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Born Slippy lyrics ? Whats the deeper meaning
 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2004-07-14 18:29 [#01276547]
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Drive boy dog boy
Dirty numb angel boy
In the doorway boy
She was a lipstick boy
She was a beautiful boy
And tears boy
And all in your innerspace boy
You had
hands girl boy
and steel boy
You had chemicals boy
I've grown so close to you
Boy and you just groan boy
She said comeover comeover
She smiled at you boy.

Drive boy dog boy
Dirty numb angel boy
In the doorway boy
She was a lipstick boy
She was a beautiful boy
And tears boy
And all in your innerspace boy
You had
hands girl boy
and steel boy
You had chemicals boy
I've grown so close to you
Boy and you just groan boy
She said comeover comeover
She smiled at you boy.

Let your feelings slip boy
But never your mask boy
Random blonde bio high density rhythm
Blonde boy blonde country blonde high density
You are my drug boy
You're real boy
Speak to me and boy dog
Dirty numb cracking boy
You get wet boy
Big big time boy
Acid bear boy
Babes and babes and babes and babes and babes
And remembering nothing boy
You like my tin horn boy and get
Wet like an angel
Derail

You got a velvet mouth
You're so succulent and beautiful
Shimmering and dirty
Wonderful and hot times
On your telephone line
And god and everything
On your telephone
And in walk an angel

And look at me your mom
Squatting pissed in a tube-
hole at Tottenham Court Road
I just come out of the ship
Talking to the most
Blonde I ever met
Shouting
Lager lager lager lager
Shouting
Lager lager lager lager
Shouting...
Lager lager lager
Shouting
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega
Shouting lager lager lager lager
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
So many things to see and do
In the tube hole true
Blonde going back to Romford
Mega mega mega going back to Romford
Hi mom are you having fun
And now are you on your way
To a new tension
headache

Explain ?


 

offline boobah from pants on 2004-07-14 18:31 [#01276549]
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it's about wesley snipes.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-07-14 18:31 [#01276550]
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why would you consider underworld deep?


 

offline sons of august from the sacred cycles on 2004-07-14 18:41 [#01276555]
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my interpretation: not settling into any clique or social
circle. i suspect it probably hits home with a lot of people
on the internet, or indeed this message board.

or perhaps it's just rhyming semantics fitting into the
music.


 

offline Torley Wong on 2004-07-14 18:44 [#01276560]
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It's like cubist poetry, or something. Karl Hyde mentioned
his influences in several interviews... and some of it might
have to do with Underworld's affiliated advertising company,
Tomato :)


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2004-07-14 18:48 [#01276564]
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I like those lyrics...


 

offline boobah from pants on 2004-07-14 18:51 [#01276565]
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no way, it's much more than that!


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2004-07-14 18:51 [#01276566]
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Let your feelings slip boy
But never your mask boy


This line is especially great in a "Club" context


 

offline electro from detroit on 2004-07-14 18:52 [#01276568]
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the song is about a transexual man who is a lipstic lesbian


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2004-07-14 18:56 [#01276571]
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No, I suspect it to be about teenagae sexualit, male
posturing and someones first night at a techno club.....or
whatever


 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2004-07-14 18:57 [#01276572]
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I like these lyrics and I have no idea why.


 

offline darkpromenade from Australia on 2004-07-14 19:06 [#01276575]
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Is it "young, drug adicted, drug affected, cross-dressing,
male prostitute, good at giving blow-jobs, gets gang-raped
by pack of drunken men" ?


 

offline sons of august from the sacred cycles on 2004-07-14 19:10 [#01276579]
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no wonder he likes it


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2004-07-14 19:11 [#01276581]
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nah, take 'dog' and 'boy' out of it and it's pretty
straightforward soppy nonsense. 'dog' and 'boy' are an
after thought trying to be 'weird' in my beautiful opinion


 

offline sons of august from the sacred cycles on 2004-07-14 19:17 [#01276591]
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lets face it, techno & lyrics really don't go together. karl
hyde is the paul rutherford of the frankie goes to hollywood
that is underworld.


 

offline darkpromenade from Australia on 2004-07-14 19:21 [#01276596]
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Jivver, I had already dismissed dog and boy....... ;)
if you include them it becomes...

"young, drug adicted, drug affected, cross-dressing,
male prostitute, INTO FUCKING DOGS AND BOYS, good at giving
blow-jobs, gets gang-raped
by pack of drunken men"

j/k........ but only just


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2004-07-14 19:27 [#01276601]
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hee hee!


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2004-07-14 19:29 [#01276602]
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I couldn't agree more


 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2004-07-14 19:29 [#01276603]
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Of course it's nonsense. But it works for me.


 

offline GIR from Easton on 2004-07-14 20:01 [#01276624]
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I remember hearing from somewhere its about himself, when
getting all contemplative after a night ov drinking in Soho.


 

offline uzim on 2004-07-14 20:03 [#01276626]
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you have to switch your logical sense off and "feel" it
instead, it's more about impressions, feelings, ambiance,
pictures given by the lyrics.

(pictures like a skater boy with his girlfriend watching him
ride, in a sunny day on a construction field with white
plaster tubes)


 

offline uzim on 2004-07-14 20:06 [#01276629]
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of course everyone can get different pictures, by focalizing
on different parts of the lyrics, associating them with
different stuff you have in your head, it all makes it more
interesting and stimulates more your imagination than
"sensificated" lyrics (too tired to find the right word,
it's 4am anyway, good night! =) )


 

offline uzim on 2004-07-14 20:07 [#01276630]
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...stimulates more your imagination than lyrics that make
clear sense, without ambiguity etc, i meant.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2004-07-14 20:13 [#01276633]
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True, karl is a philosopher and a half in the playground of
shite.


 

offline Gwely Mernans from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2004-07-14 20:15 [#01276634]
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good song


 

offline sons of august from the sacred cycles on 2004-07-14 20:24 [#01276637]
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i suspect i already know what freud, satre & dostoyevsky
would say about carl hyde...

probably the same as me... you fucking gobshite!


 

offline Torley Wong on 2004-07-14 21:10 [#01276651]
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It's easy to get a Kant Generator. ^_^

Yeah, I really like this song too. I may not know what it
means but wow is it catchy.


 

offline roer-ei from Netherlands, The on 2004-07-14 22:33 [#01276671]
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i used to think the mega mega white bit was
nigger nigger whiteboy
nigger nigger whiteboy


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2004-07-15 01:13 [#01276692]
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the original, no lyrics version of born slippy is so much
better, and different too, shame practically no one has
heard it


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2004-07-15 01:57 [#01276709]
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it's true, the lyrics probably don't have a deep meaning...
and it's true that techno is better without lyrics... but
therein lies the connection... Underworlds lyrics are really
just for mood... they're like another instrument... you
don't focus on the meaning, but the sound!


 

offline Torley Wong on 2004-07-15 02:14 [#01276721]
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Yeah, like how some people *cough*
Enigmareturntoinnocenceyay *cough* sample exotic chants
without knowing what they're saying... they could be
advising the listener to eat lots of bran and have a good
bowel movement, for all we know. :P



 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2004-07-15 03:20 [#01276747]
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Which is just as well because up until now I never
understood a word he was saying other than the infamous
lager lager bit.


 

offline morge from United Kingdom on 2004-07-15 03:32 [#01276752]
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so many things to see and do
and the two hold true

not:
"in the tube hole true"

uzim is right about these lyrics, its like free association,
the words mount up and evoke a picture they don't explicitly
or specifically refer to something. Though I am sure I read
that they were inspired by personal experience.
I.m.o. they are excellent lyrics that compliment the music

and the two hold true


 

offline eXXailon from purgatory on 2004-07-15 03:43 [#01276755]
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All their lyrics are kind of mysterious like that. Pearl's
Girl and Moaner also have them.


 

offline big from lsg on 2004-07-15 05:18 [#01276808]
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crap track


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-07-15 05:20 [#01276811]
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i bet it sound good in ibiza though!


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-07-15 05:31 [#01276828]
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it means 'monoid kill yourself. now.'


 

offline big from lsg on 2004-07-15 08:40 [#01277016]
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i thought they said it was about drinking beer and being an
alcoholic


 

offline KainiIndustries from over the roof floats billy on 2004-07-15 13:54 [#01277339]
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Karl used to be an alcoholic; he used to write all the
lyrics while fucked up on loads of booze.


 

offline hevquip from megagram dusk sect (United States) on 2004-07-15 15:13 [#01277386]
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it's about a relationship. and drinking after getting
dumped.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-07-15 15:19 [#01277390]
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underworld rulz0rz


 

offline acrid milk hall from United Kingdom on 2004-07-15 15:25 [#01277393]
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hahaha frankie goes to hollywood.. spot on 'august.

i never liked this song.. or the lyrics.
they're shite.

oh, and i'm not one of those people that insists on
meaningful lyrics in music, either. that's not why i
dislike the track.
as far as i'm concerned, vocals are just another layer of
the music. whether they say something witty, evocative or
not is not the focal point. lets face it, there aren't
that many gifted poets/lyricists out there. most of
them just string a few interesting cliches together & tag
them to a melody or mode of delivery..
if it sounds good, it is good.. if they do happen to
be saying something really powerful - well then that's just
a special bonus.

in the case of underworld, however, carl is saying nothing
in a way that (to me) most definitely doesn't sound good.

even underworld themselves said that it was a piss-take
track they did as an afterthought one late night in the
studio. they didn't think much of it until it blew up.


 

offline hkewell from United Kingdom on 2004-07-15 16:52 [#01277437]
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I thought the funny thing about this song is that all the
piss-head yobs took this song to heart because of the lager!
lager! lyrics, but it's more about the shitiness of being
pissed, as experience by Karl when he liked a drink.
Most of the lyrics he writes are stitched together from
lines and words he scribbles down whenever he thinks of
something. Most of the time they don't mean much, but they
sound good.


 

offline Skink from A cesspool in eden on 2004-07-15 16:59 [#01277439]
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Sounds like too much acid.


 

offline KainiIndustries from over the roof floats billy on 2004-07-15 21:28 [#01277632]
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Underworld have far better lyrics in a similar vein:

...dead alive...
...auto...
...dental mint drug...

sweet in winter
sweet in the rain
shake well before use
she said,
"you never touch me anymore this way"

connector-in
receiver-out
you let me in through the backdoor

...loosen up...
...it's like i'm vomiting...
...all night dancing...
...let him start...
...drip...

ride the sainted rythms on the midnight train to romford

ride the sainted rythms

sweet in winter
sweet in the rain
shake well before use
she said,
"you never touch me anymore this way"

(oh no)
connector...

(you're a)
connector...

i'm so dirty
and the light it blinds my eyes

you're oh so dirty
and the light it blinds my eyes

here comes christ on crutches

...ten cents to boot...
...check him undercover...
...huh? who else-

"call me wet trampoline,"
she said today
but i was too busy with my head
shake well before use
she said,
"but you never touch me anymore"
i was busy listening for phonesex
coming through the back door

in her skin tight trunks
and we all went
mental
and dancing

...ah yes, did you get in...
...tell the others did you get in...
...look in the dirty erotic fantasy...
...huh...
...hey...
...big thoughts...

i get my kicks on channel six...
to the off-peak electricity

and the light blinds my eyes
and i feel dirty

hey-ohhhoooooo-ohhh

and the light blinds my eyes
and i feel so

shaken in my faith

here comes christ on crutches

and here comes another god (here comes another god)
like a buffalo thunder with a smell of sugar
and a velvet tongue and designer voodoo
but i got phonesex to see me through
the emptiness in my 501s
freeze dried in my new religion
and my teeth stuffed back in my head

i get my kicks on channel six...

i get my kicks on channel six
the light it blinds my eyes
and i feel so dirty
(i feel so dirty)
and so


 


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