Please Don't -- David Byrne & Fatboy Slim

The world is full of intolerance, Greed, injustice, and dominance  A woman, a woman knows, knows relationships  That's why, why I make, make my little trips  if there's a problem
It's really better this way  Well I don't need the president  I'll get my little bag and say

Please don't  Don't let them look down on us  Please don't  Like they used to do to me
Nixon, Castro,  Zhou Enlai  Qaddafi  It's easy and I’ll tell you why  A woman knows just
how to do, only rub his leg  He understood my point of view so I don’t have to beg
So if there's a problem  It's really better this way  Well I don't need the president
I'll get my little bag and say

Please don't  Don't let them look down on us  Please don't  Like they used to do to me
Ronald Reagan, Mao Zedong  They're all the same  Kissinger   Let me explain
Champagne on ice  An hour or two relationship  We're friends for life
So if there's a problem  It's really better this way  Well I don't need the president
I'll get my little bag and say

Please don't  Don't let them look down on us  Please don't  Like they used to do to me

 

Marcos and her husband, Ferdinand Marcos, were the First Lady and President of the Philippines from 1965 until 1986 when the pair were overthrown in a popular revolt. They fled to Hawaii, where Ferdinand Marcos died three years later. Outside the Philippines Imelda is often remembered for symbols of the corrupt extravagance of her husband's political reign, such as having over 3000 pairs of shoes. In the mid 1990s she was found guilty of corruption, however her conviction was overturned on appeal.

"It's a story-telling thing, like Evita, but coming at it from a different angle in that it tells the untold story that people didn't know about Imelda Marcos. It's not just about the shoes."                                                                                    (songfacts)        

 

  

                  Imelda Marcos' shoe rack.