Concrete Blonde-Tomorrow, Wendy

[symptomy]

as many times as I've seen the trailer for PAN AM today I'm feel overwhelming urge to become a stewardess

[JOCO1860]

USA, az utolsó elnökötök aki még próbált ember maradni, és az Amerikai álmot tovább építeni!!! Hagytátok megöletni!! Vádollak benneteket!! Miért hagytátok??????

[BennyB5555]

Kennedy was shot today November 22, 1963...wow this song tripped me out!

[BennyB5555]

Bizarre - today is 11/22/11 and I just realized that. Haven't heard this song since 1990 - wow!

[suburbandweller]

The song was written for a prostitute dying of Aids.

[ajmanykill]

its about johnettes friend dying from aids and she saying goodbye to her and shes pissed off at god for letting her friend die

[gnixon70]

One of those few artists that is just as good, if not better live.

[chavrecycling]

Beautiful. Thank you. I know about the end of the line.

[Koshka42]

Andy Prieboy wrote it about a friend of his who died of AIDS. That's the simple truth.

[mmr159]

sorry posted twice - this is my first time ha

[mmr159]

kinda am moved to believe, for me, this represents where i am in my life diagnosed with Lymphoma 2000 - searching frantically for answers given possible death sentence or second birth? and as a women a third birth and fourth etc. recreating adapting is their a god next life and in the face of that - finally coming - for now at least ten years later christ - excuse my language an actor prior to diagnosis...path's changed for survival now a wife and mom saved by...fear set free one life c

[Haskanawa72]

This song happens to be about why certain things,like cereal,soap and shit float!!

[Isaiah538]

Johnette's voice is awesome.

Why do I love sad songs so much?

Too bad about the contradiction of... if God 'ever suffered it was me who did His crying'. Then we hear how the God-man got beaten, flogged, crucified, 'the first time he came down here slummin'. Just saying...

[Bix12]

Wendy represents the age of innocence, Wendy dying represents the loss of that innocence and the realization of just what a fucked up world this truly is....Wendy grows up.

[Backngoth]

I was a teenager when this song came out between 17 to 21. I always thought this song was about what you do not know will happen, might happen and what's already happen to others....the unknown

[Backngoth]

I was a teenager when this song came out between 17 to 21. I always thought this song was about what you do not know will happen, might happen and what's already happen to others....the unknown.

[stickypuddler]

I'm a 54 year old man, and I cry every time I hear it as well. That's for over twenty years now. Just the power of Johnette's voice. I got "Recollections" because I had heard "God is a Bullet" on 91X out of San Diego and bought the CD that afternoon. She has been my favorite singer and the Blonde my favorite band ever since. I've heard other versions of this song, but none have brought on the emotion that Johnette pulls from me. It amazes me to this day that they were not bigger than they were

[evade28]

It's both it's about her friends suffering...and the churches blind eye towards it.

[AerowsX]

Revolutionary lyrics written 2 decades ago, and still ignored. This is a running commentary on the fact that the Church turns a blind eye to suffering that don't support their narrative.

[ejp42]

god got his ass kicked the first time he came down here sluming....great lyrics

[ThePwog]

Powerful comments, and powerful song. It resonated 20 years ago or so, and still resonates today.

[williamnorwich1]

You guys make some weird interpretions of this song.

I remeber when this song came out.

It is about a girl with AIDS or so the singer said.

[turkeys666]

@williamnorwich1 I thought it was about a girl Andy knew that committed suicide?

[ksim43]

@williamnorwich1 That's what I remember too.



[ilovetoronto68]

@williamnorwich1 this medium is all about distortion.

[windstrike22]

this was my foster sister's song.... she had cystic fibrosis. she died when i was still just a kid, and now i cant even remember her last name. R.I.P. Elizabeth

[Lunatiki2007]

Andy Prieboy wrote this song. I is based on a true story of a friend of his, Wendy, who was a heroin addict. She found out she had AIDS and decided to commit suicide by taking a hot dose of heroin. If memory serves me, she was surround by many of her friends, sort of a planned event.

[monizzle22]

@Lunatkik2007...DAMN, that is some heavy stuff!! That's a helluva way to go. Thanks for the enlightenment.

[wotrabbitfish]

a funeral march for dead gods

[leoncon]

This song is about writing your loved one's off as a statistic...just another body to raise death tolls. Goddamn media...I would mourn the death of my friend and any possible thoughts that made me like the rest of mypeers. I love wendy and all the others!

[MekTS]

Actually in a live version she says that its about a woman dying of aids.

[suburbandweller]

True it was written about a prostitute dyijng of Aids true story song written by Andy Prieboy!

[pervisirani]

This song is about a woman facing her mortality and her anger towards god.

She finds no comfort in the BS of her priest.

She wishes she could freeze time (Kennedy).

Only god tells us death is great and we will be taken care of (says Jump/Suicide), everyone on earth wants her to stay (Jump in time/through these eyes of mine/Death sucks).

[leoncon]

A sincerely appropriate look at the sincerity of the United States health care "brigade." Physicians are so cool when delivering the news of yourl ast days.

Tomorrow, wendy...will not have to be an overlooked statistic!

[sarahthediva]

I read a rolling stone article long time ago and this song is about an AIDS stricken prostitute

[Altair9678]

got an e-mail, and it's going to a little concentrtion for me to reply, b/c, love the song but it takes a little inibriation for me to deal with it. As for the soul that e-mailed, well, soldier on...that is all.

[ripperduck]

A movie could be based just on the lyrics of this song. Woman forced to confront her painful death...

[Snarkypanther]

I remember listening to the live version and she said that it was for anyone out there with AIDS. Wall of Voodoo wrote it though, so I don't know.

[mumtrader]

Wall of Voodoo didn't write it. Andy Prieboy wrote it after WoV broke up, specifically for Concrete Blonde.

[Snarkypanther]

Oooh! Coolness, I didn't know that.

[kilika1000]

it could be about aids, i guess it could be about surfing too. but the lyrics clearly relfect the cold war. for whatever thats worth

[hsjames1]

What a great song.!!!!!

[typepper]

very cool song, takes me back to high school

[xXCyberLegendXx]

So beautiful, *_+

[wuzasometina]

the more i know about god the more i feel like dying

[panikigirl666]

does anyone realize this song is about AIDS??????

[Altair9678]

does anyone realize this song is about AIDS?????? ...

yes.

[Altair9678]

"the more i know about god the more i feel like dying ""...I went to Saint Pius X H.S....lost my faith at 17 and tried to commit suicide at 18 and was most annoyed by the people trying to "save me." Don't know exacly how you feel but feel a "little dissillusioned."

[hsjames1]

I'ts not God I have a problem with. It's what the church etc wants to do with him. I think Revelations describes these things in the seven letters to the church. That's why I have a major problem with organized religion. It's still a beautiful song however.

[deadliveagain]

hell yea watch my video i ask the same thing

[jfree1998]

This song was not originally by concrete blonde people, it is covered by them...

[LydiasRacket]

By Andy Prieboy and Johnette Napolitano from Concrete Blonde (She wasn't credited)

[princessjewlzy1]

fuk all veiwers but it needs more mad song

[Diax8]

Correct, the song is about AIDS, not cancer.

I know Johnette personally, and she would not perform the song for most of the latter years of the groups run. Ashame, because personally, i loved the lyrics and the song.

Concrete Blonde is the most under rated group of all time.

[EOATuco]

Could not agree more. In away it is good that they did not get mainstream, only to have the monster that is the music industry to corrupt what they achieved.

[panikigirl666]

agreed one hundred percent

[POTATOISHAPPINESS]

Beautiful song.. :')

[dethspud]

"I told the priest Don't count on any Second Coming God got his ass kicked The last time he came down here slumming He had the balls to come The gall to die and then forgive us No, I don't wonder why I wonder wot he thought it'd get us." Nice montage. Yes, Andy's version is good but Johnette's is the one most folk resonate to. Be Well.

[elderberry9]

Only God says jump so I set the time cause if if he saw it it was trough these eyes of mine! And if he ever suffered it was me who did his crying. For some reason they didn't print that part of the lyrics on the CD sleeve, so I looked up on the web. Although this song was about a friend who died from Aid's, the double meaning about the apparent death of the American dream is hard to miss. I never heard of Andy's version dethspud. I'm embarrassed to say I don't even know of him. More info?

[Diax8]

Correct, it is about AIDS, not cancer.

I know Johnette personally. The latter years of Concrete Blonde she would not perform this song because of a belief change. Sad, because the original song was a masterpiece.

Concrete Blonde was the most under rated band of all time. Period.

[elderberry9]

I've educated myself a little more on the story behind this song since posting my last comment, I guess Wendy is Andy. I tend to assume anyone with the name Andy is male because that's also my name and I'm male. I assume her belief changes are about suicide? Or maybe spiritual belief changes? I guess it certainly could be both. I have a lot of animosity about God. I believe that such a being exists, but I can't imagine its reason for creating a universe where so much suffering is possible.

[elderberry9]

Oops again! I guess Wendy and Andy aren't the same! Did Andy know Wendy personally? Did Johnette know her?

[EOATuco]

Not sure if Wendy was a friend of both of theirs, but she was a friend of Andy's.

[BetGimel]

G-d permits suffering, and the opposite. Nothing phases G-d and so the suffering and opposite pleasures are neither plus nor minus. It's our choice however how we maneuver through G-d's universe and when we see G-d after the life we lived and face our reward for our faith.

[malkylamm]

Sometimes our "suffering" religiously speaking, is a test of our faith, for those of us who can see that, and are firmly planted in our views, religious or otherwise. A wise man told me recently, that "living" is the hardest thing and challenge to do. Death is the easy part, and Olam Haba(the world to come) is the reward. Not in anyway saying suicide is a good thing. Just saying belief or no belief, living hurts at times.

[leechdom]

its about a girl dying of cancer. i realy don't know where that big boobed anime chick shows up.. but whatever. i don't mind. just glad to hear it again.

[pratts1111]

this song is not about a girl dying of cancer. i saw johnette napolitano perform this song live on a video on youtube and she explains that this song was written about a girl who finds out she has aids and decides to kill herself rather than die undignified and painfully of the disease.

[madeleinealbright]

It's AIDS Wendy died of, not cancer

[Diax8]

It is correct, its about aids, not cancer... The lyrics were VERY personal to Johnette. I know her personally and know the story behind it.

For many years following the creation of this song, she would not perform it live anymore because of the lyrics typed above. (Personally, Im a HUGE fan of it)

Bottom line.... Still the most under rated band of all time. Period.

[RedSkull1888]

Not a patch on the Andy Prieboy version.His vocals are far superior.

[leechdom]

ive only been looking for this song for over ten years. no biggy.. just let me go cry for an hour:)