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[quote][i]Originally posted by starmekitten[/i]
[br][url="http://www.frankblack.net/songs/db3beta.asp?mode=index&songID=279"][b]Cecilia Ann[/b][/url]
(instrumental)
[hr][url="http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15671"][b]quote[/b][/url]
[i]Our nod to the glory of surf music. We'd actually rehearsed 'Apache' by the Shadows, but we ended up doing this.[/i]
- Frank Black in SELECT, October 1997

[hr][url="http://www.frankblack.net/songs/db3beta.asp?mode=index&songID=280"][b]Rock Music[/b][/url]

Your mouth's a mile away 
Your mouth's a mile away
Your mouth's a mile away 
Your mouth's a mile away
Your mouth's a mile away 
Your mouth's a mile away
Your mouth's a mile away 
Your mouth's a mile away
Your mouth
Oh!
I'm already gone
Hey you know me
Encantuse
Your Mouth's
A mile away
Slag

[hr][url="http://www.frankblack.net/songs/db3beta.asp?mode=index&songID=281"][b]Velouria[/b][/url]

hold my head
we'll trampoline
finally through the roof
on to somewhere near
and far in time
velouria
her covering 
traveling career
she can really move
oh velveteen

my velouria, my velouria

even I'll adore ya
my velouria 
my velouria
uh-huh-huh huh huh

say to me
where have you been 
finally through the roof
and how does lemur skin
reflect the sea?

we will wade in the shine of the ever
we will wade in the shine of the ever
we will wade in the tides of the summer
every summer
every...
my velouria
my velouria

forever green
I know she's here
in California
I can see the tears 
of shastasheen

my velouria, my velouria
(v-e-l-o-u-r-i-a)
even I'll adore ya
(v-e-l-o-u-r-i-a)
my velouria (x2)
(v-e-l-o-u-r-i-a)
(even I'll adore ya)
Velouria
V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A 
V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A 
V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A 
V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A 
V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A 
V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A 
V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A 
V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A

[hr][url="http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15671"][b]quote[/b][/url]
[i]Velouria: that was My Victoria, pretty good, but The Kinks song . . . I don't know it's gotta be a good song to get away with it. But when I found "Velouria", it sounded great[/i]
- Q September 1990

[i]Well, the sister continent of Atlantis is Lemuria, sank in the Pacific Ocean, and the remnants of a culture are holed up in Mount Shasta, which is in Northern California - its a hollowed out mountain. They live in the mountain today, because it's an ongoing kind of thing. So lemur skin, fur, Velouria rhymes with Lemuria... kind of, and that's sort of what that's all about.[/i]
- MTV

[hr][url="http://www.frankblack.net/songs/db3beta.asp?mode=index&songID=282"][b]Allison[/b][/url]

from distant star
to this here bar
the me, the you
where are we now?
hooray the blues of everyone
Allison

keeps a smile
around a while
he took a flight
and jettisoned
we'll go tonight
to hear him tell
"oh well"
Allison 
Allison

oooooooh

and when the planet hit the sun
I saw the face of Allison
Allison 
Allison
Allison
Allison

[hr][url="http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15671"][b]quote[/b][/url]
[i]but of course Elvis Costello has a song called Alison, so I had to change it[/i]
- Q September 1990

[b]note[/b]
Song was originally about a girl called Alison but he changed it to be about Mose Allison the Jazz pianist because of the Elvis Costello song of the same name

[hr][url="http://www.frankblack.net/songs/db3beta.asp?mode=index&songID=283"][b]Is She Weird[/b][/url]

I know you're rich in
good clothes 
and little things
your mind is fancy
(and your car is bitchin')

is she weird
is she weird, is she white
is she promised to the night
and her head has no room
and her head has no room
and her head has no room

and her head has no room

your heart is ripshit
your mouth is everywhere
I'm lyin' in it

is she weird
is she over me
like the stars and the sun
like the stars and the sun
is she weird

is she weird, is she white
is she promised to the night
and her head has no room
and her head has no room
and her head has no room

and her head has no room

no more of this girl crying
I'm here, your big man
you're mine

is she weird, (ah-uh) is she white
is she promised to the night
and her head has no room
and her head has no room
and her head has no room
and her head has no room
and her head has no room

head has no room

[hr][url="http://www.frankblack.net/songs/db3beta.asp?mode=index&songID=284"][b]Ana[/b][/url]

she's my fave
undressing in the sun
return to sea - bye
forgetting everyone
eleven high
ride a wave
ride a wave
[hr][url="http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15671"][b]quote[/b][/url]
[i]That's a five-line verse poem, but it's an anagram: the first line of each verse spells "SUR-FER". She's, like, this naked surfer girl on a board on top of an 11 -foot wave, y'know cruising in never-never land. Never-never ocean.[/i]
- Q September 1990

[i]I'm always playing stupid games like that. See 'Ana'? It's like anaGRAM. S.U.R.F.E.R., It's a matter of needing lyrics really fast because they're setting up the vocal mikes, and you'd better get the song done or it's gonna be an instrumental![/i]
- Music Express, October 1990

[hr][url="http://www.frankblack.net/songs/db3beta.asp?mode=index&songID=285"][b]All Over The World[/b][/url]

hey babe
how you doin?
can I be your boy?

a pet at my side
God in the sky
snow falling down
freeze my body to the ground
I can't ride
but one more time
I will ride
all over the world

washed over the side
top of the sky
slow diver down
two feet land on a different ground
you can't live easily
you can't even speak
but all of them speak
all over the world 
all over the world
all over the world
all over the world
all over the world
all over the world
all over the world

I will meet you over there
I am going to meet you over there

washed over the side
top of the sky
slow diver down
two feet land on a different ground
you can't live easily 
you can't even speak
fish all of them speak
all over the world

a plain with no herd
not even a bird
when one side is hot
the other side of the moon is not
it's just like a ride
maybe some time 
they'll make it a ride
all over the world 
all over the world
all over the world
all over the world
all over the world
all over the world
all over the world

I will meet you over there
I am (I am) going to meet you over there

time is an arrangement
time is an arranger
I am a derangement

all my thoughts
all I am are my thoughts
all my thoughts
I am all what I'm taught

better call the ranger
got a train derailment
better call the ranger

all I'm taught
all I am are my thoughts 
all my thoughts
all I am are my thoughts
what I'm not

[hr][url="http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15671"][b]quote[/b][/url]
[i]I read how some artist - Man Ray, I think - did a photographic portrait of a famous actress. They went out to the countryside, but he forgot to bring his lenses. He took the lenses out of his glasses and got the best portrait ever. I like that kind of thinking. Like "All Over The World" It's total spontaneity, just screaming and jumping around, and the end section goes into a whole other song. Our producer was really pissed because he didn't know what was going on. But I didn't either! I said, 'Look. I'm a surrealist, plus I'm lazy and full of shit, so let's just see how this comes out, all right?' And in the end, it was his favourite song[/i]
- Melody Maker, April 1991

[i]The longest song we recorded ever. 5min is the usual average time for a song now, but for us it was a real event[/i]
- Black Francis (Alec Eiffel website - no other source)

[hr][url="http://www.frankblack.net/songs/db3beta.asp?mode=index&songID=286"][b]Dig For Fire[/b][/url]

there is this old woman
she lives down the road
you can often find her
kneeling inside of her hole
and I often ask her
"are you looking for the mother lode?"
huh?
no.
no my child, this is not my desire
and then she said

I'm digging for fire
I'm digging for fire
I'm digging for fire
I'm digging for fire

there is this old man 
who spent so much of his life sleeping
that he is able to keep awake for the rest of his years
he resides
on a beach
in a town
where I am going to live
and I often ask him
"are you looking for the mother lode?"
huh?
no.
no my child, this is not my desire
and then he said

I'm digging for fire
I'm digging for fire
I'm digging for fire
I'm digging for fire
for fire!

[hr][url="http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15671"][b]quote[/b][/url]
[i]Oh, it's all nonsense, a bad Talking Heads imitation. Just like any other cool rock'n roll song or pop song, the CONTENT isn't what hits you. I mean, what the hell is 'London Calling'? I don't know anything about stupid English punk politics, but 'London Calling' sounds TOTALLY great. That's all it is. Gosh, I'm so tired of people referring to me as hopelessly obscure. I mean, pick up a Beatles album - come on! Who knows what those songs were about? Nobody knows.[/i]
- Music Express, October 1990

[hr][url="http://www.frankblack.net/songs/db3beta.asp?mode=index&songID=287"][b]Down To The Well[/b][/url]

betty always knows
betty always tells
she laughing desperately
said it felt like a river inside her bones
when she went down to the well

i'm gonna be with her
she is gonna take me there
lead me by my hand
her body a rocking chair for my soul
when we go down to the well
(chick a oom)

I can hardly wait, baby
(chick a oom)
I can hardly wait
'til we go down to the well
(chick a oom)

been thinking to myself
and if a life's not long
what matter does it make
if there'll be favorite songs playing in my head
when we go down to the well

I can hardly wait, betty
I can hardly wait
'till we go down to the well
down to the well

[hr][url="http://www.frankblack.net/songs/db3beta.asp?mode=index&songID=288"][b]The Happening[/b][/url]

they got a ranch they call
number fifty-one
they got a ranch they call
nubler fifty-one
can't see it at all
'less you're flying by
just sitting there square
baking in the sun
beneath the sky

they're gonna put it down
right on the strip
they're gonna put it down
on the Vegas strip
they're gonna put it down
and step outside
into the lights
right outta that ship
saying Hi!

i was driving doing nothing on the shores of Great Salt Lake
when they put it on the air i put it in the hammer lane
i soon forgot myself and i forgot about the brake
i forgot about all laws and i forgot about the rain
they were talking on the 9 and all across the amy band
across the road they were turning around and headed south with me
it got so crowded on the road i started driving in the sand
my head was feeling scared but my heart was feeling free
the desert turned to mud it seems that everybody heard
everbody was remembering to forget they had the chills
then i heard the voices on a broadcast from up on the bird
they were getting interviewed by some Goodman whose name was Bill
i'm almost there to Vegas where they're putting on a show
they've come so far i've lived this long at least i must just go and say hello

[hr][url="http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15671"][b]quote[/b][/url]
[i]That's based on this guy Billy Goodman, who had a radio talk show out of Las Vegas, The Billy Goodman Happening, dedicated to UFO stuff people calling in to tell of how their husband got murdered by an alien. The song The Happening tells of how the aliens land in Vegas: it's always been my wish that if they do land, it'll be Billy and his audience that get the credit in the greeting![/i]
- Q September 1990

[b]note[/b]
[url="http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/bgoodund.html#Steve"]Transcript from The Billy Goodman Happening[/url]

[hr][url="http://www.frankblack.net/songs/db3beta.asp?mode=index&songID=289"][b]Blown Away[/b][/url]

now the sun is burning 
in deepest space
that's the way things are
through a storm I called you
it fell each day
I didn't get so far
my words get blown away

my lips are moving 
if you touch my face
did you hear my scream?
while we were sleeping
I tried to say
even in my dreams
my words get blown away

now the sun is burning 
in the deepest space
I didn't get so far
[hr][url="http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15671"][b]quote[/b][/url]
[i]Like one of those Neil Young love songs that exist out there in space somewhere. It's not about anyone or anything specifically. It's not about her eyes our the back of her knees. [/i]
-BF in Melody Maker

[hr][url="http://www.frankblack.net/songs/db3beta.asp?mode=index&songID=290"][b]Hangwire[/b][/url]

they're going higher
wind is whistling on the barbs
your head's a hammer

hangwire 
hangwire 
hangwire
meet you at the hangwire

that man is a liar
the day is like a warm night
salt rusts the cold line

hangwire 
hangwire 
hangwire
meet you at the hangwire

every morning and every day
I'll bossanova with ya

if there were a fire
can we scratch beneath this

hangwire 
hangwire 
hangwire
meet you at the hangwire?

hangwire 
hangwire 
hangwire
we're going higher
hangwire 
hangwire
we're going higher
hangwire 
hangwire
we're going higher
hangwire 
hangwire
hangwire 
hangwire
hangwire 
hangwire
hangwire 
hangwire

[hr][url="http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15671"][b]quote[/b][/url]
[i]this is haiku[/i]
- Music Express, October 1990

[i]Yeah, the first two verses to that song are in a Haiku format - Japanese verse with three lines: five syllables, then seven, then five. Only thing, it isn't true Haiku cos it doesn't incorporate nature and make some philosophical statement about the universe or whatever[/i]
- Sounds, December 1990
[hr][url="http://www.frankblack.net/songs/db3beta.asp?mode=index&songID=291"][b]Stormy Weather[/b][/url]

It is time
it is time oh oh
for stormy weather

it is time
it is time oh oh
it is time for stormy weather
for stormy weather
for stormy weather

it is time
it is time whoa oh
it is time for stormy weather

it is time
it is time oh oh
it is time for stormy weather
for stormy weather
for stormy weather
for stormy weather
for stormy weather

it is it is time
it is time whoa oh
it is time for stormy weather

it is time
it is time oh oh
it is time for stormy weather

it is time
it is time whoa oh
it is time for stormy weather

it is time
it is time oh oh
it is time for stormy weather

it is time
it is time whoa oh
it is time for stormy weather
[hr][url="http://www.frankblack.net/songs/db3beta.asp?mode=index&songID=292"][b]Havalina[/b][/url]

Havalina
Havalina
Havalina
Havalina

Walking in the breeze
On the plains of old Sedona
Arizona
Among the trees
Havalina 
Havalina
Havalina
Havalina
Havalina
Havalina
Havalina
Havalina
Havalina
Havalina
Havalina
Havalina
Havalina
Havalina
[hr][url="http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15671"][b]quote[/b][/url]
[i]'Havalina' was the most difficult of those songs to record. It's in 6/4. We wanted David to do fills in 4/4, but he couldn't because he was listening to us. We ended up playing a bunch of chords in 4, had David do the fills, and then we recorded our real parts in 6.[/i]
- Melody Maker, April 1991

[b]note[/b]
Havalina is the Mexican name for a wild boar, nothing to do with band of same name who did, however, get The Pixies stoned in Texas - Q September 1990
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If you have any corrections, quotes, insights to any of these songs please feel free to let us know.

What would also be amazing is information on the singles released from this album.

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starmekitten	Posted - 04/23/2006 : 05:19:08 Cecilia Ann (instrumental) quote Our nod to the glory of surf music. We'd actually rehearsed 'Apache' by the Shadows, but we ended up doing this. - Frank Black in SELECT, October 1997 Rock Music Your mouth's a mile away Your mouth's a mile away Your mouth's a mile away Your mouth's a mile away Your mouth's a mile away Your mouth's a mile away Your mouth's a mile away Your mouth's a mile away Your mouth Oh! I'm already gone Hey you know me Encantuse Your Mouth's A mile away Slag Velouria hold my head we'll trampoline finally through the roof on to somewhere near and far in time velouria her covering traveling career she can really move oh velveteen my velouria, my velouria even I'll adore ya my velouria my velouria uh-huh-huh huh huh say to me where have you been finally through the roof and how does lemur skin reflect the sea? we will wade in the shine of the ever we will wade in the shine of the ever we will wade in the tides of the summer every summer every... my velouria my velouria forever green I know she's here in California I can see the tears of shastasheen my velouria, my velouria (v-e-l-o-u-r-i-a) even I'll adore ya (v-e-l-o-u-r-i-a) my velouria (x2) (v-e-l-o-u-r-i-a) (even I'll adore ya) Velouria V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A V-E-L-O-U-R-I-A quote Velouria: that was My Victoria, pretty good, but The Kinks song . . . I don't know it's gotta be a good song to get away with it. But when I found "Velouria", it sounded great - Q September 1990 Well, the sister continent of Atlantis is Lemuria, sank in the Pacific Ocean, and the remnants of a culture are holed up in Mount Shasta, which is in Northern California - its a hollowed out mountain. They live in the mountain today, because it's an ongoing kind of thing. So lemur skin, fur, Velouria rhymes with Lemuria... kind of, and that's sort of what that's all about. - MTV Allison from distant star to this here bar the me, the you where are we now? hooray the blues of everyone Allison keeps a smile around a while he took a flight and jettisoned we'll go tonight to hear him tell "oh well" Allison Allison oooooooh and when the planet hit the sun I saw the face of Allison Allison Allison Allison Allison quote but of course Elvis Costello has a song called Alison, so I had to change it - Q September 1990 note Song was originally about a girl called Alison but he changed it to be about Mose Allison the Jazz pianist because of the Elvis Costello song of the same name Is She Weird I know you're rich in good clothes and little things your mind is fancy (and your car is bitchin') is she weird is she weird, is she white is she promised to the night and her head has no room and her head has no room and her head has no room and her head has no room your heart is ripshit your mouth is everywhere I'm lyin' in it is she weird is she over me like the stars and the sun like the stars and the sun is she weird is she weird, is she white is she promised to the night and her head has no room and her head has no room and her head has no room and her head has no room no more of this girl crying I'm here, your big man you're mine is she weird, (ah-uh) is she white is she promised to the night and her head has no room and her head has no room and her head has no room and her head has no room and her head has no room head has no room Ana she's my fave undressing in the sun return to sea - bye forgetting everyone eleven high ride a wave ride a wave quote That's a five-line verse poem, but it's an anagram: the first line of each verse spells "SUR-FER". She's, like, this naked surfer girl on a board on top of an 11 -foot wave, y'know cruising in never-never land. Never-never ocean. - Q September 1990 I'm always playing stupid games like that. See 'Ana'? It's like anaGRAM. S.U.R.F.E.R., It's a matter of needing lyrics really fast because they're setting up the vocal mikes, and you'd better get the song done or it's gonna be an instrumental! - Music Express, October 1990 All Over The World hey babe how you doin? can I be your boy? a pet at my side God in the sky snow falling down freeze my body to the ground I can't ride but one more time I will ride all over the world washed over the side top of the sky slow diver down two feet land on a different ground you can't live easily you can't even speak but all of them speak all over the world all over the world all over the world all over the world all over the world all over the world all over the world I will meet you over there I am going to meet you over there washed over the side top of the sky slow diver down two feet land on a different ground you can't live easily you can't even speak fish all of them speak all over the world a plain with no herd not even a bird when one side is hot the other side of the moon is not it's just like a ride maybe some time they'll make it a ride all over the world all over the world all over the world all over the world all over the world all over the world all over the world I will meet you over there I am (I am) going to meet you over there time is an arrangement time is an arranger I am a derangement all my thoughts all I am are my thoughts all my thoughts I am all what I'm taught better call the ranger got a train derailment better call the ranger all I'm taught all I am are my thoughts all my thoughts all I am are my thoughts what I'm not quote I read how some artist - Man Ray, I think - did a photographic portrait of a famous actress. They went out to the countryside, but he forgot to bring his lenses. He took the lenses out of his glasses and got the best portrait ever. I like that kind of thinking. Like "All Over The World" It's total spontaneity, just screaming and jumping around, and the end section goes into a whole other song. Our producer was really pissed because he didn't know what was going on. But I didn't either! I said, 'Look. I'm a surrealist, plus I'm lazy and full of shit, so let's just see how this comes out, all right?' And in the end, it was his favourite song - Melody Maker, April 1991 The longest song we recorded ever. 5min is the usual average time for a song now, but for us it was a real event - Black Francis (Alec Eiffel website - no other source) Dig For Fire there is this old woman she lives down the road you can often find her kneeling inside of her hole and I often ask her "are you looking for the mother lode?" huh? no. no my child, this is not my desire and then she said I'm digging for fire I'm digging for fire I'm digging for fire I'm digging for fire there is this old man who spent so much of his life sleeping that he is able to keep awake for the rest of his years he resides on a beach in a town where I am going to live and I often ask him "are you looking for the mother lode?" huh? no. no my child, this is not my desire and then he said I'm digging for fire I'm digging for fire I'm digging for fire I'm digging for fire for fire! quote Oh, it's all nonsense, a bad Talking Heads imitation. Just like any other cool rock'n roll song or pop song, the CONTENT isn't what hits you. I mean, what the hell is 'London Calling'? I don't know anything about stupid English punk politics, but 'London Calling' sounds TOTALLY great. That's all it is. Gosh, I'm so tired of people referring to me as hopelessly obscure. I mean, pick up a Beatles album - come on! Who knows what those songs were about? Nobody knows. - Music Express, October 1990 Down To The Well betty always knows betty always tells she laughing desperately said it felt like a river inside her bones when she went down to the well i'm gonna be with her she is gonna take me there lead me by my hand her body a rocking chair for my soul when we go down to the well (chick a oom) I can hardly wait, baby (chick a oom) I can hardly wait 'til we go down to the well (chick a oom) been thinking to myself and if a life's not long what matter does it make if there'll be favorite songs playing in my head when we go down to the well I can hardly wait, betty I can hardly wait 'till we go down to the well down to the well The Happening they got a ranch they call number fifty-one they got a ranch they call nubler fifty-one can't see it at all 'less you're flying by just sitting there square baking in the sun beneath the sky they're gonna put it down right on the strip they're gonna put it down on the Vegas strip they're gonna put it down and step outside into the lights right outta that ship saying Hi! i was driving doing nothing on the shores of Great Salt Lake when they put it on the air i put it in the hammer lane i soon forgot myself and i forgot about the brake i forgot about all laws and i forgot about the rain they were talking on the 9 and all across the amy band across the road they were turning around and headed south with me it got so crowded on the road i started driving in the sand my head was feeling scared but my heart was feeling free the desert turned to mud it seems that everybody heard everbody was remembering to forget they had the chills then i heard the voices on a broadcast from up on the bird they were getting interviewed by some Goodman whose name was Bill i'm almost there to Vegas where they're putting on a show they've come so far i've lived this long at least i must just go and say hello quote That's based on this guy Billy Goodman, who had a radio talk show out of Las Vegas, The Billy Goodman Happening, dedicated to UFO stuff people calling in to tell of how their husband got murdered by an alien. The song The Happening tells of how the aliens land in Vegas: it's always been my wish that if they do land, it'll be Billy and his audience that get the credit in the greeting! - Q September 1990 note Transcript from The Billy Goodman Happening Blown Away now the sun is burning in deepest space that's the way things are through a storm I called you it fell each day I didn't get so far my words get blown away my lips are moving if you touch my face did you hear my scream? while we were sleeping I tried to say even in my dreams my words get blown away now the sun is burning in the deepest space I didn't get so far quote Like one of those Neil Young love songs that exist out there in space somewhere. It's not about anyone or anything specifically. It's not about her eyes our the back of her knees. -BF in Melody Maker Hangwire they're going higher wind is whistling on the barbs your head's a hammer hangwire hangwire hangwire meet you at the hangwire that man is a liar the day is like a warm night salt rusts the cold line hangwire hangwire hangwire meet you at the hangwire every morning and every day I'll bossanova with ya if there were a fire can we scratch beneath this hangwire hangwire hangwire meet you at the hangwire? hangwire hangwire hangwire we're going higher hangwire hangwire we're going higher hangwire hangwire we're going higher hangwire hangwire hangwire hangwire hangwire hangwire hangwire hangwire quote this is haiku - Music Express, October 1990 Yeah, the first two verses to that song are in a Haiku format - Japanese verse with three lines: five syllables, then seven, then five. Only thing, it isn't true Haiku cos it doesn't incorporate nature and make some philosophical statement about the universe or whatever - Sounds, December 1990 Stormy Weather It is time it is time oh oh for stormy weather it is time it is time oh oh it is time for stormy weather for stormy weather for stormy weather it is time it is time whoa oh it is time for stormy weather it is time it is time oh oh it is time for stormy weather for stormy weather for stormy weather for stormy weather for stormy weather it is it is time it is time whoa oh it is time for stormy weather it is time it is time oh oh it is time for stormy weather it is time it is time whoa oh it is time for stormy weather it is time it is time oh oh it is time for stormy weather it is time it is time whoa oh it is time for stormy weather Havalina Havalina Havalina Havalina Havalina Walking in the breeze On the plains of old Sedona Arizona Among the trees Havalina Havalina Havalina Havalina Havalina Havalina Havalina Havalina Havalina Havalina Havalina Havalina Havalina Havalina quote 'Havalina' was the most difficult of those songs to record. It's in 6/4. We wanted David to do fills in 4/4, but he couldn't because he was listening to us. We ended up playing a bunch of chords in 4, had David do the fills, and then we recorded our real parts in 6. - Melody Maker, April 1991 note Havalina is the Mexican name for a wild boar, nothing to do with band of same name who did, however, get The Pixies stoned in Texas - Q September 1990 Many many thanks to tobafett for sompiling all these lyrics and also thanks to those who turned up some quotes on the quotes page. If you have any corrections, quotes, insights to any of these songs please feel free to let us know. What would also be amazing is information on the singles released from this album. Thanks in advance.
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pixie punk	Posted - 04/24/2006 : 12:52:36 quote: Originally posted by Carl Rock Music: (Frank in response to ccuadros asking what encatuse means in the 'King' thread:) "hmmm...that might be some special puerto rican word. i can't remember. i think it means "don't mess with me" or something like that. as i recall it was kind of a local"spanglish" word; or it could be that i just mangled the language. i've done a lot of that!" Havalina: From Dag Wieers: "Sedona is a city in Arizona, US." "Havalina, the album's closing song, was composed after Charles and his girlfriend were chased by a wild pig in Arizona. 'So he decided to write a real pretty love song. I've been thinking about this...I don't think there's anything innately erotic about pigs. But generally they are sweet, shy, mysterious creatures. Especially the little ones. When they get big, they get kinda gross.'" - Kim Deal in Melody Maker" Apparently, the word is actually Javalina, but is pronounced ha-va-lee-na! Hey amigos since I live in Puerto Rico and some of you know my work in http://aleceiffel.free.fr/ I can tell you that the only word I can think of matching that "encatuse" word is ENGATUSE that comes from Engatusar or fooling somebody(like what a con artist would do to take your money or make you do something you don't wan't to.And Havalina is from the wild boar name which is JABALI,Charles just gave it a femenine twist to the word which doesn't exist but sounds pretty. PUERTO RICO PIXIE
starmekitten	Posted - 04/24/2006 : 03:28:44 oh my gosh, that I had not seen. Thank you!
benji	Posted - 04/23/2006 : 18:26:09 just checking that you've seen the eyesore site for catelogue numbers: http://ftp.gnus.org/html/group/pixies.html all i can say, thank god for polio! brian
starmekitten	Posted - 04/23/2006 : 10:35:19 fbc that is amazing, thank you so much! forum ebook - "on the road" theme - help wanted
fbc	Posted - 04/23/2006 : 10:30:50 Here's Dig For Fire's CAT number (UK release). No date exceptt year, sorry. I have Velouria too, but need to find the disc/cd case. (Bsides - Velvety Instrumental Version,winterlong And Santo) 1990 4AD Records, BAD0014 CD http://www.musicstack.com/tsearch/pixies/alec+eiffel Some Cat numbers floating around here for singles
Carl	Posted - 04/23/2006 : 08:53:21 Rock Music: (Frank in response to ccuadros asking what encatuse means in the 'King' thread:) "hmmm...that might be some special puerto rican word. i can't remember. i think it means "don't mess with me" or something like that. as i recall it was kind of a local"spanglish" word; or it could be that i just mangled the language. i've done a lot of that!" Havalina: From Dag Wieers: "Sedona is a city in Arizona, US." "Havalina, the album's closing song, was composed after Charles and his girlfriend were chased by a wild pig in Arizona. 'So he decided to write a real pretty love song. I've been thinking about this...I don't think there's anything innately erotic about pigs. But generally they are sweet, shy, mysterious creatures. Especially the little ones. When they get big, they get kinda gross.'" - Kim Deal in Melody Maker" Apparently, the word is actually Javalina, but is pronounced ha-va-lee-na!
kathryn	Posted - 04/23/2006 : 06:20:04 A humble correction to Charles' quotes about Ana. The lyrics form an acrostic, not an anagram. I�m the only one who can say that this light is mine

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