Club
America
I ride into your town on a big black trojan horse
I'm looking to have some fun
Some kind of trigger-happy intercourse
"Club America salutes you" says the girl on the door
"We accept all major lies
We love any kind of fraud
So go on in and enjoy...
Go on in and enjoy!!!"
I'm
buying for my bright new friends
Blue Suzannes all round
And my mood is heavily pregnant...
Yeah you're right
I couldn't help but notice your icy blue eyes
They've been burning two holes in the sides of my head
Since the second i arrived
And
it's not too hard to guess from your stick-on stars
And your canary feather dress
Your hair in such a carefully careless mess
That you're really trying very hard to impress
You're
such a wonderful person living a fabulous life
Sensational dazzling perfectly sized
Such a wonderful person living a fabulous life
Sharing it with me in Club America tonight...
So
we talk for a while about some band you saw on tv
But I don't listen to you and you don't listen to me
Yeah it's an old routine but it's a very special part of the game
And you don't really care what I call you at all
When I can't quite remember your name
And
it's not too hard to guess from your stick-on stars
And your canary feather dress
The way you're so carefully couldn't care less
That you're really trying very hard to impress
You're
such a wonderful person living a fabulous life
Sensational dazzling perfectly sized
Such a wonderful person living a fabulous life
Sharing it with me tonight
Yeah you're a wonderful person living a fabulous life
Fantastic divine and thrillingly bright
Such a wonderful person living a fabulous lie
With me in club america tonight...
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Robert
on 'Club America'...
JR:
I wanted to ask you about "Club America." What would inspire a
song like that?
RS: I came over here to New York in the summer of '94 with Perry, 'cause
I wanted to watch the football matches, the World Cup. So Depeche Mode were
playing, and Perry's brother Daryl, who now works for us, but who was working
for them at the time, and I just went out with them in New York... .
JR: To all the places with velvet ropes, huh? Judging from the song.
RS: Well, yeah, it's really weird how they do it. It's so different to how
we do it. The stretch limos and the VIP'- you don't have any fun in VIP
rooms. We're going to a club; that's the whole point. But we were going
to various places and getting really seriously a lot of attention, and I
don't get that at home if I go out. i just don't get any attention at all.
'Cause I'm really just sort of left alone. "Oh yeah, there's that bloke
with the funny haircut." But um, I played up to it then an awful lot
more than I should have, and on the plane home, I wrote the song, because
I was trying to, like, explain it away to myself. It's ironic, you know.
I've had this photo taken with these celebrities, and I was there, and I
did that, and I was full of self loathing! And that song is not anti-the
girl in the "canary feather dress," it's actually anti-me because
I was part of it. (How 17 Seconds Of Fame Turned Into Two Decades Of Stardom,
The Big Takeover #40, Jack Rabid)
"Being on tour/ any night out!"
(Cure News 18 - October 1997)
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