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Send in the Clouds Lyrics
Send in the clouds. Bring down the rain.
Shut all the blinds, turn out the lights:
I feel insane when you get in my bed.
I am the trick my mother played on the world
Seventeen doctors couldn't decide
whether I should be allowed in the game.
Why can't monsters get along with other monsters?
Soi disantra, soi disantra...
I know a puppy who walked form Kentucky.
Made to East Virginia by dawn.
He had seventeen ideas in his head.
Windex tears flow down the robot's face.
He never felt a mother's embrace.
My momma named me after a king.
I'm gonna bury my name in you.
Why can't monsters get along wih other monsters?
Soi disantra, soi disantra...
Shut all the blinds, turn out the lights:
I feel insane when you get in my bed.
Seventeen doctors couldn't decide
whether I should be allowed in the game.
Soi disantra, soi disantra...
Made to East Virginia by dawn.
He had seventeen ideas in his head.
He never felt a mother's embrace.
My momma named me after a king.
I'm gonna bury my name in you.
Soi disantra, soi disantra...
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Submitted by
3ric On May 10, 2002
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Dead C: Actress Mary Elizabeth Ellis from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is also a huge fan of yours and I promised that I would ask a question for her about the song “Send in the Clouds”. She wanted to know what “Soi Disantra” meant and, based on numerous forums I found through a google search, she’s not the only person that will be happy to find out the answer to that question.
David Berman: Soi-disant means “so called”. the line before it mentions monsters. the singers are calling themselves monsters, but then adding “so called!” . Even in calling myself and Steve monstrous, I had to undercut it, to avoid sounding self-important. It was the tendency of the times.
from this interview, here: http://monsterfresh.com/2009/05/11/david-berman-silver-jews-interview/
This is a great song. No discussion?
It is a great song. I still don't know what soi disantra means though. I read somewhere that it means "self-styled." The lyrics here are a bit wrong. It should be "Windex tears flow down the robot's face. He never felt a mother's embrace."