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| The English Beat – Save It For Later Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I don't buy the teenage naivety and optimism lost to young adulthood. I can see how it might be part of it. I'm not sure how much of a joker Wakeling is, but it makes me think of Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen saying one time that the band's songs weren't really about anything - just mindless pop songs or something along tose lines. Wish I could find a reference online but googling hasn't helped yet. Anyway, I think that songwriters like Wakeling or McCulloch will say any number of things to interviewers if they tire of the same old questions, especially about the meanings of their songs. So, back to this song by the Beat,I think it's all about sex and the references are in fact more cheeky than ambiguous.
On another note, I really want to understand the reference to "black air and seven seas". Does he just mean that the world's air and seas are all polluted and therefore it's all hopeless? That verse seems fairly cryptic and must have related to the writer's life at the time. And it also got me thinking about the Bunnymen again, and their song, Seven Seas http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/56158/ |
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| The English Beat – I Confess Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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voodoodolly, I like your analysis. Just one thing. "Table time" isn't the phrase to examine, rather. it's "cards on the table". It does have to do with poker, when all the calls are done and you have to lay your cards on the table, meaning you have to show all your cards to all the other players. So putting all your "cards on the table" has become a metaphor for confessing, because you have to lay everything bare. I think you're right in interpreting the singer's behaviour as something of a gamble. |
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