What song is that? Is the line supposed to be “dancing shoes”?
PlainJain, that video isn’t playing for me.
We went over this in another thread (lots of them I’m sure). Paul is non-rhotic. I’ve listened closely to the radio performance and there are iterations that it sounds closer to “in which we’re livin’” and iterations it sounds closer to “in which we live in”. I’m fairly convinced.
The “Blue Album,” aka 1967-1970, EMI’s official Greatest Hits compilation (chapter 2) from 1973.
It’s “modern”.
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Thread title noted, there are several YouTube videos of it being performed live by JF and he clearly says flying spoon.
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Yeah, but I don’t listen to >many music videos". I keep hearing that same original recording over and over, and it never sounds like “flying spoon” to me. It sounds like “glide-wheel spoon”
“My ship is a’ comin’ and I just can’t pretend”
He is leaving and he cannot pretend he isn’t. So he is flying by night. And if you think I am wrong, you are crazy! :p.
Anyone agree?
Still works for me.
My OP in the other thread said that that isn’t even what he is singing.
In Nirvana’s “All Apologies”, there’s a line that clearly sounds like “I proceed from shame”. Yet on the CD’s lyric booklet, the line is “Aqua Seaform shame”. Not only does the official version not make any sense, but the other line matches up with the song’s and album’s theme of self loathing. If fact, I wonder if “Aqua Seaform” was just Cobain’s inside joke.
Listen to this one from “Jazz Thing II.” It’s even more enunciated.
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I have always heard “flying spoon” and the song is not written for a lady. John Fogerty supposedly wrote it for his little boy. I heard a snippet of an interview where he explained it once.
Found a cite:
“Me and Bobby Mcgee”- All the lyrics sites have…*“I pulled my harpoon outta my dirty red bandana.” *
I admit that Janice slurs the words, but not THAT bad.
Years ago, I saw Kris Kristopherson sing it as *“I pulled my harp out of my dirty red bandana.” *
I trust his version not just because he wrote it, but HARPOON???
Kristofferson very clearly sings harpoon here. Kinda spoils the song for me, actually. I mean, like you said, HARPOON???
Thank you! The chow line line never made any sense to me.
Yes!
I’ve always heard this as “my ship is a-coming’”.
His ship is coming in, and he’s going to “fly by night, away from here”. He “just can’t pretend” that he’s satisfied with his current situation. It’s the only interpretation that really makes sense.
I’m right, anyone who says otherwise is crazy, and that’s the end of it.
Cobain clearly singing “aqua seaform shame”
Toto and the Rains in Africa.
To me it was always “I miss the rains down in Africa”.
It was pointed out here it is “I bless the rains down in Africa”
“Harpoon” is apparently southern slang for “mouth harp” or “harmonica”.
Why is it called a harp? at bottom of page
http://www.ebay.com/ctg/Harpoon-Man-Greg-Harmonica-Taylor-CD-Jan-1996-Appaloosa-/3237637, CD by a harmonica player called “Harpoon Man”
Cobain was known for some weird lyrics more for sound than for actually coherent statement. They might mean something special to Curt that he struggled to express, or they might just be stringing together sounds that mesh the way he wants.
Smells Like Teen Spirit
“A mulato, an albino
a mosquito, my libido… yeah”
Heart-Shaped Box
“I’ve been locked inside your Heart Shaped box for weeks
I’ve been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black”
and
“Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on Angel Hair and babys breath
Broken hymen of your highness I’m left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back”
So I can totally buy he means “aqua seaform shame”.
Seafoam.
It might be now, but I doubt that that use of the word existed with before Kristofferson coined it.
Until this moment, I thought it was “I guess…”.
Even with the lyrics printed in front of me, I still hear “I’m not talkin’ 'bout Bolivia”