Monday, August 29, 2005

Because I Suffer...

... so must you!

"No money-man can win my luh-ove!
It's sweetness that I'm thinkin' of.

We always hang in a Buffalo stance.
We do the dive every time we dance.
I'll give you love, baby, not romance.
I'll make a move, nothin' left to chance.
So don't... you get fresh with me!

Get funky!"


Cannot. Get. It. Out. Of. My. Head. Neneh Cherry has bedeviled my brain!!!

Seriously, WTF are those lyrics anyway? Is she from Buffalo, NY, and they have some sort of Buffalo-regional-specific dance? Or is she standing there posed like a buffalo? And if so, just what is a buffalo's... stance?

What is a "Buffalo stance"??? I must know!

The first stanza is where the genius of Cherry's songwriting skills shines, though:

"Who's that gigolo on the street
With his hands in his pockets and his crocodile feet
Hanging off the curb, looking all disturbed
At the boys from home. They all came running
They were making noise, manhandling toys
That's the girls on the block with the nasty curls
Wearing padded bras sucking beers through straws
Dropping down their drawers, where did you get yours?

Gigolo, Huh, sukka?
Gigolo. Gigolo, Huh, sukka?"


Huh sukka indeed.

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