| Mark Knopfler – The Fizzy and the Still Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Fizzy and still are two types of water - carbonated and non-carbonated. Common terms used in the UK. In this song, it represents the image of posh Hollywood, where you get two types of water on ice and all your other whims catered to. Now, to go through the song: >Sunday mornin', here we are >The boy's come home >Not quite the movie star >he's been in Hollywood >The boy's come home >The boy's done good Son coming home to his parents' house. They are ordinary folk (from the way they speak). The son didn't quite make it as a movie star, but did fine there. >He says she asked too high a price "She" is Hollywood. Succeeding in Hollywood demanded too much of a personal cost. (The cost is not mentioned; maybe it's betraying his values and turning into a different kind of person; maybe something else) >Neglecting to declare Going to Hollywood, he had been unaware of the way things really are there. >What sits between them there on ice >Chilled with the fizzy and the still Before going there, he'd had ideas of Hollywood as fancy and glamorous, but no one told him what goes along with all that. >He tried but didn't make it there >It's not for me >It's not for me He tried to fit in and adapt, but couldn't (or, I think, decided he did not want to - that lifestyle, in such sharp contrast to how he grew up, "is not for me") >Sunday papers, here we are >The boy's come home >The boy's come home Everything is back to the normal, relaxed pace of life back home. The family is back together. |
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