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Human Animals ＆ Their Songs

Xah Lee, 2005, …, 2011-06

This page is a collection of ~135 song lyrics and commentary, with music videos. In particular, Chinese lyrics are translated, and English lyrics are analyzed with attention to the language, in particular, with respect to ethology and sexuality.

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Blood-line Howls

• Cabaret - Tomorrow Belongs to Me
• The Star Spangled Banner
• Prussian Blue - Victory Day
• Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA

The Ravage of War

• 花样的年华 (Age of Blossom)
• 天涯歌女 (The Wandering Songstress)
• ABBA - Fernado
• The Last Kind Word Blues

In Praise of Breasts, Buttocks, Copulation

• Prince - Kiss
• Cyndi Lauper - She Bop (masturbation)

• My Dick (penis)
• Sheena Easton - My Sugar Walls (pussy)
• Prince - Little Red Corvette (fornication)
• Black Eyed Peas - My Humps (tits and ass)
• No Reason To Be Shy

• Sharon Apple - the Borderline (dripping saliva)
• Liz Phair - Hot White Cum
• Björk - Cocoon (cum eating)
• Björk - Possibly Maybe (ejaculation)
• Björk - Pagan Poetry

The Mating Game

• ABBA - Take a Chance on Me
• Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
• Carly Simon - You're So Vain
• Michael Jackson - Thriller
• Sheena Easton - Strut

• Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
• Rihanna - SOS
• Britney Spears - Womanizer
• Blondie - One Way or Another
• Whatever You Like

Hymns to Sweet Sixteens

• Billy Idol - Sweet Sixteen
• ABBA - Dancing Queen
• 再会吧！十七岁 (Goodbye, Seventeen)
• 南海姑娘 (The South Sea Girl)
• 海韵 (Sea Rhythm)
• 羞答答的玫瑰静悄悄的开 (The Blushing Rose Quietly Blooms)

Dance

• Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away
• Cherish - Do It To It
• Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
• Belle Stars - Iko Iko
• Bedrock - For What You Dream Of
• Andain - Beautiful Things
• ATC - Around The World
• This Is My DJ
• Rihanna - Pon de Replay
• Lady Gaga - Bad Romance ＆ 王彩樺 - 鋩鋩角角
• T-ara - Bo Peep Bo Peep ＆ 王彩樺 - 保庇 BOBEE
• Sugababes - Round Round

• Damn!

Brainless Frenzy

• Watch Out
• Caramel Dancing
• Butterfly DDR

Rap

• hey sexy lady
• Super by RuPaul
• Moloko - Fun For Me
• Weird Al - White ＆ Nerdy

Free Spirit Defiance

• Madonna - Like It Or Not
• Björk - Unison
• Björk - Bachelorette
• Eurythmics - I Need A Man

The Masochistic Wail of Lovelorn Females

• Portishead - Wandering Stars
• Portishead - Glory Box
• Portishead - The Rip
• Portishead - Small
• Mono - Slimcea Girl
• Dido - White Flag
• 诉衷情 (Grievances of Love)
• 痴痴的等 (I Wait For You)
• 谁的眼泪在飞 (Who's Tears Are Flying)
• 哭沙 (Weeping Sand)
• 你看你看月亮的臉 (look! look! the moon's face)
• 棋子 (A Game Piece)

Courtship and Love

The supremacy of sexual love.

• Jennifer Rush - The Power of Love
• 愛人 (My Lvoe)
• 讓愛自由 (Let Love Roam)
• 來自心海的消息 (news from the galaxy of hearts)
• 天使之戀 (Angel Love)
• 彩虹 (Rainbow)
• Karen Mok - 左岸 右转 (Left Bank; Turn Right)

• 高胜美 - 千年等一回 (A thousand-years wait)
• 韩宝仪 - 你瀟灑我漂亮 (You're cool, I'm pretty)
• 萧亚轩 - And I Know
• 邓丽君 - 你可知道我爱谁 (Do You Know Whom Do I Love)
• 邓丽君 - 珊瑚恋 (A Coral Romance)

• 初恋女 (Maiden Love)

Info Era High

• Daisy Bell
• Infomation High
• 王菲 - 光之翼

A Tale To Tell

• David Bowie - Life on Mars
• David Bowie - Space Oddity
• David Bowie - Young Americans
• David Bowie - China Girl
• Janis Joplin - Get It While You Can
• Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz
• Eagles - Hotel California
• Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok
• A Whiter Shade of Pale
• Hip-Hop Rap and the Quagmire of American Blacks
• The Little Mermaid - Poor Unfortunate Souls
• Jessica Rabbit - Why Don't You Do Right
• Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
• Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow
• ABBA - The Day Before You Came
• Michael Jackson - Beat It
• Eurythmics - Missionary Man

The Love and Pain of Human Animals

• 周璇 - 月圆花好
• 邓丽君 - 但願人長久
• 周璇 - 真善美 (Truth, Virtue, Beauty)
• 乾一杯 (A Toast to Friendship)
• Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin

• Elfen Lied (Elven Song)
• Enya - Cursum Perficio
• Llorando (Crying) from Mulholland Drive

The Family

• 吉祥三宝 (the Joyous-Treasures)
• 晶晶 (Jing1 Jing1)

邓丽君 (Teresa Deng) Songs

de facto poems

• 滄海一聲笑 (A Laughter From The Seas)
• 相见欢 (Union Joy)
• 邓丽君 - 胭脂泪 (Girl's Tears)
• 佳人歌 (The Beauty Song)

Unsorted

• Blondie - Dreaming
• Blondie - Heart of Glass

• VNV Nation - Illusion
• Cry For Love (Schrei nach Liebe)
• 21st Century Schizoid Man
• Rammstein - Engel

• Lily Allen - Fuck You Very Much
• 50 Cent - PIMP

• Laura Branigan - Self Control
• Twin Peaks
• James Brown - It's a Man's World
• Madonna - Don't Cry For Me Argentina
• 北京欢迎你

• 胡彦斌 - 红颜 (Beauty)
• 葉蒨文 - 晚风 (Night Breeze)
• 蕭孋珠 - 詩意 (Shiyi)
• 在水一方
• Joey Dyser - 100 years
• 三年二班 (Class Ping Pong)
• 周杰倫 — 夜的第七章 (Jay Chou — Twilight's Chapter 7)

• 王菲 - 開到荼蘼 (Last Bloom)
• 王菲 - 彼岸花 (flower of paradise)
• 王菲 - 流浪的红舞鞋 (Wandering Red Shoes)
• Sarah Brightman - Harem

• 木蘭辭 (Mulan Ballad)
• To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
• Emily Dickinson