This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
She's my fave, undressing in the sun
Return to sea, bye, forgetting everyone
Eleven high, ride a wave
She's my fave, undressing in the sun
Return to sea, bye, forgetting everyone
Eleven high, ride a wave
Return to sea, bye, forgetting everyone
Eleven high, ride a wave
She's my fave, undressing in the sun
Return to sea, bye, forgetting everyone
Eleven high, ride a wave
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S U R F E R
acrostic poem
this is such a beauty.
musically enchanting.
eleven high are some big waves, atleast where i'm from...
"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." (Black Francis in a Q article)
taken from the pixies site:" 'Bossanova' : Everyone knows 'Bossanova' is the greatest record the Beach Boys never made. The Pixies even had the grace to be the first band to use a theramin since 'Good Vibrations', and they had the shirts to match, too. So embroiled in surf lore had Black Francis become that one song 'Ana' was a rare instance of a rock 'n' roll acrostic, wherein the first letters of it's six lines spelt a word: SURFER. Really clever bastard."
@vendetta hbb its not the pixies its pixies pls respect the band or else die and go fuck yourself stupid fuck tnx
Pixies > Zeppelin.
And i'm a massive fan of both so there.
An anagram is a word made bye changing the order of the letters of another word. Just like "veil" and "evil".
What you're talking about GCNgamer128 is called a palindrome. "Ana" is a palindrome.
I think that Ana is a reference to Santa Ana winds that blow from the sea over Southern California. They're supposed to create really great waves for the surfers. Or so I've heard.
@TheGoblinKing <br /> <br /> Could be, but Santa Ana winds blow from the desert OFFSHORE and they do make waves better if there is swell that day.. when there are santa ana winds in the winter.. its warm by the beach from all the hot desert air being blown offshore.
Love this song <3. Found it not looking for it, but when I heard it I was amazed :) Love the title - Ana :) prob don't have to tell why;)
the record is stupidly underrated. This is my first tiime hearing it, and it's already my second favorite (just behind Surfer Rosa, a very close race though)
Definately my all-time favourite Pixies track. Bossanova is by far the best Pixies album.
Okay, controversial bit over. Black sure liked messing about with poems in his lyrics in Bossanova, didn't he? Ana is an acrostic poem, Hangwire was written in Haiku...
Ana is a nickname for anorexia...so that's what I'm guessing this song is about.