ARF: Notes and Comments: WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH: Oh No

WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH

Oh No

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From: stuart@apollo.HP.COM (stuart) Here are FZ's words, attached to one of his more memorable melodies, written in response to John Lennon & Yoko Ono late 60's deliberately innocent approach to the sorry state of word affairs then ( .. and now). ( Get your hands on a copy "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" to hear this in all its grandeur, with Ray Collins' 'swell vocals'. )

	Oh no I don't believe it You say that you think you know The meaning of love You say love is all we need
From: "W. Kiernan" <WKiernan@concentric.net> OH NO is clearly a parody of John Lennon's "All you need is love":
Love love love Love love love Love love love... All you need is love! Love is all you need.
together George Harrison's "Within you without you":
...With our love With our love We can save the world If _they_ only knew...
Meanwhile Zappa was witnessing the travails of relatively innocent acid heads every day in San Francisco:
...I will love everyone I will love the police as they Kick the shit out of me on the street...
and like everyone else with even an ounce of sense, he recoiled like he'd been electric-shocked at that jejune "they" in that Harrison tune, so to everyone's sincere relief out popped this rather harsh but well-deserved rejoinder:
...And in your dreams You can see yourself As a prophet saving the world The words from your lips I just can't believe you are such A fool
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	You say With your love you can change All of the fools All of the hate I think you're probably Out to lunch
From: chettri@kitune.ec.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp (Deus Ex Machina) "Out to lunch" is the name of a groundbreaking Eric Dolphy album.
From: rickhall@aol.com (Rick Hall) "Out To Lunch" = Out Of Your Mind
IMHO the reference comes from shops, often in rural areas, where the owner closes his shop to get lunch, being the only employee. Thus "Out To Lunch" == "Out Of Buisness"(temporarilly) So when someone make an inane statement, ref. song referred to in song, it is as if the person making the statement has put an "Out To Lunch" sign up, "This Person Not Working"/"Not Thinking"
A good American slang dictionary is probably a necessity to grok Zappa's lyrics.
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	And in your dreams You can see yourself As a prophet Saving the world The words from your lips ... I just believe you're Such a fool
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From: Vladimir Sovetov <sova@kpbank.ru> Get your hands on copy of Roxy too. 'Coze you find there another version of this song named Son of Orange County. And another person trying to fool FZ with the words. This time it seems to be Richard Nixon brought into the world ( as suggested my Songbook footnote ) in Orange County CA. I'M NOT A CROOK!

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