Cole, Lloyd - Rattlesnakes Lyrics
Jodie wears a hat although it hasn't rained for six days
She says a girl needs a gun these days
Hey, on account of all the rattlesnakes
She looks like Eva Marie Saint in "On the Waterfront"
She is less than sure if her heart has come to stay in San Jose
And her neverborn child still haunts her
As she speeds down the freeway
As she tries her luck with the traffic police
Out of boredom more than spite
She never finds no trouble, she tries too hard
She's obvious despite herself
She looks like Eva Marie Saint in "On the Waterfront"
Yeah, all you need is love is all you need
Jodie never sleeps because there are always needles in the hay
She says that a girl needs a gun these days
Hey, on account of all the rattlesnakes
She looks like Eva Marie Saint in "On the Waterfront"
As she reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
Her heart... heart's like crazy paving
Upside down and back to front
She says, "Ooh, it's so hard to love
When love was your great disappointment"
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Cole, Lloyd Rattlesnakes Comments
bella New Wave americana.....
Só digo isso - que saudade.
Why can't you be more like LLoyd Braun?
Nada melhor doque começa o ano ouvindo Lloyd. Brasil 2020
Have to confess I love the Tori Amos cover more
love this song.
Brilliant last night in Melbourne
Saw him last night. Crowd went crazy when this started 👌
Is he in the UK ?
Nice to hear strings in a 'pop song' composition again.
Sorry, this has not held up well. Sounds like a high school band rip-off of The The's Uncertain Smile and Echo + the Bunnymen's Ocean Rain album. Stop feeding me random 80s crap, Google, just because I binged on Dexy's Midnight Runners for a day - they are still as fresh and unique as ever...
Oh those halcyon 80s!
Four days to go until we get to see Lloyd in concert in beautiful Wellington, New Zealand, cannot wait!!
Love lloyd cole and the commotions, and it's Jimmy carr
Great song and great guy
I love this music.
and if you have just arrived... you only missed Rattlesnakes...
Classic track list
Do love Lloyd but l'd put Roddy Frame above him.
Got tix Fri for the JAMC at Barrowlands next March : canny wait!
Oh but forest fire
"it's hard to love, when love was your great disappointment" is the real hidden gem lyric in the song.
@Lynn Findlay I am officially green with envy.
Next you will be telling me he played"Are You Ready to be Heartbroken"!
Erm, yeah...all the old hits and plenty new stuff too
1st set was Lloyd solo; 2nd set he brought Neil Clark on stage 🎸🎸
Along with The Jesus & Mary Chain, He is the best of Scottish musicians.
Bingo! He was great in Bendigo. Still sings well and writing as well as ever.
@Christina FinchAfter listening to "Don't Look Back" , think his solo work is not quite as good as with The Commotions so it's the opposite of Morrissey & The Smiths...sorry Smiths fans.
Llod Cole...Morrissey's underrated cousin?
Rattle snakes ,who could forget this song ,a perfect song,that should be played more on air , but like a lot of great songs from the 70,s and ,80s we don't hear them on air,! I can't stand a lot of this modern trash music!
Still one of my favourite albums...
Adorei a letra da música!
Still listening 35 years later.
Brilliant, takes me waaaaay back. Think he looks like Jimmy Carr's little brother in that vid.
got it in 1 catalina
got it in 1 catalina
it's like hope for humanity.
What's worse - the corny obsession with Americana or the contrived hair/style of singing with the lead singer. Yes, it's a tough one!
Jodie wears a hat although it hasn't rained for 6 days,
She says "A girl needs a gun these days on account of all of the rattlesnakes ..."
The Jam!!!!
eu não
FUNCIONO
sem
MARI.....
What a wonderful band! Great songs! Amazing lyrics! :)
Maybe it’s just me but I prefer Tori Amos’s cover of this song so much better...
Redley eu amava obrigado mano velho.
Brilliant song love forever and it changes
Sounds like a US take on Echo and the bunnymen
Scottish band from Glasgow, Scotland. Echo & The Bunnymen are English, from England. Liverpool.
@Brian Barnes Oh, my bad.
Maybe the best poetry in pop music ever... always brings tears to my eyes... brilliant! Up there with XTC' Dear God...
Pretentious and brilliant...Shouldn’t all great artists be pretentious?
sheer beauty
amazing lyrics
80s Magic!
was a big fan of lloyd cole and matt johnson (the the) they should both should been huge!! their influence have filtered down the decades this song ,perfect skin,speedboat and especially forest fire came off this great debut album.
And Roddy Frame!
Spot on face
Love this
This is all the feels.
Lloyd Cole looks like he could be Jimmy Carr's dad.
Beautiful lyrics, killer melody, perfect phrasing.
Mert elhagyatnak akkor mindenek
Eve Marie Saint in On the Waterfront... she’s obvious despite herself... anyone else you can think of?? Eh?/??
Eva Marie Saint has never looked better than in John Frankenheimer's " GRAND PRIX " (1967). Try to watch this "little" gem, (both Eva and the movie) if you've never seen it before.
More than just one of the best films about the Grand Prix Formula 1 ever captured on celluloid. It's a Classic on wheels. With all the glamour and greatness of the world's most
exciting drama of speed and spectacle!
I rejoiced at this album
Up there with simple minds,rattlesnakes album in a league of irs own
Mon adolescence !Et citer Eva Marie Saint et Simone de Bauvoire,j'ai trouvé et je trouve toujours un moment à Lloyd Cole:j'avais 15-16 ans,j'étais au top et j'ai adoré cette époque,l'été 1985,j'avais 15 ans,j'étais plein de certitude mais aussi plein d'innocence...mais c'est à cette époque que je suis passé d'ado à jeune adulte ,c'était top,que des super souvenirs!Je ne regrette rien !
Scottish Group ! High School Memories : )
Até hoje não entendo porque nunca vieram ao Brasil??
I’d personally prefer to learn them but here are the lyrics nonetheless.
Rattlesnakes
Lloyd Cole
Jodie wears a hat although it hasn't rained for six days
She says a girl needs a gun these days
Hey on account of all the rattlesnakes
She looks like Eve Marie saint in on the waterfront
She reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
She's less than sure if her heart has come to stay in San Jose
And her never-born child still haunts her
As she speeds down the freeway
As she tries her luck with the traffic police
Out of boredom more than spite
She never finds no trouble, she tries too hard
She's obvious despite herself
She looks like Eve Marie Saint in on the waterfront
She says all she needs is therapy, yeah
All you need is, love is all you need
Jodie never sleeps 'cause there are always needles in the hay
She says that a girl needs a gun these days
Hey on account of all the rattlesnakes
She looks like Eve Marie Saint in on the waterfront
As she reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
Her heart, heart's like crazy paving
Upside down and back to front
She says "ooh, it's so hard to love
When love was your great disappointment."
It's EVA, not Eve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSc46sEZdl4
Still got the album. Sounds like it was released only yesterday. Great song from a great era that I wish I could re-live.
Fantastic singer and songwriter.Pisses all over 99.99 percent of todays music.
mark hamer
Stop being maudlin and silly and don't be shy of the 21st century. It won't bite, mark...
Make it 100
bofursgun Show us some good music there is non!!!!!
Bons tempos show show show..
Tempo que não volta mais 😥😥😥😥
This still sounds great after all these years. One of the great records that I never get tired of listening to
Put a friend onto The The and he said they sounded like Lloyd Cole and the commotions. Glad I listened to this expands the playlist
Tori Amos does a great cover of this song....
OMG Taylor Swift needs to do her own version of this ASAP. It's gonna be amazing!
I miss real music and corking lyrics. Love this.
He namedrops famous people on his songs. This is so good.
Here are these amazing and wonderful lyrics :
Jodie wears a hat although it hasn't rained for six days
She says a girl needs a gun these days
Hey, on account of all the rattlesnakes
She looks like Eva Marie Saint in "On the Waterfront"
She reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
She is less than sure if her heart has come to stay in San Jose
And her neverborn child still haunts her
As she speeds down the freeway
As she tries her luck with the traffic police
Out of boredom more than spite
She never finds no trouble, she tries too hard
She's obvious despite herself
She looks like Eva Marie Saint in "On the Waterfront"
She says all she needs is therapy
Yeah, all you need is love is all you need
Jodie never sleeps because there are always needles in the hay
She says that a girl needs a gun these days
Hey, on account of all the rattlesnakes
She looks like Eva Marie Saint in "On the Waterfront"
As she reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
Her heart... heart's like crazy paving
Upside down and back to front
She says, "Ooh, it's so hard to love
When love was your great disappointment"
Daniel Kuczynski
Thanks for confirming this song is pretentious drivel.
https://youtu.be/44cOIKDpbLw
Anyone with a little good taste loves the 80's. If only I could travel back in time...
You and me both man...
Sublime !
Great song period
Jimmy Carr before he turned into a Lego man!
The TORI AMOS cover: WOOOOOOOW!!!!
You need to be slapped
Marcou muito toda uma geração música muito boa de ouvir.
So much to love despite all the disappointments...
THIS SONG IS UNBELIEVABLY BEAUTIFUL!
True , in so many ways .
Tori Amos did it better.
Ok soy boy
Me and my mate skived school to go and see Ghostbusters and this was on as a feature before the film...Ah,the days when you got ace videos like this and not adverts telling all the the fuckwits to put their twatting phones away before films.
Unfortunately Lloyd has never had the credit as an artist that he derserves way better than similar artists at that time , I left school in 86 when his fame was rising ,I'm such a big fan of his that I named my first born Lloyd who doesn't get his music ,well I don't get dance music so each to there own.
We used to drive across Texas a lot when I was a kid and we picked up his solo album in a gas station discount bin. My whole family and I are lifelong Lloyd Cole fans because of that little find. I passed the love on now to my family!
whole album is feckin splendid
Stick rattlesnakes up their with new gold dream simple minds (sorry Jim)the album is just very good(genius)lloyd
great song
I grew up with this song! Always reminds me of long car journeys
Corfu 1987, playing on Walkman. Man, happy simple times. Love to all.
So glad my teenage days was in the 80's totally unforgettable
You are so right! I hadn't realised to be so fortunate to be young in the 80's. Thank you for reminding ;-)
Petite ambiance Jack Kerouac
Great sound. Outstanding artist.
Great track, looking forward to seeing Lloyd tomorrow.
Always thought when a was young that who sang this was well older than me, am getting old or WTF, am "ONLY" 37 and prob old enough to be his dad
Could someone explain to me what the significance or the meaning behind rattlesnakes are in this song?
DutchAmerican my understanding of it is the "lowlifes and sleazbags"
Lloyd took the main character from Joan Didion's 'A book of common prayer' and inserted her into the landscape of 'Play it as it lays'
so good
I love Lloyd
Just saw him do this last night with his son in Boston. Sounds as great as ever!
One of my favourite absolute ! From 1984 i am still a huge fan of LLOYD COLE and the COMMOTIONS
tuneeeee
Musica muito foda. Classico.
One of the many bands I inherited from my dad. Good shit.
HIS SECOND BEST SONG ON HIS BEST ALBUM,GREAT
à tribe called quest
Jean-francois Huchet how?