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Author:  lizabombs [ Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:39 pm ]
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Anyone know what the hell she's saying at the end? I've listened for a decade or more and still have no clue.

Author:  Skladunk [ Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:52 pm ]
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lizabombs wrote:
Anyone know what the hell she's saying at the end? I've listened for a decade or more and still have no clue.

Here's the yt-version with lyrics... (Scream blue murder... - sounds fair 'nough :laugh: )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw5QXwuQgcs

Author:  lizabombs [ Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:04 am ]
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Hm. I'm not convinced, since I think some of those other lyrics are wrong. The mystery continues!

Author:  DrDark [ Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:46 am ]
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There's one line that's in French:
http://www.alwaysontherun.net/polly2.htm#aaaaj

They also agree with this site, which has a very good track record with the lyrics:
http://www.jphuntley.co.uk/pjh/Lyrics/e ... m#claudine

Author:  Polly_Jean_Cave [ Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:39 am ]
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"Inflate your body, my inflatable queen"


^ It always sounded like she said "Inflict" rather than "inflate".

Author:  lizabombs [ Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:18 pm ]
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Interesting. What could 'nail my beard to the bathroom door' POSSIBLY mean?

Author:  Skladunk [ Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:04 am ]
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to me it's an example of Polly's ability to take her subject matter to the extreme. The whole song circles around some SM-sex fantasy gone bad (and lonely): sexual attraction and lust transferred to an inflatable doll. The emptiness of the whole scene is underlined by that desperately stupid act (nailing a beard) which sounds brutal but couldn't hold the person in place. In the end he ends up killing off the doll - as a consequence of the dominance theme gone wild or because the whole scene can't satisfy him?!

It's a unique song - and I simply can't understand why it never made it to the album?!?!
So funny, so full of lust, so raw...

Author:  DeuxExMachina [ Sat Feb 26, 2011 2:30 pm ]
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i may be wrong but for me this song is about bluebeard, "nail my beard to the bathroom door.. scream blue murder"
which explains the french line as well, bluebeard is originally a french folktale, la barbe bleue.

Author:  Skladunk [ Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:49 pm ]
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DeuxExMachina wrote:
i may be wrong but for me this song is about bluebeard, "nail my beard to the bathroom door.. scream blue murder"
which explains the french line as well, bluebeard is originally a french folktale, la barbe bleue.

Thx - good point. Never heard of it, but it's a great reference, I think :smile: :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard ( :geek: )

Author:  dannajackson61 [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:57 pm ]
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Honestly speaking, her weird yet charming accent got me couple of hundred times. :shades: Sometimes weirdness becomes specialty.

Author:  Black Hearted Love [ Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:46 pm ]
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found this Roxy Music's song, is pretty intresting, they sang 'bout inflatable doll in the '73
cool, with a feathered Brian Eno, didn't knew before :grin:
though that this Polly's song could be an answer to their track...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPmMveU0dmc

Author:  blue7floyd [ Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:32 pm ]
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That's really funny. I always have this confusion whenever I listen to her song. I never understood what she is trying to speak about. I hope she will watch this and reply to her fans, so that this topic will have an answer. Cheers!



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Author:  Black Hearted Love [ Fri Nov 08, 2013 2:10 pm ]
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and what about the line
I'll wash your dog, babe, don't forget
???

Author:  joe [ Mon Nov 11, 2013 10:07 pm ]
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anyone know the chords / tabs for Claudine ?

Author:  BobSimms [ Mon Jul 01, 2019 5:40 pm ]
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“Nail my bill to the bathroom door”

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