Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Life With the Lions - Billy Bragg

Life With the Lions - Billy Bragg
3:06
Workers Playtime, 1988
Written by Billy Bragg

A breakup song, or at least, a "we're about to break up" song.  The narrator "hates the arsehole" he is when he's with the girl.  He suspects something.  His friends ask why he's mad all the time.  Well, she might have been going out around his back. Is she the predator, the lion of the title?  "The chase is always better than the kill."  Musically this is a nod to country and western, complete with piano and harmonica.  

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