Lyrics for Brick Is Red as interpreted by riffic

Brick Is Red Lyrics
A fist is fast
And Jimmy's cast
Hang me

A white moon's hot
The other side's not
Hang me

It's not time for me for me to go
It's not time for me for me to go

My eyes have turned
Just the color of diamond
Just the color
The frayed color of ice

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feinstein
06-19-2002

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These lyrics are all messed up. It's a "Fish is fast."

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SAWraith
08-14-2002

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And "The Pretty color of ice".

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pumkinhed
12-01-2004

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if those are the right lyrics then i prefer the wrong ones.

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super carrot
03-19-2005

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no, i prefer fast fish to fast fists. Woo go fish!

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personblahblah
08-14-2005

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Haaaaaaaaaaang me

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president-of-what
05-16-2006

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"A fish is fast
And Jimmy's cast
Hang me"

Black Francis is the fish. He think's he is fast, but Jimmy's, or a generic name for a fisherman, "cast", or him throwing his line out, "hangs" or catches the narratorfish.

"A white moon's hot
The other side's not
Hang me"

Night fishing. The fish, in the final seconds of life, would see the moon for the first time. Maybe there is a deeper metaphor here. But, alas, he is still being "hung".

It's not time for me for me to go
It's not time for me for me to go

The fish is panicking- it does not want to die. Obviously.

My eyes have turned
Just the color of diamond
Just the color
The frayed color of ice

His eyes go white, or back in his head, and he dies.

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Dingbats
06-14-2006

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"A white moon's hot
The other side's not"...

Black used the lines

"When one side is hot
The other side of the moon is not"

in All Over The World on Bossanova, perhaps he was borrowing it from this song? Could just be a coincidence though.

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zap_rowsdower
04-17-2008

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The meaning of the title still eludes me. Brick is red? What?

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fistisfast
06-11-2008

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it sounds like fish to me, but i always get lyrics wrong. and i don't know how so many sites can have it wrong.

isn't it contradictory: "it's not time for me to go" and "hang me"

the use of colors in the title and song evoke imagery.

it could just be the best last track on a cd Ever =]

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igotfakeid
06-12-2008

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A white moon's hot, the other side's not. (He says this again in All Over the World....any connection?)

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KrackedJars
06-18-2008

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There's got to be some sort of connection with this song and "All Over the World"....from what's already been said. And don't forget the line from All Over the World, "You can't even speak, fish, all of them speak."

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debaser12
08-27-2008

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has anyone noticed that the guitar riff to this song is the same as the riff at the end of "hey"? i think this is one of the most underrated pixies songs.

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ArrrtStarrr
06-30-2009

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His fascination with fish delights me. Coy koi too, remember?
I'm a Pisces. He can have me.

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