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Lip Service Lyrics
You left the motor running.
But I know you're so attractive.
Getting in some sharp practice.
You better not do anything reckless.
But everybody is going through the motions.
Everybody is going through the motions.
Are you really only going through the motions?
Lip service is all you'll ever get from me.
Lip service is all you'll ever get from me.
Lip service is all you'll ever get from me.
But if you change your mind
you can send it in a letter to me
Don't make any sudden movements.
These are dangerous amusements.
When did you become so choosy?
Don't act like you're above me;
just look at your shoes.
[Repeat bridge and chorus]
But if you change your mind
you can send it in a letter to me
But if you change your mind
you can send it in a letter to me
But if you change your mind
you can send a little letter to me
Obviously about a guy infatuated with a girl who thinks she's hot shit. Cat and mouse game, personified.
Bingo.
Bingo.
Am I crazy to think this song is about oral sex?
I mean... "lip service", "going through the motions", "if you change your mind/you can sent it a letter to me" (letter i.e. French letter, perhaps), "don't make any sudden movements", "don't act like you're above me" etc etc
I normally shy away from the "it's sex"/"it's drugs" interpretation but...
Not crazy off your nut, no. Remember that Mystery Dance was about him as a kid trying to lose his cherry and fumbling around and wondering "how to do it".
Not crazy off your nut, no. Remember that Mystery Dance was about him as a kid trying to lose his cherry and fumbling around and wondering "how to do it".
I wondered whether I was crazy when it occurred to me that Lovers In A Dangerous Time by Bruce Cockburn (and later by another Canuck group, BnL) was about being homosexual in the 1980s (when it wasn't even beginning to be generally tolerable). Check the lyric and see whether you agree.
I wondered whether I was crazy when it occurred to me that Lovers In A Dangerous Time by Bruce Cockburn (and later by another Canuck group, BnL) was about being homosexual in the 1980s (when it wasn't even beginning to be generally tolerable). Check the lyric and see whether you agree.
However, I don't think Cockburn's gay, and if he is, he sure is hanging on to that...
However, I don't think Cockburn's gay, and if he is, he sure is hanging on to that closet latch, considering how much more open gay folk are this century, this decade. {shrug}
Nah deffs about someone who thinks they're top shit...good call JEReich