danatheb: I had NO IDEA.

danatheb (

danatheb) wrote,
@ 2008-02-04 13:55:00

I had NO IDEA.
It's no secret that I love love love the Kenny Rogers song "The Gambler". And with god as my witness, until I saw this, (which is kind of horrible and creepy, so be warned) I had NO IDEA the Gambler in the song DIES!!! Which apparently EVERYONE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD knew other than me, and I can not wrap my brain around the fact that the non gambler character in the song (which I'm thinking is supposed to be Kenny himself) is just sitting there WITH A CORPSE! I think that I might, you know, CALL THE CONDUCTOR OVER the moment The Gambler started his downward spiral towards DEATH and not just sit there ruminating in song.

GOD!

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	hoosier_red 2008-02-04 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	Okay, I gotta know -- how did you interpret the lines, And somewhere in the darkness The gambler he broke even But in his final words I found An ace that I could keep. (Reply to this)(Thread)

lisa_e_is_me
2008-02-04 07:43 pm UTC (link)

I never thought about the words that way, either. Same way I managed to think 'Coward of the County' was sort of a happy little song, based solely on the music and not the lyrics. I was a kid, so that's my excuse. Just recently I considered the words to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and thought wow...weird song for a small child to worship when you break it all down into reality, but man, wee little me thought that was the best song EVER!

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	danatheb 2008-02-04 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	PEOPLE GET OFF TRAINS!! I always figured one of them had gotten to the station, said goodbye and that was that! They parted companionable new acquaintances! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jenzieg 2008-02-04 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	Do not feel bad. I had no idea, either! I just thought he fell asleep until the train stopped. (Reply to this)(Thread)

lisa_e_is_me
2008-02-04 08:18 pm UTC (link)

Maybe it's because I only liked the song rather than loved it, but I was actually surprised to find out they were even on a train at all...I had no recollection of that part. I must have only cared about the chorus back in the day, because I'd always envisioned The Gambler at a poker game, and definitely not DEAD.

Kenny Rogers may have looked all nice and smiley, but his songs were scary, man. SCARY!

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	tuff517 2008-02-04 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I think he died in his sleep. But maybe when they got to the station, that's when it was realized. Then he wrote a song about it that taught us all a grand life lesson. I guess I wasn't very sheltered when I was a child because I got all of the bad nuances in country songs. Well, most songs, like "Run Joey Run". That song scared me. (Reply to this)(Thread)

lisa_e_is_me
2008-02-04 08:32 pm UTC (link)

Holy! I'd never heard of "Run Joey Run", so I went to look up the lyrics, and...man - I'm so glad I never heard that as a child! Not that I would have had a clue that she was pregnant, but I still would have been traumatized that her own diddy done killed 'er!

I guess country music in general isn't altogether subtle, but I still was pretty dense about it all back then.

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	danatheb 2008-02-04 08:34 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't know that song either! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tuff517 2008-02-04 08:36 pm UTC (link)
	It's probably because my mom was 19 when I was born, I had an aunt that was only 10 years older than me and my parents and their siblings were hippies! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Honest to god danatheb 2008-02-04 08:18 pm UTC (link)
	"the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep"--I thought the guy meant that he owed so much money from gambling to shady mafia types that he preferred death's sweet and speedy embrace!! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: Honest to god danatheb 2008-02-04 08:19 pm UTC (link)
	BUT NOT THAT HE DIED RIGHT THERE ON THE TRAIN!!! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Oh Wow call_me_bryan 2008-02-05 01:45 am UTC (link)
	I remember watching this. Muppets with booze, cigarettes, death and ghosts all rolled into one. Things sure have changed. (Reply to this)

bluelinegoddess
2008-02-05 02:56 am UTC (link)

My parents loved the Beatles, so as I grew up (in the 80's) I got to be a pretty big Beatles fan myself. So much of a fan, in fact, that when I got a dog when I was 11, I named him Maxwell Edison, after "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". My parents never objected to this. I knew the words to the song, but I guess I never really "heard" them or put them all together...

Now, 16 years later, I find it hilarious that I named my dog after a fictional serial killer.

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