Album: The Great Escape Artist (2011)

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• We didn't know that it would blow up
  With such might
  The stars are even brighter
  Contrasted by the night
  
  Sent out the shock waves
  Filled up the outer space
  Even the ghost came
  To the late, late, late show
  Watch us play
  
  Ooh, everything went tossing
  Everyone was talking
  Making up their faces
  Wonder what we look like naked?
  
  Ah, the irresistible force
  Met the immovable object, oh
  Ah, the irresistible force
  Met the immovable object
  
  Banging and banging
  And banging and banging
  And banging together
  
  We've become a big business
  Oh, a galaxy merger
  The two of us a big bang
  Yeah, God is a real man
  God is a dad, God is a dad
  
  Ah, the irresistible force
  Met the immovable object, oh
  Ah, the irresistible force
  Met the immovable object
  
  Banging and banging
  And banging and banging
  And banging together
  
  Ah, the irresistible force
  Met the immovable object, oh
  Some may call me a lucky shot
  No, no, no, but it was not
  
  Banging and banging
  And banging and banging
  And banging
  Banging and banging
  And banging and banging
  And banging together Writer/s: DAVID ANDREW SITEK, DAVID MICHAEL NAVARRO, PERRY FARRELL, STEPHEN ANDREW PERKINS
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 2

• Mike from Tulsa, Oki completely agree and my wife came to the same conclusion. i feel this album seems to be alot about etty and perry. addictions, heroin... mixed with relationship , and its growth for the better. a real inspiration, to recovering addicts, i mean, still having love and family. its nice. great great album. and great comment dan... well thought out
• Dan from New York, NyI like that explanation... Perry's idea of the big bang theory. Makes total sense. But like many of Perry's writing, there are at times double meanings, so I venture to think that just maybe the song is also a love song about him and his wife, Etty. "We didn't know that it would blow up with such might, stars are even brighter" saying they didn't know that it would lead to true love. And then in the chorus, she was the irresistible force that changed his changed him, made him grow up and become a better man. They "[became] a big business, a galaxy merger, two of us a big bang" with marriage and kids (the big bang theory is about the start of life as we know it)... and now "god is a real man, god is a dad" could mean that him becoming a father is like finding God or reaching some sort of enlightenment. Now that is not to mean God literally, but metaphorically happiness or heaven or whatever - besides, the meaning Perry offers is that god is the result of the Big Bang of the Universe... God is creation of life, and we are merely an extension of the Big Bang that spawned the universe. And it's funny how he draws parallels to Had A Dad (a song about the nonexistence of God) when he sings "god is a real man, god is a dad, god is a dad!!!" - it sounds very similar to the line "god is dead!!!" So he is just saying, hey the universe started by a big cosmic sexual encounter and I'm a part of it, and that is what god really is. Anyway, just a thought. -Dan

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