Lyrics for Lover's Spit as interpreted by fallacies

Lover's Spit Lyrics
All these people drinking lover's spit
They sit around and clean their face with it
And they listen to teeth to learn how to quit
Tied to a night they never met

You know it's time
That we grow old and do some shit
I like it all that way

All these people drinking lover's spit
Swallowing words while giving head
They listen to teeth to learn how to quit
Better take some hand and get used to it

You know it's time
That we grow old and do some shit
I like it all that way

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gyroscope
05-03-2004

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the version of this on the Bee Hives ep is beautiful. such a great song.

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thats the punchline
06-18-2004

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maybe its about..people who think love will solve all their problems? to the point where they ignore all problems just to trick themself into thinking its working.

im kind of guessing. anyone else have ideas?

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Dai101
09-28-2004

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I think its this perosn way of complaining about him not having love because it seems like everyone has love and its all consuming.

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musikisfun
11-28-2004

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hahaha sorry guys don't get so deep into this one. This song is about giving head

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GentleDogs
12-19-2004

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I don't know about that. I mean, sure the song is talking about giving head. But I get something a little deeper out of it. I think it's a cry out against meaningless love; there seems to be a desire for this Socratic ascension to find real love and real happiness. "It's time we grow old and do some shit." He's saying... let's quit fucking around and do soemthing that means something.

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Miggity
12-27-2004

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I think you should be aware our lead here is a homo, hence, I'm still your fag...I also know this from personal knowledge from when they were in Bloomington, this song is a bitch about the gay community, a very good one too. I agree it can extend beyond that but I believe that was the original intent. That's my view on it.

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shwayday
01-09-2005

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i think the song's message is "yeah there are gays out there... and there will always be gays out there and i'm one of them." then of course the "take some hands and get used to it..." i dunno... something like that.

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GentleDogs
01-10-2005

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yeah, that makes good sense I like that. like "grow up and just well... get used to it."

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n4398734
01-17-2005

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The realisation that this is a song about homosexuality has totally dampened it for me. Previously I had loved this song, and it still has beauty. But the lyrical content and meaning has alienated me. As a straight man I can't appreciate what it's supposed to be about. I can't think about my girlfriend when it plays because I know it's about homosexuality - it's a road block to my heart.

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Big T
01-28-2005

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andrew whiteman wrote Im Still Youre Fag, Kevin Drew wrote this song.

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jbeutt
02-24-2005

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the video's not about homosexuality. It's more about envelopement.

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GentleDogs
02-28-2005

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The Beehives version is absolutely gorgeous. It breathes a whole new life into the song and makes it something completely different. They are both beautiful songs, simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant.

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Rockefeller
03-10-2005

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yeeah i agree with thats the punchline. it also sounds like its about being too consumed with love or lust or whatever to give a shit about anything else. that really bothers some poeple seeing couples all into eachother, eating eachothers faces and what not.

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HazMatador
03-22-2005

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fellatio and naivete, this is why I love this band.

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_ellie
03-26-2005

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n439.., I wish it didn't bother you. We can all appreciate the work of homo/bisexual artists (Tori Amos, Freddie Mercury, kd lang, Broken Social Scene, even Dusty Springfield. It's about the love, not the bumsex.

As for the song, I saw it as feeling alienated by "all these people" (not the singer?), "drinking lover's spit" - is this disgust or simply a new way of looking at fellatio? "Clean their face with it" certainly seems to be disgust and incomprehension.

To be hones, it's yet another BSS song that I can't make head nor tail of.

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eilatan221
04-06-2005

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Let me just say that this song introduced me to Broken Social Scene and I LOVE it.

But I heard that the song is about giving head but not wanting to and regreting it

"Swallowing words while giving head" Maybe you just want to say no but do it anyway

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wreckedonyou32
04-08-2005

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i agreed completely with gentledog's first comment. i really dont think it has to be limited to homosexuality and i dont even care if it was written with it in mind (although Big T had a point about it being written by a different guy, so it might not even be about being gay at all) my point is i see it as a comment on lust and how people try to ignore signifigance by just having lots of sex.

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SourCherryLipstick
04-13-2005

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I've read interviews on many occasions where Kevin Drew (who wrote the song) has sait it was a song he wrote fro his wife. All he said about the song was that it's basically about loving the one you're with (wanting to grow old with them) and not wasting time in pointless meaningless relationships. I was also at a live show and right before the first chords he said this "Love the one your with" His wife also appears in the lover's spit video on the BSS website

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alberta_momma
08-14-2005

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Weird.....for the longest time, I thought the lyric was ' You know it's time the we grow old and disenchant'. But i do have to say that I love 'Bee Hives' and 'You Forgot it in People' is one of those rare cd's that pretty much never leaves my stereo, and that doesn't happen very often.

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jammoe
10-07-2005

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I'd say it's a bit of both. On one hand he sounds sick of all the stupid things people call love, and on the other hand it sounds like there's such a tie to the silly pseudo-romantic.

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tdnx42
11-07-2005

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have you guys ever considered that kevin drew is not gay? he's married. that's a fact. i'm not saying that its not possible that maybe at some point in his life he was gay or something, but how about this for an explanation. kevin drew is an artist. an artist who can express himself in homosexual ways without actually being a homosexual. perhaps its all just expression. I have also heard stories of kevin dedicating the song to his wife. there was actually one instance on their current tour with feist that the guitarist from a little indie band by the name of dinosaur jr. came out and played with the band for a while. kevin is a HUGE fan of dino jr (apparently) because he said something like it was a huge dream of his to do something like that, playing with his hero. then he said that the only time he had ever been as happy was when he was making love to his wife, who he wrote the next song about. and then he broke into lovers spit. i think thats the main point of the story at least. anyways...i think everyone here is taking this song at point value too much. look beneath the words and see what he's really trying to say. dont take it for some shallow song, it's beautiful and its deep because it has layers. it feels simple, yet it's not. its deceptively simple. i think that it has a lot of different themes throughout it. just look at it, and then look in yourself to find those answers. also, it is said that andrew whiteman wrote still your fag, but i haven't ever heard any confirmation on that. however i'm almost sure that lover's spit was kevin drew's. also, the beehives version IS truly beautiful, your right. leslie feist's voice just really works with that song. however the version on yfiip is totally mind blowing too. i think the cd version flows better as a song. but have you guys heard the electric version? theyve been playing it a lot on their current tour. it's really cool to hear with guitars. anyways, yeah. thats all i got to say :)

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barrons
01-01-2006

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"all these people drinking lover spit"

honestly i think the only reference to fellatio in the entire song is the line about giving head. i think "drinking lover's spit" has more to do with the reverence of the "relationship," as if such a thing guarentees happiness.

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sensitivetofate
01-14-2006

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n4398734, you're being awfully silly, not to mention a wee bit homophobic. a song can mean whatever you want it to, this is a place to discuss what it means to YOU.

in any case, this song is truly amazing. it's broken, no matter how you look at it. while i will agree that it's almost naive, i don't think it's about fellatio: that's used as a metaphor. the person really knows so little about love but presumes to know so much and tries to demonstrate it by talking about love like it's sex and just as meaningless and monotonous as sex itself can be, when the two things are radically different entities. brilliant.

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sensitivetofate
01-14-2006

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and also, the version on beehives is a fucking triumph, then again so is the original.

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RevPowell
01-28-2006

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BSS: Nobody can stump you, seduce you, annoy you, or scare you like they can. And this song, like all of 'em, seems to make the most sense as a confessional - Whiteman's, Drew's, or (maybe especially) your very own. Too fucking cool.

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