This song is a great and overlooked gem on what I consider the best Squeeze album - East Side Story.
I'd understand it better if I knew more British slang. The first two verses are about two very different women. The first one being attractive, popular, and style conscious. The second one being a lonely homebody.
He's attracted to the first woman, is obsessed with her grooming, and wants to pick her up. She adds "tick to his tocker (slang for penis).
He doesn't offer much about the second woman, except that it seems she is close to her rural family. There's a line listed in here that's not on the album version - are there other versions? It's the one about the Arab friend which seems a double entendre.
The third verse is about a regular working class guy who feels excluded from the world of pretty women, as referred to in the first verse, and - I'd guess the boyish girls are like the woman in the second verse? In any case neither would have him.
If he were rich he'd have an attractive woman, but as it is he has a 9-5:30 job, which he hates, while his wife or partner is cheating on him during the day with the milkman.
It's got some cool lyrics and a great attitude, even if they don't all fit together coherently - it's a bit mumbo jumbo.
So that brings us to the chorus. The song lyrics aren't perfect, (it's got a broken nose) but since it's a sunny day, we should come out to play and enjoy this quintessentially Squeeze song. It's a banger!
This song is a great and overlooked gem on what I consider the best Squeeze album - East Side Story.
I'd understand it better if I knew more British slang. The first two verses are about two very different women. The first one being attractive, popular, and style conscious. The second one being a lonely homebody.
He's attracted to the first woman, is obsessed with her grooming, and wants to pick her up. She adds "tick to his tocker (slang for penis).
He doesn't offer much about the second woman, except that it seems she is close to her rural family. There's a line listed in here that's not on the album version - are there other versions? It's the one about the Arab friend which seems a double entendre.
The third verse is about a regular working class guy who feels excluded from the world of pretty women, as referred to in the first verse, and - I'd guess the boyish girls are like the woman in the second verse? In any case neither would have him.
If he were rich he'd have an attractive woman, but as it is he has a 9-5:30 job, which he hates, while his wife or partner is cheating on him during the day with the milkman.
It's got some cool lyrics and a great attitude, even if they don't all fit together coherently - it's a bit mumbo jumbo.
So that brings us to the chorus. The song lyrics aren't perfect, (it's got a broken nose) but since it's a sunny day, we should come out to play and enjoy this quintessentially Squeeze song. It's a banger!