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[Darcy James Argue]

> It's also the second example (unless I've lost count) of TRP more or less
> telling us directly to go outside the text to find the lyrics to a song
> (the first song he points us to was "Dancing in the Dark", alluding to the
> lyrics' true meaning, where Scorpia, like most of us reading GR, is "too
> young to know that, like Pirate, what the lyrics to 'Dancing in the Dark'
> are really about" p. 36).

Er, silly me, I thought that was pretty straightforward.  The lyrics to
"Dancing in the Dark" are about sex.  The title alone is enough to tell you
that.  Ditto for other euphemistic hits like "All The Way," "Nice 'N Easy,"
etc.

- Darcy

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