Words Are Poisoned Thoughts of Pleasure

Well, not really it seems

Published on July 29, 2004 By CS Guy In Entertainment

I was listening to my Franz Ferdinand CD on the way to work this morning and it struck me how much I like their music. The vocals are kind of raw in some places and amazingly gentle and warm in others. Their lyrics are simple and repetitive, but they either have an awesome sound engineer or they play their instruments like geniuses. And while their lyrics may be simple, there are some lines that just hit me between the eyes.

I really like the last line of this segment from the song “Matinee”:

You take your white finger
Slide the nail under the top and bottom buttons of my blazer
Relax the fraying wool, slacken ties
And I'm not to look at you in the shoe, but the eyes

Of course I totally misheard my favorite lyrics of theirs. The song “Darts of Pleasure” contains the lyrics:

Words of love and words of leisure
Words of poisoned darts of pleasure

But what I was hearing this morning was:

Words of love and words of leisure
Words are poisoned thoughts of pleasure

I think I like my imaginary lyrics better. But that’s just me.

Comments

trina_p

on Jul 29, 2004

The only Franz Ferdinand I've heard is Take Me Out - they were touring Aus last week doing all the rounds of the TV shows - and that's the song they performed on every show - it's the only one that's so far been released here.
I think I like your lyrics better too Thomas.

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