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| Elvis Costello – Night Rally Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It's about the dangers of Nationalism, peppered with images and references to Nazism. It's a masterpiece of wit and construction. The "forbidden book" is simply the records that fascist regimes always keep on their enemies. "Wait until they've got you running to the Night Rally" is the warning that you too might join them when they get big enough. The "singing with the hand on the heart" is how fascist regimes--or any regime--has their own propogandist songs. the "singing in the showerS", is a clever double meaning, with reference to the showers in the nazi extermination camps. There's also the reference to armbands (worn by nazis). |
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| Elvis Costello – (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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More of Elvis' "sexual paranoia," as Rolling Stone called it. Again, Elvis observes a young girl going to an older man. The older man is "sixty-six" and preys on young girls. "Capital punishment" is a different meaning, the "capital" means money, and the "punishment" is the girl giving herself to prostitution. A warder is a guard at a prison--the victim in the song must kiss her captor. |
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