Leaning in your corner like a candidate for wax
Sidewalk social scientist
Don't get no satisfaction from your cigarette
It's ten to ten
Time is running out
Lock up all your memories
Get outa here you know that we can run
Today can last another million years
Today could be the end of me
It's 11:59 and I want to stay alive
Pumping like a fugitive in cover from the night
Take it down the freeway like a bullet to the ocean
Wait until the morning take tomorrow by the hand
Take it down the highway like a rocket to the ocean
We can run
Today can last another million years
Today could be the end of me
It's 11:59 and I want to stay alive
Hanging on a frequency burning like a fire
Boy you've got the motion down
It's getting late I'm tired and I've lost control
Don't leave me here
Time is running out
Take me down the highway like a rocket to the ocean
We can run
Today can last another million years
Today could be the end of me
It's 11:59 and I want to stay alive
Sidewalk social scientist
Don't get no satisfaction from your cigarette
It's ten to ten
Time is running out
Lock up all your memories
Get outa here you know that we can run
Today can last another million years
Today could be the end of me
It's 11:59 and I want to stay alive
Pumping like a fugitive in cover from the night
Take it down the freeway like a bullet to the ocean
Wait until the morning take tomorrow by the hand
Take it down the highway like a rocket to the ocean
We can run
Today can last another million years
Today could be the end of me
It's 11:59 and I want to stay alive
Hanging on a frequency burning like a fire
Boy you've got the motion down
It's getting late I'm tired and I've lost control
Don't leave me here
Time is running out
Take me down the highway like a rocket to the ocean
We can run
Today can last another million years
Today could be the end of me
It's 11:59 and I want to stay alive
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Very simply, the song is about the narrator's need to live in the moment. She realizes her mortality is a very real concept, but, much like what blondie is saying is "slow motion", when one is living life to the fullest, time has no meaning. 11:59 is the last minute of the day, but that doesn't matter to the Narrator, becuase she is going to live her life as fully as she can.
I love this song, it's so good. i dont know what else to say
I LOVE DEBBIE HARRY AND THE GUYS!
Debbie and Chris were very concerned about the arms race and nuclear poliferation at the time. It seemed like nuclear anniellation was inevitible. Thus this song and Atomic and Slow Motion and probably others that I can't think of. Sorry for mispellings but spell check doesn't work here.
I listened to this last night and am SO glad somebody else picked up on the non-proliferation theme.
I listened to this last night and am SO glad somebody else picked up on the non-proliferation theme.
My view is that the 11:59 line refers to the Nuclear Clock.
My view is that the 11:59 line refers to the Nuclear Clock.
Even after all these years, the Cold War still messes with my head.
Even after all these years, the Cold War still messes with my head.
@mrkenny err..except this was written by Jimmy Destri and not Debbie & Chris.
@mrkenny err..except this was written by Jimmy Destri and not Debbie & Chris.
I love the organ keyboard instrumental break in the middle. Has a mid-60's appeal to it. Like a gameshow or an ad jingle - but better because it's an interlude in the middle of this rocking song. I can hear it in my mind right now. And I remember those high Israeli Army boots she was lacing up on the cover in 1978. And the other guy's white Topsiders...
Sighhhhhhh...........