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acoustic guitar, i'm gonna make you a star
get your picture all over the world
acoustic guitar, you can have your own car
just bring me back my girl
she always loved the sound of your strum
you made her think maybe I wasn't so dumb
she tends to faint at the sound of a drum, cause she's folk
so play and maybe she'll come
acoustic guitar, how lovely you are
with your inlays of mother of pearl
be a good guitar and you can go far
just bring me back my girl
she always said that you were the one
that could make her move her cute little bum
you understand where shes coming from
which I obviously dont
or she wouldnt be gone
acoustic guitar, if you think I play hard
well you could have belonged to steve earle, or charo or gwar,
I could sell you tommorow
so bring me back my girl
you better bring me back my girl
get your picture all over the world
acoustic guitar, you can have your own car
just bring me back my girl
you made her think maybe I wasn't so dumb
she tends to faint at the sound of a drum, cause she's folk
so play and maybe she'll come
with your inlays of mother of pearl
be a good guitar and you can go far
just bring me back my girl
that could make her move her cute little bum
you understand where shes coming from
which I obviously dont
or she wouldnt be gone
well you could have belonged to steve earle, or charo or gwar,
I could sell you tommorow
so bring me back my girl
you better bring me back my girl
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Submitted by
yoshiidino On May 31, 2002
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i'm madly in love with claudia gonson. but no this song is all easy like to play on the guitar
eh? I don't see that at all, heartheartmsile. Seems like the lyrics are pretty literal. She's kind of facietously talking to the guitar like it's conscious. Her ex-girlfriend liked folk music, so she preferred Claudia to play acoustic guitar instead of drums. She broke up with Claudia because they didn't have much in common, so Claudia imagines that if she plays the acoustic guitar really well, her girlfriend will like her more and want to get back together. She treats the guitar like a person, promising it presents and threatening to sell it if it doesn't sound good enough to convince her girlfriend. It's a pretty awesome song idea.
It's an old song idea -- cf. Thomas Wyatt's "Blame Not My Lute," from the 16th century. I'm pretty sure Merritt is working self-consciously in that tradition. Which is what he does.
It's an old song idea -- cf. Thomas Wyatt's "Blame Not My Lute," from the 16th century. I'm pretty sure Merritt is working self-consciously in that tradition. Which is what he does.
i think this is about how they got famous and the girl was left behind.. sort of like the guitar took the girls place?
Yeah, it really is. I've rarely seen a desperation so depressing captured so well.
Mmnhmmn. Pretty song, pretty voice. Think I'm gonna try and learn it on acoustic guitar. Too bad it would ruin it if I changed the lyrics to "boy" though hehe.
I love Magnetic Fields/anything S.M. does, but i truly hate this song. Sorry, but it makes me wanna wretch. Reminds me of "Lesbian Seagull" from Beavis and Butthead. Sorry, but I was a fourteen-year-old boy when that show was on...fartknocker.
I'm not a huge fan of the album, although I think it has many good songs, it doesn't come anywhere close to what this band can do at their very best (Holiday, Charm of the Highway Strip). I've always seen it as having enough material for 1 really good CD, or 1 really good CD and 1 good CD, with the rest of the songs just not doing it for me. This song belongs in the latter category and it's a perfect example of everything I dislike about the also-rans: lyrics that are more about clever wordplay than genuine emotion,...
I'm not a huge fan of the album, although I think it has many good songs, it doesn't come anywhere close to what this band can do at their very best (Holiday, Charm of the Highway Strip). I've always seen it as having enough material for 1 really good CD, or 1 really good CD and 1 good CD, with the rest of the songs just not doing it for me. This song belongs in the latter category and it's a perfect example of everything I dislike about the also-rans: lyrics that are more about clever wordplay than genuine emotion, unexceptional music and weak vocal performance.
I'm not a huge fan of the album, although I think it has many good songs, it doesn't come anywhere close to what this band can do at their very best (Holiday, Charm of the Highway Strip). I've always seen it as having enough material for 1 really good CD, or 1 really good CD and 1 good CD, with the rest of the songs just not doing it for me. This song belongs in the latter category and it's a perfect example of everything I dislike about the also-rans: lyrics that are more about clever wordplay than genuine emotion,...
I'm not a huge fan of the album, although I think it has many good songs, it doesn't come anywhere close to what this band can do at their very best (Holiday, Charm of the Highway Strip). I've always seen it as having enough material for 1 really good CD, or 1 really good CD and 1 good CD, with the rest of the songs just not doing it for me. This song belongs in the latter category and it's a perfect example of everything I dislike about the also-rans: lyrics that are more about clever wordplay than genuine emotion, unexceptional music and weak vocal performance.
you mean it would ruin it because of the rhyme? I think it would still be okay meaning-wise. Although it is kind of awesome how the girl comes off as such a stereotypical lesbian who's really oversensitive and into folk.
Hey, is that a knock on Steve Earle in the last verse? Steve Earle's friggin awesome.
No, he's saying that he's not playing as hard as those guys. He's folk.
No, he's saying that he's not playing as hard as those guys. He's folk.
I've always loved this song, so I'm quite surprised to see people dislike it. I've always imagined that the singer wished she could play guitar properly, but she's not very good and she blames her guitar for it, as if it's a person. It's a foolish, almost childish way of trying to work out why your lover walked away.
I think the song is about not being self aware of what draws people to love, the narrator thinks by getting good at guitar (an allegory for really getting skillful at anything) in the intent of winning someone over will inevitably be futile, like maybe the narrator already had somebody that they were in love with but scared them away for certain reasons, but is too myopic to see those and rather thinks by getting good at guitar (as opposed to addressing what really took them apart) they'll get their girl back and be happy or whatever