| Soul Coughing – White Girl Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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" Saw a girl in New York, she moved to San Francisco, went out to visit her, realized she was perhaps not the sanest person I had ever met in my life. I told her she was like those children raised by wolves, only she was raised by the aliens. She had this sort of sweet and wholesome thing to her, and this huge despairing darkness beneath the surface. I believe she is a schoolteacher now. The White Girl part came from reading a newspaper and realizing that whenever a news item involved a black girl, she was described as a Black Girl, but when there was an item about a White Girl, she was described simply as a Girl. " |
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| Soul Coughing – The Idiot Kings Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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" The initial title was "Luv Gangsters." "The Idiot Kings" was the prospective title for a novel about a band I used to want to write--that would've been the name of the band. I don't know, we were rehearsing before the last tour before we went in to make I.B. and suddenly everybody liked the song and there it was. And then, while we were on tour and playing it live nightly, fucking Alanis came out with that "everything is fine, fine, fine" song, I saw the video standing in the lobby of the Phoenix hotel in S.F. and starting saying No, no, dear Lord, no...That's when we started devoting time in the set to explaining how Alanis and the C.I.A. were stealing ideas from my mind. I hated the Luv Gangsters part, so I actually wrote the batting in the light/reptile-lidded eyes part while we were at the Power Station with David Kahne. Like, desperately, in two minutes, just blurted out this verse. Kinda dig it, actually. " |
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| Soul Coughing – The Idiot Kings Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is one of my favorite SC songs.. it was originally called Luv Gangsters, because the "batting in the light" verse was originally: "pistols on the sides, luv gangsters on the rise, yeah. pistols on the sides, luv gangsters on the rise." |
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| Soul Coughing – Supra Genius Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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haha.. i love Doughty's explaination of this song: "Boy, girl, planet-destroying death ray, etc." |
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| Soul Coughing – Super Bon Bon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| "I was listening to Craig Mack a lot and had managed to approximate his mushmouthed, offbeat kind of lyrical flow, and basically I spent a whole day walking around, like for instance if I went to the Thai Food place in my neighborhood, I'd be going "I'm gonna get Pad Thai! I'm...gonna...GET...Pad Thai! I'm gonna! Get Pad Thai!" and so on. I took the C train into Manhattan, got off at the Chambers St. station, and there was a sign reading "Take Elevator to Mezzanine." " | |
| Soul Coughing – St. Louise Is Listening Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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maquereau = brothel-keeper, pimp yardie = member of jamaican organized crime |
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| Soul Coughing – Mr. Bitterness Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| by "of the same name", i mean "Little Sister.. | |
| Soul Coughing – Mr. Bitterness Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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awesome song. the "little sister" line comes from an Elvis song of the same name... and Kool-Aid and gin tastes much better than you'd think ;) |
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| Soul Coughing – Monster Man Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The basis for these lyrics seems to be a song titled "Love on the A-Train".. a collaboration between Soul Coughing and Mecca Bodega | |
| Soul Coughing – I've Got to Get Right With This Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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the numbers are a phone number, to somewhere on 7th ave in the bronx. other than that.. the last verse is about fat people having sex? |
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| Soul Coughing – I Miss The Girl Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i think this song is about missing a girl ;) i agree with bush_h8er tho.. awesome line |
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| Soul Coughing – Disseminated Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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For a little insight into this song, read: http://nypress.com/14/21/sg/songs20.cfm and http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/archives/000117.html Toots Hibbert is a referece to the guy from Toots & The Maytals. I think the funny car/monster truck references the ice cream truck Doughty drove one summer.. Dervin and Joseph were musicians he met in Jamaica. "Cocoa mop" may be a referece to dreadlocks? I think the whole song is about being dumped.. like getting chewed up, shat out, and feeling scattered (disseminated). |
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