Bluish light

Riding high on love's true bluish light.

Uh-huh make me tonight

Was it just by chance?
Could this be kismet?

The tide is high, but I'm holding on.

Haha, giant ants. Plus the song pauses for a cool sound effects moment. This song always cracks me up.

Why freestyle with your brain, when you can freestyle without it?...

That 3 lines is pretty much all that happens in the song. On the other hand, that's 3 more intelligible lines than the average 70s song has. Huh? Yeah, that's why I said 'intelligible'. Didn't claim they made sense, did I?

This is difficult to picture

What does all this mean? About a man from Mars eating cars? What the? I know it rhymes, but it doesn't make any sense!

Ooooh, Debbie Harry really hit below the belt with this one! If I was a rich woman, I'd definitely be insulted if someone compared me to a petty comic strip, insulted my nosejob, and then suggested that I be injured! But I'm not rich, and I love the song.

This song is about a call-girl.

its kinda obvious and i didnt catch this little line for awhile but when i did, i burst out laughing!

The dirty little joke that is split between these two lines is not so evident when you only hear the song!

I was listening to the vinyl LP of Paralell Lines and laughed like hell, when these lyrics came up.

The third #1 for Blondie was released in the fall of 1980 (it was #1 song for two weeks in January 1981) and was taken from the "Autoamerican" album (the slightly later #1 hit "Rapture" would also be taken from this album). It was actually a remake of a minor 1967 UK hit by the Jamiacan group The Paragons (John Holt the lead singer of The Paragons wrote the song). The all female group, Atomic Kitten would have a 2002 UK hit with "The Tide Is High" which was more pop than Blondie's version, but much of Atomic Kitten's version is borrowed from Blondie's version.

"Heart Of Glass" was the group, Blondie's first #1 single back in 1979. Although, it was a #1 tune, it was met with much controversy. Up until the release of this tune that blended both the popular at the time, disco, with the less popular but rock critics darling punk and the up and coming new wave, no punk or new wave group would attempt what Blondie had done. A matter of fact, it was seemingly a hard and fast rule that no group with it's roots in punk (and with punk audiences, it was sort of considered a sacrilege amonst punk artists and fans) would ever attempt a disco tune. Blondie though decided to go ahead and do so, and obviously did quite well with mixing the genres. Unfortunately for a while it seemed to alienate them from the punk fans that had originally supported them. But Blondie was paving the way for the more popular new wave of the early 1980's and alternative rock sounds of the 1990's and beyond with "Heart Of Glass" and adventually even the hardcore punk fans of the time would realize that Blondie was onto something that needed to be done. The song and the originally "studio performance" (they weren't even performing though and were lip synching to the recording -- and that is obvious) video was released on the "Parallel Lines" album back in the fall of 1978. When it started to become more popular on disco dance floors, the group Blondie cut another video of "Heart Of Glass" (with the sound improved) that is a very historic look at the night life of New York city in the late 1970's. The second video starts with a very cool aerial camera nighttime view of the World Trade Center (destroyed on 9/11/2001). It then scans over some of the city streets, including passing by "The Ed Sullivan Theatre", and then takes us inside of the old "Studio 54" Disco where Blondie is onstage "performing" (again if you take a close look they are not performing, since they are playing with their instruments and a disco ball and the electric guitars, keyboards, drums and even lead singer Debbie Harry's microphone is not plugged in, and there was also no audience in the video -- "Studio 54" was actually closed for the shooting of the video). After Blondie performs the tune, and Debbie Harry sings her last note, there was one last nighttime aerial shot of the World Trade Center.

Sounds like the words of a stalker.

It's really violent and threatening!

The first and fourth lines of the verse sung in French are roughly equal to the lines "With your eyes so blue" and "I've got a crush on you" earlier in the song.

Just before the instrumental break, Debbie offers her love to "call me" in Italian and French.

this jukebox favorite,tell's the sad story, of a FEMALE surfer who is,willing to,risk her life,to impress some guy!

a rollocking melody, revolving around an annoying loser,who's sensitive to boot!, some "FEEL GOOD" song!