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Speaking in Tongues Lyrics
Hypocrite reader,
My double, my brother
Your daddy really took it out of you
But did he speak it in tongues?
But did he speak it in tongues?
Sneaking out the windows now
You've got the spirit now
Hypocrite reader,
My double, my brother
Where did we lose our way?
It's like we're speaking in tongues
It's like we're speaking in tongues
Sneaking out the windows now
You've got the spirit now
You've got the spirit now
You've got the spirit now
Hypocrite reader,
My double, my brother
Now I can't understand a word
Now you're speaking in tongues
(Speaking in tongues)
Now you're speaking in tongues
(Speaking in tongues)
Now you're speaking in tongues
(Speaking in tongues)
Now you're speaking in tongues
(Speaking in tongues)
Come out of your head
And into my world now
Come out of your head
And into my world, my world, my world now
(Speaking in tongues)
(To end)
My double, my brother
But did he speak it in tongues?
My double, my brother
It's like we're speaking in tongues
You've got the spirit now
You've got the spirit now
My double, my brother
(Speaking in tongues)
Now you're speaking in tongues
(Speaking in tongues)
Now you're speaking in tongues
(Speaking in tongues)
Now you're speaking in tongues
(Speaking in tongues)
And into my world now
And into my world, my world, my world now
(To end)
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"Hypocrite reader, my double, my brother!" Why, an allusion to one of my favorite lines in Eliot's The Waste Land? Already this song has won over my heart. What a phenomenal band.
"Hypocrite Reader, My Double, My Brother" It's Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs Du Mal introduction, "To The Reader" IT'S NOT ELIOT'S!
"Hypocrite Reader, My Double, My Brother" It's Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs Du Mal introduction, "To The Reader" IT'S NOT ELIOT'S!
Good catch on the Wasteland reference! As Eliot and his contemporaries like Yeats were very interested in mysticism and the occult, including automatic writing and speaking in tongues, there's certainly a connection there.
Also, keep in mind Eliot was himself alluding to the classic Baudelaire poem, "Au Lecteur" ("To the Reader")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal
a very good song :)