Ween – Baby Bitch

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  General Comment:Elliott Smith just got busted!!!!

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  General Comment:It's about Barret Christie for certain. Gener said it himself at Bonnaroo 3. I was there to hear it unlike everyone else, because they were at Primus.

  Flag BeamRider11on December 03, 2011   Link

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    Was that not "Birthday Boy"?

    Flag thousandkniveson September 04, 2012  
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  General Comment:Sparky565 is 100% correct. This song is about Gener's on again off again girlfriend and now ex-wife, Sarah Poten. They married in 1999 and divorced in 2003, although they had been dating since the early 90s I believe. They have one child together. He also wrote "Sarah" and "Birthday Boy" about her, and possibly some others.
  
  This song was written during a time Gene was broken up with her, and dating someone else. It's kind of funny that he married the subject of this song a few years after it came out.

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  General Comment:the drug idea is reaally interesting and could actually be true looking at the diction and context. but no doubt its about a chick, and a chick real close to Gener's heart cause he references "birthday boy", which clearly is not about drugs.
  
  fave line is "You come from a dream But I can't close my eyes anymore". she was the girl of his dreams at one point, and now hes accepting that despite her being the girl of his dreams, he cant go on with her.

  Flag BuckinghamGREENon November 26, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:My older brother used to sing this to me. Once I finally listened I noticed it was about a guy basically saying he's found somebody new. and some girl really hurt him and now she's back around. All he wants is for her to go away. It's a very mellow and meaningful song.

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  My Opinion:Without over-analyzing this one (but I was thinking about it the other day), I have always thought he was cheating on this girl (the bitch) for a year, and she finally caught him. Who hasn't been with someone or known someone beautiful who just sucked on the inside?
  I also thought that "got fat, got angry" was a reference to being depressed about the relationship (possibly a drug reference but not necessarily), and "now skinny and sick and paranoid w/o a cent to my name" has got to be about cocaine (hopefully not crack) or maybe meth or speed. Seriously, who hasn't been on or known someone taking coke, etc? If you do it enough to spend all your $ on it, you will be skinny, sick, paranoid and have no money.

  Flag pinchemikeon March 07, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:Well, I wish you guys knew the story behind this because it is much simpler than a lot of you are making it out to be. This song, along with Birthday Boy, and Sarah, and a couple of others are about Gene Ween's former on and off again girlfriend Sarah. She broke up with him on his birthday, then he wrote Birthday Boy. At some point they got back together or he just used an old song on Pure Guava and that was Sarah, which is also about her. Anyways, after she broke up with him he got depressed and started getting fat, as it says in the song and can be seen from pictures of him from the early 90's. Then he got into some drugs and got really really skinny. There is only picture I know of from that time and it is just sickly looking. Then he got fat again and Chocolate and Cheese came out. If you watch the video for Voodoo Lady you can still see that he is a little chubby as he was loosing the weight again at that time.
  
  Anyways it's just about her coming back to him and being a bitch to the girl he is with and to him and him just telling her off.

  Flag sparky565on December 15, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:Wow, you guys are astute (or reaching). I'm always looking for secret meanings but I never picked up on the drug reference in this song. I'm not obtuse, so could you please expound and explain with lyrical examples how it isn't just a vindictive swipe at an ex-lover, which all the lyrics could simply be interpreted as (even the skinny and sick and paranoid line, which definitely sounds coke-esque, could just be acute depression). What exactly indicates it's more than that, other than a sense that it could be, which doesn't mean it is. I know all about Ween's use of, and lyrical references to drugs, I just never got it from this song.

  Flag firehorse66on September 18, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:ok so this song is sweet as hell. it is really easy to understand what it is about and is amazing. jason schwartzmann from coconut records suggested it to me through his XM radio takeover with rivers cuomo from weezer. i was searching forever until i found it in a jank record store. has anyone seen the cover for this album? its deceivingly skanky!

  Flag krazykarl0920on August 27, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:it's about heart-break.

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