Turning Japanese Lyrics
Of me and you
You wrote "I love you"
I love you too
I sit there staring and there's nothing else to do
Your hair is brown
Your eyes are hazel
And soft as clouds
I often kiss you when there's no one else around
I'd like a million of them all round my cell
I asked the doctor to take your picture
So I can look at you from inside as well
You've got me turning up and turning down and turning in and turning 'round
Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
I'm turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
I'd like a million of them all round my cell
I want the doctor to take your picture
So I can look at you from inside as well
You've got me turning up and turning down and turning in and turning 'round
Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
I'm turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
No fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it's dark
Everyone around me is a total stranger
Everyone avoids me like a psyched lone ranger
Everyone
Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
I'm turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
(Think so think so think so)
Turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so
Look, you shouldn't believe everything you see on the tele, you know? This song has double meanings. It really depends on the way you look at it. One way, would be the obvious-Masturbation. Okay, we've got that. But think about it. "Oh it's in color Your hair is brown Your eyes are hazel And soft as clouds I often kiss you when there's no one else around"...He might be talking about falling in love with a Japanese girl, and the whole world around him shuns him, because he isn't Asian. He might feel that he is so in love that he, too, is starting to feel a bit Japanese.
Or...He could be talking about masturbation. ^_~
dude, i dunno about you guys.......but my face doesnt turn all japanese like
He's not in jail - he's in a psych ward obsessing over a picture of this girl which he would like a million of. It's not 'cyclone ranger', its "everyone avoids me like a psyched lone ranger"
well, when dave originally wrote this song, it supposedly was a love song...and later when interviewers asked him if it was actually about masturbation or not he'd answer no or yes, depending on his mood .. so basically you can decipher it any way you want to
Masturbation is pretty much a "lone ranger" activity.
not for me... HAHA!
not for me... HAHA!
It is amazing how on idiot says something and the rest of the idiots pick up on and before you know you have a pseudo-fact.
It is obvious that no one here has actually seen/heard the REPEATED interviews by Dave Fenton (the guy wrote the song) about what the song means and it is NOT about masturbation.
If fact Fenton made up the term one day when he woke from a dream and thought it would be good in a song. The song was and is about love nothing more.
Term itself did not get used as a euphemism for masturbation until AFTER the song was released and well some idiot came up with the notion and said it was a fact.
If you don't believe me, and I know you don't here it from Fenton's own lips -
I heard that this song was about the guy going gay. I don't believe that at all, & agree with the masturbation thing, but what is this part about..."No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women, No fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it's dark"?
Correct, it's NOT about the guy going gay. It is about masturbation... and from the sound of it is about a guy that's in jail and is looking at a girls picture and masturbates. The "No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women, no fun, no sin, no you, no wonder is dark" part (this is my opinion) is about him being in a jail, he is in a cell so he can't do any of that. This is just what I think, I'm not sure if it's right.
Correct, it's NOT about the guy going gay. It is about masturbation... and from the sound of it is about a guy that's in jail and is looking at a girls picture and masturbates. The "No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women, no fun, no sin, no you, no wonder is dark" part (this is my opinion) is about him being in a jail, he is in a cell so he can't do any of that. This is just what I think, I'm not sure if it's right.
Why does the guy have to be in jail if he has a pic? You can jack off with a pic anywhere, not just in jail. And I do think that's what this song is about.
ONE HIT WONDERS-but it's still a cool song!
@Boonechic_21 Three albums of all great songs does not equal one hit wonders.
@Boonechic_21 Three albums of all great songs does not equal one hit wonders.
I've got your picture, I've got your picture I'd like a million of them over myself ..i thought that part said "i'd like a million of them over my cell" everyone's been saying it's about being in jail, so wouldn't that make sense. also, if this song is, in fact, about masturbation, what does this "Everyone around me is a total stranger Everyone avoids me like a psyched lone-ranger" part mean? how does that relate to masturbation?