Wrapped up like a douche, another roller in the night...

MyChocolateDiet
MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
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This song to me is about a housewife who wears rollers and they fall out at night and she's sleeping in her robe instead of PJ's so she can get the baby in case he cries with her robe already on. That robe is why she's wrapped up like a douche, because the robe is uncomfortable (like a douche) as is the light from the bathroom that blinds her every time she gets up.

What does this song mean to you? And due to what interpretations of the lyrics?
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  • AJ_G
    AJ_G Posts: 4,158 Member
    Another runner* in the night

    Revved* up like a duece*
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    I had a girlfriend who thought "how my poor heart aches" in Every Breath You Take was "I'm a pool hall ace".
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    Another runner* in the night

    Revved* up like a duece*

    :angry:
  • pudadough
    pudadough Posts: 1,271 Member
    "Gobeldygook, gee boppa woo woo wee blahbaddy booooo, aaaahhaaa yeaaah!" - Eddie Vedder.


    Yeah...yeah. Sing it, Eddie. I feel you, brother.
  • StarChanger
    StarChanger Posts: 605 Member
    Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
    There were horses down the corridor,
    I thought I heard them say...

    Hey, I was a 7 year old, horse-crazed little girl when it came out...what can I say?
  • DebbieLyn63
    DebbieLyn63 Posts: 2,654 Member
    "There's a bathroom on the right"
  • BenchPressingCats
    BenchPressingCats Posts: 1,826 Member
    "Gobeldygook, gee boppa woo woo wee blahbaddy booooo, aaaahhaaa yeaaah!" - Eddie Vedder.


    Yeah...yeah. Sing it, Eddie. I feel you, brother.

    Even Flow?
  • DebbieLyn63
    DebbieLyn63 Posts: 2,654 Member
    This song to me is about a housewife who wears rollers and they fall out at night and she's sleeping in her robe instead of PJ's so she can get the baby in case he cries with her robe already on. That robe is why she's wrapped up like a douche, because the robe is uncomfortable (like a douche) as is the light from the bathroom that blinds her every time she gets up.

    What does this song mean to you? And due to what interpretations of the lyrics?

    I looked up the Wiki on this song. Interestingly it was written and originally released by Bruce Springsteen. He needed another single for his album and wrote the song while going thru a rhyming dictionary. Nothing really made sense, it just rhymed. The original lyrics were "cut loose like a deuce". Manfred Mann then rereleased it, with changing the lyrics to "revved up like a deuce" but because he had a lisp, it came out sounding like douche. Bruce joked that only after the controversy over the feminine hygiene product, did the song become popular. lol
  • BenchPressingCats
    BenchPressingCats Posts: 1,826 Member
    Also, I know most people confuse the line "Hold me closer, tiny dancer" with "Hold me closer, Tony Danza." But am I really the only one who heard "The words she knows, the tune she hums" as "The words she knows, the Jews and Huns"? Am I alone? Please tell me I'm not...
  • pudadough
    pudadough Posts: 1,271 Member
    "Gobeldygook, gee boppa woo woo wee blahbaddy booooo, aaaahhaaa yeaaah!" - Eddie Vedder.


    Yeah...yeah. Sing it, Eddie. I feel you, brother.

    Even Flow?

    Yellow Ledbetter. But you were close!



    :laugh:
  • mustang289
    mustang289 Posts: 299 Member
    C'mon baby, lets start a zoo
    Cause breaking up is hard to do.

    Neil Sedaka
  • BenchPressingCats
    BenchPressingCats Posts: 1,826 Member
    "Gobeldygook, gee boppa woo woo wee blahbaddy booooo, aaaahhaaa yeaaah!" - Eddie Vedder.


    Yeah...yeah. Sing it, Eddie. I feel you, brother.

    Even Flow?

    Yellow Ledbetter. But you were close!



    :laugh:

    Dammit! I haven't heard that one in a while. Now off to annoy everybody in my apartment building by blasting it.
  • vhuber
    vhuber Posts: 8,779 Member
    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • BenchPressingCats
    BenchPressingCats Posts: 1,826 Member
    Oh, and because we're on the topic:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nVvRwrgsGU

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7czysbdHM1s

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iefStFNywPE

    A slew of hilariously misheard song lyrics! There's also a 2012 edition, but I didn't find it nearly as funny. Probably because I didn't know many of the songs...
  • Redbird99ky
    Redbird99ky Posts: 305 Member
    So now I come to you, with broken arms ...

    Journey "Open Arms"
  • MsEndomorph
    MsEndomorph Posts: 604 Member
    Dirty deeds done to sheep!
    Dirty deeds done to sheep!
  • vhuber
    vhuber Posts: 8,779 Member
    Dirty deeds done to sheep!
    Dirty deeds done to sheep!
    I laughed SOOOOO hard, had to read this to my husband!!!:laugh: :laugh:
  • pudadough
    pudadough Posts: 1,271 Member
    Dirty deeds done to sheep!
    Dirty deeds done to sheep!

    Ha! Perfect.
  • Laces_0ut
    Laces_0ut Posts: 3,750 Member
    Dirty deeds done to sheep!
    Dirty deeds done to sheep!

    my friend thought it was dirty deeds thunder chief!
  • curvysunshine
    curvysunshine Posts: 35 Member
    Also, I know most people confuse the line "Hold me closer, tiny dancer" with "Hold me closer, Tony Danza." But am I really the only one who heard "The words she knows, the tune she hums" as "The words she knows, the Jews and Huns"? Am I alone? Please tell me I'm not...

    HOLD ME CLOSER TONY DANZAAAAAAAAAAAAA, COUNT THE HEAD LICE ON THE HIIIIIIIIIIGHWAAAAAAAAAAAAY
  • rileamoyer
    rileamoyer Posts: 2,412 Member
    Louie Louie............... need I say more?
  • MsEndomorph
    MsEndomorph Posts: 604 Member
    Also, I know most people confuse the line "Hold me closer, tiny dancer" with "Hold me closer, Tony Danza." But am I really the only one who heard "The words she knows, the tune she hums" as "The words she knows, the Jews and Huns"? Am I alone? Please tell me I'm not...

    HOLD ME CLOSER TONY DANZAAAAAAAAAAAAA, COUNT THE HEAD LICE ON THE HIIIIIIIIIIGHWAAAAAAAAAAAAY

    Talk about a wild night!
  • BenchPressingCats
    BenchPressingCats Posts: 1,826 Member
    Also, I know most people confuse the line "Hold me closer, tiny dancer" with "Hold me closer, Tony Danza." But am I really the only one who heard "The words she knows, the tune she hums" as "The words she knows, the Jews and Huns"? Am I alone? Please tell me I'm not...

    HOLD ME CLOSER TONY DANZAAAAAAAAAAAAA, COUNT THE HEAD LICE ON THE HIIIIIIIIIIGHWAAAAAAAAAAAAY

    Talk about a wild night!

    Are you kidding? That's like every Saturday for me!
  • moondawg14
    moondawg14 Posts: 249 Member
    Bingo jet had a light on.
    Don't carry me too far away!
    OOOhhh Bingo jet had a light on.
    Cousin's Here, 'cause I have to this way.
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    she had electric bewbs,....a mohair suit,....and a ramalama hammer a wee oh oh ohhhhhhhhhh.
  • BenchPressingCats
    BenchPressingCats Posts: 1,826 Member
    she had electric bewbs,....a mohair suit,....and a ramalama hammer a wee oh oh ohhhhhhhhhh.

    Oh, gawd, does anybody know the lyrics to this song without google?
  • BenchPressingCats
    BenchPressingCats Posts: 1,826 Member
    And one more before I have to call it a night

    "And I'm here to remind you of the cross eyed bear that you gave to me..."
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    And one more before I have to call it a night

    "And I'm here to remind you of the cross eyed bear that you gave to me..."

    I guess since I was a grown up when that came out I knew the words to that one.
  • Parmcat
    Parmcat Posts: 268 Member
    Scus me, while I kiss this guy

    Or

    Hold me closer Tony Danza
  • danasings
    danasings Posts: 8,218 Member
    And you come to me on a submarine, keep me warm in your love then you soft-lay leave...

    Love the BeeGees and their reverence for The Beatles.

    ETA: OP asked for interpretations of "Blinded by the Light," so I can add this: I had no freaking idea what those lyrics were, so I interpreted it all as mostly Springsteen on acid. (I'm from PA, so I knew it was a Springsteen song...from an early age, I had the greatness of Bruce drilled into my skull...)

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