Not too happy about that...

[The Gutless Wonder]

For me the 'Godfather' lyric is along the same line as 'Like Carlito's Way, there are no exit signs' from Black Dog.

[purity]

Originally Posted by Industrial Symphony No.1

The lyric goes "When I start to break free, it calls me back again, like the Godfather 3, I never can escape" so Nicky is talking about not being able to escape from something. Godfather 3 chronicles the inability of Al Pacino's character, Michael Corleone, to escape the mafia and his past sins. In one scene (often referenced in the Sopranos) he says; "Just when I thought I was out they pulled me back in". So whenever I hear the song I think of that and it makes sense to me, I don't see what people's problem with it is! The reference wouldn't work if he'd said The Godfather or The Godfather Part 2 which are admittedly the better films.

agree with that one! and it includes thoughts like 'may i would have liked to break out, but in last consequence i stay where i belong'

[Little Troll]

Originally Posted by Industrial Symphony No.1

The lyric goes "When I start to break free, it calls me back again, like the Godfather 3, I never can escape" so Nicky is talking about not being able to escape from something. Godfather 3 chronicles the inability of Al Pacino's character, Michael Corleone, to escape the mafia and his past sins. In one scene (often referenced in the Sopranos) he says; "Just when I thought I was out they pulled me back in". So whenever I hear the song I think of that and it makes sense to me, I don't see what people's problem with it is! The reference wouldn't work if he'd said The Godfather or The Godfather Part 2 which are admittedly the better films.

Ahhh ok, that makes sense now, thank you!
Now I know it actually has proper meaning, it makes it more bearable (although not completely because I still don't like the way it sounds in the song, but I'm just being picky now).

[SeveredJoke]

Originally Posted by purity

esp. as a student of politics he's right....totally agree with that one! AND you always have to have in mind that 'we' is not the same thing as 'we - including the people who think about development in society'....sounds more like a warning not to do that! didn' t so many people follow a 'shining' path like sheeps without thinking about consequenses?

If he's talking about a 'shining path' as a metaphor for a brave approach than that's one thing. If he's talking about 'Shining Path' or Sendero Luminoso than that's another. Is he following the early Shining Path or its later incarnation?

[purity]

Originally Posted by SeveredJoke

If he's talking about a 'shining path' as a metaphor for a brave approach than that's one thing. If he's talking about 'Shining Path' or Sendero Luminoso than that's another. Is he following the early Shining Path or its later incarnation?

why do you think it's connected with THAT shining path? are there any more connections to the way of that peruan group in the text? i find nothing that definitely points on that one...maybe the lyrics of the first vers if one wants to read it like that...have to think about that again....hmmm....but i read it more like A shining path....the question what people would do to get higher in society...esp. 'breaking bones and shaking hands' wouldn't fit on the peruans...

[SeveredJoke]

Originally Posted by purity

why do you think it's connected with THAT shining path? are there any more connections to the way of that peruan group in the text? i find nothing that definitely points on that one...maybe the lyrics of the first vers if one wants to read it like that...have to think about that again....hmmm....but i read it more like A shining path....the question what people would do to get higher in society...esp. 'breaking bones and shaking hands' wouldn't fit on the peruans...

I don't know about his solo song by that title, I was referring to the lyric in Baby Elian.

[purity]

Originally Posted by SeveredJoke

I don't know about his solo song by that title, I was referring to the lyric in Baby Elian.

oops....sorry...was totally on the solo stuff ... guess it was because i don't like baby elian that much...so take my apologize for interrupting the discussion in a wrong way!

[UEF]

Originally Posted by The Gutless Wonder

For me the 'Godfather' lyric is along the same line as 'Like Carlito's Way, there are no exit signs' from Black Dog.

Just because the 2nd is older, doesn't make it any more acceptable

You might as well say "like Back to the Future, where we're going we don't need roads" or "Like Star Wars, I am your father"

[The Gutless Wonder]

Originally Posted by UEF

Just because the 2nd is older, doesn't make it any more acceptable

You might as well say "like Back to the Future, where we're going we don't need roads" or "Like Star Wars, I am your father"

Those would be ace actually! I like the two lyrics that are being discussed.

[tuckedaway]

Originally Posted by UEF

Just because the 2nd is older, doesn't make it any more acceptable

You might as well say "like Back to the Future, where we're going we don't need roads" or "Like Star Wars, I am your father"

Exactly. I understand what he was going for, but that doesn't make it any less of a clunky lyric!

Originally Posted by MarilynRoxie

"Worms in the garden more real than a McDonalds"

*shudder*

This one's pretty awful too. Maybe I'm just averse to name-dropping though...

[Lauren Cinnamon]

My Guernica pisses me off. The TS Eliot namecheck - it's not 'Alfred J. Prufrock', it's 'J. Alfred Prufrock' and this winds me up far more than it should
(don't even get me started on how they pronounce Guernica...)

[H.E. Pennypacker]

I don't like PCP's chorus, I mean, it's ok, but I think it doesn't quite fits with the rest of the song, I don't know, it feels weird.

[The Gutless Wonder]

Originally Posted by Lauren Cinnamon

My Guernica pisses me off. The TS Eliot namecheck - it's not 'Alfred J. Prufrock', it's 'J. Alfred Prufrock' and this winds me up far more than it should
(don't even get me started on how they pronounce Guernica...)

Dunno about the Prufrock thing as never knew what that was referring to anyway! But is there another way to pronounce Guernica?

[The Gutless Wonder]

Originally Posted by H.E. Pennypacker

I don't like PCP's chorus, I mean, it's ok, but I think it doesn't quite fits with the rest of the song, I don't know, it feels weird.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

[whitedenimman]

Imperial bodybags, coming home in dribs and drabs

Chris Martin rhyming couplet nonsense

Think I'm - I'm lost among the undergrowth
So much so I woke up
I love you all the same

I love YSTS but this line is pants...........