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Turn the page and it's
The scoop of the century
Dont wanna be L seven I had enough of this
This is brainwash and this is a clue
To the stars who fooled you
Tell me why you can't explain
You're only looking for vinyl yeah
Didn't they fool you they wanna be you
Gimme world war three we can live again
You didn't fool me but i fooled you
You wanna be me yeah You wanna be me
You wanna be someone yeah ruin someone
Yeah, Didn't I fool you I ruined you yeah
Didn't I fool you I sussed you out
I got you in the camera and
I got you in my camera
A secund of your life ruined for life
You wanna ruin me in your magazine
You wanna cover us in the margarine
And now is the time to realize
To have real eyes
Down down down down
And I'll take you down on the underground
Down in the dark and down in the crypt
Down in the dark where the typewriter fit
Down with your pen and pad ready to kill
To make me ill
Down wanna be someone you wanna be someone
Ruin someone
Make it as someone you wanna be me ruin me
A typewriter god a black and white king
PVC blackboard books black and white
I wanna be me
The scoop of the century
Dont wanna be L seven I had enough of this
This is brainwash and this is a clue
To the stars who fooled you
Tell me why you can't explain
You're only looking for vinyl yeah
Didn't they fool you they wanna be you
You didn't fool me but i fooled you
You wanna be me yeah You wanna be me
You wanna be someone yeah ruin someone
Yeah, Didn't I fool you I ruined you yeah
Didn't I fool you I sussed you out
I got you in my camera
A secund of your life ruined for life
You wanna ruin me in your magazine
You wanna cover us in the margarine
And now is the time to realize
To have real eyes
And I'll take you down on the underground
Down in the dark and down in the crypt
Down in the dark where the typewriter fit
Down with your pen and pad ready to kill
To make me ill
Down wanna be someone you wanna be someone
Ruin someone
Make it as someone you wanna be me ruin me
A typewriter god a black and white king
PVC blackboard books black and white
I wanna be me
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i think this song is supposed to portray how they think the media is such scum, and they are fed up with hearing all of the made-up storys about them in magazines
this song is completly amazing. i love it. ya well it has to do with the media and its tabloid bs. pretty self-explanitory.
"Down with your pen and pad ready to kill To make me ill" It's probably about journalists and the other media trying to make the Sex Pistols look bad in the eye of the public. Your ideas sound right too.
I think there are definite references to 'The Who' in this song.
This is brainwash and this is a clue To the stars who fooled you Tell me why you can't explain
The bit about covered in Margarine reminds me of 'The Who Sell-Out' as well. Although I suppose other bands have appeared on album covers covered in gunk
Love that intro and love that middle silence! This song is obviously against the media. In “the Filth and the Fury”, Jones said half of the media stuff were lies, but some of it was true. Yes, they got into fights and spat at people, but no, they were very honest about music rather than purposefully be in it for vulgarity of it.
This song is about how much they detest the journalists that pretend to be interested when they eventually just mis-interpret everything they bloody type
lol..."you wanna cover us in margarine"
@ritzymind_wasted well, it does ryhme with magazine, after all
@ritzymind_wasted well, it does ryhme with magazine, after all
This was one of the first songs penned WELL before their media 'notoriety'. As well, the lyric is "down in the dark where the typewriter FLICK" (not FIT). It's another INTELLIGENT song by Rotten supposedly about NME's Nick Kent (who wore PVC)