Album: Kaleidoscope (1980)
Charted: 24
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  • She tries not to shatter
    Kaleidoscope style
    Personality changes behind her red smile
    Every new problem brings a stranger inside
    Helplessly forcing one more new disguise

    Christine, the strawberry girl
    Christine, banana split lady
    Christine, the strawberry girl
    Christine, banana split lady

    Singing sweet savages lost in our world
    This big-eyed girl sees her faces unfurl
    Now she's in purple, now she's the turtle
    Disintegrating Writer/s: DARYL F HALL, L BARRY, TOM SELLERS
    Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC , Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Darrell from EugeneI have a good friend named Christine who hates this song, along with the Stephen King "killer-car" (by the way, the California license number CQB241 and anything containing that combination will live forever as a symbol of automotive evil)novel and film and "Christine Sixteen" by Kiss, and her inflated self-righteousness tells her that these works of fiction may be disrespectful to her despite the only connections being the name.
  • Rayna from Pembroke Pines, FlAnd I thought it was a song about a teenage girl trying on different identities and different "selves" as she went through adolescence -- but then, i first heard the song when I myself was a teen.
  • Dennis from Newton, MaThis is a great site. Sensibly set up to enrich the appreciation of song lyrics. A challenge would be to discover from where the music, rhythyms, arrangement, tempo, intrumentation, vocals, etc. were inspired/developed/etc.
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