Lyrics for All Over The World as interpreted by riffic

All Over The World Lyrics
with a pet at my side
God in the sky
snow falling down
freeze my body to the ground
i can't ride
but one more time
i will ride
all over the world

washed over the side
top of the sky
slow diver down
two feet land on a different fround
you can't live easily
you can't even speak
but all of them speak
all over the world

i will meet you over there
i am going to meet you over there
washed over the side
top of the sky
slow diver down
two feet land on a different ground
you can't live easily
you can't even speak
fish all of them speak
all over the world

a plain with no herd
not even a bird
when one side is hot
the other side of the moon is not
it's just like a ride
maybe some time
they'll make it a ride
all over the world

i will meet you over there
i am going to meet you over there

time is an arrangement
time is an arranger
i am a derangement

all my thoughts
all i am are my thoughts
all my thoughts
i am all what i'm taught

better call the ranger
got a train derailments
better call the ranger

what i'm taught
all i am are my thoughts
all my thoughts
all i am are my thoughts
what i'm not

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xpankfrisst
08-10-2002

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why no comments?! THIS SONG KICKS! the pixies don't have the respect they deserve, so for the love of all things good start listening to them so you hear some proper good music. anyways, that's what i think...

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Speedy Marie
03-15-2003

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Well... how it goes is... that i don't really know what this is about.
Bossanova is an excellent album, and the pixies are amazing.
i'll try to say a few things about the meaning of the song, for example:
The first and second verses are about traveling around the world

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Putingrad
11-13-2004

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I love the imagery in this song, I think it probably has the Pixies' best lyrics. no idea what it means though :(

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xreflux
11-15-2004

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is about going to the moon. plain with no herd, like the moon plains, and fishes could be a reference to the Sea of Tranquility. you can't talk without an atmosphere.

but something makes me think it's either connected to the Challenger Disaster, Apollo 13, or perhaps a nuclear winter (earth becoming more like the moon if we had a nuclear war?)

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xreflux
11-15-2004

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is about going to the moon. plain with no herd, like the moon plains, and fishes could be a reference to the Sea of Tranquility. you can't talk without an atmosphere.

but something makes me think it's either connected to the Challenger Disaster, Apollo 13, or perhaps a nuclear winter (earth becoming more like the moon if we had a nuclear war?)

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_MissVicious_
01-08-2005

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love this song, love pixies. Love them even more since I saw them last summer.

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Drugsarebad
02-05-2005

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this song is kinda of a cross reference to a song on surfer rosa not sure which one though and this is thier best song on bossanova espically the short guitar solo and i have seen the pixies in atlanta fukcing amazing

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upsy
03-07-2005

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sounds like an interesting trip, eh?
I like the idea about space. maybe floating up there thinking how time is an 'arrangement'...noticing the cricles. the sun goes round the earth. we ride the earth in circles. The circles of questioning who we are - all my thoughts all I am are my thoughts all my thoughts I am all what I'm taught...all I am are my thoughts. time is an arrangement of planets and we arrange our lives around it. perhaps he is imagining a life without the circles...a life where the world is flat and you can get 'washed over the side' into space. (the train derailment is breaking out of the circles? or his mind breaking away from the conformity and predictability of the circles?). perhaps he is imagining what it would be like to look at the circles from the outside...but who is he without the circles? He is a part of the circles. The circles live through him. He is the circle. The circle lives in him. all I am is all I'm taught, all I am is my thoughts. What exists outside of the circuits?

(God is 7. Man is 5. God is a straight line.)

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upsy
03-07-2005

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PS

this has got to be one of the best pixies songs. along with velouria. monkey gone to heaven. is she weird? where is my mind? etc

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YoungxForxEternity
08-31-2005

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I dont like this song too much... is it just me? lol

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xreflux
05-22-2006

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I think it also might be Frank's conception of what the afterlife is like. And perhaps the idea that your soul might dissipate into nothing.

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Butsku
08-04-2006

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"you can't even speak
fish all of them speak"

That reminds me of the book Hitchhiker's Guide To Galaxy where Arthur, the human, puts a babelfish to his earth to understand alien languanges :)

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Butsku
08-04-2006

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Argh, typo. His EAR of course :) not earth :D

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SadSapySucker
10-08-2006

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Frank Black said what this song meant.God fucking dammit. Its about a kid watching UFOS fly acrossed the sky in his backyard. check fucking wikipedia and shit if yo udont believe me. Frank Black said it himself.

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Neeble
10-11-2006

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The meaning is well put.
...
Even if Frank Black stated the meaning of the song,
he is not the kind of person that would say something meaningful with the words he thinks in his head. He is smarter than that, because he knows that it is complex for others to understand, so he puts it out with an analogy that is easily accepted by the majority of society.

The song is about questions,afterdeath,(he sees in the sky in his backyard the very same as the frontyard, but the reason for backyard is because the entire message is about "coming back"...


With a pet at my side, (best friend/true love) (mans best friend) could be animal, but it all depends on whoever or whatever you project true love to. God freezes him to the ground, so he cannot move (he is dead)

so he cannot ride life... but one more time he will be able to ride life. (all over the world) (when yin and yang die, they will ride all over the world (what humans/living creatuers, land/sky [cannot do] because there is good and bad in life, (karma)... but maybe they will make it into a ride, (like a rollercoaster... where the scariest/terrifying rides are enjoyable... bad is good, good is bad...

(fish depicts "they")
(time depicts the ride)[arranged rollercoaster]
(all my thoughts depict derangement)
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after death, the other side is the birth of your life is in the form of your love, so u live the exact opposite way you have lived)

two feet land on a different ground.
you can't even speak (just reborn)
(u cant live easily) life isnt ez...
(fish all of them speak, all over the world)
fish ride on a water tide that is all over the world,... if there is an upcoming apocolypse, it would mostly be a world wide flood...


understanding alien language is translating an impossible language (because its alien) like
understanding PERFECTION...its an undefined existance only displayed through things such as expression

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jimjeske
04-27-2007

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1st paragraph - a boy with his dog sees a spaceship in the sky, it's snowing, he boards the ship and flies "all over the world"

2nd paragraph - he lands on another planet, he can't talk but the aliens sure can. it is not liveable like our homeplanet earth.

4th paragraph - the planet is barren with no animals. some gibberish about the one side being hot and the other not.

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WaveNo.13
07-22-2008

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The song is very surreal, it reminds me of my thoughts.

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igotfakeid
08-09-2008

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This by far the most spacey pixies song I've heard, I think Bossnova is the best Pixies album because it's different from all their other album.
at 5;27 this is the longest pixies song

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daraki93
05-02-2009

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((we all get our own interpretation))...this song is about a man who's feeling alone and look outside himself to find someone. Maybe a pet, God, aliens or just someone that's on the other side of the moon.
"you can't even speak" because no one can really understand you. "But all of them speak".
Cause even if no one understand you, you continue to speak.
And I really think that the person that's on the other side of the moon, the one that you can't reach, is the only one you wanted to reach. Then you will meet him/her "over there", but you can't show him/her who you are because you don't know it. "all i am...What i'm not"
__KiNuS ;) (i'm italian, by the way)

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thecrikster
07-07-2009

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this is my least favorite pixies song everrrrr! it has the worst melody, awkward, awkward, awkward!!
the only thing that saves it is the outro, which is ace.

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