| The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – Beautiful Zelda Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| How was our narrator fooled by Beautiful Zelda? He doesn't say. Could it be that she lacked those womanly attributes that even clean-living, all- Earth youths secretly yearn for? | |
| Captain Beefheart – The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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"Blimp" is a term for an airship or balloon, and the line "Look up in the sky, there's a dirigible there" seems to bear this interpretation out. Also, "drazy hoops" seem to be an evocation of whirring propellers. Nevertheless, it's worth bearing in mind that Don Van Vliet grew up in the outer suburbs of Los Angeles, on the edge of the desert. Although it was moribund (and would disappear completely by 1961), the Pacific Electric tram/light railway network (operating out of the terminal at 6th and Main) still extended even into the farthest-flung parts of the metropolis during Don's childhood and teenage years, and the familiar Red Car trains were generally referred to as "blimps". Perhaps he had these in mind, too. |
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