Stranglers, The - Pin Up Lyrics
She's a centrespread special size of the month
She's the one on the wall
Watched by him she's scared to move
She's very well known only in the one stance
She's the girl that survived over a hundred million glances
She's always on his mind a technicolor dream
The secret weapon
She lives on his locker door
She's the girl he dreams of when he's at sea
Although she's in 2-D he'd like her at home waiting
She's the pin up
She's the pin up
All over submarines
They think she's so serene
As a mermaid she don't look much
She's a charity gives something for nothing
A wallchart for his heart a victim of all his desires
Sometimes he dreams of a scratch me scratch me section
A rope ladder of hair a Babylon for him to climb
She's the pin up
She's the pin up
All over submarines
They think she's so serene
As a mermaid she don't look much
But such a sin could be this year's last year's thing
She's a centrespread special size of the month
She's the one on his wall
Watched by him she's scared to move
She's very well known always in the one stance
She's the girl who'll survive over a hundred million glances
She's the pin up
She's the pin up
[Repeat]
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Stranglers, The Pin Up Comments
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La Folie !
For me the defining moment where I realised The Stranglers were a spent force...
Not so. They simply matured. The later albums, right up until '10' are excellent examples of some of Britain's finest songwriting
"Sometimes he dreams of a 'scratch me, scratch me' section...." Heh heh. Did they have perfume 'scratch' samples in magazines back then?
This is why i feel when Hugh Cornwell quit the Stranglers, they were never quite the same... never the 'real' Stranglers anymore. I think it was in the early 90s? JJ wrote some great songs as did Dave Greenfield but they were always songs by 'The Stranglers' but it's pretty obvious who wrote which songs. JJ Burnell writes songs about violence, sex and women [or should i say 'Ladies of the night'?] - 'Yukio', 'Death and Night and Blood' & '5 Minutes' are excellent examples of pure genius with nightmarish scenarios of Violence Ecstatica and pure rage-fuelled vengeance... and they are just a small example.
Hugh writes about dark visions of the future [and present] and is often more 'politico'. but the sense of humour sometimes in Hugh's and JJ's {?} lyrics are very similar so I'd have to guess they worked together on certain types of songs or maybe Jet Black - the big moody bastard on drums [best way to be, on the skins] - that may have been his contribution.
But you always feel that Hugh and JJ are the 'lead guys'. They were up front, screaming anti-PC, anti-social songs at an audience that is not listening... the audience is too busy jumping around in a tribal frenzy! [it was a fkn mosh, let's be honest here]
But without Cornwell? Nah. Where the Stranglers' sound got 'softer', synthi-pop boy bands like Depeche Mode became leather clad, tattooed, heroin addicts {well, I think one of them got hooked} singing songs of dark irony and isolation in a post-industrial Britain that still had the foetid stench of thatcher's saatchi & saatchi catchphrases. I loved the 90s... what a damn fuckin shame Hugh quit.
Not that JJ didn't write/make a lot of political statements in his lyrics but they were often quite topical which means it's a case of digging around wiki to figure out who Freddie Laker was {solo project of JJ's but a great song} , for example, but Dave Greenfield, the Demon of the Semen [apparently Greenfield and JJ would have competitions to see who could fuck the most groupies in one night after a gig] would obviously have a lot of influence upon the artistic direction of probably almost every song, as did Jet Black, but Greenfield also did sing the occasional song such as 'Genetix' and 'The Raven' so I'd have to conclude he wrote the lyrics. I mean, that's always been the way in bands I've been in.... YOU wrote the song? Then YOU sing it. Not that it makes much difference financially to any member of the Stranglers.
I fank yew! I fank yew!
Probably not. Hugh should've patented that idea hahaha
For the girls at the Quelle
@devellish667
They always are.
Without girls, would there be any poetry at all?
great song.
amazing