WARNING CONTAINS EXPLICIT LYRICS
by one of our greatest poets
BY HEATHCOTE WILLIAMS
Why’d ya do it, she said, they’re mine, all your jewels
You just tied me to the mast of the ship of fools
“Why D’Ya Do It”, from Marianne Faithfull’s 1979 album Broken English has been described as one of the most honest “love” songs ever written or recorded, an unrelenting, and utterly unself-conscious tirade of abuse, betrayal and anger aimed at the very soul of an unfaithful lover.
Betrayed by her boyfriend of the time, seething with jealousy and fury, Faithfull poured her every frayed feeling into the performance, until naked emotion disguised even the brutal frankness of the lyric. Indeed, although sensitive ears might well still recoil from some of the more explicit lines in the song, there can be few people who have not at one time experienced its meaning – and fewer still who could name another song that says the same things so perfectly
CONTAINS VERY STRONG LANGUAGE
THAT SOME PEOPLE MY FIND HIGHLY OFFENSIVE!!!
OK I decided not to post the video but retail the link to purplenoon which is broadcasting it . . . . . chicken I know but it is really explicit so you follow the link at your peril!
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