Lyrics for Wig Master as interpreted by Clap Your Hands

Wig Master Lyrics
You said "I'll build you a bed of cactus where you could sleep when the night is too sharp." I said "I'll cover you with wax and light your hair like a wick when the night is too cold." You don't think of me as often as I'd like you to, but when you do it's of me looking for you on the ship. The plane I'm waiting on has your face printed on the wings, when it crashes I'll eat the paint off. I'm going to spank your ass so hard you'll hate the wig master, but I'll put two pillows on your dining room chair. You're like a parrot, something that belongs to me and not to you. Loneliness isn't being alone, it's when someone loves you and you don't have it in you to love them back. Look at my hair, it's a dirty little mop crying for you to send it away. All a guy needs is a chance to pull off my clothes and snicker, try harder. If you mail me a toy I'll use it but that's the most I have to offer. "Do you want to see my panties?" is the last thing I'll ever say to you. "I want to finger every teenager I sea" is the last thing you'll say to me. Don't make fun of my night out.

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Clap Your Hands
07-23-2006

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I added this song, and I tried my best. The words I'm not sure of are:

- when it crashes I'll "lick" the paint off.
- Look at my hair, it's a dirty little "mock"
- pull off my clothes and "snicker"

And who knows what it means, but damn it's a cool song.

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sithie
07-26-2006

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edits: "you said i'll build you a BED of cactus", "when it crashes i'll EAT the paint off", "look at my hair it's a dirty little mop", "i want to finger every teenager i see"

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sithie
07-26-2006

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also, the song is not really meant to be in paragraphs. its just prose, line after line.

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Clap Your Hands
07-27-2006

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Thanks Sithie, I edited it.

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medicine
08-24-2006

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This song is about me

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medicine
08-24-2006

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This song made me violently cry the first time I heard it

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MeanLookstheIII
08-24-2006

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oh please. this song is just another way for a guy that thinks hes musically talented to make a quick buck. the ford assembly line is calling, Xiu Xiu!

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CommunismOnToast
08-29-2006

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This song isn't about you. You may realte to it though. And fuck you for saying he is trying to make a quick buck. That is left for the bad music that becomes popular for it's looks rather the music. I'll take it you don't like Xiu Xiu, your opinoin is your own but you have no right saying that he is just doing it for money. Nobody can make something like this going into it think "hey im going to make so much money off this." This is genuine.

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medicine
08-31-2006

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genuinely for money: try harder

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MeanLookstheIII
09-01-2006

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i totally agree with medicine

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pennywinters
09-14-2006

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did you ever think that maybe you're NOT the guy who wrote it, so regardless of the fact that you think he wrote it for money, that maybe deep down it has some sort of meaning and there's never really any way for any of you pretentious jackasses to know? other than the fact that he made a song that you retards just cant quite come to terms with because you "dont get it". just because it's not something you like or think is obscure or what-the-fuck-ever, doesnt mean that the reason the person who wrote it, is just trying to make an extra buck. grow the hell up.

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BigNothing
10-01-2006

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I trust Jamie. I think all of his songs make sense, it's not a way to make a quick buck, but instead a way to make people think harder about what a song means. He's one of the few musicians who is trying to move music further along instead of dwelling in the past. Without Xiu Xiu i'm afraid we would be relying on those Joe-schmo, flavor of the week 'indie rock' bands you find on blog sites to deliver the creativeness we need to help build the future of music and song structure.

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sithie
10-03-2006

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i think getting angry that he dislikes xiu xiu is pointless; i love it when people hate them. more for me.

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greenleaf
10-05-2006

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i really into this song. the beginning reminds me of salad fingers, sorta. creepy

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redpepper_rum
11-02-2006

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Dangerous, destructive desire, all emcompassing yet detatched, masturbatory, obsessive, inept. "Don't make fun of my night out" -- the narrator is fantasizing about this meeting where they both express this destructive longing. In the end it's just a way to pass the lonely night along, a desperate power fantasy.

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Mymsical
01-04-2007

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Somebody wanna clarify this for me?
I can't seem to figure out if he means 'finger' in the sense that he wants to have sex with them or flip them off?

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kickme8x
02-04-2007

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i think this song definatly folows in the "beat" poetry traditon of the 1950's straming thought, the paceing of this entire seem to reference john cage.

also i think i read that the adio of this song is quoted from someone else...dose anyone know about that.

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Coow
11-28-2007

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I'm a big Xiu Xiu fan, don't get me wrong, but stuff like this I just don't get. I can't string together the lines to make anything sensible and it's not really musical. It's just noise and poetry. I can't get into it at all.

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redpepper_rum
12-11-2007

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It sounds like something peter sotos would write, and jamie has spoken about liking him. So maybe it's either inspired or written by sotos.

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briaNruNruNruN
01-18-2008

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actually i'm pretty sure that devin hoff wrote the words to this song. not jamie.

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Massive Attack
02-23-2008

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I fucking love this shit. It's pretty rare that you find a good song w/ no rhythmical structure. Songs like that really get to me. "No More Sorry" by My Bloody Valentine is similar: it's poetry recited over music w/ ambiguous rhythms. It feels so...organic.

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AppleBombJLP
03-18-2008

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I read in an interview that Jamie said the lyrics to this song were taken from a series of text messages he sent/recieved with a particular person, which is probably why it sounds a little disjointed. I wish I got text messages like that.

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squidblaine
03-24-2008

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"Two pillows on your dining room chair", "something that belongs to me and not to you" and "do you want to see my panties?" are all lifted from the Charles Bukowski novel, Ham on Rye.

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AppleBombJLP
05-27-2008

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“Almost all the lines from it are taken from text messages,” he says. “I was having a really filthy summer. I was sleeping with all these people and no one else knew I was sleeping with other people. Yeah, really uncool. I’d never done anything like that before. And it didn’t bother me that much, I didn’t feel particularly guilty about it, which kind of freaked me out.”

~Jamie Stewart from Popmatters interview

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