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Touching The Untouchables Lyrics
Hello to you, my sweet young friends
Have you got money perhaps you could lend?
I wash my leather face in the afternoon sun
My shirt's turn my time's near done
Touching the untouchables but they don't know
Respect the disrespectables, but in the end you know
You turn away, what can I say?
Spend my nights in the telephone booth
I make sure I leave the phone off the hook
There are no Jones' and I pay no rent
I have to stand straight because my back's so bent
Tell my secretary I ain't takin' any calls,
And if you want to find me, just ask the boys...
Down at the wall...That's where I'll be...
Oh...
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Park bench and cigarettes
Can you help me get off this fence?
Can't you see, I'm just an old man
Tryin' hard, do what I can
Touching the untouchables but they don't know
Repect the disrespectables, but in the end you know
You turn away, what can I say?
You'll never, never know
You'll never know
Have you got money perhaps you could lend?
I wash my leather face in the afternoon sun
My shirt's turn my time's near done
Respect the disrespectables, but in the end you know
You turn away, what can I say?
I make sure I leave the phone off the hook
There are no Jones' and I pay no rent
I have to stand straight because my back's so bent
Tell my secretary I ain't takin' any calls,
And if you want to find me, just ask the boys...
Down at the wall...That's where I'll be...
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Can you help me get off this fence?
Can't you see, I'm just an old man
Tryin' hard, do what I can
Repect the disrespectables, but in the end you know
You turn away, what can I say?
You'll never, never know
You'll never know
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To me this sounds like the singer [Colin Hay I believe] is talking from the point of view of one of the 'undesirables' of society. The first verse he begs and then later he begs some more. He talks about the 'untouchables' and 'disrespectables' and the attitudes towards them, mainly ones of pitiful respect and a bit of hidden disgust, which is displayed by them turning away at the end.
great song :)
To me, this particular Men at Work song is actually about a successful rich high society guy who, out of curiosity, wants to see how those on the outside of society live. The line of "Tell my secretary I ain\'t taking any calls" is a dead giveaway here. Soon, by the end of the song, he wants to get back to his old life and be the successful rich high society guy that he is because he now sees how fortunate he is having all that he has, but still, he is pretty sympathetic to those outsiders, who are the "Untouchables" in this particular song. It has a certain laughable silliness to it.
@FrankNFNY "Tell my secretary I ain\'t takin\' any calls" is sarcastic.
@FrankNFNY "Tell my secretary I ain\'t takin\' any calls" is sarcastic.
FrankNFNY
FrankNFNY
@DanVitaleRocks Okay, maybe it is sarcasm, but still, I stand by my interpretataion.
@DanVitaleRocks Okay, maybe it is sarcasm, but still, I stand by my interpretataion.