| Elvis Costello – (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea Lyrics | 6 months ago |
| @[NAwlinsContrarian:53852] Most of the lyrics of Elvis' have a double or sometimes triple meaning. Although I do think 66 is referring to the year Andy Warhol's movie "Chelsea Girls". The men in white coats I think are referring to the dressed up people in Chelsea (Andy Warhol's gang) as well as at the asylum. He is drawing a connection there. Elsie is not a cow. That is more "Bessie" in the US. Elvis would not dare use a US reference. I think it does mean though now Natasha is a bad girl and Elsie is a goodie good girl. Meaning she has been influenced from a good girl into this bad girl. It is a mix of similarities of fashion girls being used up, prostitutes being used up, as well as girls being used up in the asylum and how they are all f'd up for using these girls and then they get used up and thrown away "last year's model". But in the song he is talking to someone "I don't want to check your pulse. I don't want nobody else." Warning this person not to mix in with the wrong crowd or get smitten by the wrong people and quickly things can go awry. | |
| Elvis Costello – (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea Lyrics | 6 months ago |
| @[Spunth:53851] Yes, I think you are correct. He is making a co-relation to the movie, the neighborhood, Cabaret, the Chelsea psych ward, all of it. I think he is saying the streets and the psych ward are the same and everyone will take advantage of you. He is warning this girl of hanging out with the wrong crowd and becoming a heroine addict and a prostitute (he does not want to check her pulse). | |
| Duncan Sheik – Serena Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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To me, he is talking to Serena who is confused about their sexuality, "..enjoy the girls and the boys and everything in between...." This to me sets off the whole song and what it is about. And all this time they are avoiding the hard things about coming out, they are missing out on life. The second verse seems like Serena is contemplating giving up a part of themselves, either by suicide or hiding who they really are, (which is the latter to me giving the final verse), "going to give up...give out." And it is their conscience holding them back and to remember the "despair" of trying to play a part instead of living who they are. The last verse was a ploy of remembering the good times and having fun until "morning would come". And the whole "find the diamond inside" is finding the good within yourself instead of taking what everybody else wants them to be. Diamond being a symbol of traditional marriage here I take it. Some may see diamond as being drugs as a coping mechanism and that works too. Either way, Serena needs to "find the diamond inside." |
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