| Frankie Goes to Hollywood – The Power Of Love Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I always loved this song, but really hated the Gabrielle Aplin cover, because I always felt it missed the point. Yes, in some ways this is a fairly straight love song. But there's also a darker side to it as well; the kind of love Holly Johnson is offering here is so powerful and intense, so all-consuming. "Love is danger" is the key line. It's quite clear there is a deep erotic love on offer. Partly because of that, I always felt that for the object of the lover's desire to be "protected" by Holly would be fraught with risk. From the frying pan into the fire. From the hooded claw to a lover who loves you so much they're just as terrifying. Any cover that doesn't see the darkness in this song is covering only half of it. Partly I think you have to remember that Frankie in the mid-80s were a by-word for dangerous, hedonistic sex, and that vibe is very strong in this song, despite its occasional prettiness. |
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| Morrissey – Our Frank Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| As with many Morrissey songs, I think this song is a fantasy about not being himself. i.e. I think it's addressed to a friend with whom Morrissey has frequent 'deep conversations'. He's begging the friend to stop them, to stop Morrissey from indulging in his own tendency to introspection and 'thinking so bleakly'. The irony of course, Morrissey admits in the last verse, is that in reality it's his own fault. It's Morrissey who is constantly 'thinking so bleakly', Morrissey who indulges in the deep conversations. Even so, he's begging the friend to take him out and take him out of himself, to help him get drunk and smoke, to let himself lose himself. But again, in the last verse, the light pathos is that we realise there's nothing really the friend can do, no matter how much Morrissey begs him. Morrissey is asking for respite from being himself, something no-one can provide but himself. | |
| Morrissey – Interesting Drug Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Re: 'on the right' v 'on the rise'. It's a deliberate pun. The video has 'on the right' written on a wall, in the song lyrics he clearly sings 'rise'. I suppose it's a way of commenting on the rise of the Conservative right (though in Britain at the time, the right had risen to its height). I assume the interesting drug is money and power for the people at the top. The complaint among the British left has always been that the pro-corporate right tread on the rest of the people for their own personal gain. It's a common Morrissey trick to sing different lines of one song as different characters. Here I think 'Look around... can you blame us?' is satirising the fake innocence of the rich. Despite what they do to other people, they still think they deserve sympathy. |
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| The Only Ones – Another Girl, Another Planet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I first heard this song about fifteen years ago, and I've only just realised it's a love song to heroin. Once you see it, it's so obvious: 'i look ill', 'you get under my skin', 'i won't need rehabilitating' [i.e. rehab], 'space travel's in my blood', 'I can't live without it'. I should have guessed as soon as Pete Doherty started hanging out with Peter Perrett and saying how amazing he was. |
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| The Smiths – Rubber Ring Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I'd always assumed 'rubber ring' referred to a vinyl record. Vinyl is a kind of rubber isn't it? And it's circular... | |
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