@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
I'll run to you now
From somewhere you won't find me
A different place
A different time
Together that summer
We raised some hell, yeah
But I couldn't forget
You're a kiss and tell
Carrie's got a boyfriend
Carrie's got a boyfriend
Carrie's got a boyfriend
June 4th, 1989, Primrose Hill, Staten Island
Chalk Farm, Massif Central, Gospel Oak, Sao Paolo
Boston Manor, Costa Rica, Arnos Grove
San Clemente, Tufnell Park, Gracetown, York Way
Videoton, Clerkenwell, Portobello, Maida Vale
Old Ford, Valencia, Kennington, Galveston
Holland Park, Studamer, Dollis Hill, Fougeres
London Fields, Bratislava, Haggerston
Lavinia, Canonbury, Alice Springs
Tooting Graveney, Baffin Island
Pollard's Hill, Winnepeg, Plumstead Common
Hyderabad, Silvertown, Buffalo
If I hadn't left you
Suppose we'd still be lovers
Still be the fights
And I'd ladder my tights
Carrie's got a boyfriend
Carrie's got a boyfriend
Carrie's got a boyfriend
...
From somewhere you won't find me
A different place
A different time
Together that summer
We raised some hell, yeah
But I couldn't forget
You're a kiss and tell
Carrie's got a boyfriend
Carrie's got a boyfriend
Carrie's got a boyfriend
June 4th, 1989, Primrose Hill, Staten Island
Chalk Farm, Massif Central, Gospel Oak, Sao Paolo
Boston Manor, Costa Rica, Arnos Grove
San Clemente, Tufnell Park, Gracetown, York Way
Videoton, Clerkenwell, Portobello, Maida Vale
Old Ford, Valencia, Kennington, Galveston
Holland Park, Studamer, Dollis Hill, Fougeres
London Fields, Bratislava, Haggerston
Lavinia, Canonbury, Alice Springs
Tooting Graveney, Baffin Island
Pollard's Hill, Winnepeg, Plumstead Common
Hyderabad, Silvertown, Buffalo
If I hadn't left you
Suppose we'd still be lovers
Still be the fights
And I'd ladder my tights
Carrie's got a boyfriend
Carrie's got a boyfriend
Carrie's got a boyfriend
...
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I read somewhere, (NME probably) they borrowed the idea of a list if places from "Justify my love". The idea of transforming the ordinary is expounded on the sleeve of the album, Fox Base Alpha.
Can't believe this song has no comments, I love it.
Also, the date, June 4th 1989 was the day of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Look at me commenting on the 25th anniversary. Sad huh?
I like this song because of the list of places. Obviously many of them are the names of Tube Stations in London. Interwoven with more far flung places.
I always thought the refrain was
Where's The Away Ground Where's The Away Ground Where's The Away Ground Where's The Away Ground
I knew it probably wasn't that but it sounds more like that than what it actually is.
Very cool song.
The above comment mentions the refrain sounding like "Where's the away ground" but I always heard it as "Ray's a wanker"! Funny how our ears decipher song lyrics differently, like those mind tricks where some people see a duck, others a rabbit, or different colour combinations of the same dress.
Even though I now know the line is "Carrie's got a boyfriend", I still hear "Ray's a wanker" so I postulate that Carrie's boyfriend was called Ray (and he was a wanker, according to the song writers: Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs... perhaps they fancied Carrie and were just jealous of this Raymond character) and that both lines were sung and merged into one in the production studio.
Anyway, just one of the many great tracks on the criminally underrated album Foxbase Alpha.