Everything I've Got...

So I'm nursing a headcold and listening to Ed Kuepper and reminicing the concert I went to a while ago and thinking...this song 'Everything I've Got Belongs To You' is really quite weird. Ed's a closet feminist, methinks - he likes to subvert mysoginist paradigms and call their faults through irony/paradox - for example:



can't say I've ever met a mail order bridegroom...but what weirds me out is that it was this song (Everything I've Got Belongs to You) that couples smooched and swayed to, stared lovingly at one another to and generally lit lighters and whoopwhoop in support of...

But if you read the lyrics, basically what he is saying is 'I'll be a complete bastard to you but I'll let you use my stuff'. Well, woopydoo: I'm sorry Mr Kuepper but I'm not won over! Do we just love him for his brutal honesty? The catchy tune? Or is it that brutality on some level is acceptable in the Aussie psyche? Or are people just so drunk by the encore that their romantic anthem standards drop way way down?

I've designs on you that come from dirty books
I would lie to you if that is what it took
I can act out of spite
And those times ain't few
And everything I've got belongs to you
Yeah everything I've got belongs to you

I come by for you and take you by the wrist
You might well boohoo there might be that risk
To let you off of the hook
That just wouldn't do
Cause everything I've got belongs to you
Yeah everything I've got belongs to you

I don't care who's wrong or right
I'll just start another fight
You get yours, can't you see
You always get your comeuppance with me

Now, time has proved I'm churlish and I'm rude
And I find a real contentment in bad moods
And because it's all true,
There's nothing to do
Cause everything I've got belongs to you
Yeah everything I've got belongs to you

I don't care who's wrong or right
I'll just start another fight
You get yours, can't you see
You always get your comeuppance with me

Now, time has proved I'm churlish and I'm rude
And I find a real contentment in bad moods
And because it's all true,
There's nothing to do
Cause everything I've got belongs to you

Yeah everything I've got belongs to you
Everything I've got belongs to-
Everything I've got belongs to-
Everything I've got belongs to-
Everything I've got belongs to you