Re: Johnny

["Tom Hosier" <tomhosier>]

OK, my copy of "Complete" is in storage, but I concede. I had heard it as:
"...Johnny's laying there, his sperm coughin '."
On a similar note (talk dirty to me, Patti), is this the correct line in
"Pissing In a River":
Spoke of a wheel,
Tail of a sperm...?
That's how I've always heard it, but now I'm thinking I'm just a dirty old
man !


On 9/19/07, Li Lightfoot <li_lightfoot> wrote:
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> considering that Patti is first a poet, "sperm coffin" makes a lot of
> sense. 'Sperm' being the seed of life and a 'coffin' being the abode of
> death... well, there is a certain internal symmetry there, don't you think?
> just the sort thing a great poet might envision. very skillful. very apt.
> and I do believe it says,
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> "life is filled with holes and Johnny's laying there in his sperm coffin
> Angel looks down at him and says "ah pretty boy...."
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> seems pretty clear it was meant to be "coffin" as "Complete" has it.
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> "Douglas W. Corkhill" <dwcatty> wrote:
> I always thought it was sperm coffin, and sperm coughin' never entered my
> mind. I'll have to listen to the song again today (oh, darn!) with that in
> mind.
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> Is sperm coughin' kind of like gagging? ;-)
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> Doug
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