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The Slits - Vindictive

Trying to decipher...

Vindictive, the pressures on, don't look to me
Vindictive, the pressures on, don't throw it away
You're wasting your words, don't expect to look in

I know you're in tight, but

Let's do the split - oh, shit on it!
Let's do a flit - I spit on it!
Let's do the split - oh, shit on it!
Let's do a flit - I spit on it!

Nagging aloud, no, you're so wrong
Shouting so loud and then, you took so long
You find your place, I'll find mine Ah-ah-ahh!

******

Nobody's safe, yeah, you heard what I said
He swings both ways, then acts like a man
I walked out the door, he stood there and cried
I care no more, but he’ll still be my guy


:huh:
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I've never listened too closely to the words—all I know is the "spit on it, shit on it" line, which seemed the key punk line anyway.
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biopunk wrote:The Slits - Vindictive

Trying to decipher...

Vindictive, the pressures on, don't look to me
Vindictive, the pressures on, don't throw it away
You're wasting your words, don't expect to look in

I know you're in tight, but

Let's do the split - oh, shit on it!
Let's do a flit - I spit on it!
Let's do the split - oh, shit on it!
Let's do a flit - I spit on it!

Nagging aloud, no, you're so wrong
Shouting so loud and then, you took so long
You find your place, I'll find mine Ah-ah-ahh!

******

Nobody's safe, yeah, you heard what I said
He swings both ways, then acts like a man
I walked out the door, he stood there and cried
I care no more, but he’ll still be my guy


:huh:
Here's what I got from the Peel session version.

Vindictive I'm precious guys - don't look at me
Vindictive I'm precious - don't try it on me
Your wasting your words - don't expect to come in
I know that it hurts - for my love that went mad

Vindictive I'm precious guys - don't look at me
Vindictive I'm precious - don't try it on me
Your wasting your words don't expect to come in

Let's do the split - I'll shit on it
Let's do the split - I'll spit on it
Let's do the split - I'll shit on it
Let's do the split - an I'll spit on it

Nagging your partner - now you're so wrong
Shouting so loud - and then they dance along
You find your place - I'll find mine

Let's do the split - I'll shit on it
Let's do the split - I'll spit on it
Let's do the split - an I'll shit on it
Let's do the split - I'll spit on it

Let's do the split - I'll shit on it
Let's do the split - I'll spit on it
Let's do the split - I'll shit on it
Spit on it, shit on it, spit on it, shit on it

Let's do the split - I'll shit on it
Let's do the split - I'll spit on it
Let's do the snitch - an I'll shit on it
Let's do the split - an I'll shit on it

Nobody's safe, you heard what I said
He swings by the way, practical man
I walked out the door, he stood there and cried
I care no more, but he see me last night

Let's do the split - I'll shit on it
Let's do the split - I'll spit on it
Let's do the split - I'll shit on it
Let's do the split - I'll spit on it

Let's do the split - I'll shit on it
Let's do the split - I'll spit on it
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Now this isn't quite on the level of "Got a rake? Sure" but has some funny moments...

There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
22 Jan 2018, 6:04pm
Now this isn't quite on the level of "Got a rake? Sure" but has some funny moments...

Eskimo pants!
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Mrs W just confessed after seeing Weller last weekend that for years she thought the song was “Tango Madness”!!!!
Any guesses?

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101Walterton wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 5:21am
Mrs W just confessed after seeing Weller last weekend that for years she thought the song was “Tango Madness”!!!!
Any guesses?
There really should be a song called that!

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101Walterton wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 5:21am
Mrs W just confessed after seeing Weller last weekend that for years she thought the song was “Tango Madness”!!!!
Any guesses?
Town Called Malice surely.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 7:11am
101Walterton wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 5:21am
Mrs W just confessed after seeing Weller last weekend that for years she thought the song was “Tango Madness”!!!!
Any guesses?
Town Called Malice surely.
Ooh yeah!

It's up there with Michael's mad at me.
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Marky Dread wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 2:02pm
Heston wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 7:11am
101Walterton wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 5:21am
Mrs W just confessed after seeing Weller last weekend that for years she thought the song was “Tango Madness”!!!!
Any guesses?
Town Called Malice surely.
Ooh yeah!

It's up there with Michael's mad at me.
Yep. I asked her why The Jam would sing about Tango Madness and she thought it was something to do with the Tango Man.

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101Walterton wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 2:13pm
Marky Dread wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 2:02pm
Heston wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 7:11am
101Walterton wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 5:21am
Mrs W just confessed after seeing Weller last weekend that for years she thought the song was “Tango Madness”!!!!
Any guesses?
Town Called Malice surely.
Ooh yeah!

It's up there with Michael's mad at me.
Yep. I asked her why The Jam would sing about Tango Madness and she thought it was something to do with the Tango Man.
Is the Tango Man some kind of Limey urban legend, maybe a Geordie who steals children and bakes them into pot pies?
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 2:27pm
101Walterton wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 2:13pm
Marky Dread wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 2:02pm
Heston wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 7:11am
101Walterton wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 5:21am
Mrs W just confessed after seeing Weller last weekend that for years she thought the song was “Tango Madness”!!!!
Any guesses?
Town Called Malice surely.
Ooh yeah!

It's up there with Michael's mad at me.
Yep. I asked her why The Jam would sing about Tango Madness and she thought it was something to do with the Tango Man.
Is the Tango Man some kind of Limey urban legend, maybe a Geordie who steals children and bakes them into pot pies?
The Tango Man was blamed for causing deafness in children across the UK.

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101Walterton wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 4:49pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 2:27pm
101Walterton wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 2:13pm
Marky Dread wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 2:02pm
Heston wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 7:11am


Town Called Malice surely.
Ooh yeah!

It's up there with Michael's mad at me.
Yep. I asked her why The Jam would sing about Tango Madness and she thought it was something to do with the Tango Man.
Is the Tango Man some kind of Limey urban legend, maybe a Geordie who steals children and bakes them into pot pies?
The Tango Man was blamed for causing deafness in children across the UK.
But how will they know the Style Council?
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 6:14pm
101Walterton wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 4:49pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 2:27pm
101Walterton wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 2:13pm
Marky Dread wrote:
04 Feb 2018, 2:02pm


Ooh yeah!

It's up there with Michael's mad at me.
Yep. I asked her why The Jam would sing about Tango Madness and she thought it was something to do with the Tango Man.
Is the Tango Man some kind of Limey urban legend, maybe a Geordie who steals children and bakes them into pot pies?
The Tango Man was blamed for causing deafness in children across the UK.
But how will they know the Style Council?
The Tango Man speaks like a child.

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Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty


We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.

"Without the common people you're nothing"

Nos Sumus Una Familia

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