To sing the blues is an expression developed from the blues, a musical form in which songs often deal with difficulties and depression.

Just by looking at her, Deacon can sing her blues, i.e. see her inner pains, struggles and sufferings.

Also, throughout the song, Deacon is rapping about the girl and her experiences, so he is literaly singing her blues.

Following the Janet Jackson references (see the song description), “rhythm relation” sounds like “Rhythm Nation”, which is a reference to Janet Jackson’s fourth album, Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814, or her song “Rhythm Nation”, which is the second single from the aforementioned album.

Josephine Baker was an American-born French singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American female to become a world famous entertainer and lived a very glamorous life.

Baker droped out of school at the age of 12 and began living on the street. To survive, she scavenged food in garbage cans and danced on street corners. This attracted her a lot of attention, and she ended up being recruited to the vaudeville stage at the age of 15. Later on, she moved to France, where she found fame as an exotic dancer.

The girl in the song, who is described as an unhappy, but talented, stripper, probably sees parallels between her own life and the life of Josephine Baker. She hopes to someday escape her current situation and move on to live a more glamorous lifestyle.

There are also several similarities between Josephine Baker and Penny from Good Times (See the previous line), which gives us an ever greater picture of the girl in the song and her childhood. Both Penny and Baker grew up without father figures, and were abused as children. They were even abused in virtually the same way: Penny was burned by her mother with an iron simply out of aggression, and Baker was burned by the woman she was working for when she put too much soap in the laundry.

Josephine Baker is often credited as a source of inspiration for several writers, including Langston Hughes who is mentioned later in the verse.

It’s fair to say that Deacon didn’t just choose a random successful woman to describe the girl’s ambitions and dreams.

In the 1970s sitcom Good Times, Millicent “Penny” Gordon Woods is abandoned by her father at a young age. Later on she is also abandoned by her abusive mother, resulting in her being adopted.

The character of Penny was played by a young Janet Jackson, who has later grown to become one of the world’s most known sex symbols.

Deacon uses the sitcom to describe how the girl suddenly changed when she eventually began blossoming.

Metaphorically, she went from this

to this

Han ble veldig kjent, men følte seg fortsatt ikke hjemme. Han følte seg heller ikke hjemme før han ble kjent, så hvor er egentlig “hjem” nå?

Både Helene Bøksle og Bugge Wesseltoft har gitt ut versjoner av julesalmen «Mitt hjerte alltid vanker». Bøksles versjon er å finne på albumet Det Hev Ei Rose, mens Wesseltofts er en del av It’s Snowing On My Piano.

En bakdør er noe man bruker for å komme seg unna noe, men det er ikke bare bare å komme seg unna et ekteskap.

Man kan ikke endre hvem man virkelig er. Hvis du prøver å være noe du ikke er (”en kråke gjør et svalestup”), vil det til slutt bli avslørt. ”Malingen” vil renne av og det blir synlig hvem du virkelig er.

Dette handler mest sannsynlig om å prøve å få andre til å tro at man er bedre enn man egentlig er, med tanke på at svalen er en ”penere” fugl enn kråken.