'You can smother me with kisses. You can smother me with dreams. You can always be the mistress of my schemes.'
Leila Khaled was a Palestinian activist and in the early seventies a hijacker of planes in the name of their cause. Julian Cope wrote a song about her for the Teardrop Explodes' second album Wilder. It was one of the many 'Says' songs in Rock and Roll (started by Lou Reed and possibly worth a series in itself.) Cope wrote it, "cos I thought she was so beautiful. But I know that the whole thing was like bad news."
Thanks Julian.
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