This song is timeless, and nearly 20 years after its creation, still possesses the mystique it did the first time i heard it ~1994. To me, at first blush, all those years ago, it had some kind of homo-erotic allure. The line "so that the others may do" tells of something which must be done for others to follow suit. It felt like like some kind of roxy-glam-pop invitation to sexual liberation.
Upon further introspection I think the song may not have an intrinsic meaning, but simply represents a sort of "holding open the door" for people who otherwise might be affronted by this song/band's unusual style. I know, as a sort of armchair rock-historian, that there have been few bands so daring and so true to the sound that wanted to emerge from within, whether the creator wanted it or not. This band handled it with elegance and grace seldom, if ever, seen.
(A hard, hard, hard)
I'm lookin' for hard-headed woman
One who'll take me for myself
And if I find my hard-headed woman
I won't need nobody else, no, no, no
I'm lookin' for hard-headed woman (hard-headed woman)
One who'll make me do my best
And if I find my hard-headed woman
I know the rest of my life will be blessed, yes (yes), yes, yes
I know a lot of fancy dancers
People who can glide you on a floor
They move so smooth but have no answers (whoa, whoa, whoa-oh)
When you ask them, "Why'd you come here for? (I don't know)
Why?"
(Hard-headed woman)
I know many fine-feathered friends
But their friendliness depends on how you do
They know
Many sure-fire ways
To find out the one who pays
And how you do
I'm lookin' for hard-headed woman (hard-headed woman)
One who will make me fell so good
And if I find my hard-headed woman (whoa, whoa, whoa-oh)
I know my life will be as it should, yes, yes, yes
I'm lookin' for hard-headed woman (hard-headed woman)
One who'll make me do my best
And if I find my hard-headed woman
I'm lookin' for hard-headed woman
One who'll take me for myself
And if I find my hard-headed woman
I won't need nobody else, no, no, no
I'm lookin' for hard-headed woman (hard-headed woman)
One who'll make me do my best
And if I find my hard-headed woman
I know the rest of my life will be blessed, yes (yes), yes, yes
I know a lot of fancy dancers
People who can glide you on a floor
They move so smooth but have no answers (whoa, whoa, whoa-oh)
When you ask them, "Why'd you come here for? (I don't know)
Why?"
(Hard-headed woman)
I know many fine-feathered friends
But their friendliness depends on how you do
They know
Many sure-fire ways
To find out the one who pays
And how you do
I'm lookin' for hard-headed woman (hard-headed woman)
One who will make me fell so good
And if I find my hard-headed woman (whoa, whoa, whoa-oh)
I know my life will be as it should, yes, yes, yes
I'm lookin' for hard-headed woman (hard-headed woman)
One who'll make me do my best
And if I find my hard-headed woman
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"Produce such vile hatred". What newspapers have you been reading?
There are a pile of internet rumours , some of which have been seized upon by the conservative press. Cat suppported 9/11, Cat backs Rushdie's fatwa, Cat gives money to Hammas. All of which, if you ever see an interview with the man, he has completely denied and has preached nothing but peace and the condemnation of violence.
He made, by his own admission, some stupid jokes about the Rusdhie fatwa, which he later completely recanted and wrote on his website, "I never called for the death of Salman Rushdie; nor backed the Fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini--and still don’t."
36 hours after 9/11 he was asked for a statement by the BBC and he said, "I wish to express my heartfelt horror at the indiscriminate terrorist attacks committed against innocent people of the United States yesterday. While it is still not clear who carried out the attack, it must be stated that no right-thinking follower of Islam could possibly condone such an action. The Qur'an equates the murder of one innocent person with the murder of the whole of humanity. We pray for the families of all those who lost their lives in this unthinkable act of violence as well as all those injured; I hope to reflect the feelings of all Muslims and people around the world whose sympathies go out to the victims of this sorrowful moment"
Where's the hate?
"Now I've been crying lately
Thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating
Why can't we live in bliss"
Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam, 1971
Recipient of the Nobel "Man of Peace" Award in 2004, presented by Mikhail Gorbachev for "dedication to promote peace, the reconciliation of people and to condemn terrorism"
Recipient of the " The Mediterranean Prize for Peace in Naples, Italy". The award was received "as a result of the work he has done to increase peace in the world"
I'm a white, Roman Catholic Briton and I have a great deal of trouble reconciling myself to Israel's actions, I can only imagine how much harder that would be for someone who spends a great deal of time on humanitarian efforts in the region.
His allegations which I'm aware of, that Judaism is a "so-called religion" may be naive, might be stupid, thoughtless and even provocative, but "vile hatred"????
As to the conservative press , I'm assuming you're referring to the U.S. If you are then I cant speak with any degree of knowledge so I'll defer to you, (although, incredibly just over 50% of Americans polled in 2010 voted Fox News as their most watched ,and indeed most trusted cable news channel - so clearly, for that 50% at least, truth and agenda-free reporting is a low priority). If we're talking conservative press, in Briton and Europe, there are at least 5 major daily newspapers in the UK that demonise the man, (and indeed Islam given half a chance), and another couple in France.
Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam may be no saint, and he's certainly no political genius but neither does he preach nor practice "vile hatred". And that was the point of my retort.
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I imagine you've seen it before but tell me that that isn't vile hatred. no matter what he said subsequently to that, for me, that is unforgivable.