Arms

[psycosister]

wanna see the rest of my bedroom?

[lachert]

go ahead. show what you've got

[Moakahontas]

Range Rovers and Mercs?

That book looks like an interesting read though. I'll see if I can pick up a copy....

..for the case you don´t get a copy, you can also read this:

Ich kann auch hunderte von Emails schreiben..

Ok, no MB, no RR..

[Brad]

Geez, wouldn't be easier to just post the official lyrics on the official website, or update the Chemist book with all of the new lyrics and take my money instead?


For a man who hates misinterpretation of his lyrical meanings, you would think he would prefer a fighting chance by providing (or singing with some volume and clarity) the new lyrics somewhere, somehow?

[Quiff Boy]

Geez, wouldn't be easier to just post the official lyrics on the official website, or update the Chemist book with all of the new lyrics and take my money instead?


For a man who hates misinterpretation of his lyrical meanings, you would think he would prefer a fighting chance by providing (or singing with some volume and clarity) the new lyrics somewhere, somehow?

good points

[euphoria]

Or he could make money with it - print the lyrics on T-shirts! To earn even more, just print one verse per tour on them

[mugabe]

Geez, wouldn't be easier to just post the official lyrics on the official website, or update the Chemist book with all of the new lyrics and take my money instead?

Where's the fun in that. Now, here we go again:

Having taken the dagger, he wreaked the exasperated vengeance of his malice upon the senseless steel, and breaking it asunder, threw the pieces into the air; while turning from Wallace with an affected disdain, he exclaimed to the shivered weapon, "You shall not betray me again!"

"Senseless steel" being weapons, this isn't too shoddy an option. Also, couldn't "throw a key" be tantamount to "push the button"?

Arms, ver.X

Live your life in a parallax
Live a life through the lens
Live your life in a Reed Roman
For the mercy is men's

All senseless steel away
Throw a key and call her some day

Come feel the arms around you
I'm gonna be the arms around
I'm gonna be the arms around you
All there is, do you feel this real, come feel

Throw away the underclasses
For your love under law
Everybody got locked and loaded
With the hammer drawn

Throw senseless steel away
Throw a key and call her some day

Come feel the arms around you
I'm gonna be the arms around
I'm gonna be the arms around you
All there is, do you feel this real, come feel

edit: ditched the wheels

[stufarq]

I now reckon it's All there is, do you feel this fear, come feel. I had toyed with it before but thought I was wrong. Changed my mind now.

Throw a key... I think it might be Draw.

(Going back to the Raith Rovers version, maybe it's a song about entertainment in Scotland, opening with Live your life in the Barowlands. )

[mugabe]

I now reckon it's All there is, do you feel this fear, come feel. I had toyed with it before but thought I was wrong. Changed my mind now.

Ditto x 3.

Throw a key... I think it might be Draw.

Maybe the first time, but even that's a bit of a stretch. Definitely not the second. Maybe he switches from Scotland to Devonshire and sings "Torquay".

Getting there!

Arms, v.11

Live your life in a parallax
Live a life through the lens
Live your life in a Reed Roman
For the mercy is men's

All senseless steel away
Throw a key and call her some day

Come feel the arms around you
I'm gonna be the arms around
I'm gonna be the arms around you
All there is, do you feel this fear, come feel

Throw away the underclasses
For your love under law
Everybody got locked and loaded
With the hammer drawn

Throw senseless steel away
Throw a key and call her some day

Come feel the arms around you
I'm gonna be the arms around
I'm gonna be the arms around you
All there is, do you feel this fear, come feel

[mugabe]

"keen" seems to be a spell in Dungeons & Dragons. Is the lyricist an RPG fan, perchance?

Keen: This ability doubles the threat range of a weapon.

This adds a bit of sense to the 'call' line, not to mention a fair amount of menace.

Arms, v.12

Live your life in a parallax
Live a life through the lens
Live your life in a Reed Roman
For the mercy is men's

All senseless steel away
Throw keen and call her some day

Come feel the arms around you
I'm gonna be the arms around
I'm gonna be the arms around you
All there is, do you feel this fear, come feel

Throw away the underclasses
For your love under law
Everybody got locked and loaded
With the hammer drawn

Throw senseless steel away
Throw keen and call her some day

Come feel the arms around you
I'm gonna be the arms around
I'm gonna be the arms around you
All there is, do you feel this fear, come feel

[stufarq]

Maybe he switches from Scotland to Devonshire and sings "Torquay".

So it's an advert for the UK Tourist Board?

"keen" seems to be a spell in Dungeons & Dragons. Is the lyricist an RPG fan, perchance?

Surely we're in the realms of fantasy here. Although, if we're going down that road, the last line of the first verse could begin Live your life in a wraith. I didn't say it made sense.

Do you think the frog impression at the end's significant?

[Mr. Wah]

Hi everyone. Long time no see.

I think some of the suggestions so far are not very Eldtrichian. Leaving out total guess work, this is what I hear:

Live your life in a parallax
Live a life through the lens
Live your life in a railroad bar
Or a Mercedes-Benz

All senses fade away now
?

Gonna feel the arms around you
I'm gonna feed the alms around
I'm gonna be the arms around you
?

Throw away the underclasses
Throw your love ? ? ? ?
Everybody got locked and loaded
With a hammer drawn

Those senses fade away now
?

Gonna feel the arms around you
I'm gonna feed the alms around
I'm gonna be the arms around you
?

... But, what do I know?

[mugabe]

Surely we're in the realms of fantasy here. Although, if we're going down that road, the last line of the first verse could begin Live your life in a wraith. I didn't say it made sense.

Very plausible. I thought he was singing something to the effect of "vague" in Berlin, but "wraith" would fit both versions. Also, it's not as obscure as the Reed reference.

Do you think the frog impression at the end's significant?

Probably so. At first I didn't think there was one in the Berlin clip, but there seems to be.

Arms, v.13

Live your life in a parallax
Live a life through the lens
Live your life in a Wraith Roman
For the mercy is men's

All senseless steel away
Throw keen and call her some day

Come feel the arms around you
I'm gonna be the arms around
I'm gonna be the arms around you
All there is, do you feel this fear, come feel

Throw away the underclasses
For your love under law
Everybody got locked and loaded
With the hammer drawn

Throw senseless steel away
Throw keen and call her some day

Come feel the arms around you
I'm gonna be the arms around
I'm gonna be the arms around you
All there is, do you feel this fear, come feel

[Izzy HaveMercy]

I keep hearing:

"Don't need these farts around me"...

IZ.

[Moakahontas]

I keep hearing:

"Don't need these farts around me"...

IZ.

[Quiff Boy]

I keep hearing:

"Don't need these farts around me"...

IZ.

presumably his inspiration was night-clubs and gig venues in countries that have a smoking bans, like the uk?

[Bartek]

i'm reading this recipe and i still don't know what's for dinner ?

[mugabe]

Another suggestion in the "All there is, do you feel..." department:

Berlin: "Up the risk, do you feel..."
Dresden: "Over the risk, do you feel..."

[mugabe]

Even better, of course. Seems like the Berlin take is just more staccato.

Arms, v.14

Live your life in a parallax
Live a life through the lens
Live your life in a Wraith Roman
For the mercy is men's

All senseless steel away
Throw keen and call her some day

Come feel the arms around you
I'm gonna be the arms around
I'm gonna be the arms around you
All there is to feel is fear, come feel

Throw away the underclasses
For your love under law
Everybody got locked and loaded
With the hammer drawn

Throw senseless steel away
Throw keen and call her some day

Come feel the arms around you
I'm gonna be the arms around
I'm gonna be the arms around you
All there is to feel is fear, come feel

[stufarq]

the last line of the first verse could begin Live your life in a wraith. I didn't say it made sense.

Very plausible. I thought he was singing something to the effect of "vague" in Berlin, but "wraith" would fit both versions. Also, it's not as obscure as the Reed reference.

Um, I was actually joking there. I don't think he's singing about D&D.

Live your life in a railroad bar

Sorry, but it doesn't sound like that at all.

But I'm now thinking that the next line could be Former mercy dispense (Fallen? Foreign?)

Do you think the frog impression at the end's significant?

Probably so. At first I didn't think there was one in the Berlin clip, but there seems to be.

The slurred diction is probably down to being drunk, which just means he's burping at the end.

"Don't need these farts around me"

Or farting.

All there is to feel is fear, come feel

Yes!

I still think the second line of the chorus has "feel" - only the third line has "be".

[mugabe]

the last line of the first verse could begin Live your life in a wraith. I didn't say it made sense.

Very plausible. I thought he was singing something to the effect of "vague" in Berlin, but "wraith" would fit both versions. Also, it's not as obscure as the Reed reference.

Um, I was actually joking there. I don't think he's singing about D&D.

Oh. Well, I googled "senseless steel", which I thought it sounded like, and got weapons-related results. Then I googled "throw keen", which I thought it sounded like, and got weapons-related results. For a song tentatively named "Arms", martial suggestions are good suggestions in my book.

Do you think the frog impression at the end's significant?

Probably so. At first I didn't think there was one in the Berlin clip, but there seems to be.

The slurred diction is probably down to being drunk, which just means he's burping at the end.

Funnily, it sounds a bit like "Froschhhh" in Berlin and "Frog" in Dresden.

I still think the second line of the chorus has "feel" - only the third line has "be".

IIRC now, "feel" is only in the second line of the chorus the second time in Dresden, which I put down as Eldritch messing up (probably from being drunk, one of us).

We need new blood. Isn't it time a new recording appeared, btw?

[Johnny Rev 7.0]

So, I was at Wiesbaden tonight. Arms starts and Von is standing 2m in front of me. His vocal monitor is in front of me and I've heard every lyric crystal clear all night. I'm ready to do the listening and lip reading bit.

We get to lines 3 & 4 of the first verse and what does he do? Puts his hand over his microphone/mouth and mumbles. At other key points of contention, he was like a ventriloquist. No lip movement but 'sounds' coming out.

I've therefore come to the conclusion that the lyrics are only half-written ...and he's waiting for Mugabe to finish it for him.

[stufarq]

I've therefore come to the conclusion that the lyrics are only half-written

The fact that he's singing slightly different lyrics in each recording might mean that that's a serious possibility.

We need new blood. Isn't it time a new recording appeared, btw?

Yeah, I've been thinking that too. Preferably one where he's completely sober and singing into the microphone.