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See them on their big bright screen
tan and blonde and seventeen
Eating nonfood keeps them mean
but they're young forever
If they must grow up
they marry dukes and earls
I hate California girls
They ain't broke, so they put on airs,
the faux folks sans derrieres
They breathe coke and have affairs
with each passing rock star
They come on like squares
then get off like squirrels
I hate California girls
Looking down their perfect noses
at me and my kind
do they think we won't
well, never mind
Laughing through their perfect teeth
at everyone I know
do they think we wont
Get up an go?
So
I have planned my grand attacks
I will stand behind their backs
with my brand-new battle ax
Then they will they taste my wrath
They will hear me say
as the pavement whirls
"I hate California girls..."
tan and blonde and seventeen
Eating nonfood keeps them mean
but they're young forever
If they must grow up
they marry dukes and earls
I hate California girls
They ain't broke, so they put on airs,
the faux folks sans derrieres
They breathe coke and have affairs
with each passing rock star
They come on like squares
then get off like squirrels
I hate California girls
Looking down their perfect noses
at me and my kind
do they think we won't
well, never mind
Laughing through their perfect teeth
at everyone I know
do they think we wont
Get up an go?
So
I have planned my grand attacks
I will stand behind their backs
with my brand-new battle ax
Then they will they taste my wrath
They will hear me say
as the pavement whirls
"I hate California girls..."
Lyrics submitted by soundd
Track duration: 03:00
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you're right, rereading that comment I see how ridiculous it sounds, and I didn't actually believe it would incite homicides :) it's darkly funny and I listened way too much into it the first time. I am officially chastised.
Ah but I referred to "real life," implying I have an online persona: one that's over-the-top with blistering sarcasm, and just verbally aggressive in a manner entirely out-of-character otherwise.
But I don't. See I'm now on disability: but once was beaten down by a shit job, primarily involving sitting in a cubicle and typing way too fast: exacerbating my chronic pain. Oh yeah and I was bullied by my boss. When she got angry, smoke would come out of her ears (not really) and she would say things like, "If there's one thing that makes me angry, it's when people say I'm ANGRY!" (well, that part is true)
Anyhow, I'm guessing: on 06-16-2008 I'd come home from a grueling day at the office, poised to vent my frustration on...someone.
Anyhow again. Guess what I've been trying to say was: my apologies. For making you feel chastised.
On that day, though? I imagined I was amusing, perhaps. Mostly just being mean.
(Yes. I have entirely too much free time these days.)
you're right, rereading that comment I see how ridiculous it sounds, and I didn't actually believe it would incite homicides :) it's darkly funny and I listened way too much into it the first time. I am officially chastised.
"Then will they taste my wrath."
I think "as the pavement whirls" refers to the California girl who's just been attacked ("I will stand behind their backs with my brand-new battle ax, then they will they taste my wrath") falling to the ground and seeing the pavement whirl.
"Come on like squares" - I think "squares" in this context refers to the definition of "square" as "someone who doesn't understand what is going on". (From Princeton's online dictionary)
I think "Do they think we won't get up and go?" suggests that the California girls of the song think lesser beings - e.g. the narrator - will put up with their insults and not react.
"Come on like squares"
"Do they think we won't Get up and go"
"as the pavement whirls"
[audience laughs]
"What? It is."
- Stephin Merritt at last friday's show in Atlanta. Which was amazing, by the way.
which was in response to "Cerebella" who sincerely believes stephin's lyrics indicate a dangerous tendency to feel "threatened" by women not attracted to him. i couldn't have made it up.