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minionofmidas
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« on: November 11, 2007, 02:46:28 PM »
Question: Is there something wrong with a forty-year old man writing a song with the following chorus:
Oh that Crystelle, she's barely a woman
Oh that Crystelle, she is hardly a child
Oh that Crystelle, I know she saw me coming
But doesn't Crystelle have a beautiful smile?
Also calling the girl a "temptress" and admitting to having fallen in love with her (but clearly not so sure about how she feels)?

Bonus Question: On another track of the same album there's another track in which he reminisces about being in love with (no actually, hopelessly crushing on) a waitress in a "dive" in West Texas back in 1956. The author would have been 15 in 1956, and apparently quite a bit younger than said waitress. (He also claims to have "quit" West Texas soon after, which checks out: Guy Clark left his native Monahans, Ward County - halfway between Odessa and the Pecos, one county down from notorious Loving - for coastal Rockport TX in 1957, adding to my suspicion that, while details may be altered, the song is autobiographical.)
So, does he like em young, or does he like em experienced?
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« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2007, 05:26:57 PM »
HEY! HEY! Attend to me!
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« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2007, 06:27:03 PM »

Certainly. What does "Inqilab Zindabad!" mean?
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« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2007, 03:42:59 PM »
Approximately "long live the revolution". As a phrase it's commonly used in the whole of South Asia as a demonstration's slogan etc. Funny thing is that it's pretty stylish Urdu... or is it downright Farsi actually?, but remains current in India as well due to its associations with the Struggle for Independence (the Daily Inqilab, ie the Daily Revolution, is a Bangladeshi newspaper. Smiley )
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« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2007, 04:32:58 PM »


I see nothing wrong with those lyrics.
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« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2007, 04:56:30 PM »
Quote from: Inqilab Zindabad! on November 14, 2007, 03:42:59 PM
Approximately "long live the revolution". As a phrase it's commonly used in the whole of South Asia as a demonstration's slogan etc. Funny thing is that it's pretty stylish Urdu... or is it downright Farsi actually?, but remains current in India as well due to its associations with the Struggle for Independence (the Daily Inqilab, ie the Daily Revolution, is a Bangladeshi newspaper. Smiley )

Cool Smiley
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