jolene is dead. The tone of the song is threatening and obsessive--wanting, even needing, to be with Jolene but if it doesn't work out he will haunt her, track her down, ("I will live in you forever", "There's no place where you can hide") and maybe he even murdered her? But the talk about limits and levels in the second verse makes me wonder if perhaps this is really yet another song about drugs...which would be a lot less creepy. |
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| Genesis – Follow You Follow Me Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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in response to parberoo:
Rutherford is the lyricist, and I actually think the lyrics are blatantly Rutherford's. If you look at Collins' lyrical contributions in the late '70s and the '80s, he penned songs about problematic relationships, not about love ("Misunderstanding," "That's All") or not about relationships at all ("Scenes from a Night's Dream," "Illegal Alien"). Rutherford had already written "Your Own Special Way" on W&W. I think "Follow You Follow Me" is is a much better song, but it comes as no surprise that the lyrics are by the same person. |
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