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From: jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeffrey C. Burka)
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Subject: Re: Heads We're Dancing
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Date: 18 May 90 20:32:43 GMT
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Try expanding the title to something like "If the penny lands with the 
head up, we are going to dance."

Yeah, I know that's silly, but that's what the title's saying.

KaTe has said in numerous interviews that the song was inspired by a friend
who was at a dinner party with Oppenheimer (daddy of the Bomb).  The friend
and Oppenheimer had a nice conversation, and later, the friend asked
the host who 'that charming man' was...and was shocked and horrified to find
out.

Kate wanted to play with that idea, choosing the one person closest to 
the Devil himself that she could think of--Hitler.  

In the song, the protaganist is at a party, and this charming man comes up
to her and, holding out a penny, says, "Heads we're dancing."

It's not 'til the next morning that the protaganist sees the man's picture
in the morning paper, and she's, well, a wee bit horrified.

Make sense?

"They say that the Devil is a charming man/And just like you I bet he
can dance."

Jeff

|Jeffrey C. Burka                | "On the outskirts of nowhere           |
|jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu   |  on the ringroad to somewhere,         |
|jburka@amber.ucs.indiana.edu    |  on the verge of indecision..." --Fish |