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I keep hearing that old song ‘Sledgehammer’ wherever I go. It
isn’t a song that’s ever made me feel much, though mum and I used to laugh
about the bit where he sings “open up your fruit cage”.
Now I’m thinking “Peter Gabriel, what was that all about?”
Despite the references to big dippers and the strangely cold
sounding fruit cage, it never sounded sexual to me. I was driving around listening to some old classic
hits radio station and the image of a man being a sledgehammer struck me as
terrifying. I guess it was meant to be sexy, but it isn’t a sexy song. He
sounds like a desperate road worker longing to kill a woman with a fucking
sledgehammer; the sound track for a cold
hearted murder.
Does a woman with a vagina like a cage full of fruit want a
sledgehammer style pounding? I imagine the cage itself is quite fragile, maybe
gold filigree filled with mixed wild berries, the sort you buy frozen to put in
smoothies. Peter Gabriel offers to be her honey bee. So is he a honey bee
first, then a sledgehammer?
Is a sledgehammer a sex move I don’t know about? Let’s find
out. Hmm. Can’t find anything except a silly entry in the urban dictionary.
There is the ‘pile driver’ which looks pretty uncomfortable and probably best
employed by people being paid to appear in porn.
I did a quick search on Gabe’s own thoughts on the song - and
he is quoted as saying “Sometimes sex can break through barriers when other
forms of communication are not working too well.”
Well I guess if you think of yourself as a sledgehammer that
might be the case. I’ve always thought good communication is a great turn on,
but good communication is obviously in the eye of the beholder’s penis. Or
fruit cage. Is it cage or cake? Maybe it’s cake. You could really smash a cake
with a sledge hammer.
Whatever the case, I’d rather think of Peter Gabriel crooning
that duet with Kate Bush about not giving up. Now that was sexy.
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