Total Ringo
Unveiling the Quirky Canvas: Happy Mondays' Total Ringo Revelations
Lyrics
That's sickly clean
Expressing disapproval of excessive cleanliness or purity
This mild and meek I could launch it with a poker
Suggesting a willingness to disrupt something mild and meek, possibly with aggression
No danger for a weekend It opens its mouth
No danger during the weekend, but something opens its mouth without words
There's no words, just a squeak I could launch it with a poker
Describing a non-verbal sound, contemplating launching it with a poker
No joker for a weekday
No joke for a weekday, contrasting with the weekend
Bing bong the weekday
Repeating the idea of a weekday with nonsensical sounds (Bing bong)
Bing bong no danger
Emphasizing no danger on the weekday
Here goes a sweet freak
Introducing a character or concept of a "sweet freak"
How many fools do you get in school
Rhetorical question about the number of fools in school
In an English county classroom
Specifically in an English county classroom
All the things going on inside your billbong
Reference to activities inside one's "billbong" (possibly a metaphorical space)
There's no room its just pure art room
No room inside the billbong, only pure art room
You try very hard to get that right
Emphasizing the effort to get things right
To imitate some kind of life form
Imitating a life form as a form of expression
A matter of fact without and tact
Stating facts without tact
You can go on back you
Encouraging someone to go back, suggesting they shouldn't have been born
Shouldn't have been burn
Reflecting on the consequences of being born
Diggers mothers switch on the cooker
Mothers of diggers switch on the cooker, possibly a metaphor for action or change
Get the hillbillies down
Get the hillbillies down, urging a group to gather
Set out to bugger
Setting out to cause trouble or annoy
Sweet freak pen and ink
Reintroducing the concept of a "sweet freak" with pen and ink
How do you make a bulldog think
Rhetorical question about making a bulldog think
Happy Christmas I said
Wishing a happy Christmas
Not to speak then
Not speaking during Christmas
Happy Christmas whens its next week then
Continuing the Christmas theme and questioning when it is next week
And you swear you naughty meat head
Expressing disapproval or frustration with someone
What sleeps in your bed Is got to be a Greek ted
Describing what sleeps in one's bed, suggesting something unusual or unexpected
How many fools do you get in a school
Rhetorical question about the number of fools, repeating the theme
In an english county
Again, in an English county
All the things going on inside your built bomb
Repetition of activities inside a built bomb, emphasizing lack of room
There's no room
Reiteration that there's no room
Its just pure art room
Restating the pure art room concept
Its dangerous to let the freaky dink in Chopper up, cooker,
Warning against letting a freaky dink in, mentioning a chopper, and a cooker
Give me some more smother
Requesting more of something, possibly related to the cooker
I cant stand the thought of the dwarf bein a mother
Expressing discomfort with the thought of a dwarf being a mother
Is this love, man, its pure hate
Pondering if it's love or pure hate, expressing confusion or conflict
If you put it on the table
If you put it on the table, it'll be too late, suggesting urgency or consequences
It'll be to late
Repetition of the question of whether it's love or pure hate
Is this love, man
Reiterating that it's not love but pure hate
No, its pure hate
Stating the simplicity of the situation
It cant be more simple
Emphasizing the presence of hate on a plate
Its there on a plate Is this love man
Repeating the question of whether it's love, emphasizing that it's not
No it ain't.
Asserting that it's not love
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