| Pulp – Disco 2000 Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Lyrically, this has to be one of the stupidest songs ever written. Let's examine why. "Oh Deborah, do you recall? Your house was very small" Yes Jarvis, I think that we can safely assume that someone will recall the size of the house they grew up in, as well as the detail of there being "woodchip on the wall". "When I came around to call You didn't notice me at all" Well then we have our answer to the previous question. If she didn't "notice you at all" then she is very unlikely to remember the incident, if we can even call such a non-event of someone calling round an incident. Besides, how can you not notice someone when they come round to call? You might feel irritated, annoyed and exasperated by someone unwelcome coming round to call but to not even notice? Do you mean that she didn't hear the doorbell or didn't see you outside? If so, again, she is hardly likely to "recall" something which she did not even perceive with her senses in the first place. "And I said let's all meet up in the year 2000" So she has not even "noticed" him call round but he says this to her. So we can only assume that Deborah was deaf, which makes singing a song to her a slightly preposterous proposition in the first place. Also, what is this about "let's all meet up in the year 2000". How many other people are invited to what is meant to be an intimate reunion between the hapless Jarvis and Deborah? "You were the first girl at school to get breasts And Martyn said that you were the best Oh the boys all loved you, but I was a mess" if Jarvis is so enamoured with Deborah then what does he care about the opinion of Martyn? And if all the boys loved here then why highlight Martyn's opinion? Who the hell is Martyn? And besides, the best at what? "I had to watch them trying to get you undressed" This is where things go from the merely idiotic to the seriously creepy. So all the boys, presumably in the school are trying to sexually molest Deborah and all Jarvis does is watch them? Not all that but he claims that he "had to" do so, like it was his solemn duty to stalk her. "I never knew that you'd get married" So she was the most popular girl around, the first to get breasts, the "best" according to all of the boys (including Martyn), so much so that they all tried to undress her routinely but somehow our hero did not have it within his imagination to envisage that she might get married one day and not to him, someone that by his own admission "meant nothing to her"! "On that damp and lonely Thursday years ago Do it Oh yeah Oh yeah" What damp and lonely Thursday? Was Thursday the day that he went to call at Deborah's house and somehow she didn't even notice his presence? Do it? Do what? Oh yeah? I think that it is more "Oh no" for this song. "Oh what are you doing Sunday baby Would you like to come and meet me maybe?" This song was released in 1995 with the proposition to meet up in the year 2000. And yet, now it is being suggested that they meet on "Sunday". So which is it? The year 2000 or a Sunday in 1995? "You can even bring your baby" A very generous offer to grant a woman permission to bring her baby to a social function with someone who she knew from her childhood and early adolescence, someone who, by his own admission "meant nothing to her". One problem though. If the meeting is to take place in the year 2000, five years into the future, as was the initial suggestion included in the title of the song, the "baby" will no longer be a baby, will it? All in all, this is an idiotic, illogical song with very poor lyrics. The main protagonist, Jarvis, comes across as a self-absorbed creep, a sex pest and almost certainly a stalker.Why the hell should this poor woman want to meet you when she did not even have time for you when you were children? Leave her alone and let her get on with her life. |
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| Arcade Fire – Everything Now Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Everything has changed for me since this track dropped. It speaks of the vacuity of modern consumerist culture. | |
| Stereophonics – Local Boy In The Photograph Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| jack2398 is wrong. It is about a boy called Jamie, not Paul. I doubt that Jack is actually from Aberdare. I am and I grew up with the boys from the Stereophonics. I consider them among my closest friends. We always have a laugh. Aberdare is a real community and Jamie was a local boy who killed himself by throwing himself in front of a train. I knew him well. We had a laugh, so you can imagine what a shock this was to a community like ours. I was one of the ones who sat on the banks for hours, drinking and talking about Jamie. Jamie, not Paul. | |
| T'pau – China In Your Hand Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| For me, China in your hand is about a dictatorial leader involved in a global power struggle in a dystopian futuristic world where humans have been enslaved by a totalitarian robot government. Western Europe and North America have been devastated by a 100 year conflict against the robots and the real power on the planet has shifted to the Eastern continents, where the remaining human settlements are. Already we see the possible signs of this future in our world today. In this song, T'Pau are addressing the remaining humans, urging them to fight against the "monster" of robot tyranny and start a revolutionary rebellion from China, which remains "in the hand" of human beings. | |
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