7 openin couplets: stones only dept

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

You're the kind of person
You meet at certain dismal dull affairs

Well I told you once and I told you twice
But you never listen to my advice

Prince or pauper, beggar man or thing
Play the game with every blow you bring <--- 2ns line a bit lame but 1st line awesome

I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black <--- BING IS A GOTH

What a drag it is getting old:
"Kids are different today," I hear ev'ry mother say

I'm a fleabit peanut monkey
All my friends are junkies (That's not really true) <-- bit in brackets makes it work

Tell me a story/
About how you adore me! <--- haha the kind of thing v!ck sez :)

Comments

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

2 - this could be the last time, BAYBEE THE LAST TIME I don't know

4 - haha paint it GOTH!

5 - Mother's little helper

I'm a bit crap at the Stones. I should know the last one :(

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Er this is a quiz, yes? ;)

ferryama ditto

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

(only a quiz if you want it to be!)

Well i´m here looking through an old picture frame
Just waiting for the perfect view

I tried but I could not find a way
Looking back all I did was look away

You're heard enough of the blues and stuff
You're pretty swell now, 'cause you're pretty tough

I am for a life around the corner
That takes you by surprise

Blue sunsets and grey lagoons
Silver starfish with honeymoons

The bogus man is on his way
As fast as he can run

Here the soil is barren
Here nothing growws but crosses

The sky is dark, the wind is cold
The night is young before it's old and grey

Here as I sit at this empty cafe
Thinking of you

Lex will come to like the Rolling Stones someday

[koganbot]

I know all of these natch so I won't ruin it for those who want to play; I think that "Play the game with every blow you bring" is good if you know title of song and then can relate it to, you know, blow. (OK, they were going through a drug-posturing-ninny phase like everyone else that year, but that being the Year Of The Drug Posturing Ninny Phase, the Stones were quite of their time.)

Mick Jagger was best lyricist ever, and I don't mean that as hyperbole (though maybe Johansen at his too short very very best beats him).

Number One gets even better with next lines, "Center of a crowd talkin' much too loud/Runnin' up and down the stairs." I love the [unintentional?] juxtaposition of her midcrowd and her running up and down stairs, as if one naturally accompanies the other. Is probably a precursor to Johansen's "We can't take her this week/Don't wanna hear another speech/Waitin' for a better day to hear what she's got to say," which only took him three lines to arrive at what took Mick the whole song to ken to, which is that he really cares about this girl.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i think "bring" is the weak word in the line -- it's not *quite* crisp enough as regards agency (who's doing the blowing?) and the fumble-around gives you time to think "obvious rhyme before needed sense" -- i'm actually very fond of the LP its from, with all its weaknesses... also it ends with clinking of glasses and p[artyclatter, hences segues straight INTO the first roxy LP!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

oops i think it mean "the LP it's from were it from an LP" (or something)

[koganbot]

In the U.S. it wasn't even on an LP, except an ex post facto compilation. Was it on Satanics in Britain?

[koganbot]

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

it was recorded during the satanic session, and put out as b-side to "we love you" -- cz of where it is on "get stoned: 30 greatest hits", which i knew much better much earlier i always forget it isn't on satanic

[koganbot]

Satanic is vastly underrated. Thought they did a good job with all those Velvets drones and Mothers goofarounds and even a Kinks imitation ("2000 Man," really close to "Death Of A Clown").

Re: Lex will come to like the Rolling Stones someday

[koganbot]

Actually it's "We can't take her this week/And her friends don't want another speech/Hopin' for a better day to hear what she's gotta say"

Re: Lex will come to like the Rolling Stones someday

[koganbot]

Or perhaps "Hoping for an eventual day to hear what she's got to say"??? (But "better" is better, and seems to be what David's saying on the album version.)