| The Pretenders – The Wait Lyrics | 1 month ago |
| @[Stiglr:50313] I recall reading an article on the band circa '81, and the writer made a big deal out of how he had lyrics with him and J H Scott said, "Don't let Chrissie see you've got those". And the garbling of this song's lyrics in particular are extreme!!! I mean, listen to that first line, "Said, the wait now, magic child, **workitonoutnowworkit**" :o | |
| The Pretenders – The Wait Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[Hartyhar:41841] Yeah, I can remember years ago having my old Pretenders (I) cassette in my car stereo and then getting a speeding ticket... because how can you not drive at breakneck speed with this blaring out of your speakers??? "Huhhhhhhhhhhhh!"\r\n | |
| Elvis Costello – Beyond Belief Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[poolhallace:41840]: A decent analysis, but I can\'t see a way the narrator is successful in his wobbly advances. In fact, I think the whole song is in the "decision space" where he decides whether to approach or not.\r\n\r\n"My hands were clammy and cunning,\r\nShe\'s been suitably stunning,\r\nBut I know there\'s not a hope in Hades"\r\n\r\n"I got a feeling, I\'m gonna get a lot of grief" He knows how this ends. (But maybe he goes for it *anyway*) | |
| Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[voltafan101:39316] Absolutely, it's missing half the song... from the "Hard Again" album Correction: In verse 2, the line is "You know I make the moon, honey, Come up *two hours* late" Then verse 3: The line I shoots, it will never miss, When I make love to a woman, she can't resist I think I'll go down, to ol' Kansas, too I'mma bring back my second cousin, That's little John the Conqueroot All you little girls: settin' out that line I can make love to you woman, in five minutes time Ain't that a man? I spells M, A (child), N That represent I'm grown No B, O (child) Y That mean Mannish Boy Man! I'm a full grown man Man! I'm a natural born lover's man Man! I'm a rollin' stone I'm a man-child! I'm a hoochie coochie man Well, well well... Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Don't hurt me, don't hurt me, don't hurt me, child! Don't hurt me, don't hurt me, don't hurt me, child! Well well well well! |
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| Muddy Waters – (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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This song is quite simply a brag about sexual prowess, told from an old-time, down-south, voodoo culture standpoint. Nothing more, nothing less. The item mentioned in the second verse is "John the Conqueroot", a "magic ingredient" in a mojo hand/mojo bag, that confers these supposed powers over women. "Mannish Boy", another Muddy Waters classic is this same song, told a slightly different way. |
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| Muddy Waters – (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[anintellectual:39315] Well, seeing as your "analysis" is flat out WRONG, then we can disregard what you think of it. | |
| Muddy Waters – (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[anintellectual:39314] Well, seeing as your "analysis" is flat out WRONG, then we can disregard what you think of it. | |
| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Trenchtown Rock Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[DustynJ:36929] No. Just: no. | |
| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Kinky Reggae Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[Stiglr:36503] Regards possible bi-sexual elements in this song, I wouldn't think rastas would be that tolerant of homosexuality... see "Midnight Ravers" for clues as to Bob's view on "alternate" lifestyles. "Can't tell my woman from the men, (No, I say you can't) 'Caused they're dressed in the same pollution; their mind is confused with confusion; for their problems seems there's no solution" | |
| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Kinky Reggae Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I just saw an interesting take on this that might shed light on it. It seems to be a cultural "thing" in Jamaica for men to "share women" and be able to be openly polygamous. With Bob, this was most CERTAINLY the case, as he fathered numerous children, with and outside of his marriage to Rita. With that in mind, you can read these lyrics in a new light. The only line I still squint at is, "He had a candy tar, all over 'is chocolate bar". Not sure if the "chocolate bar" is Marcus' woman or .... something else? I don't think Bob was anything like bi-sexual, but that one lyric is a bit out of place. |
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| Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| That mojo you're all referring to is "Little John the Conqueroot", designed to woo women. It's part of that voodoo, mojo black art down south in Louisiana, and apparently, "ol' Kansas, too...." | |
| X – How I (Learned My Lesson) Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Unless the symbolism is hiding the true meaning of the song, this seems to indicate the story of a young, impressionable Exene being led on and taken advantage of (perhaps molested) by a silver-tongued preacher or congregation leader. She wanted to have a true and open relationship with the clergyman, but he wanted to keep it on the sly. "When I walked out you just shook my hand" sounds like wouldn't acknowledge whatever "relationship" they had. With songs like this and "Universal Corner" you have to wonder at what happened to Exene to led her to abandon Catholicism. |
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| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Kinky Reggae Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[circa:26839]-81 Agreed. And anyone that doesn't think Bob wrote songs about sex has obviously never heard "Stir it Up" "Lick Samba" or "Guava Jelly"... |
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| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Kinky Reggae Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[mikado:26838] I dunno what WOOGA-BOOGA is, but the lyric is BOOGA-WOOGA. I interpret it as a euphemism for "booty" or genitals. | |
| Bob Marley and the Wailers – Kinky Reggae Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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This song is certainly about sex and (in)fidelity. One of the only chinks in Bob's "armor of righteousness" is that he was an unapologetic philanderer, and did so right in the face of his wife, Rita. I read in a biography book (So Much Things to Say by Roger Steffens) how Rita once served Bob and former Miss World beauty Cindy Breakspeare breakfast in bed shortly after Bob's cancer diagnosis (!!) and the Marley documentary movie focuses a bit of time on his relationships with women and the obvious pain it caused Rita Marley. Now, one part of the lyric really confuses me. Second verse... "I went down to Picadilly Circus, Down there I saw Marcus, He had a candy tar, All over his chocolate bar" What's all *this* mean, I wonder? Is the "chocolate bar" Marcus' girlfriend, or Marcus' (you-know-what-I-mean)? Are we talking about a possible three-some, or something else here? I'm sure Bob and probably Rasta in general aren't very pro-homosexual/bi-sexual, as evidenced by some of the lyrics in Midnight Ravers (can't tell my women from the men, she is dressed in the same pollution), I wonder aloud how Bob could even have been so out front with this lyric. Or at least, unambiguous. What do you all think? |
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| The Pretenders – The Wait Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Having since read "Reckless", Chrissie's autobiography, it seems the tune was written about her then boyfriend and bassist Pete Farndon. | |
| Talking Heads – Electric Guitar Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I can sort of see both the themes of "synths taking over" and "censorship" as concepts to base this song on... but what about the first verse? "Electric guitar is run over by a car on the highway. The meaning of life is to tune this electric guitar." How's *that* fit in???? |
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| Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[bobtaurus:16725] That short little bass break sounds to me like a person struggling to control a big firehose that has suddenly been turned on full fire-fighting force! Love it!!!! |
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| X – Adult Books Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[davoaxiom:14693] That whole second verse, at least to me, is just about kink. Clifford's into bondage, and Jane plays along for a while: but when she finally says "yes", he loses interest (cuts the chains); because he just goes for that special girl who says "no". As for "tomata" I don't know anything about Tomata Du Plenta, but "tomato" is an old time reference to sex, like "jelly roll" and others. |
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| X – Universal Corner Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Never thought about it that way.... but I don't think that's it. The song is dripping with references to Catholocism. Catholicism is a Latin term for "universal" religion... so there's the tie to the title of the song. Lines about "washing his feet with her tears" seems like part of the Mary Magdalene narrative in the Bible. And of course, "Screaming Magdalene". And finally, "Dropping the phone she leaves it dead to the dead men" (I hear that as the men who wrote the Bible and all the Popes and religious scholars responsible for the patriarchal society world wide). I still don't quite understand exactly where the pay phone comes in, and what that's a symbol for. I think it's about Exene abandoning the religion she may have been exposed to as a child. And there may be some themes of rebelling against sexual repression as perhaps the catalyst for abandoning religion. "She must build her fire next to the pay phone. Heat is the point: smoke on the receiver" |
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| The Pretenders – Tattooed Love Boys Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| That's sniveling (as in whining), not "sniffling"! | |
| The Pretenders – The Wait Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is clearly about a latchkey kid. Could be autobiographical, or 3rd person. But definitely about a kid who is left to fend for him/herself at night, hanging out in pool halls and waiting at bus stops and train platforms, "staring into the streetlights". No idea why Chrissie went to such lengths to make the lyrics unintelligible. I wondered about these lyrics for years and years. |
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| X – Johny Hit and Run Paulene Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think it's just the rapists' name for *any* girl; obviously he doesn't see women as real people, just as victims and commodities. And it reinforces the sicko fantasy angle: perhaps Johnny is acting out rage against someone real or imagined in his past named Pauline. | |
| X – I'm Coming Over Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Isn't the lyric... "... fluff up the pillows and remove those clothes" ? |
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