Lyrics for Black Cow as interpreted by AbFab

Black Cow Lyrics
In the corner of my eye, I saw you in Rudys'
You were very high
You were high,
It was a cryin' disgrace, They saw your face
On the counter, by your keys,
Was a book of numbers, and your remedies
One one of these, surely will screen out the sorrow
But where are you tomorrow

I can't cry anymore, while you run around
Break away, just when it seems so clear,
That it's over now,
Drink your big black cow and get out of here

Down to Greene Street, there you go,
Looking so outrageous, and they tell you so
You should know, how all the pros play the game,
You change your name
Like a gangster, on the run,
You will stagger home, to your precious one
I'm the one
Who must make everything right, talk it out 'til daylight

I don't care anymore, why you run around
Break away, just when it seems so clear,
That it's over now,
Drink your big black cow and get out of here.

So outrageous, so outrageous.

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law2468
02-24-2005

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I'm through being your crying towell and punching bag, you coked up party girl. See ya!

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MickeyPhilly
04-15-2006

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I know that a Black Cow is a sort of soda drink that involves Coke or root beer mixed with ice cream or milk. There is also alcoholic versions of it.

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CuteSparkina
07-23-2006

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The Black Cow can be a candy-like mixed "high-powered" beverage or it can be indeed a rootbeer float.
Our Hero is telling The Lady that he is INDEED through being this lady's sounding board every time one of her relationships with unsuitable fellows goes sour and she comes running back to him. In the cocktail context, a "black cow" is considered a frou-frou party-girl drink.
Or, in the context of an ice-cream parlor kiddie beverage, Our Hero is telling the lady that she is acting like a twelve-year-old

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GreyBlueEyes
08-24-2006

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Ehhh, he's in love with her and he'll never say these things to her. He WANTS to, but when he's with her...he can't get it out.

"So I have to say I hate you, in a song..."

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TheBowieFollies
02-20-2007

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He finally sees the light, this is his redememption song, he realises he would rather be alone than to be taken for granted, he realises she isnt even all that beautiful, he is taken by his masochist tendencies, but he is now healing, well done la!

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panzer4963
04-05-2008

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The man and woman are just friends. He is stable and conscientious. She is reckless and irresponsible. The song is his internal-monologue. He can never actually say these things to her. He is in love.

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MichaelKleinman
08-23-2009

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I think it's cool how he says "on the counter, by your keys, was a book of numbers, and your remedies."

This references back to the ambiguity in "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" about whether a "number" refers to a phone number or a joint. It could be either: a phone number for a friend or a joint can "screen out the sorrow." But the fact that the "numbers" are near the "remedies" definitely suggests a joint, although again, it's ambiguous.

I love how they are referencing themselves, and especially a lyric from the past that was itself ambiguous. And now the same lyric is ambiguous in the same way, many albums later! This band is incredible.

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