| The Smiths – Handsome Devil Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| figure, after puberty women grow pubic hair. if you had a mrs. robinson sort of deal, intercourse would give you 'a boy in the bush,' to make an euphemism for sex. | |
| The Postman Syndrome – Interpretive Decorating Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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this song (well, this band in general) pulls at something really deep in my heart. i can't explain the incredible feeling of identification i get listening to the postman syndrome; it's like listening to one perfect instrument that can produce the spectrum of sound that it normally takes an assortment of instruments to make. to me, this song is about faking optimism, trying to convince yourself that something you've spent so much time on isn't dying. it speaks of trying to make a lover who doesn't want to stay stick around. it talks of faking the best out of a harsh situation ("if love turns cold, i'll call it ice cream"), and how it's so easily replaceable, but would be just as unfulfilling. the last verse, "I ask, 'what's it like to feel important?'" implies that the speaker is coming to the realization that things haven't become bad, but they've pretty much been bad from the start. a lost cause. (don't mind me, i'm in a ton of literature classes, and lyrics are, in most cases, infinitely more interesting than poetry and old, dusty fiction) |
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| The Smiths – Handsome Devil Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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i don't think it has anything to do with child abuse. sex definitely... but the "boy in the bush" part to me implies a mature woman to me. "through your exams" could be a college student, or even a teacher. "let me get your head on the conjugal bed" didn't so much imply the head of a penis as it did a maidenhead. personally, i think it's just another song about a guy trying to steal someone's virginity. ^_^ |
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