Placebo Anyway Blog : Placebo lyrics: Peeping Tom vs. Kitsch Object

♫✨ 𝙒𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 - 𝘽𝙖𝙧𝙚 - 𝙁𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 - 𝙎𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 ✨♫

These four words are well known for being part of the lyrics of "𝑷𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐𝒎", the beautiful and melancholic ballad which closes the third 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 album, "𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄"(2000); but curiously, they had already appeared before in the lyrics of another 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 song called "𝑲𝒊𝒕𝒔𝒄𝒉 𝑶𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕".

"𝑲𝒊𝒕𝒔𝒄𝒉 𝑶𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕" is an energic and rare song that 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 only played live seven times during 1997 and that they planned to include it on their brilliant second album "𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑰’𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈"(1998), however, they never recorded it officially. In the following quote they explain why:

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Because it's in the trash!

𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞: This song works well on stage, but it becomes absolutely none when we try to record it. We never liked the end result, so in the end we left it. Maybe one day it will appear ...

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: We tried fifteen times, but nothing came out. Also, I couldn't record the voice correctly, it was a miserable sound. Something didn't work with this song all the time: one thing, then another. I think this is just a "live track".

▪️𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘, 𝙰𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚍𝚘𝚝𝚎, 1998

A few years later, the only thing that survived from "𝑲𝒊𝒕𝒔𝒄𝒉 𝑶𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕" were these four words that were taken up again for the lyrics of "𝑷𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐𝒎", resulting in a totally different song and one of the most touching in the entire catalogue of the band.

🎙️"Well yes, we are all a little voyeur. All these Big Brother broadcasts taking place in Europe today ... For some reason, people like to watch the lives of others, and I find it stupid. [general laughs] As for 'Peeping Tom', his goal, again, is to bring you into awareness of this Peeping Tom so that you can feel the emotions of this character and the fact that the only ray of light in his life is the ability to observe the object of your passion.

▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙽𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚎 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝙰𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚞𝚛𝚜, 2000

🔹𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴, 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴!

🎵🔹𝑲𝑰𝑻𝑺𝑪𝑯 𝑶𝑩𝑱𝑬𝑪𝑻🔹🎵

🎥 𝑲𝒊𝒕𝒔𝒄𝒉 𝑶𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕 - 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒙𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝑨𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒚 1997

https://youtu.be/kCbflpgltio

🎶 𝐋𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 🎶