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starmekitten
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Posted - 03/15/2006 :  06:29:47  Show Profile  Visit starmekitten's Homepage  Reply with Quote
The more I delve the more I realise the less I know. I’m trying to get this down and this is what I have so far. If anyone can in true song database style correct a lyric, suggest a reference or a definition, tell me whether or not you rate the song or even more fabulously provide a quote it would be amazing.

A huge pre-emptive THANK YOU


Bone Machine

This is a song for Carol

You're into Japanese fast food
And I drop off your Japanese lover
And you're going to the beach all day
You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me
You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me

You're looking like
You've got some sun
Your blistered lips
Have got a kiss
The taste of it like everyone
Uh-oh uh-oh uh-oh uh-oh

Your bone's got a little machine
You're the bone machine

I was talking to preachy-preach about kissy-kiss
He bought me a soda
He bought me a soda
He bought me a soda and he tried to molest me in the parking lot
Yep yep yep yep

I make you pray
You make me hard
Your irish skin
Looks Mexican
Our love is rice and beans and horses lard
Your bone's got a little machine
You're the bone machine

Uh-oh uh-oh uh-oh uh-oh
Uh-oh uh-oh uh-oh uh-oh

Your bone's got a little machine


Am I right in thinking there is a relationship between this song and the Tom Waits album of the same name? I am certain I read a quote on this somewhere…
Just to show how hard it can be to figure out lyrics for years I thought it was And I chopped up your Japanese Lover… I am *special*



Break My Body

I'm the hardy loser
You'll find me crashing through my mother's door
I am the ugly lover
You'll find us rolling on the dirty floor

Break my body hold my bones hold my bones
Break my body hold my bones hold my bones
Break my body hold my bones hold my bones

I'm a belly dancer
I shake for arabs and I never care
I'm a building jumper
Roof to roof you see me flying in the air

Break my body hold my bones hold my bones
Break my body hold my bones hold my bones
Break my body hold my bones hold my bones

Somebody got hurt
Somebody get hurt
Somebody got hurt


Something Against You

I've got something against you
I've got something against you
Here we go
I've got something against you
I've got something against you
I've got something against you
I've got something against you
I've got something against you
Oh yeah
I am one happy prick


Broken Face

I got a broken face
I got a
I got a broken face
Uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh oooh
I got a broken face
I got a broken face
I got a broken face

There was this boy who had two
Children with his sister
Who were his daughters
Who were his favourite lovers

I got no lips I got no tongue
Where there were eyes there's only space
I got no lips I got no tongue

I got a broken face
Uh-huh uh-huh
I got a broken face

There was this man who snapped his poke
In little pieces
And then they drilled holes
And then they put 'em back in there

I got no lips I got no tongue
Where there were eyes there's only space
I got no lips I got no tongue

I got a broken face
Uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh oooh
I got a broken face

The little thing who does my laundry
Speaks no English
But if you saw her
You'd say isn't she lovely

I got no lips I got no tongue
Where there were eyes there's only space
I got no lips I got no tongue


Gigantic

And this I know
His teeth as white as snow
What a gas it was to see him
Walk her every day
Into a shady place
With her lips she said
She said

Hey Paul hey Paul hey Paul
Let's have a ball
Hey Paul hey Paul hey Paul
Let's have a ball
Hey Paul hey Paul hey Paul
Let's have a ball

Gigantic gigantic gigantic
A big big love
Gigantic gigantic gigantic
A big big love

Lovely legs they are
What a big black mask
What a hunk of love
He'd walk her every day into a shady place
He's like the dark, but I’d want him

Hey Paul hey Paul hey Paul
Let's have a ball
Hey Paul hey Paul hey Paul
Let's have a ball
Hey Paul hey Paul hey Paul
Let's have a ball

Gigantic gigantic gigantic
A big big love
Gigantic gigantic gigantic
A big big love

Gigantic gigantic gigantic
A big big love
Gigantic gigantic gigantic
A big big love


Is this really as my ex housemate so nicely put it “It’s about big cock isn’t it?”
He was classy
No, really...


River Euphrates

Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride

Stuck here out of gas
Out here on the Gaza Strip
From driving too fast

Two three hey
Ride the tyre down River Euphrates
Ride the tyre down
Ride the tyre down River Euphrates
Ride the tyre down
Ride the tyre down River Euphrates
Ride the tyre

Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride ride ride ride
Ride ride

Dead Sea make you float
One sip from the salty wine
Dead Sea make you choke

Two three hey
Ride the tyre down River Euphrates
Ride the tyre down
Ride the tyre down River Euphrates
Ride the tyre down
Ride the tyre down River Euphrates
Ride the tyre

Ride
The
Tyre




Where Is My Mind?

STOP

with your feet in the air and your head on the ground
try this trick and spin it, yeah
your head will collapse
but there's nothing in it
and you'll ask yourself

where is my mind
where is my mind
where is my mind

way out in the water
see it swimming'

I was swimming' in the Caribbean
animals were hiding behind the rock
except the little fish
but they told me, he swears
trying' to talk to me to me to me

where is my mind
where is my mind
where is my mind

way out in the water
see it swimming'

with your feet in the air and your head on the ground
try this trick and spin it, yeah
your head will collapse
if there's nothing in it
and you'll ask yourself

where is my mind
where is my mind
where is my mind

way out in the water
see it swimming'

with your feet in the air and your head on the ground
try this trick and spin it, yeah


I know this one is a long standing problem, so I’ll be happy with a “probably”


Cactus

sitting here wishing on a cement floor
just wishing that I had just something you wore

I put it on when I go lonely
will you take off your dress and send it to me?

I miss your kissing' and I miss your head
and a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead
run outside in the desert heat
make your dress all wet and send it to me

I miss your soup and I miss your bread
and a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead
so spill your breakfast and drip your wine
just wear that dress when you dine

sitting here wishing on a cement floor
just wishing that I had just something you wore

bloody your hands on a cactus tree
wipe it on your dress and send it to me

sitting here wishing on a cement floor
just wishing that I had just something you wore


Tony's Theme

this is a song about a superhero named Tony
it's called Tony's Theme

she put the oil in the chain for a ride today
make no baloney
ride around on my bicycle like a pony
I’m waving hi hi hi hi hi
g-g-g-gimme the speed
gimme gimme the beat
oh Tony

To-ny
To-ny
To-ny
To-ny

I can talk to my bicycle tire
I’m racing', speed by, turn and pop a wheelie and burn
people chasing'
I'm waving' bye bye bye bye bye
I got a card in my spokes
I’m practicing' my jokes
I’m learning'

To-ny
To-ny
To-ny
To-ny

this is a song about a superhero named Tony
it's called Tony's Theme

I can get by this sort
if you give me some pass
some glasses on the back of the road
he was even dressed like a toad
that's what class is

To-ny
To-ny
To-ny
To-ny


Oh My Golly!

dentro las pinones y las olas 'riquena.
oh my golly! oh my golly!
caminamos baja la luna caribe
oh my golly! oh my golly!
besando, chichando con Surfer Rosa
oh my golly! oh my golly!
entonces se fue en fus madera
oh my golly! oh my golly!

Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa!
Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa!

yo soy playero pero no hay playa
oh my golly! oh my golly!
bien perdida la Surfer Rosa
oh my golly! oh my golly!
la vida total es un porqueria
oh my golly! oh my golly!
me hecho menos m'as que vida
oh my golly! oh my golly!

Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa! huh huh
Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa! huh huh

Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa! huh huh
Rosa, oh oh ooh Rosa! huh huh



"You fucking die" I said, to her
I said "YOU FUCKING DIE", to her
Huh? What?
No, no! I was talking to Kim
I said "you fucking die"
No, I was just - we were just goofing around
No, no. It didn't have anything to do with anything
She said: "Don't tou - anybody touch this is my stuff"
And I said "You fucking die" like that
I was finishing her part for her
You know what I mean?


The translation we have (thanks to Owen)
I get into Piñones and the wave is small
Oh my golly

Let's go to the Caribbean moon
Oh my golly
Kissing and fucking with surfer rosa
Oh my golly
His wood is gone
Oh my golly
Rosa oh oh oh Rosa

I'm a beachgoer but there's no beach
Oh my golly
Good and lost the surfer rosa
Oh my golly

All of life is shitty shitty
Oh my golly
This is no more, what a life!
Oh my golly
Rosa oh oh oh Rosa



Vamos

Estaba pensando sobre viviendo con mi sister en New Jersey
Ella me dijo que es una vida buena alla
Bien rica bien chevere

We'll keep well bred
We'll stay well fed
We'll have our sons
They will be all well hung

They'll come and play
Their friends will say
Your daddy's rich
Your mamma's a pretty thing

That maid Maria she's really O.K.

Vamos a jugar por la playa
Vamos a jugar por la playa
Vamos a jugar por la playa
Vamos a jugar por la playa
Vamos a jugar por la playa

I keep getting friends
Looking like lesbians
If we get bored
We'll move to California

They'll come and play
Their friends will say
Your daddy's rich
Your mamma's a pretty thing

That maid Maria she's really O.K.

Vamos a jugar por la playa
Vamos a jugar por la playa
Vamos a jugar por la playa
Vamos a jugar por la playa
Vamos a jugar por la playa


I'm Amazed

girls and fucked 'em at school
all I know is that
there were rumours he was into field hockey players
there were rumours
so I applied basically
he was gone the next day
I went off with the team
it's like
he was gone
they just like
it was like
so hush hush
they were so
quiet about it
and then the next thing you know


the day before
I was wed
she went upstairs
and she cut her hair away

I’m amazed
I’m amazed
I’m amazed
And when I was a little boy
A ball of string my favorite toy

I’m amazed
I’m amazed
I’m amazed

before I died
I took my honda
and cranked it up up up
too bad it don't have no brakes

I’m amazed
I’m amazed
I’m amazed
I am amazed


Brick is Red

a fish is fast
and Jimmy's cast
hang me

a white moon's hot
the other side's not
hang me

it's not time for me to go
it's not time for me to go

my eyes have turned
just the color of diamond
just the color
the frayed color of ice

my eyes have turned
just the color of diamond
just the color
the frayed color of ice



There you go...

Edited by - starmekitten on 04/03/2006 09:03:05

PixieSteve
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Posted - 03/15/2006 :  06:46:41  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
PREACHY PREACH

i will be seriously upset if it's left as peachy peach.


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kathryn
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Posted - 03/15/2006 :  06:54:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Frank on Bone Machine (in Select, October 1997):
"The imagery is a reference to female anatomy - the pelvis as a sexual area of life. It's an area that people move and swing when they dance."


Frank on Broken Face (not sure where):
"There was this boy who had two children with his sisters...who were his daughters...uh, what can I say...who were his favorite lovers!"

Also from Frank: "When I reached my teens, I discovered rock 'n roll and started getting interested in girls. So I guess that sort of religious/sexual conflict of interests is where a lot of the songs come from. The Bible's got a lot of wild stories in the Old Testament - the incest thing pops up a lot in my songs."




Cactus

Obviously the lyrics are about a prisoner asking his gf for visceral things of her. Frank told Melody Maker (not sure when) that the music was inspired by T. Rex's The Groover.

(On a personal note, I was devastated when my friend convinced me that it was "cement floor" and not "semen floor.")

Gigantic

Frank (again in Select, October 1997):
"A good chord progression, very Lou-Reed influenced. I'd had the word 'gigantic' in my mind just because the chord progression seemed very big to me."
Kim has said that the 1986 Bruce Beresford film "Crimes Of The Heart" inspired her. That's the movie where Sissy Spacek is a married white woman who falls for a black teen boy.



Tony's Theme

Many times all four band members have said that this song is about floop.



River Euphrates

Frank (in Sound, sometime?):

"The boogie sequence at the end of River Euphrates is 'a fake Jesus And Mary Chain song'."


Where is my mind?

Several times Frank has said that this is about him snorkeling in the Caribbean and being chased by a little fish.




I got some heaven in my head

Edited by - kathryn on 03/15/2006 06:59:10
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vilainde
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Posted - 03/15/2006 :  07:00:00  Show Profile  Visit vilainde's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten
Oh My Golly!
demtro las pinones y las holas 'riquena.
oh my golly! oh my golly!
caminamos bagala luna caribe
oh my golly! oh my golly!



Whore and owen will do much better than me, as I never understood a word of what he sings here, but it shoud be "dentro", "olas" and "baja la luna"


Denis

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kfs
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Posted - 03/15/2006 :  08:44:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
In BROKEN FACE:

The little thing who does my laundry
speaks no English
but if you saw her
you'd say isn't she lovely...
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kfs
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Posted - 03/15/2006 :  08:46:59  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
In BONE MACHINE:

instead of
I make you break...

I think it might be
I make you pray...
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PixieSteve
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Posted - 03/15/2006 :  10:09:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
yeah, from the PREACHERS perspective. i make you pray, you make me hard :D


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Posted - 03/16/2006 :  01:40:11  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
PIXIES
by Joy Press
OPTION #21, July/August 1988.

So who the hell is Rosa and why is she topless on the cover of the record?

" Oh, she's a surfer, " Charles nods, humming the tune " Oh My Golly , " the song in which Rosa is named. She's a surfer girl, walks along the Beach of Binones, has a surfboard, very beautiful. "

And the topless bit?

" 'Cause she's pretty? Probably, but I didn't make the cover. For the first record, I told them I liked nudity. I like body lines - not necessarily something in bad taste, didn't even have to be female, just body lines... like that Obsession ad, you know? We could do a cover like Obsession, we'll all spend three months... "

" Working out? " Kim interrupts.

" No, no, no, I'll get fatter. You guys could all put on 30lbs. We'll be like sloths. "
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Carl
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Posted - 03/16/2006 :  03:15:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
That's cool, Soren. Never saw that before.

pas de dutchie!
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pod
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Posted - 03/16/2006 :  12:35:04  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hey the Reunion DVD makes the lyrics to Bone Machine pretty clear.

Just watch trax 1 & 7, and you'll see Frank is singing "Preacher Preach" and "I make you pray/you make me hard"

Makes the whole molestation thing make more sense, eh?
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Carl
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Posted - 03/16/2006 :  12:36:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
"I make you pray...."

It's all starting to make sense!

pas de dutchie!
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pod
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The songs about a kid that is being seduced by a priest that was counseling them on the birds & the bees, ya know? "he buy me a soda"

At least that's how I've always taken it.
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Don Eduardo
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Posted - 03/16/2006 :  19:07:51  Show Profile  Click to see Don Eduardo's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
in BMB, im pretty sure its:

"I’m a belly dancer
I shake for arabs and I never care"

sounds clearer on the purple tape
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Carl
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Posted - 03/16/2006 :  19:46:02  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
'I'm the horny loser'-I thought it was 'hardy loser'.

'I shake for arabs and I never care'-that sounds a lot better, you could be on to something, Ed!!

I remember journalistic blurb in a magazine(s) mentioning how Black wrote songs about serial killers, UFOs, incest, abortion, etc., and thinking maybe Break My Body was about abortion!

It's been suggested elsewhere that in River Euphrates, he could possibly be singing 'ride a tyre', but tiger sounds more likely to me.

Aleceiffel.net have the assumed 'Oh Yeah' in Something Against You as 'And I'm gonna use it', and they have the 'A ball of string, my favorite toy' line as 'A ball of string my parents took from me.'

I used to think he sang 'There was this man who smashed his brain in little pieces' in Broken Face. And that in Cactus, he sang 'Sittin' here wishin' on a semen floor'! Cactus was inspired by the true story of a prison inmate's request to his lover.

Frank was snorkling on a Carribean holiday in his youth, when a little fish swam by him and seemed to him at the time to be trying to communicate with him! That inspired WIMM?

pas de dutchie!

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pixiestu
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You mean it isn't "There was this man who smashed his brain in little pieces" in Broken Face?

"I shake for arabs" sounds right in 'Break my Body'.

I definitely hear "ride a tyre" in 'River Euphrates'.

In 'I'm Amazed' I always thought it was:
The day before
That I was wed
She went upstairs
And shot her head, I'm Amazed...

And when I was a little boy
A ball of string my parents took away from me...(he does sing "...my favourite toy" in some versions though [like Frank Black Francis])
...also the last line of the last verse should say
"...to Arizona, I'm Amazed..."(I think)

...and yeah, I always thought it was 'semen floor' too!

"The arc of triumph"
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Ok, I'll edit these for everyones approval, thank you all so much for the quotes and references and with much huffing puffing and pouting I will accept preachy-preach.

I might leave it as peachy peach just to piss pixiesteve off for a little while.

Please, if anyone finds or figures anything else, post it. I'll get the next album up soon.

Thank you.
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quote:
Originally posted by Carl
It's been suggested elsewhere that in River Euphrates, he could possibly be singing 'ride a tyre', but tiger sounds more likely to me.

pas de dutchie!



ride a tyre makes more sense given the context.

stuck here out of gas
out here on the gaza strip
from driving too fast...

you know, problems with his car..



Edited by - PixieSteve on 03/19/2006 11:38:49
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What about the first two verses of "Brick is Red" ?
It could go somewhere.

Brick is red
And Hitler's dead
Hang me

The Earth's not round
It's shaped like an egg
Hang me

http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6992
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What do people think of the lyric being "Ride the Tigris to the River Euphrates"? The two legendary rivers of mythological lore, not to mention modern water disputes? Why can't I remember to ask Frank in The King Holds Court important stuff like this, instead of "Frank, what's your favorite pasta recipe?" Damn.


I got some heaven in my head

Edited by - kathryn on 03/19/2006 12:01:41
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starmekitten
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Posted - 03/19/2006 :  12:10:48  Show Profile  Visit starmekitten's Homepage  Reply with Quote
THS, I'll either bracket it or add it to the notes maybe? what do you think?

aargh so many variables! I'm pretty sure it's not tiger. Because I don't want it to be more than anything.

Edited by - starmekitten on 03/19/2006 12:11:42
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starmekitten
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Posted - 03/19/2006 :  12:18:51  Show Profile  Visit starmekitten's Homepage  Reply with Quote
actually as far as the lyrics go what I've been doing is finding and comparing as many online sources as I can before playing the song really loud on my nano to see what I think fits best. It's not an exact science.
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kathryn
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quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten

actually as far as the lyrics go what I've been doing is finding and comparing as many online sources as I can before playing the song really loud on my nano to see what I think fits best. It's not an exact science.


But isn't your fancy grad degree was in the exact science of franklyricology?

Seriously, Tre, "Ride the Tigris to the River Euphrates" teems of the kind of history-based songwriting Frank's known for.
Tigris, Euphrates, Mesopotamia. C'mon!


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Posted - 03/19/2006 :  12:24:12  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
it just doesn't sound like that, i'm afraid. he could be singing tiger as a play tigris though. actually, tigers proper species name is tigris..



Edited by - PixieSteve on 03/19/2006 12:28:00
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starmekitten
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Posted - 03/19/2006 :  12:29:40  Show Profile  Visit starmekitten's Homepage  Reply with Quote
...pauses cd player...
...plugs in nano...

sorry, no, I really don't think so, besides, the pixies is generally more spontaneous, it's more the later work thats like an onion.
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kathryn
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Posted - 03/19/2006 :  12:32:41  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
: (

boo! hiss!

oh and in "i'm amazed" you spelled "rumors" wrong. ha!


I got some heaven in my head
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quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten

THS, I'll either bracket it or add it to the notes maybe? what do you think?


A note sounds good.

Oh and I definitely hear "ride a tire".
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i hear ride a tyre ;)
but i suppose the pixies were american...


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starmekitten
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Posted - 03/19/2006 :  12:44:05  Show Profile  Visit starmekitten's Homepage  Reply with Quote
she who is adding this to the database is not however....

break my body anyone?
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kathryn
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Posted - 03/19/2006 :  13:44:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten


break my body anyone?



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for what it's worth, i hear:

I’m the hard loser
You'll find me crashing through my mother's door
I am the ugly lover
You'll find us rolling on the dirty floor

Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones

I’m a belly dancer
I'll shake forever and I'll never care
I'm a building jumper
Roof to roof you see me flying in the air

Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones

Somebody got hurt
Somebody get hurt
Somebody got her




I got some heaven in my head

Edited by - kathryn on 03/19/2006 13:45:33
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Carl
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Posted - 03/19/2006 :  18:39:41  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
One of my very favorite Pixies' songs.

pas de dutchie!
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Posted - 03/19/2006 :  19:31:12  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I wondered what the chorus to Gigantic was...it'd always just sounded like gibberish.

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Posted - 03/20/2006 :  06:44:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
i think it's

I'm the harley loser..

like, a biker (harley davidson)

and i think he's saying

I shake for Arabs and I never care

but i don't know why
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Posted - 03/20/2006 :  09:24:17  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn

Somebody got hurt
Somebody get hurt
Somebody got her

i always thought the last line was the same as the first, but...

i could be/am wrong


Yes or No? YES or NO!
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Posted - 03/20/2006 :  10:10:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I thought the same, fbc. Could be either though.

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Posted - 03/20/2006 :  10:58:13  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Well that makes 3, what with you, me and Jez. It has to be true.
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Posted - 03/20/2006 :  15:34:05  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I thought that too.

pas de dutchie!
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