This is a new album for me, but I have heard this song a little on the wireless. I hate it when someone describes a band by saying it sounds like another band. But this song screams B52s to me. It is the Melbourne-born bastard son of Love Shack and Rock Lobster. And on closer inspection, the lyrics appear to be written in some kind of circle ceremony, where each of the six members of the band writes one line then passes it on. To wit:
when we're sleeping in daily
there's ice on the road
i bought us a dragon
to lighten the load
he's keeping us warm
the blood keep flowing to your head
Hey i've never been stately
I'm legless at sea
my spirit has felt you since 1903
I'm trying to be normal
but there's evil in my head
Long live Fred Schneider! And Kate and Cindy...
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Plenty of bands have proven that meaningful lyrics are not always central to a song's hitting you in the gut (or the dancing shoes). Listening to songs with lyrics in another language illustrates the same, although sometimes (as in the next song I'll post), you can hear the meaning without knowing the words.
My comments about the circle ceremony were not supposed to suggest that it was without some kind of meaning. It was more about the power of random association.
In a highschool creative writing class which was boring me to tears because it was dominated by a group of obnoxious clods - who happened to be my friends - I wowed the softly-spoken, bearded teacher by submitting a poem that he said had "depth". What he didn't know was that each line of the poem was based on book titles in the family bookcase. Completely unispired, I had simply taken the titles, changed a few words around, and put them together as my "poem". Somehow, they had meaning, at least for Mr Gardiner. All it meant to me was an "A" on that assignment. This is the power of random association.
Oops--I forgot to post the song I promised in this comment. That will be my next one...
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