All God’s children need traveling shoes
Drive your problems from here
All good people read good books
Now your conscience is clear
I hear you talk girl
Now your conscience is clearIn the morning I wipe my brow
Wipe the miles away
I like to think I can be so willed
And never do what you say
I’ll never hear you
And never do what you say
Look my eyes are just holograms
Look your love has drawn red from my hands
From my hands you know you’ll never be
More than twist in my sobriety
More than twist in my sobriety
More than twist in my sobriety
We just poked a little empty pie
For the fun people had at night
Late at night don’t need hostility
Timid smile and pause to free
I don’t care about their different thoughts
Different thoughts are good for me
Up in arms and chaste and whole
All God’s children took their toll
Look my eyes are just holograms
Look your love has drawn red from my hands
From my hands you know you’ll never be
More than twist in my sobriety
More than twist in my sobriety
More than twist in my sobriety
Cup of tea, take time to think, yea
Time to risk a life, a life, a life
Sweet and handsome
Soft and porky
You pig out ‘til you’ve seen the light
Pig out ‘til you’ve seen the light
Half the people read the papers
Read them good and well
Pretty people, nervous people
People have got to sell
News you have to sell
Look my eyes are just holograms
Look your love has drawn red from my hands
From my hands you know you’ll never be
More than twist in my sobriety
More than twist in my sobriety
Look my eyes are just holograms
Look your love has drawn red from my hands
From my hands you know you’ll never be
More than twist in my sobriety
More than twist in my sobriety
More than twist in my sobriety
La storia del pezzo
Un oboe, un video in Bolivia
Tanita Tikaram la scrive e la incide per il suo primo album, Ancient Heart. Esce come singolo nell'ottobre 1988 e diventa il suo successo più grande all'estero: numero due in Austria e Germania Ovest, mentre in Gran Bretagna si ferma al 22° posto. Nel ritornello canta di occhi che sono solo ologrammi, e la prima riga del testo riprende il titolo di un libro della scrittrice Maya Angelou.
Il brano si apre e si chiude sul suono dell'oboe, suonato da Malcolm Messiter. Per l'uscita su singolo viene tagliata l'ultima strofa della versione originale. Tikaram ha raccontato che il testo parla del modo in cui ci si sente a diciotto anni, quando tutto intorno sembra distante e non riesci a farti toccare dalle cose.
Il video, girato sull'Altiplano boliviano da Gerard de Thame, alterna le immagini di un villaggio povero a inquadrature di lei che canta in una stanza buia, illuminata da una sola luce. Nel 1989 Liza Minnelli ne incide una cover per il suo album Results, prodotto dai Pet Shop Boys.
Scheda scritta con l'aiuto dell'intelligenza artificiale, usando solo fatti presi dalle fonti indicate.
Il testo di Twist In My Sobriety
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