1000 SONGS - DAY 190 SONG # 221

Day 190: A song by your favourite band

There was a time, when Lloyd Cole and the Commotions were (at least: among) my favourite band(s). This was the time of their first record, my time of being in-between ending studies (which took me some more years) and starting a job - since I could not decide which job to take among the plenty of them offered to me, I just stayed in academia ("we academics are not easily discouraged"). Nearly each and every song from that album is worth to be listed among my 1000 favourite ones. I dig the first three on side one: Perfect Skin, Speedboat and Rattlesnakes. The last of these has also been recorded by Tori Amos, so I will post the lyrics here, too.

Jodie wears a hat although it hasn't rained for six days
She says a girl needs a gun these days
Hey, on account of all the rattlesnakes

She looks like Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront
She reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance

She is less than sure if her heart has come to stay in San Jose
And her neverborn child still haunts her
As she speeds down the freeway
As she tries her luck with the traffic police
out of boredom more than spite
She never finds no trouble she tries too hard
She's obvious despite herself

She looks like Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront
She says all she needs is therapy yeh all you need is love is all you need

Jodie never sleeps because there are always needles in the hay
She says that a girl needs a gun these days
Hey, on account of all the rattlesnakes

She looks like Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront
As she reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
Her heart.. her heart is like crazy paving
Upside down and back to front
She says"Ooh it's so hard to love
when love was your great disappointment."