The Velvet Underground – I'm Sticking with You

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  General Comment:Mo's childlike singing goes perfectly with the irony of the song. Here is parable about how our culture glorifies crime and violence in a childrens' ditty. The references to the conflict over vietnam war and the nationalism of the moon landing set the historical period and counterculture mood. [btw the line here is quoted incorrectly. should read "moon people go into the stratosphere"] I love it.
  
  The lyrics here in the first verse are incorrect!
  should be:
  Saw you hangin from a tree
  And I made believe it was me
  
  that is, following the stagecoach robbery, the "you" was caught and hanged from a tree. "you" are dead.
  
  i also like denihilism's interpretation re heroin addiction.

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  General Comment:i always interpreted
  
  "so, you're hangin' from a tree
  and i made believe it was me"
  
  as
  
  "saw you hangin' from a tree
  and i made believe it was me"

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  General Comment:i think this song could be about drug use 'sticking' can mean shooting up and holding up a stage coach could represent crimes someone commits to feed there addiction, hanging from a tree could be suicide, a metaphor for being conscious of your own demise "when we swing we hang past right and wrong" could mean that with that feeling of being 'close to death' you can kind of break the boundaries or go beyond trivial things like popular opinion thus not be affected by things happening around you like "soldiers fighting with the Cong". it is also common for people to get into drugs through peer pressure "I'll do anything for you, anything you want me to"

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  General Comment:This was my best friend's wedding song, played as he and his new bride walked down the aisle. I could hear quite a few chuckles in the congregation as it played.
  
  I love Maureen Tucker's voice. I wish they could have let her sing on more songs...I think "I'll Be Your Mirror" would have sounded great with her on vocals.

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  General Comment:she sings it so innocently, you don't really pay attention to the words but it could be about an interracial couple in the 1960s (if you notice the clues) who want to be together even though society doesn't want them to be together cause of the times

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  General Comment:If you listen to that "saw you hanging from a tree" verse it's a bit sick. She's seeing him as a highwayman who gets hanged & is she sticking with him & being hanged on the next gallows? No, she's making believe, cos she's not as daft as all that!
  I'm with the folks who like Moe's singing. It's an untrained, slightly uncertain voice & it fits this song.

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  General Comment:I quite like this song. Sounds like a lover who can't think for themself, though I think that the aim was to show romance and thankfulness for not being in shitty places (IE Vietnam in the 60's), not blind following
  
  it was quite fitting on the Juno soundtrack

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  General Comment:I actually like her voice in this song. I don't think it would've sounded right if Lou Reed sang it - the same for "After Hours", which she also sang. In fact, I read that Lou Reed said that both songs were too sweet and simple and pleasant for him to sing, that they needed a woman to do it - and who better than Mo, the drummer?
  But anyway, I really like the singing in this song, and I like the simplicity from a band more used to doing more complex songs. They do both equally well, I think.

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    Lou sang After Hours on the Live At Max's Kansas City album, which i think superior to Mo's (I'm not dissing on Mo, I think she's great).

    Flag XZYOEon March 31, 2012  
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  General Comment:i read somewhere that when this song came out it was so popular and sweet that even little kids were singing it in the playground cos its like a nursery rhyme.What i dont get is you people who complain about Moe not being a good singer - she doesnt have to be, it just works so well in the song! think about it - wouldnt all the charm and velvety-undergroundness be ruined if you got, like, this amazingly talented singer instead! yes!!!!you people...grrr....

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  General Comment:and isn't it "saw you hanging from a tree"???

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