This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I'm the hard looser
You'll find me crashing through my mother's door
I am the ugly lover
You'll find us rolling on the dirty floor
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones
I'm a belly dancer
I'll shake forever and I'll never care
I'm a building jumper
Roof to roof you'll see me flying in the air
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones, bones
Somebody got hurt
Somebody get hurt
Somebody got her
You'll find me crashing through my mother's door
I am the ugly lover
You'll find us rolling on the dirty floor
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones
I'm a belly dancer
I'll shake forever and I'll never care
I'm a building jumper
Roof to roof you'll see me flying in the air
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones
Break my body, hold my bones, hold my bones, bones
Somebody got hurt
Somebody get hurt
Somebody got her
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
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I think the first line is actually "I'm a horny loser." At least that's what it sounds like to me.
oh yeah.... i think this song is about self hatred.... thats all i can get out of it.... i wish i could get in this guys head.... i wonder what he thinks....
It was only recently that I discovered the Pixies, but to me this song could be interpretted as a reference to liking S&M. The references about being an "ugly lover", "rolling on the floor", and being a "belly dancer" describe sexual things. Also, the fact that the guy describes himself as a "loser" and as "ugly" may makes him seem somewhat masochistic. Thus, "break my body, hold my bones" becomes sexual. Also, the last three lines of the song represent reaching climax.
i think it has a biblical undertone. Jesus Christ said "this (bread) is my body, break it and eat in remembrance of me" maybe, maybe not what the song is about
I'm kind of surprised somebody down voted you. A lot of early Pixies songs had Biblical references.<br /> <br /> However, I don't think it has anything to do with Jesus.
This is definitely the best song on Surfer Rosa. Such an incredible song.
@SoundgardeNirvana something against you right afterwards is an utter cracker to that gets me hyped every time too though
Ambiguous lyrics. Great melody and music.
this song is about incest
How dare you all not comment on this song?!? This song is great! ...then again I really have nothing to say besides that but still, damn you all! You should all be ashamed of yourselfs!! >:o
well this song is really good.... everytime i hear it im like... wow why didnt i write that.... haha.... but anyways.... the phrase ugly lover is used in many modest mouse songs..... just compairing two great bands... :)
I'm not sure what the core meaning is, but I don't really care. This song to me is just about giving in to everyone's perceptions of you and not giving a shit about what they think and doing what you want despite their opinion. Break my body almost seems like a challenge to the naysayers if you interpret it this way.