Prompted by the fact that Him Indoors bought a CD full of 12" 80s mixes, with this on it. I remember hearing this on some vaguely remembered pop show way back in the days before Rhona Cameron even thought of appearing on a list programme and thinking it was really clever and full of meaning, even if I couldn't work out what that meaning actually meant. Then The Farm sang it and I didn't want to hear it again for years, so it didn't really matter. But, on listening again, it really is nonsense, isn't it?
WHAT, exactly is sinful? And why is that tragic? And is it tragic in the literary sense, or merely in the colloquial sense?? And, at the end, what HAS Pete Wylie seen, that he's so proud of? I'm pretty sure I can't say I've seen it, otherwise I'd know it was sinful.
So - I reckon you lot are wise and it will make perfect sense to one of you. Oh yes.
SINFUL!
It's sinful
It's tragic
It's sinful
It's tragic
Hey Joe! I got the news tonight
well, should I laugh or should I cry or should I stay and fight?
It's sinful, so true
Hey Joe! I know I sound confused
but do you ever get the feeling that you're being used?
It's sinful, so true, boo hoo; sing!
barada barada barada barada biyah
It's sinful
It's tragic
It's sinful
It's tragic
Hey Joe! I've never understood
when the elders are so wicked, why should we be good?
they're sinful, so true
don't cry, don't let it get you down,
Hey Joe! we ought to try and turn the world around
It's sinful, so true, boo hoo,
It's sinful
It's tragic
It's sinful
It's tragic
Don't you believe me?
I know it's true
I can say that i've seen it
can you?
(repeat)
It's sinful (repeat)
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)
is it political? i think he's pissed about Thatcher and the Falklands War.
many of the greatest artists like to leave enough mystery in their works to allow us to come to our own interpretation. maybe Wylie was copying them.
WAH!
― Lee (fsharp), Friday, 25 February 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)