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For Your Pleasure Lyrics
For your pleasure
In our present state
Part false part true
Like anything
We present ourselves
The words we use tumble
All over your shoulder
Gravel hard and loose
There all night lying
With your dark horse hiding
Abhorring such extremes
You're rubbing shoulders
With the stars at night
Shining so bright
Getting older
But you'll wake up soon
And fight
In the morning
Things you worried about
Last night
Will seem lighter
I hope things
Will turn out right
Old man
Through every step a change
You watch me walk away
Tara tara...
In our present state
Part false part true
Like anything
We present ourselves
The words we use tumble
All over your shoulder
Gravel hard and loose
There all night lying
With your dark horse hiding
Abhorring such extremes
You're rubbing shoulders
With the stars at night
Shining so bright
Getting older
But you'll wake up soon
And fight
In the morning
Things you worried about
Last night
Will seem lighter
I hope things
Will turn out right
Old man
Through every step a change
You watch me walk away
Tara tara...
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This is my favorite song from this album. I have no idea what it means. It sounds like they're saying that they are here for our pleasure. But I could be totally wrong. I only heard about this song because I was given a T-shirt as a gift.
I think there should be a limit on comments so that some songs won't have 169 comments and some entire artists only have 30. It's not fair.
Roxy Music, introducing themselves at last at the very end of their second album. The lyrics seem to be at once a premonition and flashback of moments and highlights of their (or Ferry's) life. Crafting their art, schmoozing at country estates with the stars even into their elderly years. Part false part true / dark horse hiding Ferry acknowledging his humble Novocastrian roots whilst hob nobbing with the glitterati of the day.
'The words we use tumble over your shoulder' sounds like an intimate 'sweet nothing' shared with their fans but it actually hides a harsher comment: you don't really get us or know what we are saying, or 'it goes over your head'. The final section after 'Ta-ra.... ta-ra', is a lost bit of theatre or drama that practically all fans will miss. Eno creates tape snippets of Ferry singing repeated lyrics from Chance Meeting (on the previous album) 'well how, well how?' from the line Well how are you how have you been? A voice answers 'You don't ... you don't ask why'. How being the lesser question and why being the real issue. Imagine a fan asking Eno a techie 'How do you get that sound?' whereas Why do you...? would be the more interesting question to ask him.
The woman's voice is Judi Dench, uncredited on the album. Her daughter, born around the time the album was being recorded, was (is) called Tara and so Ferry 's 'ta-ra' is actually him saying hello to her as well as goodbye at the end of his life.
@Falsedog Thank you very much for the precious info and observations! I hadn't noticed the voices at end.
@Falsedog Thank you very much for the precious info and observations! I hadn't noticed the voices at end.
It looks like some sort of poetic way for the band to take leave from the listener, as being this the last song on the album.
An ending with a last present attached to it, a sort of philosophical message that would help us getting more relieved when it comes to dealing with today's problems: "In the morning -- Things you worried about last night -- Will seem lighter".
No real clue, just shooting in the dark.