La Dee Da Lyrics
Look out 'cause you know what you're doing
Turn up the American ruse
Whitehouse, Death in June
Jim Jones painting in a blue bedroom
You don't know this, La Dee Da
You don't own this, how bizzarre
Keep your pretty promise to yourself
Do you know this, La Dee Da?
Got me goin', how bizzarre
Keep your pretty promise to yourself
Dear god
Hate!
If I want to
Love!
Who I like
Hate!
If I want to
Psychic Television and Death in June
Jim Jones painting in a blue bedroom
Hate!
If I want to
Hate!
You can't shame me, La Dee Da
Give or take me, how bizzarre
Keep your pretty promise to yourself
Keep your pretty promise to yourself
Dear god
Hate!
If I want to
Love!
Who I like
Hate!
If I want to
Psychic Television and Death in June
Jim Jones painting in a blue bedroom
If I want to
Hate!
If I want to
Love!
Who I like
Hate!
If I want to
Psychic Television and Death in June
Jim Jones painting in a blue bedroom
Hate!
If I want to
Keep your pretty crosses to yourself
The bands lead singer 'Dave Grohl' references an infamous cult leader 3 x in the song when he sings 'Jim Jones painting in a blue bedroom'. Jones is known for his leadership role in a 1978 mass suicide in South America, where 900 people consumed a cyanide-laced drink on his orders. The "Jonestown" tragedy happened 25 years after Jones worked as a student pastor at Somerset Methodist Church in Indianapolis. "As a teenager, I was obsessed with Charlie Manson & Jim Jones," Grohl stated. Other lyrics in the song point toward his time as a teenage musician. The song mentions three U.K. bands from the 1980s that influenced Grohl before he joined Nirvana in 1990: 'Whitehouse', 'Psychic TV' & 'Death in June'.
This is a middle finger to bands that utilize mystical, esoteric, or cultish beliefs into their music. Both Psychic TV and Death in June have used crosses as a symbol and Psychic TV had it's own side "cult" called The Temple of Psychic Youth.
grohl was fascinated by cult leaders (like jim jones, manson) as a teenager. his early band used jim jones painting on a sheet banner which bled through and left a paint impression on his bedroom wall. he liked the bands psychic television, death in june at the time.
I think he's talking about trump?