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Black History Month Lyrics
Can you remember a time when this city was
A great place for architects and dilettantes
A nice place for midwives and crossing guards
And on, and on
Hold on children
Your mother and father are leaving
Do you remember a time when this pool was
A great place for water wings and cannonballs
A nice place for astrologists and blow up dolls
And on, and on
Hold on children
Your best friend's parents are leaving
A great place for architects and dilettantes
A nice place for midwives and crossing guards
And on, and on
Your mother and father are leaving
A great place for water wings and cannonballs
A nice place for astrologists and blow up dolls
And on, and on
Your best friend's parents are leaving
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my favorite by dfa1979!
I think is about how everything in the world is changing. "Your mother and father are leaving." -Maybe they mean divorce? Divorce 'back in the day' wasn't as common as it is now.
"Do you remember back when this city was...?" -Maybe they mean that most everything on this planet is corrupt and no good?
kdfhgdfg I don't know. I'm curious as to why they named this song "Black History Month."
this song has a sick backbeat that reminds me of a part in the foghat song 'slow ride' where it goes - "you know the rhythm is right"...sort of curves up towards the end.. so whenever i hear this song i think of that one. i love it... classic loss of innocence - "Hold on children Your bestfriend's parents are leaving" you totally know theyre gonna throw a sick party and get wasted next to the pool " Do you remember a time when this pool was A great place for waterwings and cannonballs A nice place for astrologists and blow up dolls And on, and on... "
not anymore its not...
i think this song is
someone growing up and moving out
They named that song that because it was written in Feb....Black History Month
when i first heard it it made me think of all these abandoned kids (maybe black kids coz of the title) sitting by the pool in the blazing sun. the sadness in the tone must be coz of the abandonment. when i looked at the lyrics, i thought about it being more of a contrast between their swimming pool when adults were there and when they wern't.
midwaves, waves in the middle of the pool. crossing guards, some game about getting across the pool. architect = adult job. dilitant, (dunno?)perhaps dilutant, like the chemical they'd put in the pool... the first verse is about what the pool was like when their parents were around.
now, in the 2nd verse, they've left so they'll be having a party. they're playing games and they've got blow up dolls floating about coz its one racous party. i get this idea that the subject and their best friend get it on coz they mention 'your best friends parents are leaving'. with the astrologists i think about kids on sun loungers looking up into the stars.
It's not "midwaves", people...it's "MIDWIVES", as in people who help deliver babies.
i always thought this song was about pre-teens who get down when no one's looking. you know. they sip their dad's bud and laugh a lot while swallowing weed roots. or something.
PARTY NAKED
..wtf?
makes me think of South Central or something..
haha jaxey. nicely put.