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iesus wrote:It is for sure "Love like love" after i heard the most clear vocals of Show me on the Doll so far, which is


Show me on the doll, Oslo 28.09 video taken by Ingo

I believe someone can bring up the whole song after that and the previous vids :D :notworthy:
Going by Ingo's yet again fabulous video this is what i get - pretty similar to before, but i think the 'love like love' line is followed by 'but simulated.'

Show me isolation
Show me disintegration
Show me reality
Show me stupid on TV

Show me pop music
Barbie rock'n roll
Show me in translation
Show me on the doll

Regulated
Medicated

Love like Love
Love like Love
but simulated

Show me isolation
Show me disintegration
Show me your reality
Show me stupid on TV

Show me pop music
Barbie rock'n roll
Show me in translation
Show me on the doll

Regulated
Medicated

Love like Love
Love like Love
but simulated

Show me isolation
Show me disintegration
Show reality
Show me stupid on TV

Show me pop music
Barbie rock'n roll
Show me in translation
show me on the doll
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Nice work Charlie.

One thing I'm hearing though (& I could be wrong, I usually am)

Show me pop music sounds more like "Show me amusing"

I'm not hearing the "p" sounds at all
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Pista wrote:Nice work Charlie.

One thing I'm hearing though (& I could be wrong, I usually am)

Show me pop music sounds more like "Show me amusing"

I'm not hearing the "p" sounds at all

Hmmmmn, i know what you mean, that line sounds slightly different to previous times he has sung it, was sure it was pop music before, could be just how he's singing it or he could have changed it or could have been amusing all along?! :? :lol:
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Charlie wrote:
Pista wrote:Nice work Charlie.

One thing I'm hearing though (& I could be wrong, I usually am)

Show me pop music sounds more like "Show me amusing"

I'm not hearing the "p" sounds at all

Hmmmmn, i know what you mean, that line sounds slightly different to previous times he has sung it, was sure it was pop music before, could be just how he's singing it or he could have changed it or could have been amusing all along?! :? :lol:
Like I said, I could be wrong. But if I follow the lines:
Show me amusing Barbie rock & roll

That sort of makes sense to me.
I'll need to listen to other versions to see if I am talking bollox though :lol:
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majorsixth wrote:I hear it as "love like love, but simulated" each time so far.

Which could sort of make sense if the theme, with the dolls, TV and the rest, has to do with some kind of disconnect from the real thing.
Agree, have heard "but simulated" from the beginning and it fits well.

This song felt good from the beginning and is just getting better :notworthy:
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euphoria wrote:
majorsixth wrote:I hear it as "love like love, but simulated" each time so far.

Which could sort of make sense if the theme, with the dolls, TV and the rest, has to do with some kind of disconnect from the real thing.
Agree, have heard "but simulated" from the beginning and it fits well.

This song felt good from the beginning and is just getting better :notworthy:
So you did! I missed that completely. :oops:

Well we've both heard it independently now, so i reckon we're getting very close - that is until Andrew changes it all again. :lol:

Hope we get finalised lyrics at the end of the tour! Really love this song! :D
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i suggest to wait for another good vid (if it comes) from Swedish gigs and then perhaps change something :)
let's gather heere what we hear in the meantime.
thank you Charlie for have a take on it :notworthy:
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After 4 hearings in Ingo's and having Charlie's type in front i made some points and the differences i will mark them with bold. Also will point with ** something that might be something else. So here we go.

Show me isolation
Show me disintegration
Show me reality
Show me stupid on TV

Show me pop music
Barbie rock'n roll
Show me in translation
Show me on the doll

Regulated
Medicated
Love like Love
Love like Love
Love like Love
but simulated

Show me isolated
Show me disintegrated
Show me your reality
Show me stupid on TV

Show me pop music
Barbie rock'n roll
Show me in translation
Show me on the doll

Regulated
Medicated

Love like Love , Love
Love like Love , But
but simulated

Show me isolated
Show me disintegrated
Show me reality
Show me stupid on TV

Show me pop music
Barbie rock'n roll
Show me in translation (**i hear something else instead of "in translation")
show me on the doll
'Are we the Baddies?'...
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"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
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Charlie wrote: So you did! I missed that completely. :oops:

Well we've both heard it independently now, so i reckon we're getting very close - that is until Andrew changes it all again. :lol:

Hope we get finalised lyrics at the end of the tour! Really love this song! :D
Didn't write it here, just on Poison Door :)

Anyway, about "pop music" vs "amusing":

I do not hear "amusing" in Ingo's latest recording from Oslo:

https://youtu.be/ew3NlPatg50?t=58

I think I hear consonants both at the beginning and at the end, even if I can't swear they are [p] and [k], but I think so.
What IS more clear is that IF he sings amusing here, he pronounces it "AH-musing". I'm no native speaker of English but doesn't that sound strange?
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iesus wrote:After 4 hearings in Ingo's and having Charlie's type in front i made some points and the differences i will mark them with bold. Also will point with ** something that might be something else. So here we go.

Show me isolation
Show me disintegration
Show me reality
Show me stupid on TV

Show me pop music
Barbie rock'n roll
Show me in translation
Show me on the doll

Regulated
Medicated
Love like Love
Love like Love
Love like Love
but simulated

Show me isolated
Show me disintegrated
Show me your reality
Show me stupid on TV

Show me pop music
Barbie rock'n roll
Show me in translation
Show me on the doll

Regulated
Medicated

Love like Love , Love
Love like Love , But
but simulated

Show me isolated
Show me disintegrated
Show me reality
Show me stupid on TV

Show me pop music
Barbie rock'n roll
Show me in translated (** thanks to Eggi's mp3 the mystery solved :) )
show me on the doll
'Are we the Baddies?'...
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:Ah! i have missed the lyrics section!




indeed. :innocent: :lol: :bat:
But is von gay?
1st reply: who cares so long as he takes it up the shitter?!

2nd reply: he could close his eyes while i sucked him off- he'd never know the difference! (so long as he dont mind bald chicks, natch.) :innocent:
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Dole not doll.
A classic Eldritch double entendre.
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At first, I did think he'd said "dole" until about halfway through the song.
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I do think it's meant to *sound* like "dole" as well, as a second meaning, but would be disappointed if it would be dole *instead* of doll - that would make the lyrics weaker and less Eldritch. Being on the dole is too "everyday" and has nothing sinister about it, not even if you dreamt of fame and fortune and fell to being "on the dole" instead.
"Show me on the doll" is far darker, even if it "only" is a symbol for inability to communicate.
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It's the song that keeps on giving. It actually started out as my least favourite new one and it's edging its way to first place the more I really listen to it. Plus it's catchy af.
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Scardwel wrote:Dole not doll.
A classic Eldritch double entendre.
Given the ever more life-squeezing austerity programme that is in operation in the UK for years on end by now,
I think using the term "dole" is way below any sort of "classic" Eldritch double entendre, unless he's really become somewhat senile over the years.
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It's most definitely

Show me amusing
Barbie rock'n roll

;)
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Pista wrote:It's most definitely

Show me amusing
Barbie rock'n roll

;)
Actually i believe you are right, but i am not sure if this goes for all the verses ecounters the
Show me pop music - amusing
Barbie rock'n roll

my feeling is he wants 2 different versions, one at the first encounter and other for the next :roll:
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If it is "Barbie Rock'n'Roll", here are the lyric for Dolly Parton's "Backwoods Barbie"

They may be relevant.

I grew up poor and ragged, just a simple country girl.
I wanted to be pretty more than anything in the world,
Like Barbie or the models in the Fredricks' catalog.
From rags to wishes in my dreams I could have it all.
I'm just a backwoods Barbie, too much makeup, too much hair.
Don't be fooled by thinkin' that the goods are not all there.
Don't let these false eyelashes lead you to believe that
I'm as shallow as I look 'cause I run true and deep.

I've always been misunderstood because of how I look.
Don't judge me by the cover 'cause I'm a real good book.
So read into it what you will, but see me as I am.
The way I look is just a country girl's idea of glam.

I'm just a backwoods Barbie in a push-up bra and heels.
I might look artificial, but where it counts I'm real.
And I'm all dolled up and hopin' for a chance to prove my worth,
And even backwoods Barbie's get their feelings hurt.

I'm just a backwoods Barbie, too much makeup, too much hair.
Don't be fooled by thinkin' that the goods are not all there.
Yes, I can see where I could be misjudged upon first glance,
But even backwoods Barbie's deserve a second chance.
I'm just a backwoods Barbie just asking for a chance,
Just a backwoods Barbie.
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iesus wrote: Actually i believe you are right, but i am not sure if this goes for all the verses ecounters the
Show me pop music - amusing
Barbie rock'n roll

my feeling is he wants 2 different versions, one at the first encounter and other for the next :roll:
If you lay it out like this
Show me amusing Barbie rock n roll
It just looks right on paper & when spoken/ sung (to me)

I'm half wondering if it's a reference to the absurdity of K-Pop
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show me on the doll: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Barbie-Rock-n- ... B01M0PQQIY
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Should we ask why this ended up on your radar, or..?
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d0gbones wrote:Should we ask why this ended up on your radar, or..?
Just a google search for Barbie Rock'n'Roll. Honest!
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lazarus corporation wrote:show me on the doll: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Barbie-Rock-n- ... B01M0PQQIY

Don't miss the video ... :lol: :lol: ... ;D ...

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com ... nJIz3S.mp4


* love the Dolly Parton lyrics above, btw ... thanks for posting, Suleiman ... :D ...
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We've had quite a few varieties by now - door, doll, barmy, Barbie ... popmusic, amusing ... love like ... simulated ... I think these basically two settings are not far away from each other at all.

* And yes, Scardwel ... I can see it now, that :von: might even built a version an "dole" ... along these directions ... ;D ...
in particular "simulated" (like job training) and "dole" ... make a direct connection to "Arms" in my temper... for which, eh btw, sorry ... :innocent: ...
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