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Rolling Stones - Stray Cat Blues. What is a 'scare-eyed honey'?


Michael

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I´m no expert -in English expressions, I mean :grin:- but I guess she has no "scared eyes"... :P or is no "scare-eyed"... she has no fear, at least that´s what I´ve been thinking since 1969...

Sammy should know... web-filters!! :doh:

Any other English speaking around? :laughing:

I hear the click-clack of your feet on the stairs

I know you're no scare-eyed honey.

There'll be a feast if you just come upstairs

But it's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime

I can see that you're fifteen years old

No I don't want your I.D.

I can see you're so far from home

But it's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime

Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat

Oh yeah, don'tcha scratch like that

Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat

Bet your mama don't know you scream like that

I bet your mother don't know you can spit like that.

You look so weird and you're so far from home

But you don't really miss your mother

Don't look so scared I'm no mad-brained bear

But it's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime

Oh, yeah

Woo!

I bet your mama don't know that you scatch like that

I bet she don't know you can bite like that.

You say you got a friend, that she's wilder than you

Why don't you bring her upstairs

If she's so wild then she can join in too

It's no hanging matter

It's no capital crime

Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat

Oh yeah, don'tcha scratch like that

Oh yeah, you're a strange stray cat

I bet you mama don't know you can bite like that

I'll bet she never saw you scratch my back

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Well, 'scary-eyed' would make sense...in that it would mean someone with wide 'scary' eyes...I've never heard the song, but 'scare-eyed' would not be a common English phrase, but 'scary-eyed' might be...' 'Square-eyed'...was a popular phrase in the 70's and 80's to mean someone who watched too much television....might be appropriate? :crazy:

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It probably means a girl with no fears or inhibitions. She's not afraid to go upstairs

I agree with NYM. She´s a "stray cat", after all... a kind of Lolita... though now I think the lyrics might suggest a rape ("don´t look so scared, I´m not a mad brained bear"...) I still believe it´s the typical ambiguous Stones song.

Where is Sammy?????????

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I forgot I had already posted the lyrics...
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