According to numerology sites, 10538 is a number combination symbolising prosperity. short-term gain, and a window of opportunity in which great things are possible - but the moment has to be recognised and seen, and otherwise it can pass by bringing trouble and shortage and strife in its wake.

One of Syd Barrett's last songs for the group, before his mental illness issues forced him to leave. He went on to record a solo LP, then retired into reclusion with mental difficulties he never could find a cure from. He died in July 2006, having been quietly supported by the other band members who went on to superstardom.

Most schools in Britain seem to have, or used to have, a fussy officious Scottish teacher on the rolls, as if this is one of that country's major exports. The one who would yell at you in public in the dining room that you had no table manners, or you were being too picky over elements of the school dinner that looked too disgusting to eat, or threaten to with-hold your dessert if you didn't clear your plate of the main course. And if it looked as if you were up to no good or behaving suspiciously at other times in the school day... (At my old school, ours was a one-eyed ex-Army sergeant who taught PE.) THAT sort of teacher.

commentators took this as an example of satirical wit - the fact the chanting kids in the background are quite clearly using ungrammatical and improper spoken English (the double negative "we don't need no....") is quite clearly and self-evidently proof that some sort of basic education is needed, if only to teach them to speak properly.



however, the accent used in the song - note the long "a" sound making the word sound almost like "clarsroom" - is pretty much London/South-East English. Recorded in London, the kids singing along with the lines were most probably bussed in for the session from a local school. and in London/SE dialect English, that verb construction "We don't need no..." for "We don't need any..." is characteristic of the local dialect, and therefore correct English in its place and context. (It just sounds strange, and therefore stands out, to people from other parts of Britain who speak differently)

Mordant biting sarcasm is a deadly weapon used by British schoolteachers. You suspect teacher training colleges have a course module for teaching this primary skill.



On the other hand, this wasn't too long after Star Wars hit the cinemas. I heard the line as "No Dark Star chasm, in the classroom" - where the mental image was of Darth Vader, in cloak and helmet, in front of the class going to town on the kids...

In his solo TV show "The Innes Book of Records", Neil Innes, in a self-referential sort of way, re-records this song as a shabby busker, down on his luck, performing this in a pedestrian underpass under a main road receiving a constant stream of small coin. However, a policeman, played by Michael Palin, follows the intrusive sound to its source and officiously arrests Innes at the conclusion of the song - itself a callback to the anti-authoritarian stance of both the Bonzos and Monty Python.

appearing on the radio comedy show "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue" as the resident piano accompanist, perhaps thirty years after this single, the host Humphrey Lyttleton introduced Neil Innes as "a man whose royalties for "i'm the Urban Spaceman" have just run out and who needs the money".

Produced by band associate and collaborator "Apollo C. Vermouth" - a pseudonym for an obscure Scouser called Paul McCartney. The association between the Bonzos and the Beatles led to, among other things, their appearance in the Beatles' movie "Magical Mystery Tour" performing "Death Cab for Cutie" while a stripper disinterestedly gets her kit off.

A dig at British policemen, seeking to regulate the morality of young people and those living an alternative lifestyle. Here the target is "aging Teds" - the last survivors, in the late 1960s, of the "Teddy Boy" youth culture of ten or fifteen years previously. Every era generates this: people who loved and lived the youth culture of their era, who simply cannot let it go as life moves on and fashion takes a new direction. Contrast the punk rock subculture that was all the rage in the late 1970s, became old hat in the 1980s, but still had a subculture of people who simply could not bare to let it go as a thing of its times. And of course the suspicious cops who see it as a criminal subculture to be monitored and if possible busted.

A contentious lyric in the context of school shootings in the USA, and is frequently censored out of versions broadcast on the radio or on screenings of the video.

Another explanatory note for non-Americans: an "IROC" (International Race of Champions) is a genre of cars used for racing and, if translated into British terms, would denote a "boy racer", a young driver entranced by power and speed and the perceived glamour of owning a big powerful machine, using it for prestige and informal competition with other young men in the same demographic. Other road users would be very wary of them (young men with little road experience in the driving seat of big powerful cars) and see them as a potentially dangerous pain in the arse.

A callback to the gatefold sleeve of [url=]Sabbath Bloody Sabbath[/url]: this shows two views of a deathbed where grieving family are gathered round a dying man. In one view, lit by golden light, angels are waiting to lead him to Heaven; in the second view, lit by red and magenta light, demons are gathered to drag the dead man's soul to Hell.

Could be a mis-heard - "I'll stay with you till my seeds are dried up" would make as much sense in context?

Apparently, footwear, a sort of trainer shoe. (Not being American, I had to go and look this up) Also apparently, to make the mandatory 20 words, they pair well with tube (knee) socks

Knees bent, arms stretched, ra, ra, ra!



And I can assure the AI that I am completely human and attempting to approach this interpretation with humour. Which is exactly what Bill Bailey did with his take on the song. Perhaps your AI needs reporgramming, or more human intervention is mandated?

Chorus - as previously



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And that's what it's all about!



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You do the hokey-cokey

And you turn about,



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In, out, in, out,

You shake it all about!



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Your left leg out!



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You put your left leg in



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Knees bent, arms stretched, ra, ra, ra!



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Oh, oh, the hokey Cokey! (repeat three times)



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