what's your favourite all time pun?

[EvilBastard]

From Marian (version): "Save me from the grave"

[stufarq]

I know I'm a bit late but couldn't the pun be that he is stuck (ie can't move) when the actual home is described as mobile?

Perhaps when Dylan wrote it but Von's is still just a misquote.

And if I can get my pedant hat on, the line is "Stuck inside of Memphis with the mobile home" while the Dylan song is actually Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again and is from the album Blonde On Blonde.

Aaaand breathe...

[EvilBastard]

Lets take this a little further.

Ok, so this could be a reference to Dylan's lyric. But wouldn't that be a little easy? I mean, we know that 's never shied away from repurposing other peoples' material, so that could be the de facto go-to when analysing this.

But...

Maybe he's stuck inside of Memphis with a Mobile home, as in Mobile Alabama. He's in one state with a residence from another - the feeling of being disconnected, in the wrong place, with the wrong thing. Could this be an allusion to his state of mind while recording the album? His original band is gone, he's shacked up with someone that he knows isn't right for him (and who snarfs all the donuts) - this is uncomfortable for him. He feels displaced.
Further, to get from Mobile to Memphis you take US-45 and I-55. Together they sum to 100. Not very far from "As I ride down the highway 101". Maybe this is his way of trying to reconnect with a time and place where he was comfortable, with things he knew.

The reference to Memphis could also have deeper connotations. In ancient Egypt Memphis was an industrial and commercial hub before falling into ruin. Perhaps his use of it alluded to Leeds, which suffered a similar demise. It was also the site of a significant necropolis - felt that after the original band broke up the Sisters had been mummified, preserved, unchanging, or he felt that people wanted them to be. Or perhaps he's saying that the band will live forever through him, the Pharaoh-figure, the living god (there is certainly a degree of megalomania to his personality).

Maybe...

[million voices]

...or maybe he got the idea from "Still Life in Mobile Homes" by Japan

He was listening to Sylvian not Dylan

[stufarq]

Lets take this a little further.

Ok, so this could be a reference to Dylan's lyric. But wouldn't that be a little easy? I mean, we know that 's never shied away from repurposing other peoples' material, so that could be the de facto go-to when analysing this.

But...

Maybe he's stuck inside of Memphis with a Mobile home, as in Mobile Alabama. He's in one state with a residence from another - the feeling of being disconnected, in the wrong place, with the wrong thing. Could this be an allusion to his state of mind while recording the album? His original band is gone, he's shacked up with someone that he knows isn't right for him (and who snarfs all the donuts) - this is uncomfortable for him. He feels displaced.
Further, to get from Mobile to Memphis you take US-45 and I-55. Together they sum to 100. Not very far from "As I ride down the highway 101". Maybe this is his way of trying to reconnect with a time and place where he was comfortable, with things he knew.

The reference to Memphis could also have deeper connotations. In ancient Egypt Memphis was an industrial and commercial hub before falling into ruin. Perhaps his use of it alluded to Leeds, which suffered a similar demise. It was also the site of a significant necropolis - felt that after the original band broke up the Sisters had been mummified, preserved, unchanging, or he felt that people wanted them to be. Or perhaps he's saying that the band will live forever through him, the Pharaoh-figure, the living god (there is certainly a degree of megalomania to his personality).

Maybe...

Are you David Icke?

[EvilBastard]

Are you David Icke?

No, but I play one on TV.

[Nikolas Vitus Lagartija]

Lets take this a little further.

Ok, so this could be a reference to Dylan's lyric. But wouldn't that be a little easy? I mean, we know that 's never shied away from repurposing other peoples' material, so that could be the de facto go-to when analysing this.

But...

Maybe he's stuck inside of Memphis with a Mobile home, as in Mobile Alabama. He's in one state with a residence from another - the feeling of being disconnected, in the wrong place, with the wrong thing. Could this be an allusion to his state of mind while recording the album? His original band is gone, he's shacked up with someone that he knows isn't right for him (and who snarfs all the donuts) - this is uncomfortable for him. He feels displaced.
Further, to get from Mobile to Memphis you take US-45 and I-55. Together they sum to 100. Not very far from "As I ride down the highway 101". Maybe this is his way of trying to reconnect with a time and place where he was comfortable, with things he knew.

The reference to Memphis could also have deeper connotations. In ancient Egypt Memphis was an industrial and commercial hub before falling into ruin. Perhaps his use of it alluded to Leeds, which suffered a similar demise. It was also the site of a significant necropolis - felt that after the original band broke up the Sisters had been mummified, preserved, unchanging, or he felt that people wanted them to be. Or perhaps he's saying that the band will live forever through him, the Pharaoh-figure, the living god (there is certainly a degree of megalomania to his personality).

Maybe...

Are you David Icke?

[stufarq]

Are you David Icke?

No, but I play one on TV.

Do you get a good tune out of it?*






*Which almost brings us back on topic!

[blackandgold65]

"Twenty five whores in the room next door, Twenty five floors and I need more" - Vision Thing(possibly the best opening lyrics to an album EVER)

"Get real, get another"

"I can love my fellow man, but I'm damned if I'll love yours"

echo these.

Vision Thing "25 whores etc" produced an extremely rousing Waynes World/Bohemian Rhap style moment a few years back @ Reading Services whilst filling up with petrol I recall. Good call! That's what subwoofers are for.

on that note, might as well add in this for good measure

[blackandgold65]

no, no, no not good.... great.

[Nikolas Vitus Lagartija]

Back on the original topic (albeit a mere decade or so late) my current favourite Von pun is "Watch the body hit the phials/files". A cancer for anyone's education.

[Chaotican]

I read this whole thread just to validate that someone already said, "carrion child, prey for me."

Really? No one?

[Being645]

I read this whole thread just to validate that someone already said, "carrion child, prey for me."

Really? No one?

It is a good one for sure. One of my alltime favourites is

Blizzard King
Bring it on home


Joh, of course, Love ... ...

[Nikolas Vitus Lagartija]

"carrion child"

Starring Sid James and Joan Sims as the parents presumably, with Charles Hawtrey as the child.

[jimgogan]

More a lyric couplet
Mundane by day, inane at night.

[jimgogan]

Looking for the can
In the candy store
.. Poor chap, buy him a yacht someone

[Pista]

Hello @jimgogan & welcome to

[Fallon]

Now that the middle 8 of I Will Call You is solved, we get "I will call you a car" followed shortly by the narrator calling you two types of car.