On music journalists Peter Paphides fabulous website he conducts an extensive and fascinating interview with Lloyd Cole. I recommend it highly. Cole is a witty and original guy and their discussion is revealing on a number of counts. Paphides tells a story about being at Elbow singer Guy Garvey's place with a bunch of people listening to music. This song came on and everybody sang it spontaneously and with great gusto with the exception of Garvey who was quite bemused having never heard the record. Remarkably really,
Paphides said everybody there knew every word. For a certain kind of person of a certain kind of age Rattlesnakes is an incredibly important record. Me included. It soundtracked my first really important love affair. I could choose a number of things off it: Speedboat, Charlotte Street, Perfect Skin or Are You Ready to be Heartbroken for example. And this. It's as good a three minute pop song as you're ever likely to hear. Please feel free to listen to it and sing along too. I'm sure it will make you feel better.
'Jodie wears a hat although it hasn't rained for six days
She says a girl needs a gun these days
Hey on account of all the rattlesnakes
She looks like Eve Marie saint in on the waterfront
She reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
She's less than sure if her heart has come to stay in San Jose
And her never-born child still haunts her
As she speeds down the freeway
As she tries her luck with the traffic police
Out of boredom more than spite
She never finds no trouble, she tries too hard
She's obvious despite herself
She looks like Eve Marie Saint in on the waterfront
She says all she needs is therapy, yeah
All you need is, love is all you need
Jodie never sleeps 'cause there are always needles in the hay
She says that a girl needs a gun these days
Hey on account of all the rattlesnakes
She looks like Eve Marie Saint in on the waterfront
As she reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
Her heart, heart's like crazy paving
Upside down and back to front
She says "ooh, it's so hard to love
When love was your great disappointment.'
She says a girl needs a gun these days
Hey on account of all the rattlesnakes
She looks like Eve Marie saint in on the waterfront
She reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
She's less than sure if her heart has come to stay in San Jose
And her never-born child still haunts her
As she speeds down the freeway
As she tries her luck with the traffic police
Out of boredom more than spite
She never finds no trouble, she tries too hard
She's obvious despite herself
She looks like Eve Marie Saint in on the waterfront
She says all she needs is therapy, yeah
All you need is, love is all you need
Jodie never sleeps 'cause there are always needles in the hay
She says that a girl needs a gun these days
Hey on account of all the rattlesnakes
She looks like Eve Marie Saint in on the waterfront
As she reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
Her heart, heart's like crazy paving
Upside down and back to front
She says "ooh, it's so hard to love
When love was your great disappointment.'
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