Lyrics for Ana as interpreted by riffic

Ana Lyrics
she's my fave
undressing in the sun
return to sea - bye
forgetting everyone
eleven high
ride a wave

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mattmc387
05-30-2002

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S
U
R
F
E
R

acrostic poem

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let it fall
10-06-2002

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spelled 'ana' and not 'anna'.

i love this song.

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_MissVicious_
04-15-2004

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Love this song <3. Found it not looking for it, but when I heard it I was amazed :) Love the title - Ana :) *prob don't have to tell why;)*

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vendetta
07-03-2004

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taken from the pixies site:" 'Bossanova' : Everyone knows 'Bossanova' is the greatest record the Beach Boys never made. The Pixies even had the grace to be the first band to use a theramin since 'Good Vibrations', and they had the shirts to match, too. So embroiled in surf lore had Black Francis become that one song 'Ana' was a rare instance of a rock 'n' roll acrostic, wherein the first letters of it's six lines spelt a word: SURFER. Really clever bastard."

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vendetta
07-03-2004

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taken from the pixies site:" 'Bossanova' : Everyone knows 'Bossanova' is the greatest record the Beach Boys never made. The Pixies even had the grace to be the first band to use a theramin since 'Good Vibrations', and they had the shirts to match, too. So embroiled in surf lore had Black Francis become that one song 'Ana' was a rare instance of a rock 'n' roll acrostic, wherein the first letters of it's six lines spelt a word: SURFER. Really clever bastard."

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muchthanmore
11-02-2004

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Theramin....
*cough* Led zeppelin...

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Ramagamma
11-30-2004

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Pixies > Zeppelin.

And i'm a massive fan of both so there.

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pumkinhed
12-05-2004

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the record is stupidly underrated. This is my first tiime hearing it, and it's already my second favorite (just behind Surfer Rosa, a very close race though)

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ZipperHead
12-27-2004

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Maybe my all around favorite Pixies song (next to Is She Weird). So simple and yet so expressive (and encompassing of their surf influences) - like a Japanese painting.

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Crippled Pilgrim
03-01-2005

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The reason its called Ana is because Frank Black thought that that type of spelling with the first letter of each line was an ANAgram.
He was wrong, though.
This is an anagram:

I PAST HEX, I ATE GREER

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ROBRAM89
06-17-2005

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Oye, u ran, o!

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edbanky
09-01-2005

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Crippled: The Pixies ARE great, aren't they?

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GCNgamer128
09-11-2005

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An Anagram is a word spelt the same bacwards and forwards, am I not correct?

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mathio
12-07-2005

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An anagram is a word made bye changing the order of the letters of another word. Just like "veil" and "evil".

What you're talking about GCNgamer128 is called a palindrome. "Ana" is a palindrome.

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kijima
12-07-2005

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DAMN!

I never realized that about this song.

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Appers66
12-01-2006

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Definately my all-time favourite Pixies track. Bossanova is by far the best Pixies album.

Okay, controversial bit over. Black sure liked messing about with poems in his lyrics in Bossanova, didn't he? Ana is an acrostic poem, Hangwire was written in Haiku...

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DarthBellatrix
07-02-2007

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My name is Ana! :)
I got interested in the Pixies after I heard their song "Where is My Mind" during the closing scene in Fight Club, and when I saw they did a song with my name as the title, it made me smile.

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puaj
02-07-2008

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ana is the spanish way of anna. a single n.
I as everybody knows.. mr francis was really into spanish...
I refuse to think about the anagram idea...

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igotfakeid
06-11-2008

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this is such a beauty.

musically enchanting.

eleven high are some big waves, atleast where i'm from...

"She's, like, this naked surfer girl on a board on top of an 11-foot wave, y'know cruising in never-never land. Never-never ocean." (Black Francis in a Q article)

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beaveremi
04-21-2009

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Ana is a nickname for anorexia...so that's what I'm guessing this song is about.

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