I touch your face while you are sleeping

spindex · 21-12-2017 06:11PM #1

As most ye bright sparks are aware this is a line from the festive song Stay by East 17(why it is a festive song I don't know).
Anyway did the writer get permission to touch the sleepers face before they went to sleep ? If they didn't is this a sexual assault ? Should the easily offended be calling for this song to be banned too ?
I say yes purely because I don't like the song, nothing to do with the lyrics.

Foxhound38 · 21-12-2017 06:13PM

Cool story bro

spindex · 21-12-2017 06:13PM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

Cool story bro

Nice input sis

Ulysses Gaze · 21-12-2017 06:15PM

spindex wrote: »

As most ye bright sparks are aware this is a line from the festive song Stay by East 17(why it is a festive song I don't know).
Anyway did the writer get permission to touch the sleepers face before they went to sleep ? If they didn't is this a sexual assault ? Should the easily offended be calling for this song to be banned too ?
I say yes purely because I don't like the song, nothing to do with the lyrics.

FixitFelix · 21-12-2017 06:15PM

spindex wrote: »

As most ye bright sparks are aware this is a line from the festive song Stay by East 17(why it is a festive song I don't know).
Anyway did the writer get permission to touch the sleepers face before they went to sleep ? If they didn't is this a sexual assault ? Should the easily offended be calling for this song to be banned too ?
I say yes purely because I don't like the song, nothing to do with the lyrics.

Are you aware of what the song is about? And who it's for?

jamesbere · 21-12-2017 06:16PM

Like the song must hang Sally, did the songwriter hang someone named Sally and should I do the same

Wait that's mustang Sally

spindex · 21-12-2017 06:18PM

FixitFelix wrote: »

Are you aware of what the song is about? And who it's for?

Nope, I don't want to know either but I'm sure you're gonna tell us

FixitFelix · 21-12-2017 06:19PM

spindex wrote: »

Nope, I don't want to know either but I'm sure you're gonna tell us

Nope

spindex · 21-12-2017 06:21PM

FixitFelix wrote: »

Nope

Thanks

sjb25 · 21-12-2017 06:21PM

spindex wrote: »

As most ye bright sparks are aware this is a line from the festive song Stay by East 17(why it is a festive song I don't know).
Anyway did the writer get permission to touch the sleepers face before they went to sleep ? If they didn't is this a sexual assault ? Should the easily offended be calling for this song to be banned too ?
I say yes purely because I don't like the song, nothing to do with the lyrics.

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21-12-2017 06:23PM

I'll tell you.

Toby Mortimer wrote it about his brother who committed suicide.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!11one

fryup · 21-12-2017 06:23PM

harmless,

if he touched her fanny ...now that would be a different matter

bear1 · 21-12-2017 06:24PM

The song is about the singer's brother committing suicide...
The lyric you are quoting is when the brother is dead.

Harry Palmr · 21-12-2017 06:30PM

Well done OP - played a blinder there.

Ol' Donie · 21-12-2017 06:31PM

Mystery Egg wrote: »

I'll tell you.

Toby Mortimer wrote it about his brother who committed suicide.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!11one

So the oft repeated story goes.

If I was a cynic, I might suggest calling his brother "baby" is a bit of a stretch, but if Christmas church bells were what's required to get the full emotion across, then I reckon it stands up.

What's the line about a final kiss? That's his brother too?

Now that I think of it, it's kinda made for a one of the Jedwards, if anything ever happened to the other one.

daveyeh · 21-12-2017 06:34PM

bear1 wrote: »

The song is about the singer's brother committing suicide...
The lyric you are quoting is when the brother is dead.

Baby if you've got to go away
I don't think
I can take the pain
Won't you stay another day
Oh don't leave me alone like this
Don't say it's the final kiss

Must've been very close.

Junkyard Tom · 21-12-2017 06:35PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2KwQ4eM2A

spindex · 21-12-2017 06:38PM

Mystery Egg wrote: »

I'll tell you.

Toby Mortimer wrote it about his brother who committed suicide.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!11one

So there is a necrophilia element to the song, this gets worse

fryup · 21-12-2017 06:40PM

bear1 wrote: »

The song is about the singer's brother committing suicide...
The lyric you are quoting is when the brother is dead.

yep, thats what they claimed years later...kinda like Paul McCartney peddling that malarky about Blackbird being about black civil rights :rolleyes:

diomed · 21-12-2017 06:49PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4mmyUFAEtA

Professor Moriarty · 21-12-2017 06:51PM

Rubberchikken · 21-12-2017 06:52PM

Touch my face while im sleeping - get a black eye

Jerichoholic · 21-12-2017 06:53PM

'Gonna lock her up in a trunk'

Put Cliff Richard in prison.

Colonel Claptrap · 21-12-2017 06:54PM

Well this is awkward

Jerichoholic · 21-12-2017 06:56PM

Specialun · 21-12-2017 07:06PM

totes awks for the OP

brainfreeze · 21-12-2017 07:22PM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

So the oft repeated story goes.

If I was a cynic, I might suggest calling his brother "baby" is a bit of a stretch, but if Christmas church bells were what's required to get the full emotion across, then I reckon it stands up.

What's the line about a final kiss? That's his brother too?

Now that I think of it, it's kinda made for a one of the Jedwards, if anything ever happened to the other one.

It's from the horses mouth himself, the verses are about his brother, and he tried to make the song ambiguous because he wanted it to mean whatever the listener wanted it to mean. So the fact that most people assume its a breakup song, that's deliberate. Church bells were added by the studio so it could enter the xmas market (according to wikipedia).

Full quote:

“Over time I started to put together the story and I wrote it in a different way to any song I’d written before,” he explained. “It’s a different way of writing because they were just sections of statements, rather than a verse being a story from beginning to end.

If you take the first verse, it was just sections like ‘Don’t you know we’ve come too far now just to go and try to throw it all away’ and ‘I’ve only just begun to know you, all I can say is won’t you stay another day.’ It was all based on conversations I’d had with my brother and I was trying to change it into a love song about the end of a relationship.

I wanted to write in an ambiguous way that would mean a lot to a lot of people. It was a bit of a risk as I didn’t know how well it was going to go down, but I wanted the lines to mean something to everyone. Yes there’s my story in there but, more importantly, I wanted it to reach people. Once people connect with a line in a song, that’s what makes a hit."

PeterParker957 · 21-12-2017 07:50PM

If we get on to Come On Eileen im outta here !!!!

server down · 21-12-2017 07:50PM

It’s a good song. E 17 were a fierce rough looking boy band though. Although they had talent.

padd b1975 · 21-12-2017 07:58PM

server down wrote: »

It’s a good song. E 17 were a rough looking boy bags though. Although they had talent.

Didn't one of them manage to run over himself with his own car?

Now that's real talent!

Jerichoholic · 21-12-2017 08:35PM

One of them had talent, the others seemed to just point at their own faces.

I touch your face while you are sleeping

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