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It’s typical of what he wrote in that part of his career. Some would say “in his entire solo career.” He’d write three or four unrelated riffs, and he’d duct-tape them together. Who cares if it makes no sense? People will buy what he cranks out.
I personally think he’s doing more coherent work these days than Uncle/Halsey.
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From “Dance Tonight”, released June 2007:
*Everybody gonna dance tonight
Everybody gonna feel alright
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
Everybody gonna dance around
Everybody gonna hit the ground
Everybody gonna dance around tonight*
It’s more coherent than “Uncle/Halsey”, and it’s undeniably catchy, but lyrically he’s in the same place he was when he wrote “Someone’s knockin’ on the door”.
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*Everybody gonna dance tonight
Everybody gonna feel alright
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
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Actually, some of us were planning to wang chung tonight instead.
[QUOTE=Sublight]
From “Dance Tonight”, released June 2007:
*Everybody gonna dance tonight
Everybody gonna feel alright
Everybody gonna dance around tonight
Everybody gonna dance around
Everybody gonna hit the ground
Everybody gonna dance around tonight*
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Yes, but that’s the only disposable track on the album, IMO. When I heard the whole CD and my wife asked what I thought, my first reaction was “The single is piffle. But the rest is pretty good. I like it better than a lot of other albums he’s done in 20 years.”
For the record [no pun intended], here’s the lyrics.
I’ve always liked the song, if more for the music than the lyrics (but that’s how it is for most of the music I like). I’ve long assumed it was intended partly as reflection of Anglo-American friendship and culture, from WWII on (“hands across the water” being a reference to Lend-Lease and America’s eventual entry into the war, and using the UK as a massive staging ground). The “heads across the sky” is probably a reference to drugs, some spiritual insight, or both; it could also be an allusion to an [increasingly] unified Anglo-American youth culture, increasingly dominated by movies, music, fashion, and other mass-marketed diversions, filling our head-space, as it were. “Hands across the water” is an image that incorporates not just wartime alliance, but also friendships and free trade, as cemented by the handshake.
Of course, I could be wrong about all of this. But there’s one manifestation of Anglo-American friendship that Beatle fans can’t ignore – the propensity for Beatles to pair up with American women! In 1971, when “UA/AH” came out, there were two such unions (John and Yoko, Paul and Linda), with George and Ringo still married to their English first wives. But in 1978, George married Mexican-American Olivia Arias, and in 1981, Ringo married Barbara Bach (formerly Barbara Goldbach, of Queens). If this was the type of Anglo-American union that Paul had in mind, then the “hands” could have been an allusion to hands joined in marriage.
"He had to have a berth or he couldnt get to sea"? Really? And here I always thought it was, “He had to have a bath or he couldn’t get to sleep.” Which I like better.
Maybe I should head over to ye olde misunderstood lyrics thread . . .
Reminds me of a very old joke (from National Lampoon magazine).
Q: When did Paul McCartney write “Silly Love Songs”?
A: Since 1963.