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Break my face in
It was the kindest touch you ever gave
Wrap my dreams around your thighs
And drape my hope upon the chance to touch your arm
Fabulous muscles
Cremate me after you cum on my lips
Honey boy place my ashes in a vase
Beneath your workout bench
No romance no sexiness
But a star-filled night
Kneeling down before the now familiar flesh
Of your deformed penis
Wigging out before the unfamiliar flesh
Of my broken neck
It was the kindest touch you ever gave
Wrap my dreams around your thighs
And drape my hope upon the chance to touch your arm
Fabulous muscles
Cremate me after you cum on my lips
Honey boy place my ashes in a vase
Beneath your workout bench
No romance no sexiness
But a star-filled night
Kneeling down before the now familiar flesh
Of your deformed penis
Wigging out before the unfamiliar flesh
Of my broken neck
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Track duration: 04:11
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the novel is just like many xiu xiu songs, full of heartbreak and tragedy. no wonder jamie wrote a song about the main character. he perfectly captured the rawness of the novel and made it his own. fucking gold!
But I think the fact that this song is called "FABULOUS muscles" is a good give away it's being sung from a male perspective, seeing as how Fabulous is such a stand out gay word, especially in that context, and if you've seen Jamie sing this, there's too much emotion to think he's not singing from experience, but yes tom, and ripshit, that is what I get from the song as well, but I feel you'd have to read mama black widow: the Novel, get a real feeling of this song, and I have not, but I'm sure some answers lye there. I also read in an interview that in a previous band (I believe it was IBOPA) Jamie received head from a drag queen he'd long been obsessed with, while he was playing on stage, so that may also tie into it
her boyfriend is abusive(broken neck) but she doesnt care becasue she is blinded by love and his looks (fabulous muscles)
the boyfriend pays little attenton to her (no romance...) and doesnt let her touch him anywhere else(and drape my hope..)
but what do i know ive only seen it a hundered times
I see the events of the story unfolding as follows (Although the story is told out of order so that we come in at the moment of violence and the explaination follows after):
* A boy or girl is attracted to a boy's fabulous muscles.
* The boy/girl sees the boy's penis. It is deformed, and unfamiliar. He/she reacts the way one reacts to unfamilar flesh.
* The boy begins to hit to him/her because of the way he/she reacts. Although the fabulous muscles have now become a destructive force, the romance of his/her attraction to them is still (very disturbingly) carried on through the lyrics, music, and vocal inflection.
* The boy breaks his/her neck in the beating (intentionally or unintentionally), and then participates in some sort of necrophilia which is unspecified in its extremity (he may rape the body or simply masturbate and cum on the face).
* The boy then burns the body and hides it under his workout bench (This part I think reeks overwhelmingly of metephor. Instead of being literal, this could be simply a thought of the dying narrator to show him/her carrying on the romance of the fabulous muscles, or just the point in the literal story that is intended to break down to give way to the allegoric interpretations of the story).
Anyway, I think that Xiu Xiu (like most good storytellers) is able and willing to write songs from many different points of view and narrator types, and having this story being told in a romantic but not sentimental or dilluted/sugar coated fashion from the point of view of a person who has been murdered in a crime of passion is, I think, a complete poetic success.
And also:
"No romance no sexiness
But a star-filled night"
Awesome. Nothing romantic about what happened except the sadness of something so simplistically beautiful being taken away.
Am I the only one who thought it might have something to do with rape? But it probably is about Mama Black Widow like several people have already posted.
however, he looks like hes being very cynical, and still, giving that guy head is absolutely wonderful.
i actually feel really comfortable with this song, and oh, i love it so much.