i wanna be yours

 

I Wanna Be Yours is very different from a lot of the poems that have been analyzed on Poem Analysis. I Wanna be Yours is is the perfect companion to JCC's poetry collections, Ten Years in an Open-necked Shirt, The Luckiest Guy Alive and his many CDs including Word of Mouth, Snap, Crackle and Bop and This Time It's Personal. Even if you can't travel abroad, take an extraordinary journey on John Cooper Clarke's magic carpet, each of its 320 pages and photographs an absolute delight. But when the “Big Life” arrived, he struggled to cope. Compassion. It's come to my attention that it's the wedding favourite. Later, having caught the attention of Buzzcocks’ Howard Devoto, Clarke opened for local punk acts, his spleen-venting, pop culture-referencing verse chiming with their youthful, up-yours attitude. John Cooper Clarke. Please enable Cookies and reload the page. Follow @genius Forward. About “I Wanna Be Yours” John Cooper Clarke, poet and national treasure, recorded this poem in 1982. Themes. Championed by Tony Wilson and John Peel, he went on to perform with the Sex Pistols, the Fall, Elvis Costello and Richard Hell & the Voidoids. Mad anecdotes and whimsical gags abound, but wisdom often lurks beneath the wordplay. Most of Clarke’s poetry is rhythmic and can be set to music. His work has appeared on GCSE papers, his poem “Evidently Chicken Town” featured on The Sopranos and, Covid-19 notwithstanding, he still tours. I Wanna Be Yours is published by Picador (£20). Once out of hospital, he was sent to Rhyl to stay with an uncle and take in the sea air. “Like all artists I have a delicate ego,” he writes, “and what I require from an audience is a unanimous display of carefully considered adulation.”. [Intro] Cm - Fm - Gm Cm - Fm - Gm [Verse 1] Cm I wanna be your vacuum cleaner Fm Gm breathing in your dust Cm I wanna be your Ford Cortina Fm Gm I will never rust Cm If you like your coffee hot Fm Gm let me be your coffee pot Cm You call the shots babe Fm Gm I just wanna be yours [Chorus] Fm Gm Secrets I have held in my heart Cm Fm are harder to hide than I thought Fm Gm Maybe I just wanna … You’d actually have to be some kind of monster, a sociopath, for it not to devastate your personality.” Clarke had been using amphetamines since his teens but, after trying heroin, there was no going back. In terms of complexity, it is simplistic. Style. Clarke has chronicled his life and career in a sprightly memoir, I Wanna Be Yours, from his postwar childhood in Salford, blighted by tuberculosis, to establishment credentials. Kitchen Sink Genre- Ordinary. Clarke has his unreconstructed moments – there is jovial mention of “whores” and “nancy-boys” – but any mockery is at his own expense. 2017-10-01T15:22:12Z Comment by imafireball2. This isn’t a poem where the poet is “showing off” more a poem full of honesty. 2020-01-15T08:02:51Z Comment by aebaddies. "http":"https";t.getElementById(r)||(n=t.createElement(e),n.id=r,n.src=i+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js",s.parentNode.insertBefore(n,s))}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); Personal. But then, in the late 80s, he dropped out of sight, undone by a heroin addiction that he had been trying to hide for more than 15 years. To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com. Like his poetry, his prose style is wry and dry. Early on he realised that, in order to get paid, he would need to combine his way with words with live entertainment. Relationships. I apologize that I haven't been posting for a very long time, I'll try to be active if I can. //]]>, Sorry, we have to make sure you're a human before we can show you this page. 2019-08-27T13:49:09Z Comment by eve. When the teenage John Cooper Clarke announced he wanted to be a poet, his alarmed parents asked for examples of people who had made a living from it. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer Average Guy- Not rich-Working class. I Wanna Be Yours is written in the clear, down-to-earth, witty, gritty style that make his poems sing - those familiar with his delivery, from furious pace to long-drawn out Mancunian vowels and devilish wordplay, will read with his distinctive voice in their head (I look forward to returning and listening to the audiobook read by Dr Clarke). 1980 ) – and published poetry collections the wordplay very long time, I 'll to! 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