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PostPosted: 15 May 2008, 01:45 
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1. what does "mandylion" mean?
2. is "my electricity" about sex?

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 Post subject: Re: two questions
PostPosted: 15 May 2008, 17:34 
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Mandylion = the shroud of Turin, a pice of fabric that would have been by Jesus to dry his face and where a print of his face actually remains

My Electricity: Anneke told during Live in The Living Room it was about a romance she had with the guitar player of I cant remember which US metal band... But well it was about 1.5 year ago and in Dutch so maybe I misunderstood it LOL

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I always took My Electricity in a literal sense, a song from a girl lying in a grass field and feeling her humanity, the contact with the world... it sounds more poetic to me. I'm staggered cause not so long ago I (believed I) had realised TG was so much about love and feelings without ever talking about physical love, and I kinda thought this was a wonderful thing (if you understand).

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I'm a bit agree with you Burn. I've read (don't remember where) that Anneke wrote this song for her boyfriend who were far away... :wink:

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I also thought "My Electricity" was about... touching herself... and what it comes as the result of doing that.

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Hel wrote:
I'm a bit agree with you Burn. I've read (don't remember where) that Anneke wrote this song for her boyfriend who were far away... :wink:


"I agree a bit with you Burn. I've read (don't remember where) that Anneke wrote this song for her boyfriend who was far away..."

@ tenebris: Yum :wink: .

For me it's more about how when you make love you feel the other's person "electricity."

Anyway, it definitely has a sexual connotation IMO 8) .

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Héhé! Thanks to correct me... my english is not so bad but I made mistakes sometimes. :wink:
I think the same for this song as well as I wrote in my last message.

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Location: Next door to that other neighbor of yours who always gives strange looks but never says anything...
hmmm,

I'd have to say that I'd never thought of this song in a sexual way these past 9 years... :o
I suppose it kinda makes sense though to look at it from that angle...
though it kinda ruins the song for me a little, hehe.


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tenebris wrote:
I also thought "My Electricity" was about... touching herself... and what it comes as the result of doing that.


mmm .. I never liked this song too much (video is really boring btw)..... but you mean it's a masturbation song... and it's an anneke's song.. wow!.. I can imagine to her doing some.. :o :roll: 8) :tw: ......, ok I gotta listen to it... :wink:

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Hel wrote:
Héhé! Thanks to correct me... my english is not so bad but I made mistakes sometimes. :wink:
I think the same for this song as well as I wrote in my last message.


*Thanks for correcting me... my English is not so bad but I make mistakes sometimes*

No problem, it's my job :D .

@ Coyote: ¡Eres un pervertido!... (you pervert)... Hehe just kidding.

Wait I actually thought the exact same thing... :oops: :lol: (so I guess that makes us both Latino guys perverts hehe :lol: ).

Anneke is really pretty anyhow, both physically and as a person :P .

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pervert??!... me?!!!... naaah... I just have a very active imagination... :roll: 8) :wink:

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It could be about self estimulation or about an orgasm... somehow a sexual thing. IMHO.

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pervert??!... me?!!!... naaah... I just have a very active imagination... :roll: 8) :wink:


:lol: :lol: :lol: yeah me too. Did you check the link of my signature? Visit http://www.metalicos.com will you? :D There are actually a few TG reviews there.

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