A Jeepster for your love?

None of Bolan's lyrics make sense.

Marc Bolan foresaw the popularity of Sports Utility Vehicles and figured he'd be set once rock songs became sountracks for adverts

I've spent an inordinate amount of time figuring out the lyrics on Electric Warrior and can provide some answers.

"I'm a jeepster for your love" means he is willing to drive over hill and dale to reach the object of his affection. The puzzler in that song is "I'm a vampire for your love -- and I'm gonna suck ya!" One can certainly read the vampire bit as creative flirtation, but perhaps it's his way of admitting that he can be emotionally draining.

I didn't understand "Cosmic Dancer" for a while, but I think I get it now. Consider "I danced myself right out the womb, is it strange to dance so soon?" and "I was dancing when I was eight, is it strange to dance so late?" It seems odd at first that he considers eight years old too late to be dancing. I think of it this way: The Catholic Church considers "the age of discretion" to be around eight years, meaning that at that age a person can use reason and understand right and wrong. Perhaps he's saying "How can you be light and happy when you understand all the evils that exist in the world?"

Two more lines that probably hold deep insights into the human condition, if only we can unlock them:

"What's it like to be a loon? I liken it to a balloon."

and "I got stars in my beard, and I feel real weird -- for you."

you should start a religion whos goal is to become an electric warrior. You can call Bolanism or something.

there is a thread on this, believe it or not:

T-Rex/Jeepster

age of reason = seven years old

but the point is interesting maybe he was born premature and then became a rockstargod in lieu of reaching conventional maturity?

then again, maybe it's just a case of "rhyme over reason" hahaha

Ba-doomp tsst! That other thread indicates a general unfamiliarity with the term Jeepster. It is an actual kind of car. My dad used to correspond with a guy called "The Jeepster Man" to get parts for his '49 Willys automobile. There's also a Jeepster Club you can join,

http://www.jeepsterclub.com/

automobile = phallus (this is the received metaphor, anyway, and bolan certainly associates it with masculine sexuality)=> "I am a cock for your love" = "you make me feel cock-y" => something like "you make me feel like a natural man" or "you put me in touch with my natural masculine sexuality"

You can here a certain sensitivity in the way he sings it, too, and then he asserts "AND IM GONNA SUCK YA" to reiterate established power politics

I stumbled upon this reading when I was on mushrooms with my girlfriend and we were watching Born to Boogie. She says, "It really doesn't make any sense, does it?" and I was shocked because, at the moment, I was entirely living and breathing everything he said.

I've always thought that was one of his more lucid metaphors -- many are nonsense, obvs -- though Bolan is in fact a true Kosmos