| My Bloody Valentine – When You Sleep Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song makes me think of the times I've been lying next to a girl I loved, happily watching her and knowing that the next day I won't be alone. A sweet, naive love song. | |
| My Bloody Valentine – Paint a Rainbow Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Well, I hadn't paid much attention to the lyrics to this song. But after humming the chorus of Husker Du's "Pink turns to Blue", it came to me. Of course! It's about necrophilia! Specifically a guy fucking a dead chick. Recently dead people, like in the HD song, tend to have "lips of blue", and the line "it's cold and safe inside of you" refers of course to her decomposing vagina. I hardly need to mention the "earthen trail of slimy goo". I like to imagine the narrator, having been driven to insanity by an inability to accept the death of his beloved girlfriend, going down to the graveyard one night and digging her up for some action. He's so happy just to be with her again, like the old days..."I will chase your sadness away / See it glow when I paint a rainbow" and maybe he even hopes for some resurrection, "when the colours change" and those blue lips turn pink once more. Fucked up, creepy, but also slightly touching in a way. P.S. the only thing that leads me to doubt this interpretation is his references to "eyes of red". Do corpses get red eyes? I dunno, undertakers tend to close the lids to avoid their glassy stare. Perhaps Kevin 's lover is in fact UNdead? Certain species of zombies have been known to have spooky red eyes. |
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| My Bloody Valentine – No More Sorry Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I take this as being from the perspective of a daughter whose father (violently?) sexually abuses her. I think the line might be "in my hair" rather than "in my head"...maybe the "fingerprints of you"=semen? I picture a girl in the shower obsessively washing herself afterwards, as well as "washing and mending" psychologically. The most unsettling line is "loved me black and blue". Really captures the queasy nastiness of incest, if that's what it's about, where the child's emotional desire for affection is responded to with sexual lust and violence and degradation. This is a fantastic song, but I can't listen to it much. The way I've interpreted it, it makes me genuinely unsettled. The blurry, stomach-churning music itself fits very well with the apparent subject matter. brr. |
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| My Bloody Valentine – No More Sorry Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I take this as being from the perspective of a daughter whose father (violently?) sexually abuses her. I think the line might be "in my hair" rather than "in my head"...maybe the "fingerprints of you"=semen? I picture a girl in the shower obsessively washing herself afterwards, as well as "washing and mending" psychologically. The most unsettling line is "loved me black and blue". Really captures the queasy nastiness of incest, if that's what it's about, where the child's emotional desire for affection is responded to with sexual lust and violence and degradation. This is a fantastic song, but I can't listen to it much. The way I've interpreted it, it makes me genuinely unsettled. The blurry, stomach-churning music itself fits very well with the apparent subject matter. brr. |
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| Robyn Hitchcock – Madonna of the Wasps Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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from a 1989 interview with the man himself... What is your new song "Madonna of the Wasps" about? Well, "Madonna" is about an artist with a long, straggly beard who's kept in a white room in a castle somewhere in France. It's one of those castles where ... there are 31 doors but there are 32 windows, and if you hang a handkerchief out of each window, there's still one room that doesn't have a handkerchief hanging out of it. In other words, there's a doorless room. And trapped inside this this doorless room is a very emaciated artist, and every night ... he sits there painting. He's got a kind of hotel suite, so he's not lying there in his own shit or anything like that. But he doesn't get around much. Anyway, he's trapped up there, and every night this woman comes to him. As her head and shoulders come through the window, he thinks, "Great," but her abdomen is that of a wasp, and it's a kind of two-foot-long beautiful black-and-yellow abdomen with rings around it. And she comes in and she sort of pins him to the bed, and she sticks her tongue in his mouth, and she arcs up her abdomen and he goes, "Unnh, Unnh, Unnh." She just curls this thing around and stabs him in the navel, and he gets a lethal dose of wasp poisoning. And he just passes out, and the next morning he wakes up and he's OK again. Like Prometheus, he's had his kidneys taken out. Anyway, he doesn't know why he's in there. He doesn't know what his relationship with the Madonna is, particularly. I mean, she's very attractive in one way, you know, but repellant in another. And then one day, he wakes up, and he's not in the room anymore. He's just walking along in the fields in France, all these sort of flat fields. And it's early morning in November and there's a frost, and he sees this sort of shape lying on the ground, like a crashed plane. And it's the Madonna. She's dying like wasps do in the autumn, and she stretches her hand out to him and says, "Will you forgive me?" And then that's where it ends. There's the option: Is she actually going to whip up and sting him again, finally, or is he going to forgive her, or what? So we leave it there... Well, it's very long, so that why I had to make the song completely different, but that's the concept behind it. |
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