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Posted: March 29 2005 at 15:44 |
richardh wrote:
Boy buys chocolates for girl..... takes girl to Cinema..and later gets laid.....probably.Well it beats giant computer takes over world and fights humanity in one last apocalyptic battle...I suppose. |
Hey i dunno about that Richard,no supposing.
Shagging in an un-tidy beds not too good either.Just hope he's slapping that chocolate in the appropriate places.
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 15:40 |
richardh wrote:
Boy buys chocolates for girl..... takes girl to
Cinema..and later gets laid.....probably.Well it beats giant
computer takes over world and fights humanity in one last apocalyptic
battle...I suppose. |
I`d prefer to see giant man in rubber
monster costume takes over the world.
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 15:23 |
Syzygy wrote:
That's the kind of song you get when a bunch of classically educated public schoolboys form a rock band.
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That's prog!
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 15:03 |
Syzygy wrote:
The lyrics weren't by Gabriel, they were a more or less direct quotation from T.S. Eliot courtesy of Rutherford and Banks, and yes of course the lyrics are about nudey prod games. Tiresias was a figure in Roman (or possibly Greek) mythology, who lived for 7 years as a man and 7 years as a woman (forget why, but it was probably some god's idea of a joke). That was how he 'crossed between the poles' and gained such a great insight into the human condition - 'for me there's no mystery'.
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The Tiresias lines were actually written by Peter Gabriel, when most of the song was already composed by Banks and Rutherford.
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 14:56 |
The lyrics weren't by Gabriel, they were a more or less direct quotation from T.S. Eliot courtesy of Rutherford and Banks, and yes of course the lyrics are about nudey prod games. Tiresias was a figure in Roman (or possibly Greek) mythology, who lived for 7 years as a man and 7 years as a woman (forget why, but it was probably some god's idea of a joke). That was how he 'crossed between the poles' and gained such a great insight into the human condition - 'for me there's no mystery'.
That's the kind of song you get when a bunch of classically educated public schoolboys form a rock band.
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'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 14:53 |
Now that you mention it, it makes sense. I never noticed that before. I guess you do learn new things everyday.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 14:52 |
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richardh
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 14:43 |
Boy buys chocolates for girl..... takes girl to Cinema..and later gets laid.....probably.Well it beats giant computer takes over world and fights humanity in one last apocalyptic battle...I suppose.
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 14:05 |
Or did he mean that there were more women than men in the 15th century in Italy?
My head is going to explode if I am going to think of just ONE more idea.
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 13:49 |
i can see that, but you mite be looking into it too deeply, sounds like a big reference to shakespeare to me.
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Gentle Ronnie
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 13:33 |
Perhaps Gabriel meant that men don't give out enough sperm?
Once a man, like the sea I raged Once a woman, like the earth I gave And there is in fact more earth than sea
You could only guess.
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 13:30 |
Romeo locks his basement flat And scurries up the stair maybe hes gonna get some hehe
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 13:24 |
Home from work our Juliet
Clears her morning meal
She dabs her skin with pretty smells
Concealing to appeal
I will make my bed
She said, but turned to go
Can she be late for her Cinema show ?
Cinema show ?
Romeo locks his basement flat
And scurries up the stair
With head held high and floral tie
A weekend millionaire
I will make my bed
With her tonight, he cries
Can he fail, armed with his chocolate surprise ?
Take a little trip back with Father Tiresias
Listen to the old one speak of all he has lived through
I have crossed between the poles, for me there's no mystery
Once a man, like the sea I raged
Once a woman, like the earth I gave
And there is in fact more earth than sea
Take a little trip back with Father Tiresias
Listen to the old one speak of all he has lived through
I have crossed between the poles, for me there's no mystery
Once a man, like the sea I raged
Once a woman, like the earth I gave
And there is in fact more earth than sea
Sounds really like it.
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 13:14 |
hmm i dont think so, but hopefully some bigger genesis fans will be able to clear this one up.
there is a lyric, "i will make my bed tonight with her" that might have thrown you to think its about sex but i dont think it is. Sounds like its about love to me.
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Gentle Ronnie
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Posted: March 29 2005 at 13:06 |
Is is just me or is it about, um, sex? If I am wrong, do not laugh at me, I was not raised in an English speaking family and might not understand the true meaning of the song.
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