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Union City Blue Lyrics
Oh ho what are we gonna do?
Union Union Union City blue
Tunnel to the other side
It becomes daylight
I say he's mine
Oh power, passion plays a double hand
Union union union city man
Arrive climb up four flights to the orange side
Rearrange my mind (lines)
In turquoise Union Union Union City blue
Skyline passion Union City blue
Power, passion plays a double hand
Union union union city man
I say he's mine
I have a plan
I say he's my Union City man
Oh oh what are we gonna do?
Union Union Union City blue
Quite simple and very poignant. Deborah is singing about being that girl from NJ looking over and being seduced by the NYC skyline...big city dreams. Power, passion plays a doublehand and how that relates to leaving her "union city man"--her ordinary life in Jersey--"What are we gonna do?" Deborah has talked about the affect NYC had on her as a young girl many times.
btw I used to sing this in my room all the time when I was 14, and I knew exactly what she meant.
btw I used to sing this in my room all the time when I was 14, and I knew exactly what she meant.
@batongal your answer made me think of Patti Smith and her song 'Piss Factory
@batongal your answer made me think of Patti Smith and her song 'Piss Factory
Greatest of all blondie tracks - powerfull song - should have been there biggest hit - have no idea what its about though.
@Lemonhead it's about a Union City Man
@Lemonhead it's about a Union City Man
I agree: this song should have been an explosive hit. Far superior to "Dreaming" or "The Tide Is High".
@Major Valor No
@Major Valor No
@Major Valor true
@Major Valor true
Union City is in New Jersey. It is on the New Jersey Transit rail link. The map shows that the color of said link is ORANGE. Hence, "To the orange side", So the guy is in Union City, and she is off to see him from either Hoboken or Newark Penn Station. Rest of it, go figure yourselves, the video shows the skyline of NY and some weird sh@t dancing.
@peterspider69 yes - extremely weird dancing indeed
@peterspider69 yes - extremely weird dancing indeed
This is about having sex out of boredom.
And who better to sing it. Fuck she is amazing. "In turquoise." Give me a break! It was always meant to be Deborah Harry singing the word intercourse. Divine!
@@nthony your 'turquoise' reference makes sense to us who know
@@nthony your 'turquoise' reference makes sense to us who know
This song is pure feeling, the both sides of everything, in this case NYC: Positive: The dreams, the hopes, the excitement of being young in this thrilling place... The negative: The real hardness of living in a metropoli, the insecurity, the dangers in everywhere... The sound and atmosphere created is hyptonic; so melancholic from an awesome band. The tunnel is what connects New Jersey with NYC.
I think this is about Union City, New Jersey, which is across Hudson River from New York City. Maybe about a guy she had a relationship with from there?
it was written for the movie "Union City Blue." deborah harry was also in the movie.
Brilliant.
It's about a woman in Manhattan who is in love with a man in Union City, NJ, just over the river. She takes the tunnel to visit him, but their worlds are so different, she being a professional or a musician or something in Manhattan, while he works in a factory or shipyard of some sort (wearing blue coveralls) in Union City, that their love is doomed. Or at least troubled.
Union City is also home to the US's biggest annual Passion Play, so they cleverly allude to that. Maybe the dude's Cuban (big Cuban town, apparently), so maybe that's a problem too.
Or maybe it relates to the plot of the movie "Union City," which I haven't seen. Anyone?