" Writer Ariel Swartley views the song's verses as depicting the narrator as something of an " adolescent loser ... ruining his chances with the girl: he can't stop telling her about the humiliations, about the girls who led him on, about the waitress that got tired of him.

The Big Bad Wolf is the song's narrator, and he is telling the story of Little Red Riding Hood in the first person form.

" His name was accidentally left out of the credits, leading many to believe ( erroneously ) that the cartoon's narrator, Boris Karloff, sang the song while others cited Tennessee Ernie Ford as the song's signature voice.

The lyrics describe a shooting on a beach, in which the Arab of the title is killed by the song's narrator ; in Camus ' story the protagonist, Meursault, shoots an Arab on a beach, overwhelmed by his surroundings.

" Suzanne ", an ode to a " half-crazy " woman who lives near the St. Lawrence River in Montreal and who is capable of profound personal / spiritual connection with the song's narrator, was ranked 41st on Pitchfork Media's ' Top 200 Songs of the 1960s '.

The song reached number four in the charts and Travis appeared as the song's narrator " Super Scouse " on Top Of The Pops.

There, the song's narrator promises that her already dark-complected skin will be further " kissed " by the Italian sun, and that she will be introduced to new laws, rulers and customs.

When an inebriated old man also in the cell sings a passage from the Irish ballad " The Rare Old Mountain Dew ", the narrator ( MacGowan ) begins to dream about the song's female character.

" In the second verse, the song's narrator compares herself to her, " I'm like Estella, I like to reel ' em in and then spit ' em out, I'm frustrated by your apathy.

The song's lyrics feature the male narrator discussing how he has " no time to discuss weather " or " think about what money can buy ", because when he thinks about his woman, " I ain't got time for nothing else ".

The song's male narrator is told by a woman that she is going to be a famous movie star, and she offers him the opportunity to be her chauffeur, adding " and maybe I'll love you.

The song's fictional narrator is satirized ; the title of the song refers to the narrator's parent's decision to go to Club Med.

The song's narrative also deals in mythic archetypes, with the wild mare being the embodiment of untamed nature, which the narrator wants to control, and as such, the song can be seen as an analogy of mankind's attempts to dominate and subjugate the natural environment.

" There is an unwillingness on the part of the song's narrator that ; adds a tenderness and tragedy to his leaving: " And now the time has come, and so, my love, I must go.

Though both songs are about unrequited desire for the title character, the humor of " The Boy From ..." stems partly from the fact that the narrator is completely unaware of her crush's blatant homosexuality, as, for example, illustrated in the song's second bridge: " Why are his trousers vermilion?

Temptations lead singer David Ruffin, as the song's narrator, describes an idyllic world where everyone has everything they could ask for, except he doesn't have his love:

As the song's narrator, Paul Williams promises his lover, in his trademark gritty tone:

The boyfriend of the song's narrator is a failed musician who left his native Georgia to move to Los Angeles to become a " superstar, but he didn't get far ".

Bates was more fortunate, as the song's popularity was well established by the time of her death in 1929.

The band complied, with Mick Jagger ostentatiously rolling his eyes heavenward whenever he reached the song's one-night-only, clean refrain, " Let's spend some time together ".

The first verse on the released version was the last to be written, close to the time of the song's recording.

This was due to the song's influence on The Kinks, who, like the Who at the time, were produced by Shel Talmy, with the Kinks on the Pye label and the Who on Brunswick.

A longer version of the song was released as a single on Atlantic Records, reaching No. 30 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart early in 1972 ; the additional lyrics in this longer version lend the song a greater sense of sadness, and make poignant reference to social changes taking place in the 1960s and early 1970s A few perceptible drifts can be observed when listening to each version chronologically: In the original version Jean Stapleton was wearing glasses and after the first time the lyric " Those Were The Days " was sung over the tonic ( root chord of the song's key ) the piano strikes a Dominant 7th chord in transition to the next part which is absent from subsequent versions.

Due to the contest overrunning in time, the winning song's reprise was not shown in the UK.

Due to this controversy, the Alma Mater was not sung during the 2008 commencement ceremony to give the college time to consider the song's future at Pomona.

This song's success, coupled with its pop rock sound that was quite different from the rest of their material at the time, led the band into changing into a mainstream, pop music style.

At the time of the song's release Ray was alive and details of his poor health were not public knowledge.

At the time, Kurt was unaware that Kathleen was referring to a deodorant marketed specifically to young women, and thought that besides having a nice ring to it, the phrase also helped to succinctly summarize, organize and unify the then-nascent song's seemingly-disparate lyrical content into a theme.

The translation of the song's refrain is " Your violence is just a silent cry for love / Your combat boots are craving for tenderness / You never learned to express yourself / And your parents never had time for you / Oh oh oh asshole ".

The band even had their own radio show around this time and played a two day live at the Nippon Budokan which involved a large building as a stage prop and amazing theatrics ; each member performing a skit with another member on their own ( including " Le Ciel " the aforementioned skit in which Gackt fell to the stage sing the song and returned to " Heaven " by song's end ).

Whilst at the time expressing racial harmony, a modern audience may find the use of the word insensitive, undercutting the song's intent.

However, by that time, Kalas, a native of the Chicago area, had become an openly-avid Phillies fan, and held the microphone out to the audience to hear them sing " the Cubbies " as they replaced their team's name for " the home team " in the song's lyrics.

In the song Those Were the Days, Archie and Edith Bunker lament a simpler time, with the song's closing line " Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.

When asked at the time if he was worried that the song's success might alienate older fans, Buck told Rolling Stone, " The people that changed their minds because of ' Losing My Religion ' can just kiss my ass.

The song's guitar solo is ranked 8th on Guitar Magazines Top 100 Guitar Solos and was voted the best solo of all time by readers of Guitarist magazine.

The song's caustic, self-reflexive lyrics used the iron lung as a metaphor for the way " Creep " had both sustained the band's life and constrained them (" this is our new song / just like the last one / a total waste of time / my iron lung ").

" Sister Christian ," soon became a prom favourite, as well as a cautionary anthem for teenage girls across conservative Middle America, warning them not to " give it up before their time is due ", as the song's second verse urged, and keep " motoring " instead.

Its music ( composer unknown, as with all folklore ) was written down to notes for the first time by a Serb musician from Croatia by the name of Nikola Hercigonja shortly after World War II, who falsely assumed that Montenegrin WWII Nazi-fascist collaborator Sekula Drljević was the song's original author.

Their singles " 9 / 4 ( a reference to the song's time signature )", " The Sun ", and " Choice " climbed the charts.

The original version of " Self Control ," recorded a few months earlier in 1984 by one of the song's co-writers Raffaele Riefoli ( under the name Raf ), held the West German number-two spot during this time period ; outside of Raf's native Italy, Branigan's version enjoyed more success.

Questel's " Boop-boop-a-doop " routine, done in a style similar to that of the song's originator, Helen Kane, while at the same time evoking something of the naughty allure of film star Clara Bow, was exactly what Fleischer wanted, and he hired Questel in 1931.

The version included in " Monkees Marooned " had a slightly longer run time, owing to the song's chorus being repeated four times after the last verse, instead of three times.