I'm wondering...why is it that many of us, when we don't understand the meaning or significance of a song's lyrics, assign a sexual meaning?

I had a friend in high school that swore that "New Sensation" by INXS was about anal sex...

"New Sensation"

Live baby live
Now that the day is over
I got a new sensation
In perfect moments
Impossible to refuse

Sleep baby sleep
Now that the night is over
And the sun comes like a god
Into our room
All perfect light and promises

Gotta hold on you
A new sensation
A new sensation
Right now
Gonna take you over
A new sensation
A new sensation

Dream baby dream
Of all that's come and going
And you will find out
In the end
There really is
There really is no difference

Cry baby cry
When you've got to get it out
I'll be your shoulder
You can tell me all
Don't keep it in ya
Well that's the reason why I'm here
(these were the phrases that caused the controversy - applekisses)

Are you ready for a new sensation
A new sensation
Right now
Gonna take you on a new sensation
A new sensation

Hate baby hate
When there's nothing left for you
You're only human
What can you do
It'll soon be over
Don't let your pain take over you

Love baby love
It's written all over your face
There's nothing better we could do
Than live forever
Well that's all we've got to do

Hey now I'm gonna take a new sensation
A new sensation


(Jthad1129's post ( http://www.prince.org/msg...&tid=32190 ) about "Shock the Monkey" by Peter Gabriel being about wacking off reminded me of this.

"Life is one big fuck..." - Charles Manson

Everything is sexual!!!

if you can't FUCK TO IT
it ain't music...: BAD

well YAY!

Cest la vie by B*Witched bloody is no matter how much they deny it.

IceNine said:

Ok...tell me how the lyrics to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" are sexual...

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee."
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
when the skies of November turn gloomy.
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty,
that good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
when the "Gales of November" came early.

The ship was the pride of the American side
coming back from some mill in Wisconsin.
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
with a crew and good captain well seasoned,
concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
when they left fully loaded for Cleveland.
And later that night when the ship's bell rang,
could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
and a wave broke over the railing.
And ev'ry man knew, as the captain did too
'twas the witch of November come stealin'.
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
when the Gales of November came slashin'.
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
in the face of a hurricane west wind.

When suppertime came the old cook came on deck sayin'.
"Fellas, it's too rough t'feed ya."
At seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in; he said,
"Fellas, it's bin good t'know ya!"
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
and the good ship and crew was in peril.
And later that night when 'is lights went outta sight
came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Does any one know where the love of God goes
when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
if they'd put fifteen more miles behind 'er.
They might have split up or they might have capsized;
they may have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names
of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
in the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
the islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario
takes in what Lake Erie can send her,
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
with the Gales of November remembered.

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
in the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral."
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
of the big lake they call "Gitche Gumee."
"Superior," they said, "never gives up her dead
when the gales of November come early!"

applekisses said:

He is talking about anal sex there!!! When the waves of the waterbed have been going for hours, you move on for the third input.

"Life is one big fuck..." - Charles Manson

IceNine said:

Also, this is a nod to oral sex in the wintertime...

"that good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
when the "Gales of November" came early."


BTW When is Charles Manson putting out an album?
[This message was edited Fri Jan 10 11:22:11 PST 2003 by applekisses]

applekisses said:

I already have his album... I can make you a copy if you want it.

It is... different.

IceNine said:

OMG...I didn't know he even put one out! Can you describe it? What are some of the song titles?

applekisses said:

It is called "Lie: The Love and Terror Cult" and was put out after he was imprisoned. The songs are a kind of strange, fucked-up, psychedelic folk music. Very strange stuff...

Marilyn Manson stole the lyrics to "Mechanical Man" and used them as a song called "My Monkey" for which he did not credit Charles Manson.

"I had a little monkey
And I sent him to the country
And I fed him ginger bread
Along came a choo choo
And knocked my monkey koo koo
And now my monkey's dead"

Here are the song titles:

1. Look At Your Game Girl
2. Ego
3. Mechanical Man
4. People Say I'm No Good
5. Home Is Where You're Happy
6. Arkansas
7. I'll Never Say Never To Always
8. Garbage Dump
9. Don't Do Anything Illegal
10. Sick City
11. Cease To Exist
12. Big Iron Door
13. I Once Knew A Man
14. Eyes Of A Dreamer

http://www.cduniverse.com...=134571041

Charles should sue Marilyn! That is so unfair!

IceNine said:

Here's a link to all of his lyrics...
http://leeaaron.tripod.co...yrics.html
They're not bad, really. Some of them are even coherent...except for the one when he's talking about the eagle in the middle of his back.
[This message was edited Fri Jan 10 11:42:31 PST 2003 by applekisses]

I don't mean to jack your thread with Charles Manson, but here is a quote about Manson from Neil Young:

"I met Manson through Dennis Wilson. He wanted to make records. He wanted me to introduce him to Mo Ostin at Reprise. He had this kind of music that nobody else was doing. He would sit down with a guitar and start playing and making up stuff, different every time, it just kept comin' out, comin' out, comin' out. Then he would stop and you would never hear that one again. Musically, I thought he was very unique. I thought he really had something crazy, something great. He was like a living poet."

applekisses said:

Either that, or the lyrics are assigned a drug reference.

IceNine said:

Oh, I don't mind...actually, I think I'm jacking my own thread... but, thanks for being concerned.
I always thought that Manson would be somewhat of a poet. He just has that quality about him. Plus, wasn't the whole 'Helter Skelter' thing about him believing that The Beatles stole his work?

applekisses said:

Nope... the girls just wrote "Healter Skelter" on the walls, along with "Pig" and "Rise," in an attempt to shock people and make it look like an uprising of some sort.

Manson claims that he never really liked the Beatles... that Bing Crosby and cats like that were who he idolized.

not "Gilligan's Island"??

Well you know the old saying "there's a message behind every song".