Caecille Norby - Life On Mars
It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling "No"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
Colin Hay - My Brilliant Feat
Did someone call my name?
Like a distant drum is beating
Or is it just another dream of long ago?
I dance again, I am spinning
In the light, I am living
And I can feel the power rushing through my veins
Once upon a time I could do no wrong
For the candle flickers, the flame is never gone
To my brilliant feat
They all pay heed
I hear the crowds roar oh so loudly
Is it a game of chance
Or merely circumstances
A jack to a king and back
Then you have to pay to play
The world it won't wait for you
It's got its own things to do
The sun's gotta rise and drive another night away
And as I listen to the silence
I can hear thunder in the distance
To my brilliant feat
I make grown men weep
And still my eyes grow oh so cloudy
Dresden Dolls - Backstabber
the record goes from blue to gold
so thank you for all your help
I know you want to jump around
but try to contain yourself
you always struck me as the type to take it lightly
but now you’re gonna have to shut your mouth or fight me…
backstabber, backstabber….
you’re all alone you’re all over
the popular magazines will never care what do you care
you’re down with the japanese
but you’ve got no right to sit there saying I abuse it
when you only sleep with girls who say they like your music
backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber backstabber
backstabber! hope grabber!
greedy little fit haver!
god, I feel for you, fool…..
s**t lover! off brusher!
jaded bitter joy crusher!
failure has made you so cruel….
rotten to the core
rotten to the core
rotten like a crackwhore
backing out out the backdoor
show us what you’re good for
stick it to the noise board
come on join the bloodsport
show us some support, still
working at the drugstore
is it because you’re A F****ING
backstabber! hope grabber!
greedy little fit haver!
god, I feel for you, fool…..
s**t lover! off brusher!
jaded bitter joy crusher!
failure has made you so cruel….
so don’t tell me what to write
and don’t tell me that I’m wrong……
and don’t tell me not to reference my songs within my songs
so here we go the open road
is covered with taco stands
and you can stop we’ll drop you off
and write to you when we land
BACKSTABBER!
Put on your music journalist hat.
Firstly, I would like to make a bit of a correction here. The name of the last band should be "The Dresden Dolls", not "Dresden Girls". Since "Backstabber" was a song I felt a connection to when I was still a rebellious 14-year-old, I just feel compelled to do this, haha.
ReplyDeleteLet us go back to the music now. As the second single of the band's second album, "Yes Virginia...", Backstabber could safely fall into the piano rock genre. With its simple piano and drums composition, Backstabber focuses more on the thumping and rather straightforward lyrics. Furthermore, the lyrics put us in the shoes of a person who feels that she has been betrayed by her partner and that ruins their relationship to the point of no return. The progression of the lyrics and tempo throughout the song itself is quite interesting. The song starts off on a rather polite note and slowly it is filled expletives in the chorus. However that fits nicely with the notion that the person in the song tries to contain her emotions but that seems hard as her partner has really done her wrong and that burns the bridges between them. Although the chorus is full of expletives, it might come off as being very catchy (probably because of the singer's intonation and the drums' tempo) and overall this is a perfect song for a sing-along for someone who has just been "back-stabbed" by their boyfriend/girlfriend.
"Firstly, I would like to make a bit of a correction here. The name of the last band should be "The Dresden Dolls", not "Dresden Girls"."
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Okay, after I listened all these songs. I will choose “My brilliant feat” by Colin Hay as my top song among these three songs. His voice was very deep that I think it is suit up with the song that he sang. The meaning of this song, I think it is about a support to someone or himself for something that he want to reach, or maybe he want to tell us about his experience as some of the lines said “And I can feel the power rushing through my veins” “I hear the crowds roar oh so loudly”. I have already search the internet about Colin Hay and found out that this song was originally written for a tribute to George Best, the famous football player who died some years back. But his fans said that this song can also be applied to Colin Hay as well, because he mentioned “A jack to a king and back” that maybe related to his career as a singer from Australia to an International celebrity.
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