| John Prine – Six O'Clock News Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The song is about a lady that spends her life sleeping with strange men looking for love (or money) and then she gets pregnant and has a baby. She doesn't know who the real father is and that's why she gave the boy two first names. "Polish all that chrome" refers to one of the sexual acts Wanda performs on the men. When James Lewis is old enough to read, he finds his mother's diary and reads about where he really came from. He is so distraught he commits suicide by jumping out a window (his brains were on the sidewalk and blood was on his shoes" and it ends up on the 6:00 news. (The repeated line "come on baby..." signifies the mother going home with strange men.) The only hting I'm unsure of is whether Wanda was a prostitute or if she slept around to make up for a loveless existence. | |
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