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Play With Fire Lyrics
Well, you've got your diamonds and you've got your pretty clothes
And the chauffeur drives your car
You let everybody know
But don't play with me, 'cause you're playing with fire
Your mother she's an heiress, owns a block in Saint John's Wood
And your father'd be there with her
If he only could
But don't play with me, 'cause you're playing with fire
Your old man took her diamonds and tiaras by the score
Now she gets her kicks in Stepney
Not in Knightsbridge anymore
So don't play with me, 'cause you're playing with fire
But you've got some diamonds and you will have some others
But you'd better watch your step, girl
Or start living with your mother
So don't play with me, 'cause you're playing with fire
So don't play with me, 'cause you're playing with fire
And the chauffeur drives your car
You let everybody know
But don't play with me, 'cause you're playing with fire
And your father'd be there with her
If he only could
But don't play with me, 'cause you're playing with fire
Now she gets her kicks in Stepney
Not in Knightsbridge anymore
So don't play with me, 'cause you're playing with fire
But you'd better watch your step, girl
Or start living with your mother
So don't play with me, 'cause you're playing with fire
So don't play with me, 'cause you're playing with fire
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Her mother was a goldigger so her father got rid of her and took everything away from her. She's just like her mother and the singer of the song is warning her that he's not going to be taken for a fool, except the way it's sung kinda makes me think he'd do more to her than take away her money if she messes with him.
No one could ever explain this cryptic lyric ... \n"Now she gets her kicks in Stepney;\nNot in Knightsbridge anymore."
@Chi-Chief The song was recorded in 1965. From 1960-63, the Kray twins (the notorious London gangsters) ran a fashionable club-cum-casino in Wilton Place, Knightsbridge, called Esmeralda's Barn. When it closed, the action shifted to their Kentucky Club at 108 Mile End Road, Stepney, East London. Could be coincidence, but I see it as a nod to the Krays: ...now she gets her kicks in Stepney, not in Knightsbridge anymore.
@Chi-Chief The song was recorded in 1965. From 1960-63, the Kray twins (the notorious London gangsters) ran a fashionable club-cum-casino in Wilton Place, Knightsbridge, called Esmeralda's Barn. When it closed, the action shifted to their Kentucky Club at 108 Mile End Road, Stepney, East London. Could be coincidence, but I see it as a nod to the Krays: ...now she gets her kicks in Stepney, not in Knightsbridge anymore.
@Chi-Chief I was thrilled when I heard "Stepney" - the borough I lived in when the song came out. It was a poor, unfashionable neighborhood - the opposite of Knightsbridge... So I assumed it meant she enjoyed slumming, maybe having rough sex, perhaps buying drugs...
@Chi-Chief I was thrilled when I heard "Stepney" - the borough I lived in when the song came out. It was a poor, unfashionable neighborhood - the opposite of Knightsbridge... So I assumed it meant she enjoyed slumming, maybe having rough sex, perhaps buying drugs...
Yeah, or he's like some poor guy, who is sorta a rebel, and knows he'll never have a chance with a rich girl. She shouldn't even try, because he's labeled a bad seed, and well....that's just on way...maybe a little of both.
The true lyric is “owns a block in St Johns Wort. Not wood. Amazing to me so many sites quote this lyric wrong
i always envision a psychopath in vietnam with a combat flamethrower torching some trees in the jungle when i hear this song. i think it was from a 'hunter' episode. anyhow, some rich girl is using her aristocratic clout to push people around with her nose up in the air. but one tormented soul knows that he has seen horrors that she cannot even begin to fathom. to know the future, to see its paths stream out into the infinite. if she even dares to patronize this man, there will be hell to pay 'cause you're playing with fire.'