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Thanks a lot, this was fast.  |
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mh
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| Post #27 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/news/livenews.htm
| Quote: | ... Shake me down again
... Shake me down and then
... Shake me down again
I can take what I've been through
I've been used and abused
I've been chased and I've been bruised
I can take what I've been through
I've been naked on the news
I've been debased and disabused
Just leave me downtown when you're through
Turn me over
Turn me in
I have slept with all the girls in Berlin
Girls on smoke and girls on weed
Girls on coke and girls on speed
Girls who choke and girls who smile
Girls who swallow in denial
Girls in crisis, ultra-hipped
Weird as Isis, wide as Egypt
Girls in cars and girls on strips
Girls in bars and girls on tips
Girls on journeys, girls on trips
Girls on gurneys, girls on drips
And a girl too far with pale blue lips so shake me down again
Girls like you with poison tips
Girls like you like pistol whips
Girls in over-zealous green
With a third degree in jealousy so
Turn me over
Turn me in
I have slept with all the girls in Berlin |
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| Post #28 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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Absolutely lovely.  |
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| Post #29 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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I still think it's crap.    |
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_emma_
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| Post #30 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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While I love it even more now.
And would be extremely happy to hear it played live again one day. |
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| Post #31 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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So is he giving us a hint as to what might end up on the new record? Or am I exhausting my store of optimism (which is an admittedly rather limited and unnatural thing)? 
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| Post #32 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: Slept |
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| Izzy HaveMercy wrote: | | 'Slept' or 'I've slept with all the girls in Berlin' or whatever you want to call it. |
Andrew seems to want to call it I Have Slept With All The Girls In Berlin so perhaps we should change the name of the thread. |
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mh
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| Post #33 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Dilitantte wrote: | | Motz wrote: | Transcribed from the Austria 06 boot:
Girls on gurneys, girls on drips,
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Girls on gurneys? Oh dear...  |
And it was actually correct!
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| Post #34 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| And the lyrics itself has changed slightly again. |
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mh
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| Post #35 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| _emma_ wrote: | | And the lyrics itself has changed slightly again. |
Playing with our heads!
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| Post #36 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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which parts is it that have changed?
(having a bit of a senior moment here, sorry  ) |
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| Post #37 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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| old lyrics wrote: | Girls in cars and girls on strips
Girls in bars and girls on tips |
| new lyrics wrote: | Girls in cars and girls on ships
Girls in bars and girls on strips |
Seems to be it.
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| Post #38 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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certainly seems to make more sense
thanks |
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| Post #39 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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Another change is:
"I can take what I've been through"
to
"I can wake up in this zoo" |
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| Post #40 Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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yes, you're right. 
only just noticed mh's post with the "original" incarnation of the lyrics copied from the girls' website. miss airhead here has been looking at the new version all along and trying to figure out why she can't see any changes.
and the moral of this story is: not going near a computer during the day is not a good thing - not when  (or a higher power of some sort) decides to update the site |
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| Post #41 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:46 am Post subject: |
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Shake me down again ...
A wonderful lyric about sort of (self-)abandonment.
Though, when I heard it played live, mostly other aspects like prestige, envy or jealousy prevailed. So I might be well off mark. |
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| Post #42 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| mh wrote: | | old lyrics wrote: | Girls in cars and girls on strips
Girls in bars and girls on tips |
| new lyrics wrote: | Girls in cars and girls on ships
Girls in bars and girls on strips |
Seems to be it. |
He sings the old ones I'm sure 
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| Post #44 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:59 am Post subject: |
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does anyone else get the feeling that he's revising them as he's writing them down for the web? even songs he's already been singing for a couple of years are getting 'upgrades'?
hmmm
do you think that this formalising (if you will) of his lyrics feels a bit like he's gearing up to something?  
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| Post #45 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:03 am Post subject: |
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| Quiff Boy wrote: | | do you think that this formalising (if you will) of his lyrics feels a bit like he's gearing up to something? |
I have the feeling I'm gearing up to a huge disappointment 
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| Post #46 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:05 am Post subject: |
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| silentNate wrote: | | Quiff Boy wrote: | | do you think that this formalising (if you will) of his lyrics feels a bit like he's gearing up to something? |
I have the feeling I'm gearing up to a huge disappointment |
yeah, that would be more like the established pattern of events wouldn't it?
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| Post #47 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:09 am Post subject: |
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It would be really great if that were the case, and there's a major part of me (and probably the rest of us) wants it to be so. Also a risk of "crumbs from the masters table" though, after all there is also precedent there (going back years) with Summer, Susanne and others.
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| Post #48 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:14 am Post subject: |
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| It doesn't matter that much to me anymore to be honest. It's quite a relief actually, the moment you realise that you don't have to struggle and suffer and wait and expect anymore. Only then you can truly take part in what is happening at a given moment here and now. |
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| Post #49 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:52 am Post subject: |
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| _emma_ wrote: | | It doesn't matter that much to me anymore to be honest. It's quite a relief actually, the moment you realise that you don't have to struggle and suffer and wait and expect anymore. Only then you can truly take part in what is happening at a given moment here and now. |
Ram Dass would be proud. 
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| Post #50 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Quiff Boy wrote: | | does anyone else get the feeling that he's revising them as he's writing them down for the web? even songs he's already been singing for a couple of years are getting 'upgrades'? |
Inasmuch as he appears to revise them as he sings them, revising them as he writes them down isn't much of a stretch.
| And also wrote: | | do you think that this formalising (if you will) of his lyrics feels a bit like he's gearing up to something? |
See earlier comment... 
The fear is that he's just keeping his hand in during this protracted lull in the schedule. 
The hope is that this tour has been the fire under him that's been needed.
All in all, a season of wild mood swings.
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