So I have been listening to the Scissor Sisters lately, and I had them in my head whilst listening to "Night Bugs" for the millionth time.

For some reason, "Duncan" reminded me of "Take Your Mamma Out," and I got to thinking: wouldn't it be so cool if Duncan was about a queer man running away?

I know it seems silly, but can't you see it? I have this little story in my head now.

"Whatever happened to Duncan?
He was a good boy they say
The girls all wanted him to dance with,
The boys to play, to play"

Hehe, much like the protagonist in the SSisters song.

Oh, and:

"Well the army never turned his crank
But love sure made him brave"

Maybe a tongue-in-cheek reference to don't ask don't tell? A man finally fighting for his ability to love? Haha. :P

I am not saying that "Duncan" is a queer song (although who really knows), but I love how the mind wanders sometimes.

[b:fb39a652c8]Which brings me to my question[/b:fb39a652c8]: do you have your own little stories for any Sarah songs? Show me the fruit on your trees, Passioneers!

[quote:c39ecad550="liposeduction"]SI got to thinking: wouldn't it be so cool if Duncan was about a queer man running away?

I know it seems silly, but can't you see it?[/quote:c39ecad550]

I never knew that this song was about until last week. Sarah said it's about the "perfect man" :wink:

I actually listened to this song in a literal sense. Just a boy growing up and how he found/left love.

Cameron Bay.

I had always pictured `Duncan` about a boy who went AWOL from the army, and then went on this huge adventure, meeting the most peculiar people. I always pictured it in a melodramatic fashion, with a musical dance break. I'm weird like that though... kind of almost like a "Princess Bride" spoof.



[b:c99724a7bf]"Eliot"[/b:c99724a7bf] always reminds me of "Good Morning, Midnight" for some reason. I always think of a french male gigalo when she's speaking about Eliot. I know it really is about the poet.. but I always picture a sauve yet skeezy french male gigalo. He'd be drinking wine and drawing these paintings that he throws up in the air and out of his window. So yeah.. in the short sense.. Eliot= french artsy male gigalo.

[b:c99724a7bf]
Sweetones[/b:c99724a7bf] when I first heard it I thought it was a sassy song about seducing :/ Like a Sarah Slean "booty call". HHAA. I guess I was wrong on that one.

Duncan is my favourite song but I never thought of it in taht way. I always interpreted it literally. I see it as a song about a guy who finds love and will do anything for it, including going AWOL. To me, it's about the absurdity of war and hope.

I recently saw "Un Long Dimanche Des Fian�ailles" which made me think of Duncan in terms of themes. It's from one of my favourite directors, Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Definitely worth a watch.

[quote:ddf11fb264="preciousthings"][b:ddf11fb264]"Eliot"[/b:ddf11fb264] always reminds me of "Good Morning, Midnight" for some reason. I always think of a french male gigalo when she's speaking about Eliot. I know it really is about the poet.. but I always picture a sauve yet skeezy french male gigalo. He'd be drinking wine and drawing these paintings that he throws up in the air and out of his window. So yeah.. in the short sense.. Eliot= french artsy male gigalo.
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Bonjour mon Ryn doux, un tel plaisir de faire votre connaissance. Mon nom est Eliot. :P


...jim

Hehe. Well Duncan is actually about a draft dodger, if you factor in the lyrics with her use of it as somewhat of a rally song during some fo the shows around the Iraq war. I believe that when Sarah referred to him as the perfect man, well, it works too. He is a great person in general but was forced to flee town to avoid the draft, kinda highlights the ironies and tragedies of war and the draft in general.


It's funny, though, liposeduction, that you say that. I never thought of it that way until the Toronto and Hamilton shows, and for some strange reasont that exact approach came to me... Not that I think that's what she wrote it about, but the song still applies to that concept! At least, that's what was on my mind

I got home from church when I heard it the first time, and the homily was about when you ask a girl to dance you had to go up the steps to ask the girl to dance and there was always dead silence and if she said no there was rowdyness and if she said yes there was rowdyness too. That's what I have in my head for the chorus. Reminds me a little bit of ''Mother'' by Tori Amos. Just the color of the song.

regardless of the interpretation, Duncan freaking ROCKS!!

Especially the acoustic version Sarah did on the recent tour.


...jim

[quote:0abfc0d3c5="joleary"]regardless of the interpretation, Duncan freaking ROCKS!!

Especially the acoustic version Sarah did on the recent tour.


...jim[/quote:0abfc0d3c5]

When I first heard her play Duncan in Sudbury it honestly was a song that broke my heart... but in a good way, it was (and still is) one of my absolute favourite songs.

I heard an account that this story was based on a dream of Sarah's. Duncan being madly in love with the maryors daughter (B). He gets called off to war and when they are seperated it makes both of them sick.

Hymmmmmmmmm reminds me of the story of Cold Mountain.

Cameron Bay.

This was the first Sarah song I ever heard and I heard it about a month before Nightbugs came out. What a painful month that was not being able to hear that wonderful song again. When I did get to buy nightbugs I listened to Duncan a million times over.

[quote:a8db7e9f38="joleary"]Especially the acoustic version Sarah did on the recent tour. [/quote:a8db7e9f38]

I think an acoustic version of any piano-driven Sarah originals would be a delight to hear.
It'd be like a brand new song all over again.

It took me a while to get used to the guitar version, but I love it.

[quote:5fd0db49cd="pazu322"]I think an acoustic version of any piano-driven Sarah originals would be a delight to hear.
It'd be like a brand new song all over again.[/quote:5fd0db49cd]

Actually, any version of any song by sarah would be a treat...


...jim

True indeed. I have no doubt that when Sarah returns on tour, any existing song that she does will have a different spin from what we've heard before.