Book Of Saturday Lyrics
Forgetting the game
Every time I try to leave you
You laugh just the same
And the jumble of lies we told
Just returns to my back to weigh me down...
The backs of our hands
And I swear I like your people
The boys in the band
Coming back to enjoy the fray
In a tangle of night and daylight sounds...
Asleep on your side
I'll be waking up the crewmen
Banana-boat ride
Brought alive on the silent screen
To the shuddering breath of yesterday...
Incredible scenes
I'll believe you in the future
Your life and death dreams
Takes a stand in the lady's hair
For the favour of making sweet sixteen...
A book of bluesy Saturdays
And I have to chose...
This song rocks...its beautiful
"She responds like limousine, brought alive on the silent screen to the shuddering breath of yesterday."
I think "she" refers to his own memory.
Could be?
some body wrote about the meaning of the song in interpretation site that i found it useful I've never heard lyricist Richard Palmer-James give a full explanation of this song, but I have heard him say that "the book" was supposed to be a scrapbook or photo album of sorts, showing all the highs and lows of a long, complicated marriage or romantic experience.
The song is a sort of portrait of a relationship with a lot of big ups and downs. The man says he often thinks about leaving his love, but she doesn't take that seriously, because after all this time, he STILL hasn't ever gotten up the nerve to leave.
And just when he starts to think the relationship is doomed by all the lies and miscommunications between them, there will be a wonderful moment (like an early morning round of lovemaking) that makes him think they belong together after all.
The man is sifting through all his feelings and memories, as if he were going through a scrapbook, and trying to decide whether the relationship is worth saving.
Stay or go- he has to choose.
This is a song about a (man) ambivalent about a same sex relationship, probably his first.\n--Malwurf
surprised this doesn't have any comments.. This song is great, very simple instrumentation performed with great complexity. Modern poetry
I like it.