Never heard this. Janet is a pretty big fan of Joni Mitchell, eh? I remember she sampled "Big Yellow Taxi" for "Gone 'Til It's Gone" from the "Velvet Rope" album.
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Never heard this. Janet is a pretty big fan of Joni Mitchell, eh? I remember she sampled "Big Yellow Taxi" for "Gone 'Til It's Gone" from the "Velvet Rope" album.
Singing about real issues in her cuddly telly-tummy voice.
She should go phuck herself.
Why do people get so graphically offensive JUST BECAUSE of something of NON-IMPORTANCE as this? It's one thing to say, "Her singing about real issues in her cuddly telly tummy voice doesn't sound right to me!" as opposed to saying something a person might say during a physical fight that involved harsh words between the two parties. Just wondering what makes people react this way. That's all. Nothing else:)
Singing about real issues in her cuddly telly-tummy voice.
She should go phuck herself.
Why do people get so graphically offensive JUST BECAUSE of something of NON-IMPORTANCE as this? It's one thing to say, "Her singing about real issues in her cuddly telly tummy voice doesn't sound right to me!" as opposed to saying something a person might say during a physical fight that involved harsh words between the two parties. Just wondering what makes people react this way. That's all. Nothing else:)
Singing about real issues in her cuddly telly-tummy voice.
She should go phuck herself.
Why do people get so graphically offensive JUST BECAUSE of something of NON-IMPORTANCE as this? It's one thing to say, "Her singing about real issues in her cuddly telly tummy voice doesn't sound right to me!" as opposed to saying something a person might say during a physical fight that involved harsh words between the two parties. Just wondering what makes people react this way. That's all. Nothing else:)
My guess is that he's (or she's) a self-hating loser who has nothing else better to do than spew nonsense on an internet forum.
Why do people get so graphically offensive JUST BECAUSE of something of NON-IMPORTANCE as this? It's one thing to say, "Her singing about real issues in her cuddly telly tummy voice doesn't sound right to me!" as opposed to saying something a person might say during a physical fight that involved harsh words between the two parties. Just wondering what makes people react this way. That's all. Nothing else:)
My guess is that he's (or she's) a self-hating loser who has nothing else better to do than spew nonsense on an internet forum.
Didn't really mean to offend.
But the voice doesn't suit the song. It does irritate me when folks take a great song and cover it with a sweet and sexy. For me, it's a form of vandalism, and this is offensive.
If the title was "Beat of black wings (Sexy sexy version)" I'd have missed it.
small circles, big wheels!
I've got a pretty firm grip on the obvious!
Never heard this. Janet is a pretty big fan of Joni Mitchell, eh? I remember she sampled "Big Yellow Taxi" for "Gone 'Til It's Gone" from the "Velvet Rope" album.
Never heard this. Janet is a pretty big fan of Joni Mitchell, eh? I remember she sampled "Big Yellow Taxi" for "Gone 'Til It's Gone" from the "Velvet Rope" album.
Huh? Two instinces make someome a big fan now?
Janet's been noted in many interviews for expressing her love for Joni--it's not just because she sampled and remade a couple of Joni songs. She said in Rolling Stone, I believe, that her brother Randy actually got her listening to Joni back in the early 80s, and she's been a fan ever since.
Janet's been noted in many interviews for expressing her love for Joni--it's not just because she sampled and remade a couple of Joni songs. She said in Rolling Stone, I believe, that her brother Randy actually got her listening to Joni back in the early 80s, and she's been a fan ever since.
I'm thinking the narrator is sitting down at a bar with a soldier, and listening as he is telling her his horror stories about the way war has negatively affected his life, from shellshock, to his girlfriend aborting their child while he was away, to the way vets are sometimes treated as expendable. He is depressed, numbing the pain with alcohol, and feels like nothing more than a "chalkmark in a rainstorm".
I met a young soldier He said his name was Killer Kyle He was shakin' all over Like a night-frightened child This is his story It's a tough one for me to sing Hard as the squawk and the flap And the beat of-the beat of black wings
"They gave me a gun," he said "They gave me a mission For the power and the glory- Propaganda-piss on 'em There's a war zone inside me- I can feel things exploding- I can't even hear the fucking music playing For the beat of-the beat of black wings."
He said, "I never had nothin'- Nothin' I could believe in My girl killed our unborn child Without even grievin'! I put my hands on her belly To feel the kid kickin'-damn! She'd been to some clinic Oh-the beat of black wings."
"They want you-they need you- They train you to kill- To be a pin on some map- Some vicarious thrill- The old hate the young That's the whole heartless thing The old pick the wars We die in 'em To the beat of-the beat of black wings."
There's a man drawing pictures On the sidewalk with chalk Just as fast as he draws 'em Rain come down and wash 'em off "Keep the drinks comin' girl 'Til I can't feel anything I'm just a chalk mark in a rainstorm I'm just the beat of black wings."
I guess the moral of the story is just an observation of how expendable we are as people. How we fight for these big causes, but are as fragile as chalk in a rainstorm.
But what does the "beating of black wings" mean? I assume its a reference to both crows and war jets.
I guess the moral of the story is just an observation of how expendable we are as people. How we fight for these big causes, but are as fragile as chalk in a rainstorm.
But what does the "beating of black wings" mean? I assume its a reference to both crows and war jets.
Yeah I believe that's the reference. And yeah I agree with the moral. That's exactly what the song is about. I can actually relate to it in an apolitical sense...
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I liked her version, too!
