Thursday, December 11, 2008

Helter Skelter

When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again.
Do you, don’t you want me to love you.

I’m coming down fast but I’m miles above you.
Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer.
Well you may be a lover but you ain’t no dancer.

Helter skelter helter skelter
Helter skelter.
Will you, won’t you want me to make you.
I’m coming down fast but don’t let me break you.
Tell me tell me tell me the answer.
Well you may be a lover but you ain’t no dancer.

Look out helter skelter helter skelter
Helter skelter
Look out, cause here she comes.
When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
And I get to the bottom and I see you again.
Well do you, don’t you want me to make you.
I’m coming down fast but don’t let me break you.
Tell me tell me tell me the answer.
Well you may be a lover but you ain’t no dancer.

Look out helter skelter helter skelter
Helter skelter
Look out helter skelter
She coming down fast
Yes she is yes she is.



- Released November 22, 1968

- Paul McCartney wanted to write the "loudest, nastiest, sweatiest rock number we could" after reading a Pete Townshend interview describing a Who track (possibly "I Can See For Miles") as "The most raucous rock 'n' roll, the dirtiest thing they'd ever done." This was the result. Some historians of popular music now believe that this song was a key influence on the development of heavy metal. McCartney told Mojo magazine October 2008: "Just reading those lines (of the Townshend interview) fired my imagination. I thought, Right, they've done what they think was the loudest and dirtiest; we'll do what we think. I went into the studio and told the guys, 'Look, I've got this song but Pete said this and I want to do it even dirtier.' It was a great brief for the engineers, for everyone- just as fuzzy and as dirty and as loud and as filthy as you can get it is where I want to go. I was happy to have Pete's quote to get me there." Reference

- Helter Skelter, the ride in England, South Wales.
Author's Notes: The sad thing about this song is how people are so easily reminded of Charles Manson and his manic disciples. Charles Manson was nothing more than a lowly, ex-convict song-writer who drugged and manipulated women and men on a forlorn desert ranch. He confused a song about an amusement park ride with "angels" beckoning him to slaughter. First of all, angels, don't whisper into your ears to slaughter others- demons do. (If they even do that at all). Frankly, he'd done too much acid and was frustrated with Dennis Wilson's inability to help him get his songs published. He was a freak and his popularity is not something to behold.

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