So, I’m sorting out music for my ipod, since I’m sick and I can’t sleep.
AND! AMAZING!
That Mr Mister song from, like, the mid-80’s is named “Kyrie” and I’m thinking “What on earth kind of name is that?” and SO it turns out that a certain lyric is “Kyrie eleison down the road that I must travel”
And NOT, as I had thought for the last 20-ish years “Gimme a laser down the road that I must travel”
And google (which soon will have Don’t Panic stamped on it’s cover) tells me that Kyrie eleison is a pre-christian expression meaning “God Have Mercy”.
Still, if I’m travelling down a road I MUST travel, which implies that you’d rather NOT travel down it, which implies that there will be uncomfortableness or maybe even peril on the aforementioned road … I’d rather keep my laser handy.
June 9, 2004 at 9:08 pm
Having been raised Presbyterian, it never occurred to me that it could have been anything else. Now I wish it had been a laser. That would have been so much cooler.
Also, I wish I’d had a laser during some of those boring Presbyterian services. Especially the bits where we had to sing “Kyrie Eleison” (and not the Mr Mister version, either).
June 10, 2004 at 10:36 am
I dunno, I like singing the Kyrie Elesion, it’s the wishy washy 70’s droning hymns that hurt. And usually there’s like a million verses to go through… Argh.
June 9, 2004 at 9:50 pm
Jeez, haven’t heard that song in ages.
June 16, 2004 at 7:15 am
As well as “Loving it up, Lavita” translates into “Love in an Elevator”, apparently.
I like my version better.
June 25, 2004 at 2:18 pm
I always thought it was “Loving it up, Lavita” too. At least until about 5 years ago!