Artist: Placebo
Song: Commercial for Levi
Album: Black Market Music
Year: 2000
"You're the one who's always choking Trojan, you're the one who's always bruised and broken, drunk on immorality, Valium and cherry wine, coke and ecstasy, you're gonna blow your mind..."
"I understand the fascination, I've even been there once or twice or more, but if you don't change your situation then you'll die, you'll die, don't die, don't die..."
*A COMMENT: This is one of my favorite Placebo's songs, if not the most... Supposedly it is a reference to a technician named Levi Tecofski, who saved Brian Molko's life when he was drunk in the street and was about to be run over by a vehicle.
What can I make of the lyrics? Well, apparently is about this guy who is destroying his life with drugs and all this dangerous fetishes, bad choices all over, but someone, a friend, does care about him and he's lecturing/warning him and asking him to change. But what does it have to do with Levi? I don't quite know, who knows if Levi asked Brian to stop, or maybe he just named it this way out of gratitude... So what I make of it is that perhaps it could be Brian singing it to himself, his destructive lifestyle led him to some crazy situations and then this guy comes and saves him and maybe that was a wake up call... I don't know, but I do know that I love the lyrics and the music...
And remember... If you liked it, buy it...
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