| Berlin – Now It's My Turn Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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The guy courted her and she fell in love with him ("You broke into my life/and stole my heart"). She performed oral sex on him ("sweet surrender found me/on my knees"), but he left her, perhaps right after that ("you left the scene of the crime/hit and run"). He wants her back ("well, now you're back again/and say you've changed"), but she's rejecting him, not because she doesn't have feelings for him anymore, but to make him hurt just like he made her hurt ("just like me you'll be/a casualty of your love"). Why did he leave her? She seems to think he was indecisive, not just callously using her ("without a single clue/you fell apart"). But we should consider that she may be an unreliable narrator on that point; maybe he really did just use her and is now trying to use her again. |
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| Berlin – Sex (I'm A...) Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I had to laugh at the comments here that this is about objectification of women. Terri Nunn, the lead singer, was and is very, very sexual. Today we'd say she's very, very "sex positive" but that term wasn't in use yet back then. This song is mostly about getting attention for the band with what was at the time a deliberately shocking, controversial song. But aside from that, the meaning of the lyrics is about her having a lot of fun with role-playing in sex while a bit frustrated that her man doesn't want to role-play too. BTW the man she was frustrated with that way wasn't John Crawford, the man in the band who sings with her and co-wrote the song and acts with her in the video. She was never lovers with any of the band members. Just to give one example of how sex positive Terri Nunn was and how comfortable she was with her sexuality, when she was just 16 years old she lied about her age and posed nude for Penthouse magazine. I've been a big fan of Berlin since "No More Words" and its album "Love Live" were released in '84, but "Sex (I'm A...)" was always my least favorite of Berlin's songs. If you're not familiar with them, go to youtube and listen their song "Now It's My Turn". |
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