I asked for her name
And in a dark, brown voice, she said, 'Lola'.

She walked up to me and she asked me to dance.
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said, 'Lola'.

I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola.

Don't be afraid to come dancing, It's only natural.

I'm glad I'm a man, and so is Lola.

Lola is a transvestite, so the narrator still hasn't kissed a woman.

In all of Ray Davies' best lyrics, the humor comes with a heavy dose of pain and regret. If you don't conjure a funny picture, the sadness is overwhelming. I don't know of another songwriter who does this so consistently well.

ummmmm yeah okay we got you ... now what do you wants us to do?

Was Ray Davies Having A Bad Day Or What. Surely Once Is Enough Ray.

Girls will never be boys and boys will never be girls. Girls will always be girls and boys will always be boys. That's the way it's always been, and that's the way it's always going to be.

'By your side' is a *place*, not a time!

Did he take your sense of rhyme, too?

Spin that vinyl dude! Would you ever let 2007 teenager manually set a needle down on your WHITE ALBUM? Dated. The terms 45, 33 -1/3 and 78s: All now as Dated as a Dictaphone when I was a teen. Depressed? Just put on an IPOD and walk in traffic. This song was written befor the Sony Walkman craze: Before that you had to stay in your room and either groove to your personal music collection or sulk to it.

Napoleon
Genghis Khan
Hitler
Mussolini

Tarzan and Jane

Coca-Cola

The Kinks are a British band, that during the years 1964 - 1965 were competing well with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in Great Britian, but had only modest success in the States at that time. But the Kinks, or more specifically lead singer (and the writer for most of their tunes), Ray Davies (who would continue to lead the group amid several line-up changes), would continue to have chart success in both Britain and the United States and worldwide well into the 1980's (with such hits as "Lola" & "Come Dancing"). Unfortunately the Kinks have been one of those rare groups, that despite having chart success, have yet to have a #1 song on Billboard Magazine's HOT 100 charts. "You Really Got Me", originally released in August 1964 and having success in both the States and Britain, has been covered by many artists over the years, with probably the most well-known and recognizable one (at least to Classic Rock station listeners) being Van Halen's 1978 version that didn't change a thing with the lyrics.

Looking back on how things have changed can be depressing.

The Kinks enjoy'd a mini-revival of sorts round about this time, and used the material Ray Davies had written about the economic sinkhole that was the average British citizen's plight, and launched a pretty profitable "Give The People What They Want" tour. Ironic