X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents

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I know you're antiseptic
Your deodorant smells nice
I'd like to know you
But you're deep frozen like ice
He's a germ free adolescent
Cleanliness is her obsession
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away, scrub away
Scrub away the SR way
You may get to touch her
If your gloves are sterilised
Rinse your mouth with Listerine
Blow disinfectant in her eyes
Her phobia is infection
She needs one to survive
It's her built-in protection
Without fear she'd give up and die

Send "Germ Free Adolescents" Ringtone to Cell


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Track duration: 03:11


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    General Comment:SR Toothpaste ad from 1955 on youtube:
    youtube.com/…

    Pertinent.
    Flag squarewaveon January 10, 2013   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:O.C.D.
    I love this song.
    Flag callanon June 22, 2006   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Whose slogan/advert at one tiome was "brush away, the SR way"
    Flag iamtheowlon May 16, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:The SR way refers to SR toothpaste.
    Flag iamtheowlon May 16, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:I have long felt that this was one of the most beautiful songs ever written. I have known people like this -- nominally terrified of disease, but really terrified of human contact. It's a method of control. There's a bit of ambiguity in the last line: does she need a phobia, or an infection to survive? My suspicion, and it is only a suspicion, is that s.r. must mean "state recommended."
    Flag asstronauton October 05, 2005   Link

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