
The first two lines are the teenage boy's of attitude, actually starting to think that maybe parents/adults aren't such losers all the time.

Rolling numbers, rock and rolling, got my Kiss records out. When I woke up, Mom and Dad are rolling on the couch. Whatever happened to all this season's losers of the year?Įv'ry time I got to thinking, where'd they disappear?

Jack Black sings an ode to his forbidden love interest after exiling himself to the desert: This is just like in the movie, Nacho Libre. Someone else clued everyone in on a very important play on rhyming scheme.Things/Philippines, War/Years? Listener is supposed to anticipate "I've known she was a WHORE". The father is trying to validate the mother's advice to the son, but at the same time being quite sarcastic to the mother. Now, I had heard the WACS recruited old maids for the war.īut mommy isn't one of those, I've known her all these years.įor those who don't know, WAC's is the Womens Army Corp. "Before we married, Mommy served in the WACS in the Philippines." I'll get to the chorus 'll make more sense.įather says, "Your mother's right, she's really up on things." A young boy is talking to a girl (probably first encounter w/ opposite sex) and recalling his mother's "urban legend" warnings about STD's.Soldier's falling off. This verse is now pretty self explanatory. I corrected the placement of the quotations marks to make more sense. Some Indonesian junk that's going round." Just the other day I heard a soldier's _ falling off She also told me, "Stay away, you'll never know what you'll catch. Mother told me, yes, she told me I'd meet girls like you. It's such an awesome song, especially if you're a grown-up or a smart enough teenager. My InterpretationOkay, here's what "Surrender" really means. For everyone else, it's a revealing glimpse into his love of jamming and the blues, including an Elmore James song.Surrender, surrender (Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright) This album, which suffers from bad sound, is mandatory for completists, Hendrix fanatics and historians. for the first half and Buddy Miles the rest of the way produces renewed appreciation for Mitch Mitchell and the way his inventiveness meshed so well with Hendrix's brilliance. At times, Hendrix and Johnny Winter lock into an elemental force, although a seriously drunk Jim Morrison doesn't add much except obscenities.

Later, Hendrix plays a Beatles tune and further tips his hat to Eric Clapton by closing with the unmistakable "Sunshine of Your Love" riff. He opens "Red House" quoting from "Crossroads," the Cream take on a legendary Robert Johnson blues.

On this star-studded live jam previously released as a bootleg called Sky High, it's obvious Jimi listened to other people, too. We know Hendrix was influenced by Bob Dylan, as shown by his covers of "All Along the Watchtower" and "Like a Rolling Stone" (live at Monterey).
