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Some really deep lyrics in non-prog

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Topic: Some really deep lyrics in non-prog

Posted By: Sasquamo
Subject: Some really deep lyrics in non-prog
Date Posted: April 14 2007 at 17:12

Deep lyrics are found in places other than prog, you know. I'll give examples from one of my favorite non-prog bands, and we'll have a little discussion on their meaning.

Here's a section I'm currently working on deciphering:

You've got a real type of thing going down, gettin' down
There's a whole lot of rhythm going round
 (x2)

Ow, we want the funk
Give up the funk
Ow, we need the funk
We gotta have that funk
 (x2)

La la la la la
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, owww!
 (x2)

This next one is a great example of beautiful, poetic ambiguity:

Coming to you directly from the Mothership
Top of the Chocolate Milky Way, 500,000 kilowatts of P.Funk-power.
So kick back, dig, while we do it to you in your eardrums.
And me? I'm known as Lollipop Man, alias the Long-Haired Sucker.
My motto is:

Make my funk the P.Funk
I want my funk uncut (make mine the P)
Make my funk the P.Funk
I wants to get funked up. (wants to get funked up)
I want the bomb,
I want the P.Funk (yeah)
I want my funk uncut. (make mine the P)
Make my funk the P.Funk
I wants to get funked up.

Feel free to discuss what you think the meaning of these lyric is.

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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: April 14 2007 at 17:44

>I wants to get funked up. (wants to get funked up)

The trailing 's' in 'I wants...' clearly indicates that the poet was influenced by Gollum's punch line "I wants it, my precious...."

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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: April 14 2007 at 18:37

It seems to me that both of these lyrics are about a person who's obsessed with "the funk". However, it's probable that the funk has a deeper meaning than you'd think. The first verse of the second song seems to suggest that the funk is something really powerful that comes from far away, sort of like a gift from the heavens. That said, it seems strange to me that in the second verse the speaker of the poem still desires the funk, when he's already received "500 000 kilowatts of P.funk-power". I think the message of both of these songs is that once you become addicted to funk you will never be satisfied with the amount of funk you've got; even 500 000 kilowatts of funk is not enough.

Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: April 16 2007 at 00:01

Gang of Four sang "Love will hit you like a case of anthrax, and that's something I don't want to catch".