Funniest Verse in One of Stevie's Songs

[RockALittle250]

Have you ever heard Stevie sing a verse in one of her songs that kinda made you lol? Well the other day I was listening to No Spoken Word, which I haven't heard in a while, and as soon as she sang "I was just that old" I began to laugh a bit. I just found it funny how she was referring to herself as being old in this song. A little weird...yes :nod: ...but i also thought some of you guys may have had the same lol moment during Stevie singing a verse in one of her songs.

[AliceLover]

"She awakens things, that she said she thought were dead" :lol: :lol: :laugh:

[amber]

I have so many of those moments. Especially the first time I heard lots of her songs. Like, Bella donna - "you can fly, swinging from your trapeze, scarin all the world - but you'll nevah scaehe me." :laugh:
and "rock and roll, ballerina, where else will she go?" :laugh:
actually, most Stevie songs have a part where I laugh....Especially RAL, which I love, but which also provides an endless source of amusement...

[SapphireSister]

Is this going to turn into another "Stevie's sexual inuendos" thread? If so that's fine with me :).

[David]

I have so many of those moments. Especially the first time I heard lots of her songs. Like, Bella donna - "you can fly, swinging from your trapeze, scarin all the world - but you'll nevah scaehe me." :laugh: I can't believe you don't like that opening stanza. To me, it's one of Stevie's deepest, darkest, most serious lines -- & it accomplishes its effects without lapsing into the typically abstruse personal symbolism & mystic mumbo-jumbo found in a lot of her work. I just get the chills when I hear it or listen to her sing it. It takes me right back to the time she released it & her explanations (to Waddy & others) about just what it meant.

In fact, now that I think about it, I would say that the whole stanza:

You can ride high atop your pony
I know you won't fall
Because the whole thing's phony
You can fly swinging from your trapeze
Scaring all the people
But you'll never scare me

is just about Stevie's most brilliant lyrical moment throughout her entire career. Usually, her words don't evoke in me anything more than a reserved, distanced aesthetic appreciation of a particular image or phrase. But this stanza resonates with me emotionally. As I stare at it now, it's as if it were the final summation of the mysterious animus at the heart of Stevie's personality. It has everything: it has the shadow, the double, found in much of her writing (& even on album covers like "The Wild Heart"), in which one part of her is warning the other in dire but understanding words; it has a self-awareness of the inconsistency & superficiality of her trappings, which is often absent in her other songs, & a mature recognition that those trappings may fool others but not Stevie herself; & has a beautiful, rhythmic verbal deportment & melding with those ascending, alternating major & minor 7th chords, so stately & majestic (probably Roy Bittan's contribution); & it has a simplicity & forthrightness that Stevie is, I think, often given unmerited credit for. It also, thanks to hindsight, has the eerie taint of self-fulfilling prophecy.

I can't help thinking that if Stevie herself had kept these words more sharply in her mind over the past twenty years, she may not have had many of the troubles she ultimately did. If Stevie sang this song nowadays, I wonder what would go through her mind as she sang it. I'd love to hear her talk about it.

I don't think any solo career ever began on such a nervewracking tightrope, hanging precipitately between fatalism on the one side & a nervous sense of liberation on the other.

[BlackWidow]

"She awakens things, that she said she thought were dead" :lol: :lol: :laugh:
The line is actually..
"She awakens things, that he said he thought were dead"
not too funny huh?

[AliceLover]

The line is actually..
"She awakens things, that he said he thought were dead"
not too funny huh?

Cool it! TISL is nto my fav album. I still think its funny so :p

[BlackWidow]

I can't believe you don't like that opening stanza. To me, it's one of Stevie's deepest, darkest, most serious lines -- & it accomplishes its effects without lapsing into the typically abstruse personal symbolism & mystic mumbo-jumbo found in a lot of her work. I just get the chills when I hear it or listen to her sing it. It takes me right back to the time she released it & her explanations (to Waddy & others) about just what it meant.

In fact, now that I think about it, I would say that the whole stanza:

You can ride high atop your pony
I know you won't fall
Because the whole thing's phony
You can fly swinging from your trapeze
Scaring all the people
But you'll never scare me

is just about Stevie's most brilliant lyrical moment throughout her entire career. Usually, her words don't evoke in me anything more than a reserved, distanced aesthetic appreciation of a particular image or phrase. But this stanza resonates with me emotionally. As I stare at it now, it's as if it were the final summation of the mysterious animus at the heart of Stevie's personality. It has everything: it has the shadow, the double, found in much of her writing (& even on album covers like "The Wild Heart"), in which one part of her is warning the other in dire but understanding words; it has a self-awareness of the inconsistency & superficiality of her trappings, which is often absent in her other songs, & a mature recognition that those trappings may fool others but not Stevie herself; & has a beautiful, rhythmic verbal deportment & melding with those ascending, alternating major & minor 7th chords, so stately & majestic (probably Roy Bittan's contribution); & it has a simplicity & forthrightness that Stevie is, I think, often given unmerited credit for. It also, thanks to hindsight, has the eerie taint of self-fulfilling prophecy.

I can't help thinking that if Stevie herself had kept these words more sharply in her mind over the past twenty years, she may not have had many of the troubles she ultimately did. If Stevie sang this song nowadays, I wonder what would go through her mind as she sang it. I'd love to hear her talk about it.

I don't think any solo career ever began on such a nervewracking tightrope, hanging precipitately between fatalism on the one side & a nervous sense of liberation on the other.
We must all forgive Amber for being so uneducated on this subject.
It takes a more seasoned fan to be able to interpret and understand Stevie's metaphors and profound meanings in her lyrics...

[Rox A Little]

And she'll go fast like a jet plane
And then fast like a star stream

Kinda somes up the dumbest line she's ever written for me!

Rox

[BlackWidow]

Have you ever heard Stevie sing a verse in one of her songs that kinda made you lol? Well the other day I was listening to No Spoken Word, which I haven't heard in a while, and as soon as she sang "I was just that old" I began to laugh a bit. I just found it funny how she was referring to herself as being old in this song. A little weird...yes :nod: ...but i also thought some of you guys may have had the same lol moment during Stevie singing a verse in one of her songs.
"I was just that old..that August dark, dark day"...
Is a reference to when Robin died...real funny huh?
It carries over from Edge Of 17..."I'm a few years older than you"

[nickslover2071]

I can't believe you don't like that opening stanza. To me, it's one of Stevie's deepest, darkest, most serious lines -- & it accomplishes its effects without lapsing into the typically abstruse personal symbolism & mystic mumbo-jumbo found in a lot of her work. I just get the chills when I hear it or listen to her sing it. It takes me right back to the time she released it & her explanations (to Waddy & others) about just what it meant.

In fact, now that I think about it, I would say that the whole stanza:

You can ride high atop your pony
I know you won't fall
Because the whole thing's phony
You can fly swinging from your trapeze
Scaring all the people
But you'll never scare me

is just about Stevie's most brilliant lyrical moment throughout her entire career. Usually, her words don't evoke in me anything more than a reserved, distanced aesthetic appreciation of a particular image or phrase. But this stanza resonates with me emotionally. As I stare at it now, it's as if it were the final summation of the mysterious animus at the heart of Stevie's personality. It has everything: it has the shadow, the double, found in much of her writing (& even on album covers like "The Wild Heart"), in which one part of her is warning the other in dire but understanding words; it has a self-awareness of the inconsistency & superficiality of her trappings, which is often absent in her other songs, & a mature recognition that those trappings may fool others but not Stevie herself; & has a beautiful, rhythmic verbal deportment & melding with those ascending, alternating major & minor 7th chords, so stately & majestic (probably Roy Bittan's contribution); & it has a simplicity & forthrightness that Stevie is, I think, often given unmerited credit for. It also, thanks to hindsight, has the eerie taint of self-fulfilling prophecy.

I can't help thinking that if Stevie herself had kept these words more sharply in her mind over the past twenty years, she may not have had many of the troubles she ultimately did. If Stevie sang this song nowadays, I wonder what would go through her mind as she sang it. I'd love to hear her talk about it.

I don't think any solo career ever began on such a nervewracking tightrope, hanging precipitately between fatalism on the one side & a nervous sense of liberation on the other.


OMG David, I couldnt have said it better...I loved the beginning of Bella Donna..I remeber when I bought the album..I was in love with it as soon as I heard her sing those words...

[amber]

I can't believe you don't like that opening stanza. To me, it's one of Stevie's deepest, darkest, most serious lines -- & it accomplishes its effects without lapsing into the typically abstruse personal symbolism & mystic mumbo-jumbo found in a lot of her work. I just get the chills when I hear it or listen to her sing it. It takes me right back to the time she released it & her explanations (to Waddy & others) about just what it meant.

In fact, now that I think about it, I would say that the whole stanza:

You can ride high atop your pony
I know you won't fall
Because the whole thing's phony
You can fly swinging from your trapeze
Scaring all the people
But you'll never scare me

is just about Stevie's most brilliant lyrical moment throughout her entire career. Usually, her words don't evoke in me anything more than a reserved, distanced aesthetic appreciation of a particular image or phrase. But this stanza resonates with me emotionally. As I stare at it now, it's as if it were the final summation of the mysterious animus at the heart of Stevie's personality. It has everything: it has the shadow, the double, found in much of her writing (& even on album covers like "The Wild Heart"), in which one part of her is warning the other in dire but understanding words; it has a self-awareness of the inconsistency & superficiality of her trappings, which is often absent in her other songs, & a mature recognition that those trappings may fool others but not Stevie herself; & has a beautiful, rhythmic verbal deportment & melding with those ascending, alternating major & minor 7th chords, so stately & majestic (probably Roy Bittan's contribution); & it has a simplicity & forthrightness that Stevie is, I think, often given unmerited credit for. It also, thanks to hindsight, has the eerie taint of self-fulfilling prophecy.

I can't help thinking that if Stevie herself had kept these words more sharply in her mind over the past twenty years, she may not have had many of the troubles she ultimately did. If Stevie sang this song nowadays, I wonder what would go through her mind as she sang it. I'd love to hear her talk about it.

I don't think any solo career ever began on such a nervewracking tightrope, hanging precipitately between fatalism on the one side & a nervous sense of liberation on the other.

I know, David. :rolleyes: Just because something is serious and deep, doesn't mean it also doesn't have a funny part. I love those lyrics. I always catch the shadow and the double in Stevie's lyrics. I intrinsically understand.
it accomplishes its effects without lapsing into the typically abstruse personal symbolism & mystic mumbo-jumbo found in a lot of her work.
Well....it lapses into something, though....this is the only statement I slightly disagree with. Your point is true, but I still think it's "clunky". And, uh, swinging from your trapeze? High atop your pony? I think Stevie's "abstruse personal symbolism" is alive and well in this verse.

But this stanza resonates with me emotionally. As I stare at it now, it's as if it were the final summation of the mysterious animus at the heart of Stevie's personality. It has everything: it has the shadow, the double, found in much of her writing (& even on album covers like "The Wild Heart"), in which one part of her is warning the other in dire but understanding words; it has a self-awareness of the inconsistency & superficiality of her trappings, which is often absent in her other songs, & a mature recognition that those trappings may fool others but not Stevie herself; & has a beautiful, rhythmic verbal deportment & melding with those ascending, alternating major & minor 7th chords, so stately & majestic (probably Roy Bittan's contribution); & it has a simplicity & forthrightness that Stevie is, I think, often given unmerited credit for. It also, thanks to hindsight, has the eerie taint of self-fulfilling prophecy.

I completely agree. This is everything I love about stevie, and never have I seen it expressed so well. Except occasionally in flashes in my head.

I can't help thinking that if Stevie herself had kept these words more sharply in her mind over the past twenty years, she may not have had many of the troubles she ultimately did. If Stevie sang this song nowadays, I wonder what would go through her mind as she sang it. I'd love to hear her talk about it.

I'd love for her to talk about it as well. It's the heartbreak of stevie, the essence of Stevie, this quality. She's always predicted, she's always known, hasn't she? And yet...she did it anyway. And now look at her.

I don't think any solo career ever began on such a nervewracking tightrope, hanging precipitately between fatalism on the one side & a nervous sense of liberation on the other.

:o has it ever been better? Could it ever have been different?
No. Thank goodness...


those words still make me giggle.
Oh, and I think Stevie often talks about the inconsistency & superficiality of her trappings...in some way or another. I actually find it a constant theme.

[GypsyNomad]

That "undercover music lover" line always made me crack up for some reason... Then there's the infamous, "Children of the world...the forgotten chimpanzee" line :laugh: But I think that line from WLT......"Oh yeah, oh yeah...Not guilty...Have mercy!" is the killer. Its not really lyrically stupid, its that "Have Mercy!" part that i hate.... it reminds me of 'Uncle Jesse' from Full House, which I also dispised growing up (but don't get me started on that one!).... picturing his face on her body ~shudder~

~Carei

[nickslover2071]

[/QUOTE]Oh, and I think Stevie often talks about the inconsistency & superficiality of her trappings...in some way or another. I actually find it a constant theme.[/QUOTE]

Thats why were are all here...Its the essence of Stevie... :angel:

[nickslover2071]

That "undercover music lover" line always made me crack up for some reason... Then there's the infamous, "Children of the world...the forgotten chimpanzee" line :laugh: But I think that line from WLT......"Oh yeah, oh yeah...Not guilty...Have mercy!" is the killer. Its not really lyrically stupid, its that "Have Mercy!" part that i hate.... it reminds me of 'Uncle Jesse' from Full House, which I also dispised growing up (but don't get me started on that one!).... picturing his face on her body ~shudder~

~Carei

Now Im gonna have nightmares...LOL

[Dreammms]

Now Im gonna have nightmares...LOL

lol jessie and his guitar with his band. that sucky voice singing beach boy songs...

[nickslover2071]

lol jessie and his guitar with his band. that sucky voice singing beach boy songs...

Who is Jessie???...lol...JK..unfortunately, I know who you are talking about... :angel:

[amber]

And she'll go fast like a jet plane
And then fast like a star stream

Kinda somes up the dumbest line she's ever written for me!

Rox
:lol:
that's another favorite. So weird, so funny. But it's all in the delivery, really. :cool:
love it! makes me laugh every time. RAL is so awesome.

[GypsyNomad]

Now Im gonna have nightmares...LOL

Trust me, I've been having nightmares about that since I was seven.... I think it gave me a complex, still can't listen to WLT without cringing :laugh:

[CreepingDeath]

"You say it will be harder in the morning"

Now, I love Beautiful Child and think it's a gorgeous song, but that line always makes me laugh a little.

[BlackWidow]

Cool it! TISL is nto my fav album. I still think its funny so :pIf you are gonna quote Stevie..get it right!

[BlackWidow]

"You say it will be harder in the morning"

Now, I love Beautiful Child and think it's a gorgeous song, but that line always makes me laugh a little.
Wow..grow up.

[GypsyNomad]

"You say it will be harder in the morning"

Now, I love Beautiful Child and think it's a gorgeous song, but that line always makes me laugh a little.

omg! i never thought of it that way! :laugh:

[Dreammms]

If you are gonna quote Stevie..get it right!

why don't you grow up? TROLL (http://www.grab.com/fun/toons/f/50019/9885)

[nickslover2071]

why don't you grow up? TROLL (http://www.grab.com/fun/toons/f/50019/9885)

LMAO.... :angel:

[amber]

why don't you grow up? TROLL (http://www.grab.com/fun/toons/f/50019/9885)
:lol: :laugh: :lol: :xoxo:

[ontheEdgeof17]

There's a troll in the world tonight
Don't let there be a troll in the world tomorrow.

[Serendipity]

why don't you grow up? TROLL (http://www.grab.com/fun/toons/f/50019/9885)

..............LOL!

[GODDESS6]

of course the forgotten chimpanzee,

i was born in the desert
so i know how it feels there,

she had the midas touch
she was lady luck

these always strike me as funny~

[GODDESS6]

There's a troll in the world tonight
Don't let there be a troll in the world tomorrow.

:lol: :laugh: :lol: :laugh: :lol:

[mcboo]

Every boy must learn to be a man
Maybe I can help you, yes I can

that always makes me smile :D

[catinthedark]

"I was just that old..that August dark, dark day"...
Is a reference to when Robin died...real funny huh?
It carries over from Edge Of 17..."I'm a few years older than you"

Agreed. I've always found "I was just that old..that August dark, dark day" to be one of her saddest lines ever.

[sarafield]

I can't believe you don't like that opening stanza. To me, it's one of Stevie's deepest, darkest, most serious lines -- & it accomplishes its effects without lapsing into the typically abstruse personal symbolism & mystic mumbo-jumbo found in a lot of her work. I just get the chills when I hear it or listen to her sing it. It takes me right back to the time she released it & her explanations (to Waddy & others) about just what it meant.

In fact, now that I think about it, I would say that the whole stanza:

You can ride high atop your pony
I know you won't fall
Because the whole thing's phony
You can fly swinging from your trapeze
Scaring all the people
But you'll never scare me

is just about Stevie's most brilliant lyrical moment throughout her entire career. Usually, her words don't evoke in me anything more than a reserved, distanced aesthetic appreciation of a particular image or phrase. But this stanza resonates with me emotionally. As I stare at it now, it's as if it were the final summation of the mysterious animus at the heart of Stevie's personality. It has everything: it has the shadow, the double, found in much of her writing (& even on album covers like "The Wild Heart"), in which one part of her is warning the other in dire but understanding words; it has a self-awareness of the inconsistency & superficiality of her trappings, which is often absent in her other songs, & a mature recognition that those trappings may fool others but not Stevie herself; & has a beautiful, rhythmic verbal deportment & melding with those ascending, alternating major & minor 7th chords, so stately & majestic (probably Roy Bittan's contribution); & it has a simplicity & forthrightness that Stevie is, I think, often given unmerited credit for. It also, thanks to hindsight, has the eerie taint of self-fulfilling prophecy.

I can't help thinking that if Stevie herself had kept these words more sharply in her mind over the past twenty years, she may not have had many of the troubles she ultimately did. If Stevie sang this song nowadays, I wonder what would go through her mind as she sang it. I'd love to hear her talk about it.

I don't think any solo career ever began on such a nervewracking tightrope, hanging precipitately between fatalism on the one side & a nervous sense of liberation on the other.

I just want to say thank you for this post. You made me think of these lyrics & music in a completely different way.

[catinthedark]

For many years, I thought the line "Cause I wear boots all summer long" was funny, in a cringeworthy sort of way. It was just a little too literal for me. If I was listening to the song with someone else (a non-Stevie fan), I'd always sort of laugh when that line came on and make some excuse for her. Now, I love it.

[ELIUD]

For many years, I thought the line "Cause I wear boots all summer long" was funny, in a cringeworthy sort of way. It was just a little too literal for me. If I was listening to the song with someone else (a non-Stevie fan), I'd always sort of laugh when that line came on and make some excuse for her. Now, I love it.

My partner thinks that's a funny line as well. It is a little literal and makes me think of Stevies feet getting all hot and kinda sweaty. Yuck.

But for me the lines that kinda make me smirk are from The Other Side of the Mirror album. From 'Juliet' - "Let the crisis become a bridge, cross that bridge tomorrow..." As a major procrastinator, I totally relate to that line. And something about the way she sings it makes me smile.

Then there's the line "There is magic all around you...if I do say so myself" from Rooms on Fire. This line makes me think Stevie's acknowledging that she is the authority on all things magical. It also has a very Mae West tone to it somehow for me. Oh she does crack me up.

[skcin]

As mentioned before - "you say it will be harder in the morning." I'll also add "every night you do not come."



Teehee. :o

[strandinthewind]

I can't believe you don't like that opening stanza. To me, it's one of Stevie's deepest, darkest, most serious lines -- & it accomplishes its effects without lapsing into the typically abstruse personal symbolism & mystic mumbo-jumbo found in a lot of her work. I just get the chills when I hear it or listen to her sing it. It takes me right back to the time she released it & her explanations (to Waddy & others) about just what it meant.

In fact, now that I think about it, I would say that the whole stanza:

You can ride high atop your pony
I know you won't fall
Because the whole thing's phony
You can fly swinging from your trapeze
Scaring all the people
But you'll never scare me

is just about Stevie's most brilliant lyrical moment throughout her entire career. Usually, her words don't evoke in me anything more than a reserved, distanced aesthetic appreciation of a particular image or phrase. But this stanza resonates with me emotionally. As I stare at it now, it's as if it were the final summation of the mysterious animus at the heart of Stevie's personality. It has everything: it has the shadow, the double, found in much of her writing (& even on album covers like "The Wild Heart"), in which one part of her is warning the other in dire but understanding words; it has a self-awareness of the inconsistency & superficiality of her trappings, which is often absent in her other songs, & a mature recognition that those trappings may fool others but not Stevie herself; & has a beautiful, rhythmic verbal deportment & melding with those ascending, alternating major & minor 7th chords, so stately & majestic (probably Roy Bittan's contribution); & it has a simplicity & forthrightness that Stevie is, I think, often given unmerited credit for. It also, thanks to hindsight, has the eerie taint of self-fulfilling prophecy.

I can't help thinking that if Stevie herself had kept these words more sharply in her mind over the past twenty years, she may not have had many of the troubles she ultimately did. If Stevie sang this song nowadays, I wonder what would go through her mind as she sang it. I'd love to hear her talk about it.

I don't think any solo career ever began on such a nervewracking tightrope, hanging precipitately between fatalism on the one side & a nervous sense of liberation on the other.

I totally agree with this.

I also think this propensity to see her self as two within one is reflected in Sisters of the Moon, where she said she was making a deal with the stage and scary Stevie to keep her out of harm's way like any sister would.

I also think Gold Dust Woman is all about this, though many do not - I think she is talking to herself and not to a lover as many assume. I think whole "baby don't leave me" in the lyrics on the acoustic version on the Rumors Reissue is her crying out for the innocence she still has not to leave her. I think she recognized that she was changing and it scared her.

I think this sort of mirror image writing was present until The Wild Heart and then it disappeared and has not been seen since except here and there and then only in a minor version of what it used to be.

[SweetGirl24]

As mentioned before - "you say it will be harder in the morning." I'll also add "every night you do not come."



Teehee. :o


:laugh: Oh goodness.

I would have to say the only line that I can't take seriously is the "forgotten chimpanzee" line. I mean, c'mon.

[DrummerDeanna]

"You go down - to the laundromat - maybe your sister is there.." wtf.

[strandinthewind]

:laugh: Oh goodness.

I would have to say the only line that I can't take seriously is the "forgotten chimpanzee" line. I mean, c'mon.

The song is about a woman who spent her life studying them - it never fails to amaze me that people do not get that and did not expect some reference to chimps in that song :mad: :rolleyes:

rant over :laugh:

[Neal]

"To fill the empty spaces she's feeling, she depends on her music like a husband..." - Ghosts

That line always makes me cringe. Then roll my eyes. Then giggle (filling her empty spaces... :lol: ;) ).

[Wild Heart]

I'm sorry but the words "chimpanzee" and "laundromat" can not be sung out of Stevie's mouth. It just simply should not be done....at least not without expecting a giggle or two. :laugh:

I respect Jane Goodall's work but Stevie could have done an equally moving tribute without having to sing that word. :nod: It's just so "alien" or something. :shocked:

As for the laundromat thing, I don't think she wrote that song so I'll let her off the hook for that but she still shouldn't have sang it, IMO. :)

[strandinthewind]

. . . I respect Jane Goodall's work but Stevie could have done an equally moving tribute without having to sing that word. :nod: It's just so "alien" or something. :shocked: . . .

You'd be happier if she used primate or monkey :laugh:

[LiquidBlue5000]

The song is about a woman who spent her life studying them - it never fails to amaze me that people do not get that and did not expect some reference to chimps in that song :mad: :rolleyes:

rant over :laugh:


yeah, but she could have alluded to her in other ways.. did she HAVE to say the word "chimpanzee"??? :lol:

also during "That Made Me Stronger".. did she HAVE to say "write your songs yourself"?? couldn't she have said "do this yourself" or "do that yourself"?? :shrug:

[Dreammms]

"You go down - to the laundromat - maybe your sister is there.." wtf.

at least she didnt write that dumb song...

[Wild Heart]

You'd be happier if she used primate or monkey :laugh:


I don't know about that either! There's just something not right about Stevie Nicks singing the word "chimpanzee". It just ain't right!! :laugh:

[Wild Heart]

also during "That Made Me Stronger".. did she HAVE to say "write your songs yourself"?? couldn't she have said "do this yourself" or "do that yourself"?? :shrug:

Yeah, that doesn't do anything for me either!

"Will you write this for me..He says No write your songs yourself".

I'm no writer (of any kind!) but I swear I think I could've worded that a little better. It just doesn't sing well.

[strandinthewind]

I don't know about that either! There's just something not right about Stevie Nicks singing the word "chimpanzee". It just ain't right!! :laugh:

Here is what my friends have to say to you chimp haters :mad:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/strandinthewind/ApeMomNBaby-2chimpanzees.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/strandinthewind/chimpanzee-pictures.jpg

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey: :wavey: :wavey: :wavey:

[sparky]

For many years, I thought the line "Cause I wear boots all summer long" was funny, in a cringeworthy sort of way. It was just a little too literal for me. If I was listening to the song with someone else (a non-Stevie fan), I'd always sort of laugh when that line came on and make some excuse for her. Now, I love it.

I always liked this line. I took it to be literal, in the sense that she IS always in boots (HA ! WAS). But also that she is always loaded for bear and ready for the worst. Like "Bring on the storm, motherf*er. I am always ready."

[DrummerDeanna]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/strandinthewind/chimpanzee-pictures.jpg




OMG :lol: :lol: :lol: I just spit my drink out man - that has me dying over here :laugh:

[sparky]

abstruse

This word makes me shiver with happiness and joy.

[dudden22]

Sexual Innuendo lines.
Alas he was the Highwayman the one that comes and goes.

It hurts my everything.

Makes me laugh

Well, just for one night
You know that...well that...
Disasterous sound (edit: I just realized this could be a sexual innuendo too)

So I ended it all...for the both of us
I fell down the stairs...a broken rag doll :laugh:

[strandinthewind]

This word makes me shiver with happiness and joy.


You mean you didn't find it difficult to comprehend or understand :cool: Oh well, at least it is not ubiquitous in common discourse; in fact, it is rather recondite :xoxo: :xoxo:

[DrummerDeanna]

This line never USED To make me laugh:

"My walls are flaming"

Until someone made yeast infection comments or something - no it was in that products thread - SO funny...I laugh everytime I hear it now.

[The Tower]

None of her lyrics actually make me laugh. Cringe, maybe- but not laugh. Here's a great example:

"Morning star of evil hit me
Cut me like a knife"

I cringe every time I hear those lines. It's pathetic because she's trying so hard to be dark and angered using such cheezy cliched lines. I would say it's the Ultimate Klonopin Lyric, but, alas, that title goes to the entirety of "Listen to the Rain".... OY.

[sarafield]

So I ended it all...for the both of us
I fell down the stairs...a broken rag doll :laugh:


I know... I imagine this little rag doll in a gauzy dress and platform boots tumbling down the stairs in slow motion.

[MirrorInTheSky]

This line never USED To make me laugh:

"My walls are flaming"

Until someone made yeast infection comments or something - no it was in that products thread - SO funny...I laugh everytime I hear it now.

Doh!!! You beat me to it!! :laugh:

[GateandGarden]

Wow..grow up.A new plaything(person)! :D

[ShangriLaTroubl]

But for me the lines that kinda make me smirk are from The Other Side of the Mirror album. From 'Juliet' - "Let the crisis become a bridge, cross that bridge tomorrow..." As a major procrastinator, I totally relate to that line. And something about the way she sings it makes me smile.


Thats actually one of my fav. lines, I love it...and I also love the way she says it..always kinda related to it too

Chris

[UndoingTheLaces]

"You go down - to the laundromat - maybe your sister is there.." wtf.

Which song is this? I will admit that even though I'm a huge Stevie fan, there are some songs that I'd heard once and never played again.

[ontheEdgeof17]

Which song is this? I will admit that even though I'm a huge Stevie fan, there are some songs that I'd heard once and never played again.


Docklands...off the greatest album...STREET ANGEL. <3

[DrummerDeanna]

Which song is this? I will admit that even though I'm a huge Stevie fan, there are some songs that I'd heard once and never played again.


:laugh: You're probably better off for not having heard that song :p - kidding - it's not THAT bad...I mean - I don't mind it, then again I don't mind the album it's on either :p

[sparky]

Which song is this? I will admit that even though I'm a huge Stevie fan, there are some songs that I'd heard once and never played again.

You might like it. The mere thought of it makes many people break out in a nasty rash, but it does have a following of some sort.

[RockALittle250]

"I was just that old..that August dark, dark day"...
Is a reference to when Robin died...real funny huh?
It carries over from Edge Of 17..."I'm a few years older than you"

I apologize BlackWidow, i did not mean to offend you or anyone else by that. I didn't realize the deep meaning of the verse(s) in the beginning of No Spoken Word.

[David]

I apologize BlackWidow, i did not mean to offend you or anyone else by that. I didn't realize the deep meaning of the verse(s) in the beginning of No Spoken Word.I'd like to buy a clue.

"BlackWidow" was trolling you. What he/she/it had to say about that line is totally fabricated/bogus.

Carry on with your original interpretation.

[Serendipity]

I apologize BlackWidow, i did not mean to offend you or anyone else by that. I didn't realize the deep meaning of the verse(s) in the beginning of No Spoken Word.

Please dont apologise. You are entitled to your opinions, thats why we have these discussions. Dont let someone make you feel bad about it.

~Nicki

[GateandGarden]

Thats actually one of my fav. lines, I love it...and I also love the way she says it..always kinda related to it too

ChrisThat's one of my favorites, too.

[GateandGarden]

I'd like to buy a clue.

"BlackWidow" was trolling you. What he/she/it had to say about that line is totally fabricated/bogus.

Carry on with your original interpretation.Wow! See, I actually thought that part was true. This person is quite the troll in my book. :laugh:

[diamondsnake]

"I don't want to tell you what to do, but if I were you..."

That makes me laugh everytime. She's saying that she doesn't want to dish out advice but then there she goes with "If I were you" It cracks me up! Even though I know she din't write that song.

[RockALittle250]

You guys are right. Everyone is entitled to their own thoughts, opinions, and feelings, regardless of what others might think. Besides i did have a feeling BlackWidow was trolling everyone right from the start by bitching at every turn. :laugh:

[Serendipity]

You guys are right. Everyone is entitled to their own thoughts, opinions, and feelings, regardless of what others might think. Besides i did have a feeling BlackWidow was trolling everyone right from the start by bitching at every turn. :laugh:

Not a good start by BlackWidow was it?!

[tlssln]

"You go down - to the laundromat - maybe your sister is there.." wtf.

LOL. Yeah, that's pretty hilarious. Klonopin should've been taken off the market by the FDA right there and then. I also have to laugh at Goldfish and Ladybug. I know it's written as a children's song but my eyes involuntarily roll when I hear it, especially when her voice goes so deep. I just think it's goofy.

[Sugar]

I said, "Yeah, well"
What am I supposed to do?

How's that for poetry? :laugh:

[The Tower]

I said, "Yeah, well"
What am I supposed to do?

How's that for poetry? :laugh:
Well, that's Tom Petty- I always thought this one was particularly atrocious:

"You search for love...and you hate searching
You wait for love...and you hate waiting...
You say, 'I hate this!'"

and

"Well I talked to my famous friend last night
My third day up...well, his second nighter
He says, 'I don't know how you do what you do...how do you
let the world in?'"

The Other Side of the Mirror is probably my favorite Stevie album, but come on, people. :rolleyes:

[strandinthewind]

Well, that's Tom Petty- I always thought this one was particularly atrocious:

"You search for love...and you hate searching
You wait for love...and you hate waiting...
You say, 'I hate this!'"

and

"Well I talked to my famous friend last night
My third day up...well, his second nighter
He says, 'I don't know how you do what you do...how do you
let the world in?'"

The Other Side of the Mirror is probably my favorite Stevie album, but come on, people. :rolleyes:

Truly cringeworthy :nod:

[tlssln]

Yeah, that doesn't do anything for me either!

"Will you write this for me..He says No write your songs yourself".

I'm no writer (of any kind!) but I swear I think I could've worded that a little better. It just doesn't sing well.

Oh, I agree. I cannot stand that song. Traditionally, Stevie would've couched that in lyrically aesthetic terms but at that time she was trying to come out of her crisis of confidence and just wanted to get something on paper resulting from a new experience instead of trying to craft a song with nothing to draw upon thanks to the zombie-inducing drug she was on. As a result, I think it came out way too literal and a lot of us aren't used to her writing that way. We always need to use our own perceptions to try and decipher what she's referring to, which I think is why Stevie appeals so universally in the first place.

Tara

[Sugar]

Well, that's Tom Petty- I always thought this one was particularly atrocious:



Yeah, BUT SHE SANG IT!

And while we're talking about OSOTM:

Some carry a stiletto in their garter
along with everything else
that they carry

You know...in their garter...

or

Obsessive was my love
Worth it was my time

Coming up was my dinner

[amber]

Yeah, BUT SHE SANG IT!

And while we're talking about OSOTM:

Some carry a stiletto in their garter
along with everything else
that they carry

You know...in their garter...

or

Obsessive was my love
Worth it was my time

Coming up was my dinner

Hmmm, that first one must be in the songs I skip.... :laugh:
Love the second one. Mainly for the way she sings it.

[Sugar]

Hmmm, that first one must be in the songs I skip.... :laugh:


That's Alice. I actually kinda like the song, but that "that they carry..." ugh.

[The Tower]

Love the second one. Mainly for the way she sings it.
Hella, yeah. "Long Way to Go" is a ****ing scorcher and her vocal is awesoma power. She is soooo pissed off in that song.

[GateandGarden]

Yeah, BUT SHE SANG IT!

And while we're talking about OSOTM:

Some carry a stiletto in their garter
along with everything else
that they carry

You know...in their garter...

or

Obsessive was my love
Worth it was my time

Coming up was my dinner:lol::lol::lol::lol:

Funny post. :nod:

[amber]

Hella, yeah. "Long Way to Go" is a ****ing scorcher and her vocal is awesoma power. She is soooo pissed off in that song.
God, I want her to open with that some day. I'll be all, on my headphones at work, that will come on, and I have to point angrily, shake my fist, and low-down-growl-out "OBSESSIVE WAS MY LOVE". :) Which is what I'd imagine stevie would do, only 50 times more fabulously....*swoon*

[amber]

That's Alice. I actually kinda like the song, but that "that they carry..." ugh.
Oh. Yeah. I almost always skip Alice. and Juliet. Bad fan! no cookie! :p

[Sugar]

Hella, yeah. "Long Way to Go" is a ****ing scorcher and her vocal is awesoma power. She is soooo pissed off in that song.

ITA and it could be my favorite off the album, and "Obsessive was my love" isn't even that bad, but "Worth it was my time"??? My god, who can say that with a straight face?

[amber]

ITA and it could be my favorite off the album, and "Obsessive was my love" isn't even that bad, but "Worth it was my time"??? My god, who can say that with a straight face?
Well, I can do it!
I can say it!
With a straight face. (well it's a real big mental leap, to say those words!)
I bet you've already sung them
I know you can, don't lie!
:sorry:

[dissention]

ITA and it could be my favorite off the album, and "Obsessive was my love" isn't even that bad, but "Worth it was my time"??? My god, who can say that with a straight face?

I can when I lace it with bitchy sarcasm.

[Sugar]

Well, I can do it!
I can say it!
With a straight face. (well it's a real big mental leap, to say those words!)
I bet you've already sung them
I know you can, don't lie!
:sorry:

Well of course I CAN do it, it's just always funny!.

[strandinthewind]

I can when I lace it with bitchy sarcasm.

and that is why I, at time, am mad for you :xoxo: :xoxo: :xoxo:

The other times, I usually wanna sock you one :wavey: ;) :wavey: ;) :wavey:

[amber]

Well of course I CAN do it, it's just always funny!.
that was merely an excuse for a parody.... :wavey:

[AliceLover]

Oh. Yeah. I almost always skip Alice. and Juliet. Bad fan! no cookie! :p


YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:laugh: :wavey:

[amber]

YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:laugh: :wavey:
That's true. :nod: And thanks for noticing. That publicity is finally making the rounds! :thumbsup:

[BlackWidow]

why don't you grow up? TROLL (http://www.grab.com/fun/toons/f/50019/9885)
OMG...What a crack up!
Are we in 7th grade now?

[David]

Obsessive was my love
Worth it was my time

Coming up was my dinnerBWAHAHAHAAA!!!

Sugar, if you hadn't already, you just earned your way into Moderatorhood with that one!
:xoxo:

[amber]

OMG...What a crack up!
Are we in 7th grade now?
Just you......

[GateandGarden]

OMG...What a crack up!
Are we in 7th grade now?That was such a new insult! No one has ever said that to me. :wavey:

[BlackWidow]

I'd like to buy a clue.

"BlackWidow" was trolling you. What he/she/it had to say about that line is totally fabricated/bogus.

Carry on with your original interpretation.
David obviously does not know the meaning of the lyric!
It makes complete sense. I guess he/she/it wrote the song then.

[BlackWidow]

I apologize BlackWidow, i did not mean to offend you or anyone else by that. I didn't realize the deep meaning of the verse(s) in the beginning of No Spoken Word.
No need to apologize...it just is not a literal lyric is all.

[The Tower]

I can when I lace it with bitchy sarcasm.
Absolutely- especially considering the next line is

"Oh, no you are fading out...."

i.e.- Adios, mutha****a.... <---- this was not directed at you, honey, just a comment on the fading out line :laugh:

[BlackWidow]

Wow! See, I actually thought that part was true. This person is quite the troll in my book. :laugh:

It is true..David is misinformed.
Just because I gave an opinion does not a Troll make.
If that were true then ..everyone who has an opinion is a troll..David too.

[The Tower]

David obviously does not know the meaning of the lyric!
It makes complete sense. I guess he/she/it wrote the song then.
Stevie???? Is that... you??? :eek:

[GateandGarden]

Just because I gave an opinion does not a Troll make.Ah, but that's not why we're calling you a troll. And I think you should embrace your troll status. Have fun with it, as you seem to be doing so far. :nod:

[BlackWidow]

You guys are right. Everyone is entitled to their own thoughts, opinions, and feelings, regardless of what others might think. Besides i did have a feeling BlackWidow was trolling everyone right from the start by bitching at every turn. :laugh:
i never did that.

[Dreammms]

LOL. Yeah, that's pretty hilarious. Klonopin should've been taken off the market by the FDA right there and then. I also have to laugh at Goldfish and Ladybug. I know it's written as a children's song but my eyes involuntarily roll when I hear it, especially when her voice goes so deep. I just think it's goofy.

About 8 years ago I was listening to Goldfish and the Ladybug in my car. This guy I was on a date with says to me "I love this song...one of my favorites" and then starts mumbling and humming along to it. I knew at that time I would never date him again. What a liar. He wasn't even a Stevie fan. There was no way in hell he heard that song before.

[BlackWidow]

LOL. Yeah, that's pretty hilarious. Klonopin should've been taken off the market by the FDA right there and then. I also have to laugh at Goldfish and Ladybug. I know it's written as a children's song but my eyes involuntarily roll when I hear it, especially when her voice goes so deep. I just think it's goofy.
I agree..it gets my vote too

[BlackWidow]

Not a good start by BlackWidow was it?!
It's only love.

[David]

That's true. :nod: And thanks for noticing. That publicity is finally making the rounds! :thumbsup:Aww....Amber's a kickin' gal around here! Everyone leave her alone. :wavey:

[BlackWidow]

Just you......
no YOU! :lol:

[Dreammms]

no YOU! :lol:

L O S E R!!!!!!!


:wavey:

[BlackWidow]

L O S E R!!!!!!!


:wavey:
hahahahaha :laugh:

[BlackWidow]

That was such a new insult! No one has ever said that to me. :wavey:

then..there you go. :wavey: