Lyrics for Debaser as interpreted by numb

Debaser Lyrics
Got me a movie
I want you to know
Slicing up eyeballs
I want you to know
Girly so groovy
I want you to know
Don't know about you
But I am un chien andalusia

Want to grow
Up to be
Be a debaser, debaser

Got me a movie
Ha ha ha ho
Slicing up eyeballs
Ha ha ha ho
Girly so groovie
Ha ha ha ho
Don't know about you
But I am un chien andalusia

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tichick
05-05-2002

Rated +2 
The movie they are referring to in the song is Un Chien Andalou, by Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel, 1929.

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0020530

It's very weird and had a big effect on the Pixies from what I've heard. Check out the movie sometime, even if it's just to realize that there were Marilyn Manson's in the 1920s, too.

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xWaveOfMutilationx
06-06-2002

Rated +2 
Just wanted to add, the part at the end, when Black Fancis is laughing like a mad man "Got Me a Movie / Ha Ha Ha Ho" is pretty cool, and original. It just adds rawness to a song that sounds so raw already. I've never seen the movie they are referring to, but its a teriffic opener to such a terrific CD. Really original and almost beyond words.

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xpankfrisst
09-24-2002

Rated 0 
basically the movie is fucked up, and contains a scene in which a man sees a cloud in front of the moon and makes him slice a girls eyeball open. the whole film was made by a bunch of artists, trying to go against everything that made a film i.e. no script or proper actors or narrative. "un chien andalou" means an Andalousian dog...which from what i can see has nothing to do with anything really. a 'debaser' though is someone who acts solely to lower something, to degrade it. so i think the basis of the song is that after seeing a fucked up film, he wants to make everything else just as fucked up.

anyways, that's what i think...

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ohsoquiet
03-04-2003

Rated 0 
That's nuts. I saw that movie in French class a couple of years ago. It's a pretty intense short.

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bloodredpixie
03-09-2003

Rated 0 
Chien means "bitch" in French...

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louderthanbombs
04-07-2003

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emm.. chien is the french word for a male dog. une chienne is a bitch

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craigus
05-03-2003

Rated +2 
This film was banned in England by the bbfc. I think Frank was having a pop at the whole film censors idea of seeing something on a film influencing you to replicate it in real life - funny as hell. He is merely saying that seeing this fucked up thing on screen makes me want to replicate it and be a debaser it’s sarcastic

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Lukie
06-04-2003

Rated 0 
andalou is a region in spain, so it means a spanish dog!

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epochblue
04-21-2004

Rated +2 
The meaning is fairly straightforward. It is about the film Un Chein Andelusia (which is a French surrealist film by Salvador Dali, et al). There's a scene where a man is "slicing up eyeballs" and there a scene where a girl dances ("girlie so groovie"). The film is really screwed up, you know those surrealists.

Anyway - I think the song is really interesting in that it says that he IS the movie, "I am Un Chein Andelusia," and then he he wants to grow up to be a "debaser" (something with diminishes the quality of something).

All this to say that, to me, it seems like he's saying this is a movie that is bringing down the quality of movies in general, and someday he hopes to be able to accomplish the same (to the music industry, perhaps?) Don't know - weird reading of the song, I know, take it for what you will.

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bbenz
05-04-2004

Rated 0 
This song is about how he saw a movie that was so radical and different and creative that he wanted to live his life like that. He wanted to be the Un Chein Andelusia of music. He liked that people challenged what was normal and how things should be done. So he wants to grow up to be a debaser, as in to take what the original idea of how something should be and change it to show it can be done any way you want.

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Spence189
05-11-2004

Rated 0 
the pixies are great. if you listen to music and you dont know who the pixies are, you deserve a good kick in the groin.

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RomulusRomstar
05-13-2004

Rated 0 
I go to UMass, former home of the pixies. Anyway, there is a professor here who has taught avant-garde film here for years, with Un Chien Andelusia as one of his yearly texts. Its been a rumor here for some time that Frank Black took his course, and Debaser was actually a nod to this man. Take that with a grain of salt though.

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eshtaryus
06-24-2004

Rated +1 
their music has alot of suicidal or murderistc
ideas atleast that's the impression i get every time i listen to this song and a couple other,yet you don't get this feeling when not listening to the lyrics cause the tune is everyday pop-rock tune of the 90's.
does anyone think like me?
still good song.

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smallthoughts
10-23-2004

Rated 0 
girl, you so groovy?

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vangeel
10-25-2004

Rated 0 
David Bowie showed this movie(un chien andalou) in the seventies before some of his shows. I saw it in Brussels and the movie had a great impact on the crowd. Perhaps Frank Black saw one of these concerts and this song is some kind of tribute to Bowie ,Bunuel and Dali.

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Eatcarpet
11-14-2004

Rated 0 
He just liked this movie.

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Alieno
12-02-2004

Rated 0 
One of the principles of Surrealism is freeing art from narrative, so in a surrealist movie plot can be oniric. I think it's the same thing with the song. Being a song inspired by a surrealist movie, the lyrics are there to do exactly that: trigger unconnected images rather than telling a story.

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pumkinhed
12-05-2004

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the opening guitar line does not fit the song at all. It's sorta happy, probably too happy for a song with the line "slicin' up eyeballs, i want you to know." What do i know, i'm such a newbie

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Christopher13
12-10-2004

Rated 0 
Pumpkinhead, That is what makes the Pixies so great!

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yomejusta
12-23-2004

Rated 0 
You really can't read too much into this song. The film just appealed to Black's surreal sensabilities and love of dark humour.

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Ramagamma
01-02-2005

Rated +1 
This song...its just the best sub 3 minute song ever written.

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impact
01-12-2005

Rated -1 
I think you guys are reading way too much into it. Like most Pixies songs, they're lyrically just jibberish. I read an interview once where Frank Black said he added the parts about Un Chien Andalou because he liked it and wanted to sound pretentious and weird. Not much else to it.

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Bobbodian
01-30-2005

Rated +1 
The entire song is about Un Chien Andalou. However, I have to give you credit for being one of the first to spell it right. Right now, I am wearing a shirt, I am 100% serious, that says: Un Chien Andalou (large picture of pre-sliced eye) IT'S SURREAL. I am not kidding. I love this song. The Pixies inspired Nirvana AND Modest Mouse. This song, with the maniacal screaming and hysterical laughing in the second verse, reminds me much more of Modest Mouse.

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blackaliss
03-03-2005

Rated 0 
it's about un chien andalou by bunuel, co-written by dali. one of the most famous surrealist films of all time. frank black made is "un chien andalousia" just to be weird.

you must see this film with its famous "slicing up eyeballs ooohooohoohoh"

this is my favourite pixies song. it has to be!

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swarbs
03-05-2005

Rated 0 
dont forget he says girl a few times

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