It talks about the pleasures of being submissive in a S&M relationship. It's a very cool song very sexy and appealing.

yeah truly about desire, pleasure, SEX !
Kim's voice is fabulous in this song, she really play with the rhyme and her sensual intonation, the guitar in the background are awesome too, this song is great and be part of an excellent album !

i think it's about not letting time make things boring

Yeah! Thats all about living with someone dont leting the things get boring and showing that the girl is special !!!
;)

there was a horse a few years ago called "bull in the heather." that's what this song is about.

the video makes that obvious.

I love this song, but if anyone gets the chance, listen to the "The Go! Team" cover of it, it's pretty awesome.

regarding tbeasleys above comment

the cover is not bad, its very go! team, but it completely loses the sexiness of the original

this song oozes sensuality. its hot. without the video, without even understanding the words, you just know its about sex.

You idiots, you are way off.

I think it's about someone who relies on selling sex to live, like a whore or something like that.

It sounds like it's about the music industry.

I think the last 2 posts are on to something--it's about a need for attention and constant reinforcement that leads people to sell out (either sexually or artistically).

'makersandwater' is correct.
it's about a horse called "bull in the heather" whos odds of winning the race were something like 29:1 and it did win. the horserace footage and horse in the video are respectively from that, as well as the hints of luck (ie four leaf clover) since those are incredible odds to overcome, and most obviously "bettin' on the bull in the heather."

"If I was a girl, I'd so want to make out to Bull in the Heather."

A quote from my favorite person in the entire world.

Yes, the song is about a horse. But I don't think every single lyric is about the horse. It's also very sexual. It's about how she needs attention all the time. She wants to be worshipped in everyway, even if that includes being scolded.

yeah sexy song but kim was pregnant during the making of the video
in fact come to think of it the video isnt sexy at all
which is a pitty for such a great song
if you want sexy SY video clips you should check out titanium expose
haha

when it says time turning four leave clover is about the good days being gone and maybe sex or a strong sexual attraction wont fix what is here

about sex or a horse interressting i thought it´s a roundition of a mahruhana high and it describs how kim flys thru the flashing lights with this bull in the heather nice to hear that not every sonic youth song is about drugs but i am not sure

this song oozes sex.
the Go! Team cover does not cover it accurately whatsoever. it almost sounds like a mockery. Nonetheless,
this song is amazing.

To me this song with the bass scratch (also if u look at the video with the bright sun & kids in the park) has some kind of great "Rites of Spring" feel (also has discordant parts in it) with dangerous latent, languid sexuality in it (I guess it's S&Mish now that I think about it).

Interesting horse stuff above. . thanks for that

Bull In The Heather was in fact the name of a race horse; Bob Nastovich from Pavement is a big horse racing fan, and apparently he gave Kim and Thurston a bumper sticker with the horse's name on it. I don't think the song is actually about the horse though; it seems more like they're either using betting on horses as an obtuse sex/prostitution metaphor or they just thought it'd make a cool song title and decided to work it into an otherwise unrelated set of lyrics.

I think this song is about wanting something (sexually) that odds are very against you actually getting. It's about pure and desperate yet unrequited and unrealistic desire. I also get the feeling that deeper down it's about the constant and the very childish need for positive reinforcement. Everyone wants to constantly be told that they are good and desirable etc. but no one really gets it. In a way it's about insecurity.

Here is what I think.

About the title of the song that puzzled me because I am not english so I intented to understand it with the "bet on the bull's eye" expression.
I rode that Bull in the heather is the name of an underrated horse that won a race. So I believe that it siginifies that the end of a love relationship is inexorable, all seem easy and sure at the beginning but with time nothing can avoid it from finishing, so you will have to rely more and more on "luck" to save the couple which can only work a few times (it's a matter of decreasing probability).

Then the "turning over and over" is related and means sexual relationships in my pov whereas the "turning four leaf clover" means that this won't keep the two people in love eternally and the magic of sex will fade then disappear in a glimpse after having made love a last time like if it was only bad luck. Instead it is solely explained by time and decreasing desire. I believe in english there are also the expressions "wheel of fortune", the luck turns as a wheel, human fate is sometimes seen as a wheel, well in french we have them all and even fortune means luck or fate or money, so we're really lucky :)

Almost each sentence is closely related to the images of the video clip :

hold : childish rope play
bore : laying on the bed picking a paper
show : strip-tease
need to slowly : banana peeling / sexual
burning : horse wants to eat the banana
afford : provocative prostitute
tell story : whispering at the ear of the other girl
over and over : bedroom
clover : the man leads the horse, all is working
betting : horse race (the 7 (Bull ?) is leading/winning whereas he was behind another horse previously)

scold : push the annoying little girl
adore : kiss
famous : parisian cabaret

Then it's not so clear except the last clover one :
score : tummy dance
show : tell
need sorely : hotel

clover : nail varnish flow out on the ground : bad luck, lack of attention even if intention doing something nice for the girl may remain
bored girl turning a vegetal, horse in the background : end of the sexual magic, end of the relationship -> Kim no more on the bed then rests on it (last image), dancing employee no more attractive that is to say end of her show.

betting : the 7 is not first again, back to square one

Kim and the brunette girl stands for the same woman but at the two different states of their love affair.
At the beginning they're smiling each other like they are well knowing each other, and that is enhanced when the little girl kiss the other like her mother, that is to say their intimacy is high, in fact they are the same person.
Kim is serious, bored, sad, older the brunette is childish, playful, cheerful, careless. Kim whispers at her ear what will come next (dirty, love story, gotta show = explain) but the little girl repeats mechanically without wanting to understand what it means.
At the end they're reunited in their minds as you see the brunette girl has become serious and is watching the camera with connivance, like she's wanting to mean to you she knows you understood she was just playing a game that is over now.
[they're could be also daughter and mother, Kim was pregnant, so the mother teach the little girl she had with a man about life, love, sex, procreation, manhood]

The count 10 20 30 40 are maybe like the odds for an horse, or time periods that are passing, well I'd say it implies something that increases (or subsequantly decreases) with time, but it's tautological !


Well, there were my ideas !...

Definitley a very sensual song. Even the title!
Ugh and the way she sings it...

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