30 day music meme #12
Jul. 29th, 2020 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beer_good_foamy12. A song from your preteen years
Gyllene tider - Tuff tuff tuff som ett lokomotiv (Tough Tough Tough/Choo Choo Choo Like A Locomotive)
Long before he was the guy in Roxette, Per Gessle headed this new wave band who were HUGE in Sweden. His lyrics are often only marginally less stupid in Swedish (hence that untranslatable pun in the title), but it felt deep at the time, and I always loved how the drive in this song sells it.
Some need cash, lots of it, to kill [Line makes zero sense; I'm pretty sure the "ihjäl" (to death) is mostly there to rhyme with "själ" (soul) in the next line]
Some search for cosmic soaps to scrub their soul clean [and no, "soaps" doesn't refer to TV shows]
Others take coke to be able to light a fire
Too expensive and too cowardly! You burn fine anyway!
You have life life life, lots of life
And you're free free free, have lots of time
And it's a bluff bluff bluff, don't stand still
Go tuff tuff tuff like a locomotive [- Guys, what rhymes with "liv" (life)? - Lokomotiv. - Thanks. OK, song's done.]
Gyllene tider - Tuff tuff tuff som ett lokomotiv (Tough Tough Tough/Choo Choo Choo Like A Locomotive)
Long before he was the guy in Roxette, Per Gessle headed this new wave band who were HUGE in Sweden. His lyrics are often only marginally less stupid in Swedish (hence that untranslatable pun in the title), but it felt deep at the time, and I always loved how the drive in this song sells it.
Some need cash, lots of it, to kill [Line makes zero sense; I'm pretty sure the "ihjäl" (to death) is mostly there to rhyme with "själ" (soul) in the next line]
Some search for cosmic soaps to scrub their soul clean [and no, "soaps" doesn't refer to TV shows]
Others take coke to be able to light a fire
Too expensive and too cowardly! You burn fine anyway!
You have life life life, lots of life
And you're free free free, have lots of time
And it's a bluff bluff bluff, don't stand still
Go tuff tuff tuff like a locomotive [- Guys, what rhymes with "liv" (life)? - Lokomotiv. - Thanks. OK, song's done.]
