B*Witched - C'est La Vie
B*Witched c'est la vie in a bizarre way actually inspired this site 2 years ago. Dave has a look at the lyrics and goes forth and multiplies.
ah ohh hey hey X2
hey you sittin in your tree
mummy always wants you to come for tea
don't be shy, straighten up your tie
get down from your tree house in the sky
An interesting bit of dialogue is taking place here. The jist seems to be that the girls of B*witched (odd spelling I know) or a girl is appealing for a boy to come over for tea and crumpets. The situation is made a little more out of the ordinary by the fact the boy is in a tree. I don't know why he is in a tree, he could enjoy the view, he might be one to partake in the odd prank, which involves dropping water balloons on people's heads from the branches, or in a cynical turn, he might be trying to injure himself to claim compensation off the council parks and planning department. I am assuming however that he has a tree house and it's a boy's only tree house (it's funny how gay we are as children).
Two further things are also established. Firstly that the boy favors overly formal attire, as he is wearing a tie, and knowing what it's like to be a young boy (I really do honestly) tie's are not something you tend to wear out of choice. I'm guessing then that his parents enforce a strict dress code, or he's a bit of an eccentric. Either way I can see why he's reluctant to get out the tree as if any of his peers can get to him they will probably beat him up. Secondly, the girl has no sense of perspective as it appears as if the boy is high in the sky and unless he's built his tree house in a sequoia I doubt he will be that high up.
i wanna know, just what to do
is it very big is there room for two?
i got a house with windows and doors
i'll show you mine if you show me yours
What seems to be happening now is that the girl trying to weasel her way into the boy's treehouse. This is a pretty girly thing to do I'll be honest and one of my friends fell afoul of this problem at the Reading Festival one year, when a girl claimed squatting rights on his tent, after some confusion, but that's another story. The girl is clearly from an affluent or rather stupid family as she makes a big thing about her house having windows and doors. Which begs the question can houses actually function without these? I'm sure it could maybe without windows but without doors how can you get in it in the first place? Surely not having doors defeats the purpose of a house, or a building in general for that matter?
gotta let me in
hey, hey, hey
let the fun begin
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey
i'm the wolf today
hey hey hey
i'll huff, i'll puff
i'll huff i'll puff i'll blow you away
How old are these kids, and what the hell is going on here? At first it sounds like the girl is demanding to be let in, and we've all heard what people do sitting in trees. A little mature for the under-12 market that this song is aimed for to say the least. Then the situation becomes a little more surreal as the girl suddenly decides to play a game involving the plot of the three little pigs, where she is the wolf. The last couple of lines don't leave much to the imagination either...
say you will, say you won't
say you'll do what i don't
say your true, say to me
C'est la vie
Are they taking the piss? First of all the girl tries to play very strange mind games with the boy (and judging from my experiences with women this isn't all that uncommon) by asking him to give too contradictory answers, then to do the opposite of her then to pledge his eternal soul to her. This is the worst game of Simon-Says (incidentally why is it called Simon-Says? Who the fuck is Simon anyway and why is he telling us what to do?) EVER! Then for no reason whatsoever the girl philosophies about the human condition in French?
Do you play with the girls,
play with the boys
do you ever get lonely playin with your toys?
we can talk, we can sing
i'll be the queen and you be the king
Is this sexual orientation twenty questions? I know I'm probably reading into this too much but still, how often do you get asked this. Also the playing with the toy comment is totally unsubtle. Anyway innuendo aside, the girl plans to stage a dastardly coup and set up a royalist ruling system with herself as queen and kindly invites the boy to be the king. The answer to this is never divulged but considering we've heard nothing of this coup I'd assume they failed.
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