'My love, I'd do anything for you' - first impressions?

[Anonymouswithapologies]

oops, didgeridoo

 

[Anonymous]

oops, didgeridoo

I'll believe you. It definetly holds the sound right before the song starts so it's obviously not a totally natural sound. I wonder if we'll hear the trumpet a bit more on record. Adds a weird element to the sound

 

[ninetimesfined]

I really love it. It sounds to me like a cross between ABC on their difficult second album Beauty Stab (even down to the socio-political lyrics) and 90s all girl goth grunge group Jack Off Jill. Which is of course excellent.

 

[BrummieBoy]

Silly song.

 

[Sister I'm a Poet]

The recurring "duh-duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh-duh, duh duh" riff really seems familiar. It does sound like a Black Sabbath riff (or some other guitar heavy band), but it is not in the Sabbath songs already posted (unless I missed it). Any ideas?

 

[Anonymouswithapologies]

I'll believe you. It definetly holds the sound right before the song starts so it's obviously not a totally natural sound. I wonder if we'll hear the trumpet a bit more on record. Adds a weird element to the sound

oh no, you mustn't

it's trumpet!

i surrender

 

[Orson Swells]

It reads somewhat like a thematic update to You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side. He seems to be saying that things are now so bad that he and the "you" need each other equally.

 

[Anonymous]

I love it!!

 

[Anonymous]

It’s ok, edgy tune in comparison to the slower stuff on the album. But in truth It’s a case of convincing myself to like the new material more than I actually do, simply because it’s morrissey. If these songs were by any other artist I wouldn’t give them a second listen, cos they just arnt that good.

 

[Anonymous]

Best album opening track alongside far off places

 

[Anonymous]

Best album opening track alongside far off places

Better than Alsatian cousin and Now my heart is full??

 

[Anonymous]

Fantastic.

First go at the lyrics:

Teach your kids
to recognize and despise
all the propaganda

Built to doubt (?)
by the dead echelon's (?)
mainstream media

[Chorus]
Hey hey hey
you know me well
my love I'd do anything for you
Society's hell
you need me just like I need you

Weren't we all (?)
born to mourn and to yawn at the occupation
that invades every day of our lives
we can't live with the waste (?)

[Chorus x 2]

We all go our own way
separately, in the same direction
And here am I
every night of my life
always missing someone

I'd like to be blotted out
just before I become aware of the pain.
The more I wish in my heart for someone
the less likely they come.


.... Edits and corrections welcome.

we can't live with the waste (?) --- we can't live as we wish

 

[Calamine Lotion]

Judging from the title I thought it'd be a much softer song, a ballad like "Home Is A Question Mark." It's not that.
There's also a line in it about 'mainstream media,' because he didn't sufficiently cover that in "Spent the Day in Bed."

At least he didn't say "lamestream."