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There's a girl in my yard
Reading to me my tarot cards
She don't know anything
But she's beautiful to me
My eyes are opening again
I see you as you're marching in
I'll bring you cover when you're cold
You'll bring me youth when I grow old
Do you remember when you were small
How everybody would seem so tall
I am your shadow in the dark
I have your blood inside my heart
Reading to me my tarot cards
She don't know anything
But she's beautiful to me
My eyes are opening again
I see you as you're marching in
I'll bring you cover when you're cold
You'll bring me youth when I grow old
Do you remember when you were small
How everybody would seem so tall
I am your shadow in the dark
I have your blood inside my heart
Lyrics submitted by foxyurchin
Track duration: 03:33
"Me and the Bean" as written by John Clayton
Lyrics © BUG MUSIC
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I have your blood inside my heart" seems to be implying that the girl has touched his heart in some way and he can't seem to break away from her.
I agree though, it seems this is about a man and his daughter. the writers above have done a good job elaborating.
here's mine: a naive girl swept up in the grandeur of gothicism, living it all through a veil of naïveté. he takes advantage of her childish infatuation, and forgives her for her meaningless playtoys (ex: tarot cards) that he knows are silliness. he doesn't mind that she buys into such foolishness, she is beautiful to him in spite of all that because he is a vampire, and she, his source of life. "you'll bring me youth when i grow old" & "i am your shadow in the dark" & lastly,
"i have your blood inside my heart."
For a start this is an incredibly Nirvana-like song (for spoon) britt daniels is doing a very good cobain impression and the musical arrangement (bar keydoards) is entirely lifted from "Lithium", down to the "Woah-oh-oh-oh"s in the chorus of both songs.
The lyrics are quite obviously in referance to a man's feelings towards his daughter. She's young, so doesn't know anything, is beautiful to him, and "reading (his) tarots cards"; she represents his future. He describes protecting now she is young, and hopes she will care for him when he is old.
In the final verse he in emphatic with the child; remembering in himself how the world must seem to her. Then, right at the end, he pronouces clearly the relationship he has been speaking of. He is her "shadow in the dark", he will constantly stand behind her, out of the limelight, throughout her life. And finally, he tells us it is truely a familial bond, for he "has (her) blood inside (his) heart", showing he sees her as a continuation of himself.
Since, as mentioned above, Britt daniels has no children, the unmistakably nirvana-like feel to the song, and the very fact that Cobain's daughter's middle name is bean, i think the song could well be daniels singing in the shoes of cobain, someone whose influence on the band is well acknowledged.
Interestingly, if the song is truely about frances bean, the line "i am your shadow in the dark" serves to predict cobain's suicide and his constant presence as a dark shadow she can never escape as she grows up without him.
The title is, after all, "Me and the Bean," which ultimately suggests that the self is defined from something much more than just the brain.
A few lyrics highlight this idea, but as previously stated, "I have your blood inside my heart" is incredibly poignant. The singer is crying out to his rational mind [brain, bean, whatever], "can't you understand my heart's blood [my emotion, my 'soul'] is the very same blood that flows through you?" With this central theme in mind, some more of the verse becomes clear.
An amazingly angsty song about the battle between reasons and emotions. Beautiful.