Today, everything was fine
Until roundabout, quarter to nine
I suddenly found myself in a bind
Was it something I said?
Something I read and manifested that's getting you down

Don't you dare come to bed with that ambiguous look in your eye
I'd sooner sleep by an open fire and wake up fried

Say what you will
Say what you mean
You could never offend
Your dirty words come out clean

Tomorrow, what price will I pay?
Could I make it all up to you by serving coffee for two in bed?
Would you then gimme the time of day?

I need a map of your head
Translated into English
So I can learn not to make you frown
You'd feel better if you'd vent
Put your frustrations into four letter words
And let them out on mine
The most weathered ears in town

So say what you will
Say what you mean
You could never offend
Your dirty words come out clean



Lyrics submitted by Idan

Track duration: 03:56

"Clean" as written by Brandon Charles/einziger Boyd, Alex/pasillas Katunich

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

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    Memory:i love this song man i lobe brandon boyds voice so sexy,beautiful,perfect,flawless i love it"not make you frown" love that part of the song always count on incubus to bring something new to the table i love them this song is fire brandon did his thing on this song you dig.
    Flag dp9241loveron December 23, 2010   Link
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    Song Meaning:So true.
    I wish I hadn't got fed up of Drive on MTV2 and bought the album back in 2000 instead of catching up so late.
    Flag RobTheBuilderon August 25, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This song is fucking amazing!
    Flag danknuggaon May 25, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:This song reminds me of Bree Van Der Kamp, from Desperate Housewives, in the first series.
    She's having marital trouble with her husband, Rex, and she never says naything is wrong.
    Rex hates how she's so clinical.
    It's hard to explain, you'd have to watch it.
    Flag sambennallickon May 23, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:what a good song, the build up the lyrics just mean so much. performing this live would be difficult and they do it well. "I need a map of your head translated into english so i can learn to not make you frown". easily one of my fav incubus lyrics and songs.
    Flag Visonon December 27, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:This song is my Favorite well this and Antigravity. I really like the Bongo Drum LOL and the Singing Whales fukin awesome and shit like that is why i love incubus so much. This song is the amthum to every guys Life. one minute you think your all good then the next you have found some bogus ass way to Fuck everything up.

    "Don't you dare come to bed with that ambiguous look in you eye,
    I'd sooner sleep by an open fire and wake up fried"

    I love that line because one thing i learned about a relationship is to always have closer he wants to know what he did wrong and how to fix it and if he has to sleep next to her all night and not talk about it he would rather wake up fried cuz its ganna be just as painful.

    'I need a map of your head, translated into English
    so I can learn to not make you frown."

    Again every guy in the world has this problem because women are freakin Nutz and you never know Whats goin on in there heads. they dont even Speak the same language.

    "You'd feel better if you'd vent,
    put your frustrations into four letter words
    and let them out on mine, the most weathered ears in town"

    I can relate to this Line because my girlfriend does this crap, rather then just fuckin yelling at me and getting the frustration out she boils and ignors me. Im a grown ass man i can take it If the person i love tells me to FUCK OFF!! every now and then.
    Flag TheLunghion August 17, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:BTW I FUCKING LOVE THE SOUND OF THE AFRICAN BONGO THAT BRANDON PLAYS.
    Flag camilabella420on August 13, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:THIS IS MY INTERPRETATION. HE WAS HAVING A GOOD DAY UNTIL ABOUT QUARTER TO NINE.. HE SAID SOMETHING THAT MIGHT HAVE OFFENDED HIS GF. IT SEEMS LIKE HES ALWAYS SAYING THE WRONG THINGS TO HER CUZ HE CANT UNDERSTAND WHY HES MAKING HER "FROWN" SO HE NEED A MAP OF HER HEAD TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH SINCE GIRLS SPEAK BACKWARDS AND WONT SPEAK WHAT THEY ACTUALLY MEAN AND HE DOESN'T GET IT. BASICALLY TELLING HER TO SPEAK WHAT SHE REALLY MEANS AND NOT SUGAR COATING EVERYTHING. DAMN I'M A GIRL.. I FEEL BAD FOR GUYS. WHY MUST GIRLS DO THAT?!?!
    Flag camilabella420on August 13, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:This song has always been one of my favorite Incubus songs ever! The intro, lyrics, Brandon's voice...all amazing!!
    Flag reneemc87on May 23, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i never heard this song before my boyfriend put it in his aol profile and put the song on my ipod. Then I realized that I do this all of the time, say I'm fine when I'm not. And I felt really bad and am trying to not be like that :(


    But I really like this song
    Flag StrawberryFields89on December 19, 2006   Link

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