
25.07.88 Copenhagen, Denmark, intro to ´Spare Parts´
´´This, uh....is a song about....a woman struggling to understand
to the value of her own independent existence....and the value of the life of
her child....fighting to put her past behind her....and to find something new
and beautiful and meaningful in her life now....´´
25.07.88 Copenhagen, Denmark, intro to ´Chimes of Freedom´
´´This is one of the....greatest songs about human freedom....ever
written....´´
25.07.88 Copenhagen, Denmark, intro to ´You Can Look´
´´I remember ever since I was a little boy, my mother telling me
that there were things in this world that you can look at....but that you cannot
touch.....I remember crawling across the livingroom floor in my little diaper...going
after that television set and my mama said, uh....´Oh Son, don´t
you touch that thing....oh, Son, don´t you touch that thing.....yeah,
you can look but you can´t touch that thing´...then I remember being
ten years old downtown in a department store....in the toy department going
after one of them little toy soldiers and the saleslady came up to me and said
´Oh Son, don´t you touch that thing.... hey, Son, don´t you
touch that thing.....yeah, you can look but you can´t touch that thing´,
no....then I remember being 17 years old, taking my girlfriend out on a date....took
her in my daddy´s car....took her to a nice little dark place to park....I
turned off the engine....I turned the radio down low....had a couple of little
sips of beer....slipped over to her side of the seat....started whispering some
sweet things in her ear....got my hand on her knee ....whispered a few more
little sweet things....got my hand on her thigh.... whispered that she was my
little turtledove and I was gonna love her forever, wasn´t ever gonna
stop, no matter what happened, if the whole damn world burned down and then
I got my hand a little bit closer....and she said ´Son, don´t you
touch that thing....oh, Son, don´t you touch that thing.....yeah, you
can look but you can´t touch that thing....´´´
25.07.88 Copenhagen, Denmark, intro to ´I´m a Coward´
´´Is there anybody alive out there tonight ? (cheers) is there anybody
that can feel the living, breathing spirit down in their souls out there tonight
? (cheers) that´s good.... because I have a question that I want to ask
you....do we have any brave, courageous Danish men in the audience tonight ?
(cheers) do we have any rough, tough macho men out there ? (cheers) because
I’ve seen men that would swim rivers, that would climb mountains, that
would (?) with the beasts of the jungle but there was one thing that they was
afraid of, that´s right, there was one thing that when they got next to
it....they got scared, that´s right....do you want to know what that one
thing was ?....do you want to know what that one thing was that scared all those
brave men ?....I´m gonna tell you, I´m talking about is L-U-V, I’m
talking about love.....when those brave men got next to love, they ran home
to their mommies just like little babies....now do we have any sweet, courageous,
sexy women out there tonight ? (cheers) do we have any heroic, brave girls out
there in the audience tonight ? (cheers) come on, let me hear you, girls (cheers)
because I’m talking to you too....that´s right....I’ve known
women that when they got next to love, they ran home to their loneliness and
to their isolation....now, I’m not down here just pointing my finger....I´m
down here tonight ´cause I´ve got a confession that I´ve got
to make, I´ve got something I´ve got to get off my shoulders and
what I want to say is I have sinned !....and I am not ashamed....and I don´t
need no Jimmy Swaggert to forgive me, that man can kiss my ass, baby....´cause
what I´m talking about is I´m a brave man if I don´t say so
myself ....but what I´ve got to confess to....what I´ve got to testify
to is.... that I’m a coward when it comes to love, that´s right,
hit me, Max....´´
Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi