Lyrics for Miss Gradenko as interpreted by Demau Senae

Miss Gradenko Lyrics
Don't tell the director I said so
But are you safe Miss Gradenko
We were at a policy meeting
They were planning new ways of cheating
I didn't want to rock your boat
But you sent this dangerous note
You've been letting your feelings show

Are you safe Miss Gradenko?
Miss Gradenko are you safe?
Are you safe Miss Gradenko?
Miss Gradenko are you safe?

Is anybody alive in here?
Is anybody alive in here?
Is anybody at all in here?
Nobody but us in here
Nobody but us in here
Is anybody alive in here?
Nobody but us in here

Your uniform don't seem to fit
You're much to alive in it
You've been letting your feelings show

Are you safe Miss Gradenko?
Miss Gradenko are you safe?

Is anybody alive in here?
Is anybody alive in here?
Is anybody at all in here?
Nobody but us in here
Nobody but us in here
Is anybody alive in here?
Is anybody alive in here?
Is anybody at all in here?
Nobody but us in here
Nobody but us in here
Nobody but us in here
Nobody but us {hang on at end slightly for rapid fade}

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christos
07-03-2005

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who is Miss Gradenko?

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mark36
03-13-2006

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I've always thought of this as some sort of Agatha Christie-meets-the-Golden-Girls song. Although I guess she'd probably be Mrs. Gradenko. Either that or perhaps a kind of "one flew over the cuckoo's nest"-type deal. Hell, I dunno.

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rikdad
09-18-2006

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This song is clearly about a woman inside some sort of organization which subjects its members to dehumanizing uniformity, and otherwise "cheats". It may be an unscrupulous corporation, but the Russian sound of "Gradenko" indicates that this is probably about a Communist governent and a woman inside who is getting too lively for the system to tolerate.

Excellent elaboration on this and other songs at:

http://www.stewartcopeland.net/lyrics/lyrics.htm

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sillybunny
09-22-2006

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[Stephen Holden—Rolling Stone 1983] Stewart Copeland's "Miss Gradenko," a novelty about secretarial paranoia in the Kremlin, is memorable mainly for Summers' modal twanging between the verses.

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sillybunny
09-28-2006

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At least Copeland's contribution is thoroughly better; 'Miss Gradenko' is yet another in a series of those lightweight half-comic numbers Stu is famous for, even if this time around it's kinda disturbing, especially when you hear grim lyrics like 'Is anybody alive in here? Nobody but us in here'. Can't deny the catchiness of the chorus though, not on your life you can't. A lightweight piffle it is, but a necessary lightweight piffle - kinda like 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' on Abbey Road.
[George Starostin]

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zaqwert777
10-31-2008

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I always thought they sounded like Gary Lewis and the Playboys doing this song.

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jim1965
08-28-2009

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My favorite Copeland tune. Some of my favorite guitar work by Andy.

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