Sunday, May 22, 2011

Black & White Boy, Crowded House

I have a theory about the Crowded House song "Black and White Boy", from their 1994 album, Together Alone. I think it's a song about Morrissey - as in The Smiths. Steven Patrick Morrissey.


I may be off since others have their ideas about this song for sure. A strange example is the video here, labelled "Finn the Cat - Black and White Boy".

But I'm sticking to my guns and to my theory that Neil Finn is a Morrissey fan, working out his troubled feelings about him. Who doesn't have troubled feelings toward Morrissey?









Black and white boy
Black and white boy
You're so extreme
You're so confused
Color me in whatever mood I'm in
I could be still in touch with you
And you're full of the wonder of spring
It's all sweetness and lightness you bring
And a room full of people fall to your infinite charm
But when darkness should quickly descend
You go quietly, my miserable friend
To the depths of despair you will crawl
Black and white boy

Black and white boy
Black and white boy
You're so extreme
You're so confused
Color me in Whatever mood I'm in
I could be still In touch with you

When you shake off the shadows of night
And your eyes are so clear and so bright
You'll make fools of the liars and creeps
Put a rose in my cheeks
But when demons have climbed on your back
You are vicious and quick to attack
And you put on a wonderful show
Do you really, really think I don't know?
Black and white boy

And you run like a cat to the cream
And you're acting so nice it's obscene
You put on a wonderful show
Do you really, really think I don't know?
Black and white boy

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