Music that makes sense to me
I just noticed that nobody on the internet seems to have transcribed the lyrics to DAT politics "Turn My Brain Off" - which is one of the only songs with lyrics that really makes sense to me in a musical style that makes sense to me. I wanted to ask my loyal fans to help me - what does he say during the part "----" after "freaking obsessions" ??? It might be in French! Help me by listening to the mp3... No, it's not important. Incidentally, it is amazing how many words can be said in 2:30.
turnmybrainoff.mp3
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turn my brain off!
turn my brain off!
turn my brain off!
turn my brain off!
t t today - I think I have enough now
t t today - I think I have enough now
so can you please
turn my brain off!
oh can you please
turn my brain off!
it makes me say - I think I have enough now
it makes me say - I think I have enough now
so can you please
turn my brain off!
oh can you please
turn my brain off!
STOP
all the connections
freaking obsessions
---
drive me out of my mind
drive me out of my mind
drive me out of my mind
drive me out of my mind
drive me out of my mind
drive me out of my mind
oo oo oo oo
stop it now
oo oo oo oo
stop it now stop it now
t t today - I think I have enough now
t t today - I think I have enough now
so can you please
turn my brain off!
oh can you please
turn my brain off!
it makes me say - I think I have enough now
it makes me say - I think I have enough now
so can you please
turn my brain off!
oh can you please
turn my brain off!
STOP
all the connections
freaking obsessions
---
drive me out of my mind
STOP
oo oo oo oo
all the connections
oo oo oo oo
freaking obsessions
oo oo oo oo
---
drive me out of my mind
oo oo oo oo
drive me out of my mind
drive me out of my mind
drive me out of my mind
drive me out of my mind
drive me out of my mind
drive me out of my mind
stop it now
drive me out of my mind
stop it now stop it now
oo oo oo oo
stop it stop it stop it now
oo oo oo oo
stop it stop it stop it now
oo oo oo oo
stop it stop it stop it now
oo oo oo oo
stop it stop it stop it now
oo oo oo oo
stop it
oo oo oo oo
stop it
oo oo oo oo
stop it
oo oo oo oo
stop it
now
2 comments:
Nobody seems to have figured this one out - 'tis a pity...
BTW - I love how these two pictures have compositional parallels... It's actually quite uncanny. And gorgeous.
The strangest ones include how the man in pink with the tin-man hat is replaced in the other picture by an electronic device, one with a "head." Metal to metal. Both are extending an appendage directly into the man's head. The hat looks like a funnel, and the man has a vessel on his belt. The machine is gathering information and presumably recording it - these actions are analogous to the function of the funnel and vessel.
This may seem like an excercise in freestyle, tangential interpretaion... And if so, fine! I think that metaphor is the highest order of information processing the brain is capable of. Some may say rational thought, but I don't think the brain is actually capable of that. In order to think honestly we must first be true to our internal sense of metaphor. Each person must look at their own life and discover their own language as separate from the one that society forces upon them. Then, as always, a semblance of rationality can be patchworked together from this personal and ideosyncratic way of thinking. But if all rationla thought is built on the shakey and dishonest foundation of socially-imprinted personal metaphors, then we are not going to be able to summon the creativity we will need to survive the coming age of disasterous changes.
Also, if it was not clear at first, I gravitate towards this song because the urge to stop "all the connections/ freaking obsessions" is the natural anti-meme meme, the one that is our natural source of zen and no-mind.
"All the girls are in love with me!
I'm a teenage lobotomy!"
I think it's German. "Bitte schon" means please. I don't know german, so now it's somebody else's turn.
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