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| starmekitten |
Posted - 06/23/2006 : 11:52:21
Filling in some lyrics gaps here and as usual any additional insights notes and quotes much appreciated
In Heaven (The Lady in the Radiator Song)
In Heaven
Everything is fine
In Heaven
Everything is fine
In Heaven
Everything is fine
You got your good thing
And I've got mine
In Heaven
Everything is fine
In Heaven
Everything is fine
In Heaven
Everything is fine
You got a good good thing
And you've got mine
All mine
In Heaven
Everything is fine
In Heaven
In Heaven
Everything is fine
You've got a good good thing
And you've got mine
all mine
In Heaven
Every thing is fine
thank you very much. good night
While we closed the set with Vamos, we usually closed the evening with this one. I think we all even saw this movire (Eraserhead) together, and I knew I wanted to play it in the show. I thought I was pretty clever picking out this song to do, until I discovered a few years later that there were bands all over the world who did this song. You've got to love Eraserhead. It sure impressed me. I assume the haunting lyric is Lynch's and the wonderful chord progression is by a songwriter named Peter Ivers. While we were recording Come On Pilgrim I learned of his murder in an apparant "gay-bashing" some years previous.
- Complete B sides Liner notes
Manta Ray
All in a day
All for me
Trek across the space
It'll be just like they say
Oo, oo,
Oo, oo
Yeah
Since I am told
Month number three
He has no memory
Of flyers in the night
Oo, oo
Oo, oo
Yeah
They went away
They went away
My manta ray is all right
My manta ray is all right
My manta ray is all right
My manta ray is all right
(all-right!)
Police they say
My mother too
A fish from ocean blue
Above my head tonight
Oo, oo
Oo, oo
Yeah
There is a way
There is a way
My manta ray is all right
My manta ray is all right
My manta ray is all right
My manta ray is all right
My manta ray is all right
My manta ray is all right
My manta ray is all right
My manta ray is all right
My manta ray is all right
My manta ray is all right
My manta ray is all right
My manta ray is all right
(All right!)
All right!!
I like Joey's solo.
- Complete B sides liner notes
Weird At My School
1-2-3-4!
My father lives in Arabia
And I live right here at my school
I took his plane to Columbia
So I could sell at my school
It's weird at my school
Weird at my school
Weird at my school
weird at my school
My mother's glad that I am here
So she can visit my school
I can't believe she's so pretty
I'm a son of a bitch at my school
Weird at my school
Weird at my school
Weird at my school
Weird at my school
And my best friend, my cousin Eleanor
She lives far away from the doors of my school
And often times, you know I fantasize
That I have sex with the nuns at my school
It's weird at my school!
Weird at my school
Weird at my school
Weird at my school
Weird at my school
Weird at my school
Weird at my school
Weird at my school
That’s a composite of other people's stories. For some reason all the songs I did are from different details of other people's stories. One of the most interesting stories was a couple of kids in high school, real rich kids. Their dad had a plane. They fucking flew the plane to Columbia. They loaded up the plane, they flew there and back. They were 16. I didn't go. I wish my youth was that exciting.
- Alternative Press Vol. IV No. 22, September 1989
A song from our early repertoire. We probably recorded it several times. It displays a certain kind of hyperness that is very much the pixies, especially when we started out.
- Complete B sides liner notes
Dancing The Manta Ray
Woooooo!
Huh
Do the manta ray
Do the manta ray
Do the manta ray
Do the manta ray
Your head can go real screw
with saucers chasing you
Dance the manta ray
Dance the manta ray
Dance the manta ray
Dance the manta ray
Dance the manta ray
Your head can go real screw
with saucers chasing you
Fish don't swim-
Fish fly!
fly, c'mon
Your head can go real screw
with saucers chasing you
I always loved this one. I asked the engineer to speed the tape up when I did the vocals because I thought I would sound more like Screamin' Jay Hawkins; I probably had just seen Stranger Than Paradise
- Complete B sides liner notes
Into the White
And there ain't no night
And there ain't no night
Did you hear what I said
[I'm goin'] into the white
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
And there ain't no day
And there ain't no day
And there ain't no night
And there ain't no night
And there ain't no day
And there ain't no night
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
Did you hear what I said?
did you hear what I said?
Deeper than your sleepy head
Deeper than your sleepy head
Ain't nothin' to see
Ain't nothin' in sight
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
Go, and you'll go real far
Go, and you'll go real far
Just past the big quasar
Just past the big quasar
Can't hitch a meteorite
Can't hitch a meteorite
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
Into the white
Of course, that's Kim doing the vocals on this. This song became a crowd favourite at gigs and was a frequent closer for a while. I always loved playing it. A fan from Belfast gave me a photo taken during our one gig there; actually, the photo was taken during our performance of Into the White, and all you can see are blazing white lights and tons of smoke. You can't even see the band. That's how it was when we did this song.
- complete b sides liner notes
Bailey's Walk
Bailey!
He takes some steps
And bobbed his head
He spins
(turns around)
Takes some steps
Yeah!
The method
Of stop, tap, spin
No talkin'
Bailey's walk
The method
Of stop, tap, spin
Of no talkin'
Bailey's walk
Bailey!
Bailey!
On parking lots and big highways
Daily!
It's crazy
Yeah!
The method
Of stop, tap, spin
Of no talkin'
Bailey's walk
The method
Of stop, tap, spin
It's about a guy I used to see all over San Juan. He could only take a couple of steps before he had to tap himself on the head an do a little spin
- "Complete 'b' sides" liner notes
Make Believe
I've been lost
Since she's gone
The piano she's really on
I don't want you to marry me
Make believe You're Debbie G
Come look down on who you are
She is love with a voice
And a shape that's my guitar
I don't want you
You want me
Make believe you're Debbie G
Make believe you're Debbie G
Make believe you're Debbie G
David Lovering sings lead. He kept us very entertained with his obsesion with Debbie Gibson, and that's what this song is about
- Complete b sides liner notes
The Thing
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 yankee 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
everybody was remembering to forget they had the chills
and 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 puttin' on a show
they've come so far I've lived this long at least I must just go and say
hello
This one is a sonnet
- Music Express, October 1990
A re-mix of the outro section of the happening from Bossanova. A tale of messianic arrival in Las Vegas
- Complete b sides liner notes
Santo
By the old seaside
Ain't no place far to go
I don't know
I don't know
Ain't no place far to go
It's a dollar, she say
Te amo le mas
Te amo le mas
Santo
Santo
Santo
Santo
Hey ya' boy
How ya' doin'
Come here boy
Here she come a slitherin'
da da da da da
Here she come a slitherin'
Te amo le mas
Te amo le mas
Santo
Santo
Santo
Santo
[Buzzard eels
Buzzard bikinis
Eat your rouge
A chini weinies
A warm gardeda]
Da' mamacita
da
A poutin' grandma
In a corner
And passin' time
Hey, hey
[Praying too far too]
Santo
Santo
Santo
Santo
Build High
Build high, build high
Build high, build high
Cause my old man is bleeding
And my poor dog needs feeding
And this time I'm really broke
let me feel your leg of hope around me
Build high, build high
Build high, build high
I said build hi-igh, yeah, build high
Build high, build high
Build high, build high
Hold me up with pride
Cause I'm not beautiful and
I don't have no pretty friends
Can't pretend.
I'm tired of believing
In the things
Maybe makes me feel
Just like someone's forming
In the air air air
Build high, build high
Build high, build high
I said build hi-igh, yeah, build high, build hi-igh!
Build high, build high
Build high, build high
Evil-Hearted You
Corazon de diablo siempre me intentas rebajar,
Con las cosas que haces
Y las palabras que difundes contra mi.
Corazon de diablo seguiras engañadome,
Con tu falsa sonrisa
Y tus canciones de sirena,
Sonriendo engañando, coqueteas conmigo hasta que no hay esperanza,
Respondiendo degradando, de rodillas intento agradarte.
Pero te quiero sin embargo y te deseo piedad,
A mi lado y veras lo que significas para mi.
(spoken)Corazon de diablo siempre me intentas rebajar,
Con las cosas que haces
Y las palabras que difundes contra mi, sobre mi.
Corazon de diablo siempre me intentas rebajar,
Con las cosas que haces
Y las palabras que difundes contra mi,sobre mi.
Que harias sin mi sonriendo,engañando,
Coqueteas conmigo hasta que no hay esperanza
It was gonna be a b-side last year, but the publisher heard it and he spoke Spanish. It turned out there was a big mistake in it. I've re-done it and checked it out with a couple of cooks at my local burrito bar, and they gave it the okay
- Vox July 1991
(It's a version of the Yardbirds' 'Evil Hearted You' sung in Spanish by Charles, who picked up the language when he spent six months in Puerto Rico.)
thanks to tobafett for the lyrics
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| pixiestu |
Posted - 06/23/2006 : 14:39:38
Funny, I always thought it was: The piano she's kneeling on.
"The arc of triumph" |
| TRANSMARINE |
Posted - 06/23/2006 : 13:45:29
Make Believe
I've been lost
Since she's gone
The piano she's really onI don't want you to marry me
Make believe You're Debbie G
Always thought it was:
The piano she's leaning on
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
-bRIAN |
| Carl |
Posted - 06/23/2006 : 12:39:00
An excerpt from an interview with Mondo 2000, which kind of explains Manta Ray a little:
M2: Have you ever seen a UFO?
FB: No. I've been *exposed* to one. I was told by my family, at a young age. Broad daylight, 1965. Nebraska. Over the house, a big saucer. Everyone in the front yard thought it was the end of the world. Called the state police. Followed it for awhile. Big incident. But I was an infant, so if I do have any memory, it's subconscious.
http://dag.wieers.com/debaser/docs/blackfra.php
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