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Originally Posted by kittensXLI
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water!!!
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"Down the hill fell Jack and Jill
And you came tumbling after
'Cause of original sin"
It is literally almost the same line. I am not going to say that Belly Belly Nice has extrodinary lyrics, because it doesn't - but it has lyrics for what the song's message intends. Everyone gets so caught up in two to three lines that they complete erase themselves from other good lines, and other brilliant parts of music.
I know people are caught up on the "Jack and Jill" and "Belly Jelly"
But in the same vein;
"When the juice is drippin' off your chin, one peach is not enough"
and
"All the light that shines up, the gift that everyone has for the taking. And happiness, so pure as this, is surely worth the making"
Are pretty good lines when dealing with the song's subject.
Away from the lyrics, I think this song hits the EXACT way Too Much and What Would You Say had. This song is so much more Too Much and WWYS than it is SMLAM.
There are syncopated jams, but not syncopated to the point where you'd expect a Conductor to jump on stage (kind of like SMLAM) - the range each member has in this song is brilliant. Everyone shines, EVERYONE. The song was meant to and should have been meant to revolve around the guitar riff. It's addicting and creative. I love how Lillywhite kept it just the Riff, beat and Vocals at first, as the song progresses you hear everyone come in at the time they want to come in at.
At one point you have both horns squaring off against each other in the left channel, Boyd blasting in the right channel - Carter double bass in both channels - and that riff still hits you in the face.
Because of some "off" lyrics - this song gets a bad rap that it doesn't deserve.