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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AimlessyEating
08-13-2009

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OH yeah ive seen this movie i have this huge dali musem proply 30 minutes from my home its like my most favorite place ever., onece the had like a exhibit call daliwood and it was like a bunch of dali movies and i slightly remember seeing a part of Un Chien Andalou (it was like a dude feeling up a girl). im glad i read the lyrics to this song i though it said my balls instead of eyeballs.

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masonator666
07-17-2009

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Un chien andalusia is a great movie and this song is genius...only wish i woulda thought of it first

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abi33
06-15-2009

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i know it is about the film but i also like how the words take on new sounds in the song, and it makes it seem like they are singing about the 'girl' he is always mentioning.

'don't know about you but i am un chien andalusia' sounds a lot like 'don't don't about you but i am doing SHIT, m'gonna lose you'

my two cents

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_neelyohara
05-29-2009

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best. song. ever.

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berrybinx
04-25-2009

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i took the film class with don levine a year ago and he actually introduces himself to the class as "the debaser" of pixies notoriety. he's a cool guy but he tells the entire plot of a film right before he shows it. and he still shows "Un Chien Andalou"

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suclid003
12-16-2008

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i like how it almost sounds like he's screaming slicing up "bibles" not eyeballs. don't know if that was intentional or subconscious lyrical ambiguity.

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blann
02-01-2008

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debaser - to debase art - yeah!

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kdog331
09-14-2007

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This song is about Don Levine, a professor at Umass Amherst who teaches an avant-garde film class (still does). Black disagreed with him in lecture and Don Levine in some way or another shot him down--debased him as it were. The "Debaser" is Don Levine.

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ZenfullTangerine
08-13-2007

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CUTING UP EYE BALLS HAHAHA HO!

lol thats the best :D

if you want to see the movie you can see it here:
http://www.ubu.com/film/bunuel.html

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foreverdrone
07-17-2007

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btW, anyone who's into surrealist films like Un Chien Andalou should also see L'Age D'or, also a Dali/Bunuel collaboration. The latter is infamous for its anti-religious & anti-clerical imagery. It was shown only once, and much of the audience were so enraged, riots ensued. (Which the filmmakers might well have considered a success, as pissing off the bourgeoisie was mostly what they had in mind.) Somehow a print was saved, and decades later the film was restored.

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DecoyRobot
07-13-2007

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though the movie is "Un Chien," Francis pronounces it une chienne, which means bitch. maybe he mispronounces it accidentally, or maybe it's a play on the title rather than a direct reference. I prefer the latter, because it suggests that Francis thinks himself a lesser Dali, the bitch version of him. And he wants to grow up to be a debaser like Dali.

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ciaosampinto
07-06-2007

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oh god, the pixies in combination with surrealism. i think i just had an artnerdgasm. i really want to see this movie. i had no clue there were surrealist films.

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The BK
06-20-2007

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Haha, when I heard this as a kid I always thought the line: "I'm un chien Andalusia!" was really "I'm a shake and a lose ya!" - classically wrong.

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monticello
06-19-2007

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one of my favorite songs ever.

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coloursmehip
04-19-2007

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i think i've seen this film seven or eight times, my french teacher is fond of watching highschoolers squirm

this song is amazing anyhow, it took me the longest time to connect the two

and rogue wave does a pretty great cover if anyone is interested

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PaperStreet
04-09-2007

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There was a film back in '01 called Haiku Tunnel that started off with this song. In the commentary for it, the director/main actor in the film called it "the best rock song ever".

I'm with him. Debaser is fantastic. And wicked weird.

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rkpetersen
03-15-2007

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"If you ever want to freak out your parents, blast this."

Well, I AM someone's parent, and I LOVE blasting this song (and all Pixies songs) at maximum volume! Especially in my car. My wife and kid don't understand how I can listen to this stuff! XD

And I think it's 'girlie's so groovy'.

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SoundgardeNirvana
02-26-2007

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Kurt Cobain's 2nd most influential song.

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explodinghighfive
01-25-2007

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God I love this song. But isn't it "Girl, you're so groovie"? Not "Girlie so groovie". I listened to it live, that's what it sounded like. And listening to the Studio Version, I'm pretty sure. But either way, awesome.

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meezardra
01-05-2007

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Has anyone listened to the cover of this done by Rogue Wave? Not too shabby, either, but nothing compares to the original.

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cobaltblue
12-26-2006

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If you ever want to freak out your parents, blast this.

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Dr. Strangefist
11-02-2006

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"He once said the film Crash was about people who "got off" on car crashes......"
He was correct, it is: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/

Anyway, awesome song. I don't think there's a deep meaning, just referencing the film and trying to be surreal.

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elinoras
11-01-2006

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http://dag.wieers.com/debaser/debaser.php
about Frank and Debaser

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theodor
10-22-2006

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un chien andalou had intentional erotic undertone, as with almost all surrealism it follows a freudian dreamscape and symbolism..
the song on the other hand i think is not really a narrative, but just singing a load of words that produce a sarcastic/mocking pretentious kind of character..

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onangryzeus
10-19-2006

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i'll tell you what its about right now. I go to Umass like someone did before me and I've taken the same class as one of the pixies did, Avant Garde Film. The song is about the professor that teaches Avant Garde Film. Not only do we see the movie in which the eyeball is sliced in two in the class, the professor makes every single movie we see into some "debased" film with a heavily erotic undertone. He once said the film Crash was about people who "got off" on car crashes......

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