He says that they’re “two silhouettes saying goodnight by the garden gate” and previously states that her boyfriends would be frustrated to learn that they’d spent their week’s wages “all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek”.
She doesn’t sound like she was making out with anyone. Just having innocent fun late into the night.
I have always had a bit of a problem with “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia”.
To whit: (I love that archaic English shit! :D)
I have always understood that “the lights went out” meant the guy was executed. (As in the way the lights used to do dim in those old B&W gangster films when the con would ride “Ol Sparky”).
So to me it doesn’t make any sense to follow that with, “That’s the night they hung an innocent man.”
But I might be confusing the metaphor?
Anyone?
Thanks
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Here’s another vote for Alice Cooper (the band), specifically…
I Love the Dead
Dead Babies
What does that say about the people who want that damn thing played at their weddings? :eek:
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No one’s mentioned The Police’s “Don’t Stand so Close to me”?
How about Warren Zevon’s excitable boy?
Another rock hymn to the underaged - She’s Just 14* by Locomotiv GT:
Her mother calls her Jean
Her papa treats me mean
And she’s 14
14
Only 14
Good song, and it never struck me as creepy, maybe because Jerry Lee Lewis had set the bar so low by marrying his 13-year-old cousin when he was 22.
*a better song than their one hit, Rock Yourself.
Motley Crue’s “You’re All I Need” is about killing a girlfriend with a knife.
Full lyrics here. (scroll down slightly)
Some excerpts from the lyrics:
/I took your breath
Sometimes love’s better off dead
/You’re all I need, make you only mine
I love you so I set you free
I had to take your life
/But killing you helped me keep you home
I guess it was bad
Cause love can be sad
But we finally make the news
And for anyone who wonders why Zager and Evans were one hit wonders with In The Year 2525 here is their followup Mr Turnkey, a thoughtful ditty about a convicted rapist:
*Mr Turnkey, it’s 10 pm in Wichita Falls
August 16, 1969 and I’m in some bar
Mr Turnkey, I need a woman and I ain’t getting far
I never was the kind of man a woman looked for.
But Mr Turnkey, she looked at me with flirting eyes
Mr Turnkey, she was lovelier than oil lights
Mr Turnkey, she led me on, she led me on,
She knew she wasn’t going to let love her.
Mr Turnkey, there’s been a rape in Wichita Falls
Mr Turnkey, I’m sitting here crying in my coveralls
…
…
Mr Turnkey, you ain’t never seen nothing like this before
Mr Turnkey, I nailed my wrist to your wall, I’m going home
…
…
Mr Turnkey, I’m crying, hanging here dying
Tell her I’m sorry*
Beautiful stuff.
I run yelling out of the room.:eek:
Its refreshingly honest!
The Tao’s Revenge and Quasimodum: you read the OP but didn’t scroll as far as post #2?
Arrrrr!!! Ya got me, pseudotriton ruber ruber!!!:smack:
Guilty as charged!:eek:
No excuse I know, but I think my eyes were focusing on the bolding, and missed your entry.
Apologies, you had the first mention.
Can I add the song Ben to the mix while I’m here?
A love song to a rat, right?
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neutron star, I don’t know how long this song is and it’s a reverse of what you’re talking about (a dying mother and then the tale of her baby girl), but it’s from '76 and hella creepy. So try Spring by, of all people, Cher.
And since there’s quite a bit of AC songs listed, I’ll add a few more…
Cold Ethel is about a bit of cold lovin’ and Former Lee Warmer, the singer’s brother who lives in the attic and oversees unsightly horrors.
*In an upstairs room, under lock and key
It’s my brother, Former Lee
All the mops and brooms keep him company
Misconceived of the family
Former Lee Warmer pulls up the covers to hide in his wrinkled bed
No dreams go in, no dreams go out of the hole in his wrinkled head*
Elvis Costello - I Want You
“I don’t think I can live without you… and I know that I never will”
"I want you
You’ve had your fun you don’t get well no more
I want you
Your fingernails go dragging down the wall
be careful darling you might fall"
“Werewolf” by The 5 Man Electrical Band
Mama said, there’s
Something weird 'bout Billy
I looked in his room, his bed
Wasn’t slept in at all last night
“We used to Know” by Jethro Tull which is about basically the futility of everything we do because sooner or later we’re all going to die and whatever we have achieved is pretty much pointless.
"This is the last time "by Keane, which is about a bloke whos been in love with a girl for a long time but his feelings are not and never will be reciprocated so he’s going to off himself.
Soft, it is ‘to wit’, not ‘to whit’.
Thanks for the correction, G. Odoreida !
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“What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?” by Emile Ford
Has ALWAYS creeped me out, being apparently all about promising to teach a cocktease (in his eyes) a lesson by raping her:
You’re fooling around with me now,
You lead me on and then you run away.
Well that’s all right,
I’ll get you alone tonight
And baby you’ll find,
You’re messing with dynamite
So what do you want to make those eyes at me for
If they don’t mean what they say?
Urrgh. I promise this isn’t selecting a bit out of context to make it sound worse than it is either. The worse part is it is an awesome tune.