Lyrics for Caribou as interpreted by numb

Caribou Lyrics
I live cement
I hate this street
Give dirt to me
I bite lament
This human form
Where I was born
I now repent

Caribou (3x)

Repent
Re-pe-ent

Give me white
Ground to run
And foregone
Lets me knife
Knife me lets
I will get
What I like

Caribou (3x)

Repent
Rep-pent

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feinstein
06-19-2002

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The song kicks major ass.

What it means,
I have no clue,
does

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Brzuz
07-26-2002

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This is a great song. I believe that it is about a person who resents the fact that he lives in a concrete jungle, a world where he bought into the materialism and capitalism that was spoonfed to him as a child. He now feels as though he has abused his role as a human and feels compelled to repent for this. He wishes to simplify his life by getting back to nature and remedying some of the harm he's done. This is only a guess.

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_weezer_
04-26-2003

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Nice, Brzuz, I think you've got the meaning. Great song. Great band. His voice reminds me of Cobain's.

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caitsith01
07-06-2003

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Shouldn't that be "Cobain's void reminds me of him"?

Kurt was a huge Pixies fan, he said that when he wrote Smells Like Teen Spirit he was trying to write a Pixies song. The Pixies are so underrated - even now they are ahead of most 'alternative' bands, they pioneered grunge way before it was cool and before bands like Soundgarden and Pearl Jam turned it into an over-bloated monster. I mean, they had basically finished their recording career before Nirvana had even written Nevermind... sometimes I hate the music industry. Why can't people recognize good music? Why does so much f&*^ing s%^ get published and a band as great as the Pixies gets largely ignored?

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youngjoo
04-17-2004

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my favorite pixies song. and the pixies are better than nirvana.

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oidimed
04-26-2004

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i heard frank black say that he often dosent have meaning behind the lyrics to his songs, he just puts words together randomly. and i totally agree with caitsith01. well put caitsith01, well put.

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errigan
10-15-2004

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that can't be true that frank black doesn't have meaning behind the lyrics to his songs. I mean look at "Debaser" that song has evident meaning. It could be just a theme he built words around...maybe a theme of self-deprecation?

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AstroZombie777
12-02-2004

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I think he hates himself and wants to die.(Nirvana reference) O_O
But that's what it sounds like to me.I think it's just sitting there,feeling like there is no purpose.He may not even hate himself,he just might not see the purpose in living.Maybe it doesn't have a meaning.But that's what it looks like to me.
And I strongly agree with caitsith01

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worldpeace22
12-09-2004

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I read in spin magazine that he said it was about about re-incarnation.

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pumkinhed
12-15-2004

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reeeepeeeeennnnt! reeeeepeeeennnnt! fine ok.

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blackaliss
03-03-2005

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lets me knife.

beautiful.

not reincarnation. if that was printed, i am sure that was a joke. or hey were high...

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super carrot
03-19-2005

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Caribouuuuuu we love uuuuu

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TheSleeper
04-13-2005

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are you kidding, it's obviously about re-incarnation "living cement" the constant cycle of birth and death that none can escape... what about repenting to escape "This human form, where I was born"... Buddha couldn't have said it better.

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XpoferenS
05-16-2005

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what does the word caribou mean? This song owns by the way

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thedarkone
05-22-2005

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A caribou is the same thing as a reindeer: an artic-dwelling deer.

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thedarkone
05-22-2005

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* arctic-dwelling *

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ladyhoney
05-24-2005

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A werewolf languishing in the streets of a large city wishing he were in the frozen northland hunting suitable prey, the caribou. Check out the howl on the word "caribou." It's shivery. Doesn't it make you think of werewolves?

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gadzoox
06-09-2005

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Yay Pixies are back again! I thought Kim Deal wrote Caribou, but that seems in question. The first lines are simple enough for Kims earth mama pleading vocals to grasp, but the later "knife" references are probably where, Black - as previously noted - often ad-libs lyrices into the tune, where he "intuits" a phrase - seems out of place. Unless ... suicide is the means to obtain that "transmigration of Soul" into the wide roaming, teeming free thundering herds of Caribou. Dirt. I will get what I want. Otherwise its a simple yearning for me, to escape this street. I live cement.

BTW "Teen Spirit" was supposedly modeled after "Gouge Away"!

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devilcricket
06-28-2005

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The werewolf explaination is neat.

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Mellow_Harsher
07-20-2005

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Yeah, I like the werewolf explanation. It's definitely about someone wanting out of the city, someone who wants to go out into the wilderness.

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Child Of Music
08-23-2005

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Amen, caitsith01. Amen.

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twocent
08-23-2005

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there's this jeepney driver in manila, or maybe a pedi-cab driver in San Juan, Puerto Rico who believed he used to be a caribou, he figured he'd rather be plowing fields and swatting flies off his ass than hauling a bunch of american sex tourists around the red light district, so he goes to the fields and slashes his wrist. Humanity is a bitch. I'm sure Black Frances meant none of this and the song was just the impressions of a rich white boy baking in the hot third world sun.

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whiskeyclonehotel
09-17-2005

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I thought maybe about being reborn

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ArtistAvery
10-12-2005

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THE ALBUM COVER PICTURE IS OF A VERY HAIRY (SOME MAY SAY WEREWOLF-LIKE) MAN. I AM DRAWN TO THINK THAT LADYHONEY'S EXPLAINATION HAS SOME DEGREE OF TRUTH.
SOME FORM OF HUNTER IS LONGING FOR THE CHANCE TO HUNT AND KILL HIS PREY, THE CARIBOU.
THE WOLF-LIKE HOWL , THE WHITEGROUND TO RUN, AND THE KNIFE ME LETS ALL SEEM TO FIT THE PREDITORY ACT OF A WOLF IN MAN'S CLOTHING, DESIRING HIS CARIBOUUUUUUUU!

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bkat004
10-18-2005

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Where have I heard this song before? - A movie? I'm pretty sure I heard it in a movie. (The way Fincher used 'Where is my Mind?' in "Fight Club" is bloody-mega-beautiful!)

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