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O.K. "Benny and the Jet's"? ![]() Yes, I'm back, sorry about that, had some stuff to do and a State of the Union to view. Sorry I missed your riddle, silly me, I would have said cocktail olive or something. ![]() |
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O.K. "Benny and the Jet's"? ![]() Yes, I'm back, sorry about that, had some stuff to do and a State of the Union to view. Sorry I missed your riddle, silly me, I would have said cocktail olive or something. ![]() ![]() |
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"We'll kill the fatted calf tonight." Okay, what does that mean?
According to the song lyrics, Bennie is a girl, short for Benita, like Lopez's mom in the George Lopez show, she wears electric boots and a mohair suit, apparently she's famous because she's in a magazine, and she's probably a singer, judging by the lyrics that follow, so she must have appeared in Rolling Stone or High Times. Really strange lyrics but a timeless classic of a song by Sir Elton. When you take the lyrics out of some of these songs, it can be difficult to try to understand what the songwriter was trying to tell you, the message or the meaning. |
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"killing the fatted calf" could just mean that they are gonna' celebrate, ya' know...pull out all the stops. Like, they've sacrificed and waited for just this moment to truly live, ya' know?
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"killing the fatted calf" could just mean that they are gonna' celebrate, ya' know...pull out all the stops. Like, they've sacrificed and waited for just this moment to truly live, ya' know? ![]() thanks for clearing that up, other than those lyrics, I've never heard that term used before. Then again he is British, so that slang must have passed me by, when I first heard it. In that context, it does seem to fit with the party atmosphere of the rest of the song. |
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...maybe Elton was just hungry for veal?
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That would also make sense, huh. Too bad it's not PC to eat veal these days. I still do, but then I was never politically correct.
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O.K. This is the story about a "Big Shot"... wanna' hear it? These people in this song are real pretentious morons, man....
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...But his friend is warnin' him , right? Say's "Hey man....when ya' wake up with yr swollen red eyes and yr hangover that's so bad that yr head feels like a frozen pineapple...well...cry in yr coffee all ya' want, man...but I told ya' so..." See...cuz' he had to be a big shot, dig?
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O.K. This is the story about a "Big Shot"... wanna' hear it? These people in this song are real pretentious morons, man.... ![]() ![]() I love watching pretentious morons! ![]() |
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chick big shots are usually waaaaaaaaay more pretentious than guy big shots.
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ok so you fed them some bull shlt about being totally sucessful and they acted like they were entertained, cuz you were footin the phukking bill
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ok so you fed them some bull shlt about being totally sucessful and they acted like they were entertained, cuz you were footin the phukking bill ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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