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I really love this song but what is it about, my native language is not english you see!

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It’s about this site you fool!

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rideon wrote:I really love this song but what is it about, my native language is not english you see!
It's about Gary Marx maturing as a songwriter. Beyond that, who knows?
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Red_Kola wrote:
rideon wrote:I really love this song but what is it about, my native language is not english you see!
It's about Gary Marx maturing as a songwriter. Beyond that, who knows?
Drugs and cars.
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CellThree wrote: Drugs and cars.
So guns and accidents came later ..?
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One of the more blatant drug references in the Sisters' oeuvre.

"Lay me down the long white line" :roll: :lol: to go with the "One more night spent on your mirror" presumably. :innocent:
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http://www.fourth-floor.co.uk/lyricfile/heartland.htm

i always read "heartland" in this case as being used to describe a place you feel you "belong". the home where your heart is, as it were.

i see the song as being about having been out into the big wide world, seen life, done great things, made mistakes, and now he's looking for his spritual home where he can rest.

on drugs.

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It's about somebody suffering from Repetitive Verse Injury...

A very bad case it appears too... :roll: :innocent:
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Lars Svensson wrote:It's about somebody suffering from Repetitive Verse Injury...

A very bad case it appears too... :roll: :innocent:
Tee-hee-hee - I just Googled to get the lyrics to hand, and at the end it said 'Chorus [repeatx40]'. :lol: I normally get extremely pissed off with the dragging-out of songs (Bela Lugosi's dead anyone? :roll: And This Corrosion for that matter), but I don't know... in Heartland I think it actually adds to the song. You know, it just builds and builds, and then the little guitar goes all high - oooh I love that bit!

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"then the little guitar goes all high - oooh I love that bit!"

thats my fave bit too 8) ;D :lol:
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I always thought it was about speed... speed... and more speed.... but above all... its about speed

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Quiff Boy wrote:"then the little guitar goes all high - oooh I love that bit!"

thats my fave bit too 8) ;D :lol:
"Shhhh! Shhh! Listen - here comes the really good bit.... :D aww, I love that bit I do!"
My dad does that with Gershwin. :lol: It's not at all annoying.

But anyway, on the subject of Heartland again, I get a big "delusions of grandeur" feeling from it - Von doing the old "I'm the king-o-the-world!" routine. Hmm, he could cover "My Heart Will Go On". 8) I'm one of the few Sisters fans (it would appear) who does not have an intimate realtionship with illegal substances, but I always thought it was a cocaine song rather than a speed song! No? Oh, well, what do I know... :oops:

bloody herbal tea drinker that I am!
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Quiff Boy wrote:i see the song as being about having been out into the big wide world, seen life, done great things, made mistakes, and now he's looking for his spritual home where he can rest.

on drugs.

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Kind of existentialist, isn't it? Perhaps its about Germany.
.... there is no semblance of rock 'n roll around here!
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I always thought is was about going on stage and being on stage, and having an audience in your grasp.... all while on speed.
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boudicca wrote: routine. Hmm, he could cover "My Heart Will Go On". 8) I'm one of the few Sisters fans (it would appear) who does not have an intimate realtionship with illegal substances, but I always thought it was a cocaine song rather than a speed song! No? Oh, well, what do I know... :oops:

bloody herbal tea drinker that I am!
Cocaine = short buzz, king of world, mild to great paranoia (depending on usage)
speed = stay up all night, and the next night too, grinding, bad-tempered wiredness, staying up until it's not funny any more -- and then four days longer than that.

I would imagine. I also only drink herbal tea so this is all guess work.

If my supposition is true, Heartland is definitely speed. Heartland. Heartland. Heartland. Heartland (crunch there goes another filling) heartland. Heartland.

What? oops, I've just sacked the band.

Again.

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Lowrider wrote:
Cocaine = short buzz, king of world, mild to great paranoia (depending on usage)
speed = stay up all night, and the next night too, grinding, bad-tempered wiredness, staying up until it's not funny any more -- and then four days longer than that.
That's a pretty succinct description of the Vonmeister there! :von: :lol:
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Heartland (crunch there goes another filling) heartland. Heartland.

What? oops, I've just sacked the band.

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Temple Of Love. Heartland. Gimme Shelter. :roll:
And you know that she's half crazy but that's why you want to be there.
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Francis wrote:Temple Of Love. Heartland. Gimme Shelter. :roll:
Umm, at the risk of looking stupid... :?: :oops:
If we're naming Sisters songs, no problem - I can do that! :D
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boudicca wrote:
Francis wrote:Temple Of Love. Heartland. Gimme Shelter. :roll:
Umm, at the risk of looking stupid...
It had just dawned on me that the titles of the three songs on that 12" seemed connected. Temple-Shelter, Love-Heart. I'm sure it made sense at the time. :oops: :lol:
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Francis wrote:
boudicca wrote:
Francis wrote:Temple Of Love. Heartland. Gimme Shelter. :roll:
Umm, at the risk of looking stupid...
It had just dawned on me that the titles of the three songs on that 12" seemed connected. Temple-Shelter, Love-Heart. I'm sure it made sense at the time. :oops: :lol:
Aha! You might be on to something there! You "run for cover in the Temple Of Love" after all, which would suggest that it's some kind of "Shelter"...... :urff: :roll: I think the forensic study of Von's lyrics has just reached its ultimate, hideous conclusion! :lol:
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nodubmanshouts wrote:I always thought it was about speed... speed... and more speed.... but above all... its about speed

:)
Yes, and cars..

(just listening to the Halloween gig 1984) ;)
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boudicca wrote: I normally get extremely pissed off with the dragging-out of songs but I don't know... in Heartland I think it actually adds to the song. You know, it just builds and builds, and then the little guitar goes all high - oooh I love that bit!
agree.
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I am ashamed to admit that this is one of my least Favourite Sisters songs, because of its repetitive chorus :oops:

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BillyBadBreaks wrote:Do I have to give away my black suede jackets with the fringes now? :innocent:
please do :lol:
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