for leesa....my truth....my evidence...aka the CT lyrics interpretation thread

[watchlar]

...a left over promise from last year...you are now all my witnesses

[Jeek]

roflmao

[petroldarling]

oh man!

[petroldarling]

also, leesa has the most beautiful handwriting ever, as i noticed when she so kindly mailed me a card from ireland :) no, honestly! it's probably the prettiest cursive i've ever seen!

[postlibyan]

Originally posted by watchlar
...a left over promise from last year...you are now all my witnesses

i'll believe it when i see it. and of course, you'll post those lyrics here.....

PJK

[watchlar]

hmmmm 47.5 hours left

we'll see

[watchlar]

actually it's 44.5 hours left in her time zone ;)

[mmmender]

OMG YOU FREAK!!!

[petroldarling]

roflmao roflmao

[mmmender]

i guess this means i have until midnight.

(note to self: never write contracts while consuming alcohol)

[watchlar]

8.5 hours left ;)

[watchlar]

hmmmm by my calculations, it's past midnight in Toronto...let me check my email.....





nothing






EGGS ACKLY:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[mmmender]

ok so i fell asleep last night and didn't send the email.....you should have the email by now steve, sorry for the delay!

:)

[watchlar]

roflmao

okay i'll call off Mr. Eddy

[mmmender]

Originally posted by watchlar
roflmao

okay i'll call off Mr. Eddy

fuck that.......the mystery man is on his way to your house RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!

[postlibyan]

are you going to post the lyrics here Watchy?

PJK

[mmmender]

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Lyrical Interpretation: mmmender

Rolling roulette
To dare is so in vain
Go back for new
For new, in vain, in failed

Singing on the famous street
I want your love above and under me (I've all the wrong glory)
Mine is in Heaven or Las Vegas?
But you're much more brighter than the sun is to me

He's a hustler
It's a role he'll never make suit
Hang on to this
So Stay and play fair and fail
Hold him away
To dare is so in vain
Go back for new
For new, in vain, in failed

Singing on the famous street
I want your love above and under me (I've all the wrong glory)
Mine is in Heaven or Las Vegas?
But you're much more brighter than the sun is to me

The chill must itch in my soul
Is likening a playing card
Must be why I'm thinking of Las Vegas
Why it's more brighter than the sun is to me

Come boys - I've lost it all
I'm dizzy so I'll go
I'll never really give up
Come fancy for a carnival
How fit-ti-ting for a wed-d-ding

Singing on the famous street
I want your love above and under me (I've all the wrong glory)
Mine is in Heaven or Las Vegas?
But you're much more brighter than the sun is to me

The chill must itch in my soul
Is likening a playing card
Must be why I'm thinking of Las Vegas
Why it's more brighter than the sun is to me

Maybe then you will swear
I'll go and seize your heart - highly personal
I suspect I'm singing to a tune
And still find I’ll be easing into you soon

[watchlar]

Originally posted by postlibyan
are you going to post the lyrics here Watchy?

PJK well no i wasn't going to...but looks like it has been done :)

[mmmender]

Originally posted by watchlar
well no i wasn't going to...but looks like it has been done :)

well i figured i'd get accused of favouritism if i didn't.

surely no one would think i liked you, would they steve?

[watchlar]

nah why would they?

[mmmender]

Originally posted by watchlar
nah why would they?

maybe cos i spent the entire weekend telling people that i'm in love with you?

[postlibyan]

Mmmender, thanks for posting that. tomorrow i am going to sit with headphones on, singing along, and making a complete ass of myself. in the safety of my own home of course....

thanks.

PJK

[mmmender]

no prob, pj.....just remember it's my INTERPRETATION of the lyrics.....that's important!

have fun.

[noboybands]

'famous street'? i've always heard that as 'fevered tree'!!!

famous street makes far more sense tho

[watchlar]

i always thought it was "i suspect i'm singing out of tune"

[E-Lo]

Sounds like this to me:

"I suspect I'll say 'I do' to you
. . . and then he follows me into his room"

[watchlar]

Originally posted by E-Lo
Sounds like this to me:

"I suspect I'll say 'I do' to you
. . . and then he follows me into his room" i think this may be right...listening in headphones...getting excited

[E-Lo]

Also instead of "come fancy for a carnival"

I hear "part fantasy, part carnival"

[watchlar]

Come boys - I've lost it all
I'm dizzy so I'll go
I'll never really give up
Come fancy for a carnival
How fit-ti-ting for a wed-d-ding


i think leesa is right on here

the opening line which is repeated in the second verse...it sounds like "out of nowhere" to me

anyone else have ideas

[watchlar]

hmmm ernie
listening re: carnival
maybe i should start smoking pot...that's the key i think to understanding her roflmao

[E-Lo]

Originally posted by watchlar
hmmm ernie
listening re: carnival
maybe i should start smoking pot...that's the key i think to understanding her roflmao

roflmao that's exactly how I have tried to figure out most of their lyrics . . . the stream of consciousness helps out a lot

[watchlar]

Originally posted by E-Lo
Also instead of "come fancy for a carnival"

I hear "part fantasy, part carnival" i'm still hearing "for a carnival" and the first part does sound like come
or cum...this is las vegas we are talking about roflmao

[watchlar]

i suspect this thread will be a long one....hopefully others will offer their interpretations...thank you so much leesa for sharing your interpretation...i think you've got most of it on the spot....

[watchlar]

roflmao...i just realized that leesa had to move this thread to pandora's box...crying
i put it in the cafe...I STILL CAN'T GET IT RIGHT

[watchlar]

don't even get me started on I WEAR YOUR RING....someone gave me lyrics once...and i know they are WRONG....but unfortunately what do i hear? those wrong lyrics...i think that's why we tend to stay away from trying to figure out the lyrics roflmao

[paulr]

isnt there a website where people post their interpretation of CT lyrics ?? - Im sure I stumbled across it at one time.....

[petroldarling]

http://www.etherweave.com/cocteautwins/lyrics

[dprid]

Does that woman have any idea just how much trouble she's caused :D

[paulr]

and another one...

http://www.lyred.com/lyrics/Cocteau+Twins/

[petroldarling]

i am totally going to sit down with blue bell knoll and try to interpret the lyrics just for the hell of it, ahahah.

[mmmender]

Originally posted by paulr
isnt there a website where people post their interpretation of CT lyrics ?? - Im sure I stumbled across it at one time.....

some of mine are located here:

http://www.cocteautwins.org/atoz.html

[noboybands]

Originally posted by watchlar
i always thought it was "i suspect i'm singing out of tune"

there's a line i've always heard as 'i suspect, i sing out to a tune'
('tune' pronounced 'tuuuuuuaaaaaooooone') but mebbe you're right there

[aileanmac]

I always hear-

"i suspect i'm singing to a tune"

and the funny thing is in the chorus she sings "heaven or las vegas", but for years i was convinced she was singing "hanging on a spiegel"

[noboybands]

is 'i wear your ring' the one about mogwai/gremlins?

'don't feed them between the sunrise and sunset'

[mmmender]

i'm glad you're all getting a kick out of my lyrical interpretation......and i'm enjoying reading your own interpretations too....keep em coming!

[Baddy2shoos]

i always thought it sounded like match of cherry coal...

taxi for ms freeman!

[postlibyan]

i always heard those last two words as "cherry cola".

PJK

[mmmender]

beth, at least it's a variation on the more common 'cherry coke'

that one really irks me!

it's JERICO people, JERICO!!

;)

[watchlar]

=mmmender]some of mine are located here:

http://www.cocteautwins.org/atoz.html
leesa i know you are really busy and won't be online for a while...but it would be nice to see some of your lyrical interpretations on other tracks/b-sides etc...there are so many broken links on your lyrics page ;)

[watchlar]

is 'i wear your ring' the one about mogwai/gremlins?

'don't feed them between the sunrise and sunset'
i sort of always heard Dont' fit in between the sunrise and sunset...

[theFLIR]

Watchlar... Dont' fit in between the sunrise and sunset...Thats what I always heard...

On heaven and las... I hear "the shine is much brighter than the sun is to me"

"Hold em and Win" instead of "Hold Him away" and as the cherry coal...

in Iceblink Luck I hear... Your the Mined Cha-Cherry Coal. That will burn this whole house down madhouse down...

[watchlar]

"Hold em and Win" instead of "Hold Him away"




this makes sense

[ScottL]

i sort of always heard Dont' fit in between the sunrise and sunset...
I'm trying to recall..but when I tried to figure out those words...I recall hearing:
Don't feel down between the sunrise and sunset


Which I like as it seems to say don't walk around depressed all day...I've actually sketched out what sound like the words to me...not an interpretation, but certainly a bit of filling in the gaps as I can't exactly hear....

[RobertoG]

Oh Jaysus, this is sooo difficult.

Within five minutes it will be another one...

NOW I say.... Ooze Out and Away, Onehow

[watchlar]

a lot of things are difficult if you limit your mind to the possibilities...just give in ;)

[mmmender]

leesa i know you are really busy and won't be online for a while...but it would be nice to see some of your lyrical interpretations on other tracks/b-sides etc...there are so many broken links on your lyrics page ;)
i've got more of my lyric interpretations on this forum so just do a search. indeed i simply haven't had the time to update the lyrics page on ct.org...sorry!