A coffee dessert, yes you know it’s good news,...
Cream tangerine and montelimar,
A ginger sling with a pineapple heart,
A coffee dessert, yes you know it’s good news,
But you’ll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle.
Cool cherry cream and nice apple tart,
I feel your taste all the time we’re apart,
Coconut fudge really blows down those blues,
But you’ll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle.
You might not feel it now
But when the pain cuts through you’re going to know, and how.
The sweat is gonna fill your head,
When it becomes too much you’ll shout aloud,
But you’ll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle.
Know that what you eat you are,
But what is sweet now turns so sour.
We all know ob-la-di-bla-da,
But can you show me where you are.
Cream tangerine and montelimar,
A ginger sling with a pineapple heart,
A coffee dessert, yes you know it’s good news,
But you’ll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle.
Yes you’ll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle.
A ginger sling with a pineapple heart,
A coffee dessert, yes you know it’s good news,
But you’ll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle.
Cool cherry cream and nice apple tart,
I feel your taste all the time we’re apart,
Coconut fudge really blows down those blues,
But you’ll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle.
You might not feel it now
But when the pain cuts through you’re going to know, and how.
The sweat is gonna fill your head,
When it becomes too much you’ll shout aloud,
But you’ll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle.
Know that what you eat you are,
But what is sweet now turns so sour.
We all know ob-la-di-bla-da,
But can you show me where you are.
Cream tangerine and montelimar,
A ginger sling with a pineapple heart,
A coffee dessert, yes you know it’s good news,
But you’ll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle.
Yes you’ll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle.
Lyrics submitted by Ice
Track duration: 02:48
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my sense is that there's not a 'point' to it, but that the candy title theme sends him riffing off in various directions -- sometimes it's food as sex metaphor, like in an old blues song, elsewhere a bit like a love song, and mostly he's moralizing or mock-moralizing. The riffing, free-associative element is a bit Lennon-ish, and even dropping a Beatles reference (Ob-la-di) is taking a trick from the Lennon playbook.
But the moralizing aspect seem more like George, who seems to have written a lot of 'killjoy' songs. Some of them are very good songs ("Taxman"), some aren't ("Only a Northern Song"). But leave it to George to take a box of candy and turn it into a cautionary allegory of sorts.
But can he tell us who he is? Anyway, it's fun for all that, and its 'bitter' side works well with all the bummer-ific stuff on the White Album.
Some of the Clapton stuff may be correct, especially the dentists. However as the line above says but may be missed "good news" was a box of chocolates brand name and pretty much all the fillings are mentioned in the song. I would guess Savoy Truffle was Eric's favorite. Grew up in the UK and ate my fair share of 'good news" Cadbury's is still king!
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1. The obvious meaning is confirmed by Harrison's 1977 quote, "'Savoy Truffle' on The White Album was written for Eric (Clapton). He's got this real sweet tooth and he'd just had his mouth worked on. His dentist said he was through with candy. So as a tribute I wrote, 'You'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy Truffle.' The truffle was some kind of sweet, just like all the rest-- cream tangerine, ginger sling-- just candy, to tease Eric."
2. The song's really about pussy though. Consider: "Cool cherry cream and nice apple tart, I feel your taste all the time we’re apart". Listening to the song with this perspective confirms this interpretation (try it). The song's totally delicious imho. Have fun :)
I'd always gone with the Clapton sweet tooth thing, but I kind of like this idea about it being a comment on Paul's songs