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paint it black
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Hmmmm.... or more likely whoooosh
Goths have feelings too
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panzerfaust
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stop playin pseudo-metal you c*nts
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6FeetOver
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...or maybestufarq wrote:Surely it's about trying to pick up hookers.million voices wrote:I always took the "Hailing Marys" line to be a colloquial comment on the weather - like "raining cats and dogs".
's just a huge fan of American football... 
I left my heart in Ballycastle... 
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Being645
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... which would also fit with Wide Receiver ...SINsister wrote:...or maybestufarq wrote:Surely it's about trying to pick up hookers.million voices wrote:I always took the "Hailing Marys" line to be a colloquial comment on the weather - like "raining cats and dogs".
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centurionofprix
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... and with the dashing apparel he sports here...
I think "hailing Maries" is one of his composite metaphors, several meanings intended and melded into one image by the context of the whole song, with the ironic contrast of the religious sense set against that of propositioning hookers/passers-by on a street corner, and the futility of the religious interpretation and of trying to reach (to) others with any cause illustrated in the "hail mary pass" reading. If someone should stop, physically, it isn't for their interest in your worries or in your evangelizing about Marx and Engels, God and angels. The following lines seem to support this sort of interpretation. This is some of his best stuff IMO, and if it's simultaneously a bit of a smirking joke on a listener (or indeed the writer) willing to go along with the general angst - I for one enjoy being the butt of it.
I think "hailing Maries" is one of his composite metaphors, several meanings intended and melded into one image by the context of the whole song, with the ironic contrast of the religious sense set against that of propositioning hookers/passers-by on a street corner, and the futility of the religious interpretation and of trying to reach (to) others with any cause illustrated in the "hail mary pass" reading. If someone should stop, physically, it isn't for their interest in your worries or in your evangelizing about Marx and Engels, God and angels. The following lines seem to support this sort of interpretation. This is some of his best stuff IMO, and if it's simultaneously a bit of a smirking joke on a listener (or indeed the writer) willing to go along with the general angst - I for one enjoy being the butt of it.
Dear Von
I am a 17 year old male who has never had a girlfriend and has always been of rather slight build, which has led to lots of cruel jokes from more sporty guys in my class. My parents are divorced because my father was an alcoholic and took it out on my mum, my sister and me. My sister still has nightmares and I've always had confidence issues, made worse by my terrible acne. Mum's health is deteriorating and my sister and me have to take care of her. There's a lot of peer pressure for boys my age and a lot of pressure from society to conform to male stereotypes, which makes it really hard for me to express my true emotions. Frankly, you, Andrew Eldritch, haven't helped. So tell me this:
when will it be time to cry?
I am a 17 year old male who has never had a girlfriend and has always been of rather slight build, which has led to lots of cruel jokes from more sporty guys in my class. My parents are divorced because my father was an alcoholic and took it out on my mum, my sister and me. My sister still has nightmares and I've always had confidence issues, made worse by my terrible acne. Mum's health is deteriorating and my sister and me have to take care of her. There's a lot of peer pressure for boys my age and a lot of pressure from society to conform to male stereotypes, which makes it really hard for me to express my true emotions. Frankly, you, Andrew Eldritch, haven't helped. So tell me this:
when will it be time to cry?
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
This is more a case of nothing but the knife to live forstufarq wrote:Dear Von
I am a 17 year old male who has never had a girlfriend and has always been of rather slight build, which has led to lots of cruel jokes from more sporty guys in my class. My parents are divorced because my father was an alcoholic and took it out on my mum, my sister and me. My sister still has nightmares and I've always had confidence issues, made worse by my terrible acne. Mum's health is deteriorating and my sister and me have to take care of her. There's a lot of peer pressure for boys my age and a lot of pressure from society to conform to male stereotypes, which makes it really hard for me to express my true emotions. Frankly, you, Andrew Eldritch, haven't helped. So tell me this:
when will it be time to cry?
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Nikolas Vitus Lagartija
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Dear Herr Eldritch
I am writing to inform you that our client, Fraulein Helga Uberbomber, intends to bring legal action against you for defamation. Ms U recently moved to Hamburg from Berlin, but her life has been made miserable by gangs of HSV youths gathering outside her flat chanting "Du hast mit Eldritch ge-slept !", whilst the flat itself has been daubed in graffitti bearing the legend "junkie", a clear reference to the narcotics itemised in your client's infamous lyric. Ms U would like Herr Eldritch to issue a formal apology, and in future renditions of the song add the phrase "except for Fraulein Helga Uberbomber" after the line "I have slept with all the girls in Berlin".
Yours sincerely
Lagartija, Lagartija and Lagartija, Solicitors
I am writing to inform you that our client, Fraulein Helga Uberbomber, intends to bring legal action against you for defamation. Ms U recently moved to Hamburg from Berlin, but her life has been made miserable by gangs of HSV youths gathering outside her flat chanting "Du hast mit Eldritch ge-slept !", whilst the flat itself has been daubed in graffitti bearing the legend "junkie", a clear reference to the narcotics itemised in your client's infamous lyric. Ms U would like Herr Eldritch to issue a formal apology, and in future renditions of the song add the phrase "except for Fraulein Helga Uberbomber" after the line "I have slept with all the girls in Berlin".
Yours sincerely
Lagartija, Lagartija and Lagartija, Solicitors
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Nikolas Vitus Lagartija
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Dear Mr Eldritch,
We have now received a further instruction for legal proceedings from a Mr S Denbigh, a former employee of your company (The Sisters of Mercy Touring Pension Fund Inc) for constructive dismissal for your unacceptable "after hours" demands. Mr Denbigh grew tired of constant requests for "one more night"on your "errand", doing what was previously the job of two people (i.e. both bass and drum technician). The final straw came with your recent request for assistance in Belgrade at the unreasonable hour of "two o'clock in the morning" (a clear breach of the EU Working Time Directive) and in a temperature of ninety four degrees, in defiance of acceptable Fahrenheit limits published in the Health and Safety at Work Act. Unless you are prepared to pledge a minimum of ten thousand pounds for the "Exclusive Si Beard Trimmings" on the "Spare a dime for the new March Violets LP, guv ?" beggingbowl website, we will be forced to take further action.
Yours sincerely
Lagartija, Lagartija and Lagartija, Solicitors
We have now received a further instruction for legal proceedings from a Mr S Denbigh, a former employee of your company (The Sisters of Mercy Touring Pension Fund Inc) for constructive dismissal for your unacceptable "after hours" demands. Mr Denbigh grew tired of constant requests for "one more night"on your "errand", doing what was previously the job of two people (i.e. both bass and drum technician). The final straw came with your recent request for assistance in Belgrade at the unreasonable hour of "two o'clock in the morning" (a clear breach of the EU Working Time Directive) and in a temperature of ninety four degrees, in defiance of acceptable Fahrenheit limits published in the Health and Safety at Work Act. Unless you are prepared to pledge a minimum of ten thousand pounds for the "Exclusive Si Beard Trimmings" on the "Spare a dime for the new March Violets LP, guv ?" beggingbowl website, we will be forced to take further action.
Yours sincerely
Lagartija, Lagartija and Lagartija, Solicitors
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MadameButterfly
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...i had to take a second check on the subject of this topic...
you all seriously have too much time on your hands, with very vivid imaginations...
you all seriously have too much time on your hands, with very vivid imaginations...
it's all about circles and spirals
that ongoing eternity
that ongoing eternity
Dear Lagartija, Lagartija and Lagartija
On behalf of our client Mr Andrew Eldritch nee Taylor, we formally request a full psychiatric evaluation of your client, Fraulein Helga Uberbomber as we believe she may have a slight case of something. She is clearly using an assumed name and does not speak enough German to be living in Berlin as she missed out the umlaut. The idea that groups of football fans would travel 158 miles from Hamburg just to redecorate a stranger's home is clearly the product of a deranged mind.
Furthermore, we have interviewed all male HSV supporters under the age of 21 and found that none of them could write. Indeed many do not have opposable thumbs.
Mr Taylor nee Eldritch also wishes us to clarify that what you libellously refer to as narcotics in his lyrics are merely references to the innocent pastimes of gardening, cycling and a beverage with a trademarked name.
Yours
Messrs Rum, Tiddly and Squdgeon, solicitors (but not that kind)
On behalf of our client Mr Andrew Eldritch nee Taylor, we formally request a full psychiatric evaluation of your client, Fraulein Helga Uberbomber as we believe she may have a slight case of something. She is clearly using an assumed name and does not speak enough German to be living in Berlin as she missed out the umlaut. The idea that groups of football fans would travel 158 miles from Hamburg just to redecorate a stranger's home is clearly the product of a deranged mind.
Furthermore, we have interviewed all male HSV supporters under the age of 21 and found that none of them could write. Indeed many do not have opposable thumbs.
Mr Taylor nee Eldritch also wishes us to clarify that what you libellously refer to as narcotics in his lyrics are merely references to the innocent pastimes of gardening, cycling and a beverage with a trademarked name.
Yours
Messrs Rum, Tiddly and Squdgeon, solicitors (but not that kind)
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
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MadameButterfly
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i rest my case...um..judge.
it's all about circles and spirals
that ongoing eternity
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Nikolas Vitus Lagartija
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I had to take a second check on your avatar - a case of Mr Pot and Madame Kettle, methinks.MadameButterfly wrote:...i had to take a second check on the subject of this topic...
you all seriously have too much time on your hands, with very vivid imaginations...
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Nikolas Vitus Lagartija
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Dear Messrs Rum, Tiddly and Squdgeon,stufarq wrote:Dear Lagartija, Lagartija and Lagartija
On behalf of our client Mr Andrew Eldritch nee Taylor, we formally request a full psychiatric evaluation of your client, Fraulein Helga Uberbomber as we believe she may have a slight case of something. She is clearly using an assumed name and does not speak enough German to be living in Berlin as she missed out the umlaut. The idea that groups of football fans would travel 158 miles from Hamburg just to redecorate a stranger's home is clearly the product of a deranged mind.
Furthermore, we have interviewed all male HSV supporters under the age of 21 and found that none of them could write. Indeed many do not have opposable thumbs.
Mr Taylor nee Eldritch also wishes us to clarify that what you libellously refer to as narcotics in his lyrics are merely references to the innocent pastimes of gardening, cycling and a beverage with a trademarked name.
Yours
Messrs Rum, Tiddly and Squdgeon, solicitors (but not that kind)
Our client Fraulein Uberbomber has informed us that she no longer wishes to pursue her action for defamation against Herr Eldritch. This is not as a result of your frankly bizarre letter, but as a direct result of some photos which she has receievd anonymously in the post.
The photos concerned are of the Tempelhof Fencing Club Christmas Party, 1998, and Fraulein Uberbomber accepts that she is the young lady draped across your client, and now recalls that she did accept his invitation to return to his place to see his alphabetically catalogued collection of Japanese films. She cannot explain her behaviour, but had been feeling unwell before the party and had taken what she believed to be two headache tablets - she now realises that this was not the case.
As a result, it would appear that your client's proud boast is in fact totally true, and he is free to sing the full lyric of the unpopular song without any necessary additions.
Yours etc
Lagartija, Lagartija and Lagartija, Solicitors
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MadameButterfly
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oh most definately!stufarq wrote:You're just jealous that you're not a comedy genius like the rest of us.MadameButterfly wrote:i rest my case...um..judge.
it's all about circles and spirals
that ongoing eternity
that ongoing eternity
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MadameButterfly
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never, ever judge a book by it's cover or in this case the user by her avatar.Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote: I had to take a second check on your avatar - a case of Mr Pot and Madame Kettle, methinks.
it's all about circles and spirals
that ongoing eternity
that ongoing eternity