| Electrelane – On Parade Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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| David Bowie – Lady Stardust Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I believe the line "Ooh, how I sighed when they asked if I knew his name!" to be a somewhat oblique nod to Peter's denial of Jesus in the Gospels - i.e. "Ooh, how I lied when they asked if I knew his name!". Nicholas Pegg suggests that the line "I smiled sadly for a love I could not obey" is paraphasing Lord Alfred Douglas' quote "I am the love that dare not speak its name." - I think quoting a wider selection of the poem that line is from (Two Loves) sheds more light still on the song: "[...]I fell a-weeping, and I cried, 'Sweet youth, Tell me why, sad and sighing, thou dost rove These pleasent realms? I pray thee speak me sooth What is thy name?' He said, 'My name is Love.' Then straight the first did turn himself to me And cried, 'He lieth, for his name is Shame, But I am Love, and I was wont to be Alone in this fair garden, till he came Unasked by night; I am true Love, I fill The hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame.' Then sighing, said the other, 'Have thy will, I am the love that dare not speak its name.' " |
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| Supergrass – Pumping On Your Stereo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's likely that the line "life is a cigarette" and that paragraph is inspired by a poem by a Spanish poet named Manuel Machado, which has an opening line that translates as that. :) I made such a connection when I read that the Bowie song "Rock N' Roll Suicide" was inspired by this poem, but in a less obvious way. So maybe in fact Supergrass were informed by Bowie rather than directly inspired by the poet. |
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