Ok, now that the initial shock of feeling like a complete IDIOT has worn off (Re: Grit your teeth")
I have another lyrical question.
There's a song by The Steve Miller Band, again I don't know the title, I just know the chorus which goes:
"Ohhhhh big ol' Chad had a lighthouse. Don't carry me too far away.
Ohhhhhh big ol' Chad had a lighthouse. Cause it's here that I got to stay."
I'm guessing I'm wrong on this one too, as I've googled Steve Miller / Chad / Lighthouse & nothing ever comes up.
I'll humour you.
Big ol jet airliner
Dont carry me too far away
Oh, oh big ol jet airliner
Cause its here that Ive got to stay
Really? That makes total sense. & THERE! Yes, as soon as I Google it, you're right. Comes right up.
Jeebus, I'm thinking I just might be Dilexic, getting all these words screwed up.
That would affect your reading, not your listening. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/d030.gif" border=0]
Say.....is there any way you could come up with another handle ? Something more......your own. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/c020.gif" border=0]
Can anyone tell me what "pompitesse" is in The Joker? I've wondered for years.
have a 'toke', miss Lil 'poutine' Me.. it will come to you..
Wonder no more sweet Lil Me.
It's not really a word at all. Not unlike the words used in the Ryhme of the Ancient Mariner. Here the explanation....
Miller used his version of these neologisms in his 1972 song Enter Maurice, whose liner notes give the relevant sentence
[BLOCKQUOTE] [FONT color=#0000ff]My dearest darling,
come closer to Maurice so I can whisper sweet words of epismetology in your ear
and speak to you of the pompitous of love. [/FONT]
[/BLOCKQUOTE] And in The Joker, the terms "space cowboy", "gangster of love" and Maurice all refer to earlier songs. No lyrics were published with the 1973 album on which The Joker appeared, but the word was spelled "pompatus" in the sheet music for Steve Miller's The Joker published in the songbook [A href="vny!://michaelspianos.com/enginesearch.cfm?&pproduct=WB_VF1882"]Rock Hits Through the Years[/A], and that's the spelling adopted for the 1996 movie [A href="vny!://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117357/"]The Pompatus of Love[/A].
But never mind whether it's "pompatus" or "pompitous". According to Vernon Green, who composed and performed The Letter, Miller mis-heard the original line [quoted from Harris' page]:
[BLOCKQUOTE] [FONT color=#0000ff]Vernon Green, the author of The Letter, says, "You have to remember, I was a very lonely guy at the time. I was only fourteen years old, I had just run away from home, and I walked with crutches." The uneducated but imaginative youth was prone to fantasy, so he just made up the lyrics. 'Pismotality' described words of such secrecy that they could only be spoken to the one you loved.[/FONT]
[FONT color=#0000ff]"And it's not pompitous," he emphasizes. "What I said was 'puppetuse', which is a term I coined to mean a secret paper doll fantasy figure." [/FONT]
[/BLOCKQUOTE] According to Cecil Adams, "[t]he mystery words, [his assistant J.K. Fabian] ascertained after talking with Green, were 'puppetutes' and 'pizmotality.' (Green wasn't much for writing things down, so the spellings are approximate)."
Heeeey! Thanks. I shan't be having a toke, lest I should want to shake some peaches with my poutine.
Yipes !!!....should we look away ?
There's a great line in "Surf's Up", by the Beach Boys, that none of them understood. It was one of the numerous things they'd argue about as they found themselves torn apart by an amazing collection of stresses.
Occasionally one of the "Boys" would ask Brian Wilson, "What the hell does 'columnated ruins domino' mean?" And nobody knew what it meant. Including Brian, who had asked Van Dyke Parks to come up with the lyrics in the first place.
A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome man and baton
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn
Columnated ruins domino
I would have never known those words. Come to think of it....now that I know them, I still don't know what it means. LOL
Read this and laugh 'til you weep...the 250 Funniest Misheard Song Lyrics
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BUMP!
Heard a good one on the radio the other day.
The misheard words were 'Sexy Candles" for Ray J's Sexy Can I
Lil Me wrote:
Can anyone tell me what "pompitesse" is in The Joker? I've wondered for years.
Wikipedia says .... Steve made the wordup!!
The word pompatus (also spelled pompitous, ) is a [a href="vny!://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Neologism" title="neologism"]neologism[/a] used in the lyrics of [a href="vny!://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Steve_Miller_%28musician%29" title="Steve Miller (musician)"]Steve Miller[/a]'s [a href="vny!://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/1973" title="1973"]1973[/a] rock song "[a href="vny!://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/The_Joker_%28song%29" title="The Joker (song)"]The Joker[/a]": [dl][li]Some people call me the space cowboy.[/li][li]Yeah! Some call me the gangster of love.[/li][li]Some people call me Maurice,[/li][li]'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love.[/li][/dl]
My first album:
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LOVE Steve Miller band.
Say, I heard a blast from the past on the radio today.
I sang these "misheard" lyrics throughout my childhood...OOPS!
Some boys try and some boys lie but
I don't let them play
Only boys who save their [span style="text-decoration: line-through; font-style: italic;"]panties[/span] pennies
Make my rainy day, cause they are
Living in a Material World...