I have no idea what this song is about...but the lyrics are amazing! Robert Smith is such a strange and wonderful songwriter.

Rob. Smith remarked that, "I liked that somg because it caused some controversy at the time. I played up to the weirder sexual aspects of the lyric...I realised it was going to be contentious, and I had fun with it!"

Well I think I understand the same concept and meaning that good ol 'Bob came up with. Exploding Girl, yeah, you're right, I also read that in "Join the Dots" and he said the man inside his mouth was like the stranger using his voice...like his conscience or something like that.

if you imagine the lyrics sung to an impressionatic, nightmarish film shot from the perspective of a man drugged and awoken in a disjointed, psychedelic, scary orgy, the song really works -- it's about being taken against one's will without realizing -- before it's too late

Okay, it is 7, he is grey, damp, and sore; and has a man in his mouth. I thought it was pretty obvious what went on that night... At least one thing was obvious;

THERE WAS A MAN, in his MOUTH. Um, I didnt think anyone had to think that one thru, but lets do it for the sake of doing it, and so that those of you who didnt get it can see what you may have not seen previously.

I tend to agree a bit with Davidbeauy... However, Robert did alot of herion and coke too I believe, back in the 80's... And like many rockstars, I think women and drugs were something that he was overindulging in; as many musicians tend to do with thier new found fame, though I think Robert got it out of his system fairly
fast in comparison to many other rockstars, but not before having the lifestyle bite him in a$$, and this would be the story of the day his world bit him in the
a$$.

Though I am certain the song is mostly impressionistic and fictional, it is likely a very very exaggerated version of somthing that really happened to him or

someone he knew. Anyone who did that much dope ended up eventually in a
situation to some degree, that they felt they had lost control over and ended up
awkwardly wishing they'd just stayed home the night before... This seems like a
story about one of those moments, and I am sure Robert used some literary
embellishment or poetic justice to make it really shocking, dramatic, surreal, and stand out. But I am sure it is at least based on or inspired by one of those drug binges that went too far...

It seems he came close to overdosing:

"I woke up at seven and my body was vibrating
I was wrapped up in a blanket
I was grey
Damp and sore
The bedroom was an engine and my heartbeat was erratic
(Like I think I'm at the racing
Like the night before)"

A reference to an overdose of speed or coke perhaps... And of course herion adds to surrealism, and so much of what he remembers is so surreal.

Okay, again, it's 7, he is damp and sore, and...he has a man in his mouth.

To put it bluntly: I dont know about you, but I know if I wake up with a man in my mouth, I am unwittingly giving oral gratification.

I am fairly certain that the 'man' Robert (or at least the character he is in the song)has in his mouth is not an inner voice, not a memory he holds deep inside,
and certainly not a gnome either.

Ive always assumed that in this song he, or the character he is speaking(singing)
as, was dangerously high and close to overdose.

At first, he was seriously doped and they were having an orgy of sorts was with
(what he thought were) two girls. Then he seems he's lost his normal inhabitions
almost entirely, just as he begins to question if both of the women are real:

"I remember one girl standing
One was sitting on the ground
One was holding me up
The other pulling me down
And I couldn't decide which one was real
Because there wasn't a sound"

Why would one be real and not the other??? Seems perhaps he may have started

to doubt the sex of one of them by then, but wasnt even sure which one was
possibly not a girl. I guess if they both looked like girls, one may want to hear the voices of them to figure it out, but, if no one was speaking, because they

could not say anything, as it is likey that all mouths were uh... busy... then it would be hard to decide which one was real and which one was maybe not really a girl at all. The drug effects progressed till he lost his ability to know completely what was going on, and then eventually he looses conciousness; not like as in passed out, but as in a drug induced blackout where he is unaware of most everything and doesnt remember much of what he did while in that blackout, but the recallections do come, slowly and vaguely.

In the following lines I see suggestions that one of those recallections is that may have orally gratified a male earlier:

"So I was sucking
I was sucking like a fat lady would"

Then, um... seems couldnt handle the messy result of doing so; if you catch my

drift... Hence this line:

"But I couldn't hold it down another second
(Bleagh!)"



So he was feeling like a stud with at least two women at once, almost fighting over him. He wakes up with a man in his mouth, and slowly begins to recall what may have led up to that. He recalls sucking, and posing for photos, and

eventually it was quite appearant that he wasnt the only man there...



I think it is also possible that the dope made him so messed up, that one of the

girls was a guy the whole time but he didn't really realize what all was happening until we awoke... with a man in his mouth... At that point, he knew there was a man there, and I think possibly it was one of the girls.


Dangerously high , the good time went further than he'd expected it to and he ended up doing things he wouldnt normally do, essentially being taken advantage even if the others involved didnt purposely drug him or rape him, he certainly was not himself or in his world over the course of the evening. Photographs taken only make him feel exploited.

The "Like I was pregnant again" line is odd. I cant help but wonder if this wasnt

a line meant to illustrate that A) He was so messed up that he would even forget

who he was and what he was doing, and B)THis is not the first time he got that

wasted and ended up in confusing circumstances that led his mind the the most

bizarre reaches ever thought possible by even the biggest dope fiends in history...

C) That he was going from incredibly high to totally incoherant and at that point

had actually started blackout mentally...
Or, it may be some odd little tidbit he is alluding to from some strange literary

work or obscure film, he does that kinda often.

It is important to note he does not come across disgusted, like a homophobe, but shocked, because he hadnt expected what happened, and he was maybe misled by one of the women who wasnt a woman at all... He wasnt prepared, wasnt expecting it, wouldnt normally get that kinky, and the awkward emotions coupled with the physical malease he feels from the high drug levels trying to exit his system leaving with a regretful, miserable, and exploited feeling that is short lived, because it is either over, just begining, depending on what you may make of this line:

"This wont hurt at all"

I dont know. I guess he may be saying it sarcasticly to himself as he is about to leave, and he was talking about the sting that he is sure to feel when he is totally sober, still confused about what he may have done, and the pictures are circulating...

OR,( and this is my guess, )he hears 'this wont hurt at all' just as he is starting to

totally realize that he has a man in his mouth, and one may assume, that the man

was about to leave his mouth for another more sensative orrafice... Or it could be another allusion to some literary work or movie I am not familiar with or I just havent put 2 and 2 together yet.

i thought robert was bisexual.. and with all that makeup they wear whos gonna know whats boy or girl? they were androgynous, to me the song is about drugs and sex

alright so whoever fucking wrote these lyrics.
must be deaf,
there so wrong.


sooo fucking wrong.
im annoyed.

Uh sorry leavesmesour, but the lyrics as posted here are the same ones as those released by the band, so I'm pretty sure they would be the right ones, unless you know something the rest of us don't...

I agree that this is about a drug and sex binge. It seems pretty obvious. Even as an innocent 12 year old christian boy I managed to work that out.

Since then, I've had nights & mornings like the one described here...so it all makes common sense to me.

The real message of the song is an anti-drugs warning to irresponsible teenagers: "It may seem like fun, but how will you feel in the morning...?" haha.

I just want to say that idoubtthat is a legend. That was such an indepth analysis! Amazing! This song is so chilling and wrong that I love it!

kinky sex on drugs

According to Robert:

"The other me... a dream he had... I hope it was a dream!"

Smith is a master of imagery. Putting happy music with disturbing lyrics - genius!

I love the drums, how they're slightly off. And Robert's squeals. It just adds to the (slightly disturbing) fun craziness of the song.