Girl VII Lyrics
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.