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Dumb Waiters Lyrics
give me all your paper ma
gimme all your jazz
give me something that i need
something i can have
mrs. london's coming round
she's coming with the sun
gimme all your paper ah
so i can get a gun
she's got it in for me
yeah i mean it honestly
she's so mean
give me all your paper ma
so i can buy a train
they just wanna suck you into being one of them
tell her that i'm not in here
tell her i'm a freak
tell her that i fall around every time i speak
she has got in for me
yeah i mean it honestly
i just scream
give me all your paper ma
so i can buy a train
i don't know how i got in here
it's driving me insane
have another cigarette
have another cigarette
in a room where lovers go
talking on the telephone
they've got it in for me
yeah i mean it honestly
they all dream
Dreaming...
gimme all your jazz
give me something that i need
something i can have
mrs. london's coming round
she's coming with the sun
gimme all your paper ah
so i can get a gun
yeah i mean it honestly
she's so mean
so i can buy a train
they just wanna suck you into being one of them
tell her that i'm not in here
tell her i'm a freak
tell her that i fall around every time i speak
yeah i mean it honestly
i just scream
so i can buy a train
i don't know how i got in here
it's driving me insane
have another cigarette
have another cigarette
in a room where lovers go
talking on the telephone
yeah i mean it honestly
they all dream
Dreaming...
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Ohmeegod! I can't believe there are no comments on this song! Gah...hmm...about the meaning, I really have no idea.
I've heard this great song a million times and I still can't figure it out. I'll take a stab at it. Based on the cacophonous melody and stream-of-consciousness lyrics it sounds like a coked-out scenester, paranoid, trying to avoid everyone and wanting to stay alone in his room of hell.
"tell her that i'm not in here tell her i'm a freak"
and "they've got it in for me yeah i mean it honestly"
I dunno...my two cents...
Here's my meaning for this song even though it's a bit confusing. I think this guy just wants to get rid from the lady coming from London along with her son. He expects his friend (maybe a flatmate) to be smart enough and keep her away from him, so that they don't have to be together again. Maybe because it was a only night standing when they've first met or just because the feeling is gone and she doesn't get it.
I agree with Mr. Shatter, the lyrics sound like the words of a paranoid on dope, alone in his room of hell. I particularly appreciate the slow, simple, and hypnotic melody, with the rhythm at 75,5 BPM, surely suitable to heavy metal. Differently from heavy metal, this song is based on a refined linguistic ambivalence. By one side, it appears as an adaptation of "The Dumb Waiter", by Harold Pinter, one-act play written in 1957, where the word "waiter" is related to food. The mysterious and dark atmosphere seems to be the same. To the other side, I think that the band also wanted to describe a peculiar point of view, of a kind of man waiting for "paper" as a corrispective of his "dumb" activity, in fear of "Mrs. London" and his "son". The type of man of the song wants all your "paper", of course money, partly to buy a "gun" (personal defence) and a "train" (way to escape). Who is he? Possibly a drug dealer, given that in London the narcotic police (the "son") belongs to the City administration ("Mrs. London").In one word, the song is "fantastic", even if a little bit devilish.
@maxlookdj Good explanation about the Harold Pinter play, that’s a likely connection with the song’s title. IMO this song is about someone experiencing a psychotic episode of paranoid schizophrenia. I used to listen to this in my early 20s when I was a volunteer in a psychiatric hospital , the line about have another cigarette repeated is characteristic of psychiatric patients self medicating to calm the symptoms down. “Yeh I mean it honestly,” implies some self doubt in the subject about what he is describing is not fully based in reality . This is a very clever song lyrically and musically,...
@maxlookdj Good explanation about the Harold Pinter play, that’s a likely connection with the song’s title. IMO this song is about someone experiencing a psychotic episode of paranoid schizophrenia. I used to listen to this in my early 20s when I was a volunteer in a psychiatric hospital , the line about have another cigarette repeated is characteristic of psychiatric patients self medicating to calm the symptoms down. “Yeh I mean it honestly,” implies some self doubt in the subject about what he is describing is not fully based in reality . This is a very clever song lyrically and musically, The Furs are probably my favourite band as they give singular perspectives , other worldly (higher perspective.)
Amazing song. I love the saxophone.