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She turned her back on the church and put all her faith in me
At the back of the chapel where I taught her to screw and to blaspheme
We turned our backs to the church, with our trousers around our knees
While screaming the scriptures she said I was her favourite heresy
In a note I read:
"If you should go blind and deaf
I'll cleanse and I'll bathe you and I'll cook for you daily.
I will take a dry ballpoint pen and trace on yr chest
All of the same conversations that we have now in bed."
I don't mean to be selfish; but I think I'd sooner just be dead
Behind the tennis court alongside the river, not a single live flower to see
This is the one girl who woke up from all that, and now falls asleep next to me
But I swear now, every time that I kiss her, she feels her god breathe on her shoulder
It pains me, but I'm sure she's still yrs
She said she wanted a sea burial, not grass and hypodermics to her hips
I pruned the ivy from yr grandmother's tomb
More tender and careful than the superstitious ripped you from yr mothers womb
In a note I wrote:
"I think too much about the end, but being around it made me feel like I'm coping.
Now when I view the cemetery I don't see headstones,
I see rows of engraved milk teeth, hungry, waiting for me"
And though I am fearful, I think I just crave the relief
Behind the tennis court, alongside the river, paper flower's still a beautiful thing
This is the one girl who woke up from all that, and now falls asleep next to me
But I swear now, every time that I kiss her, she feels her god breathe on her shoulder
It pains me, but I'm sure she's still yrs
At the back of the chapel where I taught her to screw and to blaspheme
We turned our backs to the church, with our trousers around our knees
While screaming the scriptures she said I was her favourite heresy
In a note I read:
"If you should go blind and deaf
I'll cleanse and I'll bathe you and I'll cook for you daily.
I will take a dry ballpoint pen and trace on yr chest
All of the same conversations that we have now in bed."
I don't mean to be selfish; but I think I'd sooner just be dead
Behind the tennis court alongside the river, not a single live flower to see
This is the one girl who woke up from all that, and now falls asleep next to me
But I swear now, every time that I kiss her, she feels her god breathe on her shoulder
It pains me, but I'm sure she's still yrs
She said she wanted a sea burial, not grass and hypodermics to her hips
I pruned the ivy from yr grandmother's tomb
More tender and careful than the superstitious ripped you from yr mothers womb
In a note I wrote:
"I think too much about the end, but being around it made me feel like I'm coping.
Now when I view the cemetery I don't see headstones,
I see rows of engraved milk teeth, hungry, waiting for me"
And though I am fearful, I think I just crave the relief
Behind the tennis court, alongside the river, paper flower's still a beautiful thing
This is the one girl who woke up from all that, and now falls asleep next to me
But I swear now, every time that I kiss her, she feels her god breathe on her shoulder
It pains me, but I'm sure she's still yrs
Lyrics submitted by shrodes
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Now when I view the cemetery I don't see headstones,
I see rows of engraved milk teeth, hungry, waiting for me"
Bit of context: as well as being in LC! Gareth also works as a gardener in a graveyard, hence why he is around 'the end' and the cemetery a lot.
"If you should go blind and deaf
I'll cleanse and I'll bathe you and I'll cook for you daily.
I will take a dry ballpoint pen and trace on yr chest
All of the same conversations that we have now in bed."
I don't mean to be selfish; but I think I'd sooner just be dead '
I this bit is about obsession, but taken less literally I think it means that she wants the relationship to keep on even through he's not interested anymore. '...blind and deaf' - he doesn't even look or speak to her.
I think the song could refer to him suffering some sort of existential crisis and deliberately seducing a girl to try and get over it but she (perhaps because she is religious) won't leave him despite his best attempts at sabotaging the relationship.
So when she's 'turned her back on the church' it's like, she's turning her back on everything they taught her about boys because she's really into our narrator, so much so that she would do all these things for him.
But the narrator knows that she's still very much a daddy's/mummy's girl so he's waiting for her to turn her back on him and realise that her parents were right.
Alternatively, I think it could be about the narrator not being ths girl's usual type. The "god" maybe being some other, potentially more attractive man, that the narrator feels inferior to. So the narrator is simply saying 'although she's with me, I know deep down that you'll always be the one she wanted'.
He feels that she 'woke up from all that' "that" being the type of lifestyle she led beforehand, whatever that may be. And she's writing about all the things she'd do for him, to reassure him that she loves him (though I can't decide if this is sincere or not.)
I'm under the impression that the sea burial could be in referrence to TSIAGPTTOTF, maybe this girl "woke up" from it all because it made her feel lousy and suicidal, and found solace in our narrator since he also thinks about dying a lot too, and understands what she's going through.
So many different interpretations, and all of them could be wrong...but I'd hate it if it was straightforward. (:
' In a note I read:
"If you should go blind and deaf
I'll cleanse and I'll bathe you and I'll cook for you daily.
I will take a dry ballpoint pen and trace on yr chest
All of the same conversations that we have now in bed."
I don't mean to be selfish; but I think I'd sooner just be dead '
man, over-obsessive really are the worst.
Now when I view the cemetery I don't see headstones,
I see rows of engraved milk teeth, hungry, waiting for me"
And though I am fearful, I think I just crave the relief
Oh man, how good is that part?