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"
I got a broken face
I got a
I got a broken face
Uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, ooo
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 sisters
They were his daughters
They were his favorite lovers
I got no lips, I got no tongue
Whatever I say is only spit
I got no lips, I got no tongue
I got a broken face, uh-hu, uh-hu
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
Whatever I say is only spit
I got no lips, I got no tongue
I got a broken face
Uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, ooo
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
Whatever I say is only spit
I got no lips, I got no tongue
I got a
I got a broken face
Uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, ooo
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 sisters
They were his daughters
They were his favorite lovers
I got no lips, I got no tongue
Whatever I say is only spit
I got no lips, I got no tongue
I got a broken face, uh-hu, uh-hu
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
Whatever I say is only spit
I got no lips, I got no tongue
I got a broken face
Uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, uh-hu, ooo
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
Whatever I say is only spit
I got no lips, I got no tongue
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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insest, the game the whole family can play
@paranoidpanda69 an abacus is something you can always count on
its about incest and the deformities it produces. nimrods son is also about incest
i dont think charles was 'into' incest more than he just had an honest and somewhat bizarre fascination with it and other darker themes found in the bible. i mean for real, there are so many pixies songs with biblical references, the most obvious being "dead". if you get a chance to watch the new dvd that came out, he talks about his childhood fascinations about the bible and 'sin' in the documentary section. anyways, great song from an amazing album
I learned almost every evil thing I know from the fucking Bible. :D<br /> Fucking Jews.
Incest is the best; so put your cousin to the test!
Do you think Frank Black had a fascination with incest....anybody?
@sammyramone he was molested as a grandparent
i think its about people and not bieng able to see whats inside of them. frank black starts at an extreme, incest. you look at the family and you dont see who they are and what theyre doing when people arent around. they look normal, but theyre broken and damaged. then, on a less extreme, you have a man " there was this man who snapped his brain in little pieces." who has mental issues, depression, insanity, something. and though you can try to "put em back in there" and fix it, you cant. kind of like the old rhyme about humptey dumptey who couldnt go back together again. but you cant see any of this. then an even less extreme, the girl. by just looking at her you'd say "isnt she lovely". but when you get to know her you find out that she doesnt speak english and is stuck doing laundry for pay.
"They were his daughters, they were his favourite lovers" The incest is obvious, but here it sounds like "this boy" is sexually abusing his children.
"There was this man who snapped his brain in little pieces And then he drove holes, and then he put 'em back in there" ..."Drove holes" is just an interesting way of saying it. "Put 'em back in there", referring to the place he keeps his abused children.
"The little thing who does my laundry, speaks no English" Sounds like someone who was enslaved from birth.
"But if you saw her, you'd say 'Hey isn't she lovely?'" IF you saw her.
This is a scary interpretation but it makes sense to me.
@sf17k you hit the nail squarely on the finger
Okay, most Pixies songs don't make any sense, but this one is plum loco, though I still adore it.
this is a great song that has a lot of memories
Haha...how do you correct the lyrics on here??
It's "The little thing who does my laundry, speaks no english "
and
"There was this man who snapped his brain in little pieces And then he drove holes, and then he put 'em back in there"
Oh my golly