Rainbow Language (Is For Losers)
Rainbow Language (Is For Losers)
Serialising the album Status by @meljoann:
Track 1
“This song is rooted in growing up queer, when rural Ireland was still very much theocratic. I came out in 1996, which is pretty early when you realise being gay was decriminalised in 1992.
Before it was a song, it was an experimental short story. A leprechaun-like hoarder of gold: to me it represents the power & wealth origins of religious oppression, and situates the whole thing in cultural cringe. The video is the most ‘blasphemous’ thing I’ve ever done (in public, that is). I like to make things appear as ridiculous as they really are: it saps their power.”
– Quote by Meljoann in an article for The Thin Air
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Lyrics
In spite of what they all said to me
I’m jogging on with my allergies
I had to run higher, higher to me
I gotta move fire, fire too
He was no bigger than a rat
His hoard of gold was hidden in a hole
Just beyond the sea
I can’t control what you done to me
The fear of when they looked, but didn’t see
Beggars and infanticide
Because your father don’t know how to die
Oh. Ooh.
You said the rainbow
We’re not supposed to know
Under the rainbow
Is where the losers go
You said the rainbow
We’re not supposed to know
Under the rainbow
Is where the losers go
