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Post by Lori on Jul 11, 2003 22:24:57 GMT
Emma's come down She's stopped the light Shining out of her eyes
Emma's been run out on She's breaking down In so many places Stuck in low gear Because of her fears
Of the skidding wheels The skid of her wheels she feels Skidding wheels The skid of her wheels she feels Spinning wheels Wheel-skidding feeling
Her heart is there But they've greased the road Her heart is out there But she's no control
Oh, come on, you've got to use your flow You know what it's like, and you know you want to go Don't drive too slowly Don't put your blues where your shoes should be Don't put your foot on the heartbrake
(She's losing, she's losing, she's losing, she's losing...)
She's losing that inner flame It was burning bright But she's losing the light fast
She's only herself to blame Well, take care of yourself And remember Georgie But she's so O.D'd on weeping She can hardly see
That she's dropping beads (Red, red glass is bleeding Dropping beads Red, red glass is bleeding Dropping beads Red, red on the parquet
Her heart is there But they've greased the road Her heart is out there But she's no control
Oh, come on, you've got to use your flow You know what it's like, and you know you want to go Don't drive too slowly Don't put your blues where your shoes should be Don't put your foot on the heartbrake
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Sheila
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Post by Sheila on Sept 3, 2005 2:51:28 GMT
I'm confused. Is this song about a trucker or a biker chick? I assumed it was about a trucker chick (Lorry for all you Brits) but live she was dressed like a biker chick. Yet in her dance she grabbed an air wheel like she was driving a big rig. Is Emma a biker or a trucker does anyone know?
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Post by genesismalachi23 on Sept 6, 2005 11:59:46 GMT
Yes! E agree, you are confused ;)what she dressed like on stage has nothing to do with the song, it's another coming ov age song conceptualized with thee theme ov losing control ov a vehicle, which ov course she is, her mind and body!
" She's losing that inner flame It was burning bright But she's losing the light fast"
(she was care free child,now puberty is closing in)
That she's dropping beads Red, red glass is bleeding Dropping beads Red, red glass is bleeding Dropping beads Red, red on the parquet
(she's menstruating)
"Her heart is there But they've greased the road Her heart is out there But she's no control"
( she's PMSing,she wants to still have fun like a child but that damned grease(hormones)keeps her down)
But hey,E could be mistaken?
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Post by Sheila on Sept 7, 2005 0:56:33 GMT
Very interesting interp, Gen. However I must admit I don't see it. I have always believed this song was about a trucker chick. "She's so OD'd on weeping she can hardly see that she's dropping beads..etc" I assumed a sort of "tears of blood" thing. A trucker (or biker) who's heart was broken one too many times.
I can't really see Kate writing a negative song about puberty. If she wrote one about puberty, I'd assume it would be a positive "coming of age" sort of ditty.
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Post by LilyWhite on Sept 8, 2005 2:37:15 GMT
I always assumed a trucker but then again that's all I ever hear up here are truckers zooming down highway 2. The line "you know what it's like" seems to not suggest puberty but someone more mature.
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Post by Gelid on Oct 9, 2005 1:02:01 GMT
May I quote myself from elsewhere? I'm just too tired to type: My favorites from this release would have to be Symphony In Blue and Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake. SIB is a beautiful merging of melody and rhythm, nearly flawless. But my favorite is DPYFOTH, the opening piano lines are beautifully moody, to suit the verses. Then the doors fly open for the chorus, only to settle down again. My favorite point in the song is when she sings the chorus for the last time; Kate nearly screams "Oh come on, you've got to use your flow ..." and then the song closes as it opened, with that same piano line trailing away like the whisps of smoke from the cigarrette you might have lit after ... after ...
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Post by Luke647 on Dec 17, 2006 13:43:19 GMT
It's also an absolutely fantastic driving song. I guarantee, even if you're driving past a speed camera It's literally impossible not to put your foot down on the 'chorus'. It's also, coincidentally, one of the worst driving songs; Especially if you're stuck at traffic lights.
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Post by mizzshy on Jan 10, 2007 15:15:21 GMT
I love this song. There is such an energy in the way Kate sings the lyrics...
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Post by suntorytime on Jan 17, 2007 10:42:47 GMT
I love this song. There is such an energy in the way Kate sings the lyrics... I agree. I always get a kick out of the way she screams "Oh, come on". I must also add that this is one song that never fails to amaze people who don't know Kate. I'm thrilled when they say listen and then say "wow!"
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Post by mizzshy on Jan 17, 2007 15:26:53 GMT
I love this song. There is such an energy in the way Kate sings the lyrics... I agree. I always get a kick out of the way she screams "Oh, come on". I must also add that this is one song that never fails to amaze people who don't know Kate. I'm thrilled when they say listen and then say "wow!" I also love singing to this song, especially when Kate screams "Oh, come on!" on the last chorus... It actually makes me want to laugh really badly, same as Wuthering Heights!
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Post by tannis on Apr 28, 2008 15:38:26 GMT
KB: "'Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake' is a Patti Smith song."
Q: What does "O.D.'d" mean on Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake and "2-D" in Kite? KB: "'O.D.'d' means 'overdosed' in the sense of someone taking a drug overdose, and '2-D' means 'two-dimensional', in the way that the kite appears to be." gaffa.org/garden/kate2.htmlIn the "Leo Sayer Show" performance of Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake, KB is dressed like Sandy Olsson or one of The Pink Ladies from the movie Grease (1978). In Grease, Rizzo pushes Sandy to take up smoking and shake off her goody-two-shoes. Sandy chokes on a cigarette, cannot stand the taste of wine, and is horrified at the idea of having her ears pierced. Frenchy is insistent, and takes her into the bathroom, but Sandy vomits at the first sight of blood.
In the "Kate Bush Xmas Special 1979" performance, KB is dressed in black leather and black spandex, again seemingly referencing the movie Grease. On the last day of school, Sandy arrives wearing a black leather jacket, skintight black off-the-shoulder top, and smoking a cigarette — no more goody-two-shoes! During 'You're The One That I Want', Sandy stubs her cigarette out; and this routine seems echoed in KB's "Xmas Special Performance" at 1:07. (And parenthetically, on The Red Shoes KB sings "You're the only one I want" on 'You're the One'.)
Grease (1978) is full of automobile and biker references. It is a coming-of-age movie, with adolescents navigating and negotiating the world of sex and drugs, conformity and rebellion. IMHO, in DPYFotHB, Emma is a rock chick (as suggested by music and performance), and the song uses automobile metaphors to suggest mental breakdown, seemingly drug-induced.
Emma's come down She's stopped the light Shining out of her eyes...
'Aunti Emma' is drug slang for opium; 'Miss Emma' is drug slang for morphine; 'George smack' is drug slang for heroin; 'come down' is drug slang for the ending of a drug experience; 'O.D'd' is drug slang for overdosed on drugs; and to 'push' is slang for selling drugs or "pushing" them into the market.
So Emma could have crashed into heroin use and is now "Dropping beads/ Red, red on the parquet..."
DPYFotHB seems very much located between 'friends', one paranoid and losing the light fast, and the other trying to push or jumpstart her back into the fast lane!
Oh, COME ON!!! ... Kate Bush - Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrakewww.youtube.com/watch?v=cL7kBnIw2VwThe "Leo Sayer Show": Kate performs an early routine for the song amid a clutter of emergency traffic-barriers.Kate Bush: Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake (Xmas)www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF2KeibTgwAThe "Christmas Special": A live stage performance, done to a pre-recorded (?) audio performance of the song. n.b. 1:07GREASE - You're the one that I wantwww.youtube.com/watch?v=aHdRdfhGKJs0:42 ... The choreographed stubbing out of the cigarette seems echoed in KB's choreography at 1:07 on the Xmas Special performance.Organic Acid Crash... Kate Bush - Organic Acidwww.youtube.com/watch?v=wynz2g7F2CEAn extraordinary Kate / John Carder Bush project... "They zigzagged into a conservative end"
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Post by stufarq on Nov 17, 2009 23:55:10 GMT
The "coming of age" interpretation might work if it weren't for "Emma's been run out on / She's breaking down / In so many places". That and the word "heartbrake" suggest the simpler idea of someone whose heart has been broken, although I agree that the driving references are a metaphor for losing control rather than the protagonist being any sort of trucker/biker/rock chick. The same argument pretty much puts paid to the drugs theory too, depite the mention of Emma, Georgie, coming down and OD (she's OD'd on weeping, not drugs). "Emma's been run out on" just doesn't make any sense in that context. Georgie must therefore refer to a person (either real or just a fictional character in the song) and the red beads either are tears of blood or perhaps some injury that Emma has inflicted on herself without realising, which could fit into the story of her breakdown.
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Post by tannis on Nov 18, 2009 2:27:21 GMT
Yes, "Emma's been run out on" can imply that she's been abandoned by a lover. Or it might imply that drug effects (or supply) have run out, hence her extreme lows. "She's breaking down in so many places" might therefore imply some kind of cold turkey/withdrawal experience; and "her fears" might imply drug-induced paranoia.
Also, according to the list of slang words recently issued to police officers, SKID = heroin...
Of the skidding wheels The skid of her wheels she feels Skidding wheels The skid of her wheels she feels Spinning wheels Wheel-skidding feeling
...and Kate herself defined O.D.'d in relation to a drug overdose:KB: "'O.D.'d' means 'overdosed' in the sense of someone taking a drug overdose..."gaffa.org/garden/kate2.htmlAnd compare DPYFOTH with Organic Acid. Perhaps one or the other, or both, were inspired by Ballard's Crash (1973)..."The crushed body of the sportscar had turned her into a being of free and perverse sexuality, releasing within its dying chromium and leaking engine-parts, all the deviant possibilities of her sex" Crash (Ballard, 1973).There was no premonition of the wet Hog's Back The sportscar slumped, snout into a beech Their corpses giving the vehicle arms Petrol and blood at last dripping together But quick flashes of a planned lunch Cold red beef, white cloth by a cherrywood fire Game pie, and for him two pints of colder beer The winter air tucking under their eyelids As they spun on the gravel at Clandon Their hands steaming from quick moisture The aromatic finger drawn up to his nostril Dazed after mutual masturbation They zigzagged into a conservative endKate Bush - Organic Acidwww.youtube.com/watch?v=wynz2g7F2CE
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