Song Name: The Shadow
Artist: DEVO
Album: Total DEVO
Year: 1988
Run Time: 3:25
Writing Credits: Gerald V. Casale / Mark Mothersbaugh
Sung By: Gerald V. Casale
Trivia / Info:
- The chorus of this song is lifted directly from the famous poem The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot. [1]
- "Reverend Jimmy and Tammy Belle" are not-so-subtle references to televangelist Jimmy Bakker and wife Tammy Faye, founders of Heritage USA. Mr. Bakker was currently facing indictment on numerous fraud charges when the album was released, and in 1989 he was found guilty and jailed.
- (The lyrics point out that all people have innate negative behavioral influences, not just people with publicized scandals.)
Onstage Behavior: This was never played live.
Lyrics:
- dr jekyll
- and mr hyde
- a real nice guy with a n-n-n-n-nasty side
- in trouble
- he tried to hide from himself
- good gawd
- sad man
- couldn't face up to the yin and the yang
- everybody
- all of us got a shadow
- who knows what lurks
- in the hearts of men
- the shadow
- knows we become what we do
- not what we pretend
- between the intention
- and the expression
- between the emotion
- and the response
- falls the shadow
- sometimes i fail to follow through
- on things that i want to do
- and other times i find myself
- doing the very things i hate
- reverend jimmy
- and tammy belle
- big time pumpers with a story to sell
- wait a minute
- their finger's pointin' at you
- pay attention
- listen up
- don't try to deny it or cover it up
- everybody
- all of us got a shadow
References:
- ↑ Shmoop com. "The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot." Text of the Poem.
External Links:
- "The Shadow" (lyrics) -- AllMusic