| Cheap Trick – Surrender Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think you've pretty much nailed it, fiomojo. The break in the rhyming scheme in the second stanza looks like a deliberate poetic device. The listener would anticipate "whore" (not sure about "I've known she was a WHORE", though. In the outtake version of this song, an alternate lyric is used: Now I had heard the WACS recruited old maids, dykes and whores But mommy isn't one of those, I've known her all these years. Notice how the lyric is "one of those" in both versions? does that mean she's not "old" or a "maid"? or is it just a leftover from a previous version of the lyric? In either case, the alternate version implies to me that the hidden rhyme might not be "whores." Maybe it's somethng like "But mommy isn't one of those, at least not since the war". ;-) I agree with the third stanza, but i think rolling numbers just means rolling joints. I think the chorus is just amazing because it has so many simultaneous meanings. Surrender (to lust, conformity, Americans, soldiers, whores, etc.) but don't give yourself away (go too far, lose your moral purity, catch a disease, reveal your true self, etc.). Hell, it might even refer to the Philipines (surrendering to the Japanese, then the Americans, etc.) It's interesting that it has so many allusions to war (surrender, soldier, WACS, etc.) |
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