> "Do your smiles covert complicity, debase as it admires?" -- what's
that
> about? read Pat's post...
Ok, had to look at the lyrics sheet on this one to be sure I was right
about what it says.
First of all the line reads: "Does your smiles covert complicity
debase as it admires?" I think there should be an apostrophe in
smile's, making it possessive. This makes covert an adjective
describing complicity. In other words does that smile posess a hidden
agenda that you expect me to be your accomplice in achieving? Are you
admiring me, thinking what a beautiful, wonderful person I am or are
you undressing me in your mind & thinking of doing very, very naughty
& nasty things to me?
> As for "you're notches liberation doll", I really don't have a clue.
"
We've gone over this one before. I still say (and will go to my grave
saying it unless Siquomb herself tells me personally that I am dead
wrong) that the man is referring to the room full of glasses from the
previous line. Those glasses are 'your notches' like a gunfighter's
notches on his gunbelt or notches on a bedpost. He's saying, 'You
made me a drunk with your independent, uppity, competitive
(unfeminine) ways. You can chalk every glass of wine I drank up to
your score. They're your notches, liberation doll.' Liberation doll
is a sneering & derisive name he's throwing at her. Men used to call
women they were attracted to doll at one time. Just watch some of
those old Humphrey Bogart movies.
That's my story & I'm sticking to it!
Mark in Seattle
