Lyrics for Yes as interpreted by malegna

Yes Lyrics
For sale? dumb cunt's same dumb questions
virgin? listen, all virgins are liars honey
and I don't know what I'm scared of or what I even enjoy
dulling, get money, but nothing turns out like you want it to
and in these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything
for $200 anyone can conceive a God on video
he's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock
tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want
I eat and I dress and I wash and I still can say thank you
puking - shaking - sinking I still stand for old ladies
can't shout, can't scream, hurt myself to get pain out
I 'T' them, 24:7, all year long
purgatory's circle, drowning here, someone will always say yes
funny place for the social, for the insects to start caring
just an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff
in these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything
for $200 anyone can conceive a God on video
he's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock
tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want, if you want
I eat and I dress and I wash and I can still say thank you
puking - shaking - sinking I still stand for old ladies
can't shout, can't scream, hurt myself to get pain out
power produces desire, the weak have none
there's no lust in this coma even for a fifty
solitude, solitude, the 11th commandment
the only certain thing that is left about me
there's no part of my body that has not been used
pity or pain, to show displeasure's shame
everyone I've loved or hated always seems to leave
and in these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything
for $200 anyone can conceive a God on video
he's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock
tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want, if you want
power produces desire, the weak have none
there's no lust in this coma even for a fifty
solitude, solitude, the 11th commandment
don't hurt, just obey, lie down, do as they say
may as well be heaven this hell, smells the same
these sunless afternoons I can't find myself.

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Songmeaningsuser
03-04-2003

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Prostitution, obviously.

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ladyboygrrl
04-02-2003

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the intro isnt on here. but it goes something like "you can buy her. you can buy her, you can buy her" over and over. i love the chorus "he's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock. tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him rita if you want". it amuses me.

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Cherub Rock
04-03-2003

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intro
"You can buy her, you can buy her, this one's here, this one's here, this one's here, and this one's here. Everything's for sale"
riiiight...i think that line in the chorus is pretty damn disturbing but maybe it's just me(?!)..and wtf does "for $200 anyone can conceive a god on video" mean?

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Johnno
04-10-2003

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cherub, it means you can go to a red light district and you can buy a girl and make a custom porn video for $200. Great song, about life through the life of a prostitute

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Johnno
06-09-2003

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the intro is- "this one's here, this one's here and this one here. Everything's for sale."

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gsmith300
06-20-2004

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Tying in with the entire album this about 'emptiness' and attacking consumerism. Prostitution is used as an analogy, to ignore that leaves out the real songmeaning.

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my nothing
11-19-2004

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If you listen very carefully as this song fades you can hear the "this one's here" man saying something like "for five dollars you can lick her tits" which confirms it as being about prostitution.

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matt675
11-24-2004

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Whilst many of you are correct in taking this song to be one about the obvious reality of being a prostitute, gsmith is also right, as this song is one of a few off the holy bible album (PCP comes to mind) that has double meanings. Richey himself said that it was about selling yourself out, for whatever reason. As he puts it in his album notes: "The majority of your times is spent doing something you hate to get something you don’t need. Everyone has a price to buy themselves out of freedom. Say Yes to Everything." That very much sums up what he was getting at with this song.

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the kitteness
11-25-2004

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matt675, you've got it completely right [in my opinion]. While the song is quite obviously about prostitution, I've read in a lot of places that this could also be about Richey's inability to say yes.

"I eat and I dress and I wash and I can still say thank you
puking - shaking - sinking I still stand for old ladies
can't shout, can't scream, hurt myself to get pain out "

To me, that whole part is an example of that.

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the kitteness
11-25-2004

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I mean, his inability to say NO

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LongVodka
12-20-2004

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"just an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff " refers to a story involving a childs playground at the top of a cliff, people were worried that the children would fall off and die, but instead of erecting a fence they put an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff so that they could get them to hospital quickly. I havn't a clue if this is a true story but i think it reflect a lot in soceity and its twisted logic. Has anyone else heard this story and remember it more complete than myself?

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the kitteness
12-23-2004

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I've heard that story, and I also wondered if it was true. What I read was that kids kept playing near the cliff and falling off, and the town decided that putting up a fence would be too expensive, so instead they'd put an ambulance at the bottom. So it was like just waiting for people to get hurt, instead of doing something to prevent it. Pretty sick.

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paulothemanio
01-04-2005

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The line "he's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock
tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want " is, in my opinion, about consumerism and an attempt to show the absurdity of the capitlist mantra of "supply and demand." IE, just because somebody wants something doesn't necessarily mean they should get it.

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richeye
04-06-2005

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What does "I 'T' them" mean? Any thoughts?
I love the line: 'And I don't know what I'm scared of or what I even enjoy'. I've had that feeling before, in terms of not knowing what I enjoy. There are a million things I don't enjoy that I'm told I should, I know that much.

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longlegsue
04-15-2005

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richeye, www.manics.nl says that 'T' is slang among prostitutes for tossing off clients.
matt675 the kitteness and paulothemanio all make great points about the double meanings.
Love this song, one of my favorites!

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LittleBabyNothing
07-06-2005

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"he's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock
tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want " is also, I think, about having to change yourself to be what other people want, and how we have to be so difefrent when we're with different groups of people or in different situations

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my nothing
07-06-2005

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Em, I read somewhere (I believe it was the official MSP site) that this song is about 'prostitution of the self', i.e. selling yourself to consumerism.

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jonnybassman
07-25-2005

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this song is exactly about prostitution of the self. people will do all kinds of things if they think they'll get a bit of money out of it at the end of it. that's why the songs about a prostitute. the whole point is that richey was looking for a person to fit the bill for the song. what better example is there than a prostitute for it. if a little bit of money's involved she'll do ne thing including risking disease. the idea of the prostitute also has a go at society. the fact that not everyone in it can find a job to support themselves they must resort to extreme measures shows that it's perhaps not completely about comsumerism

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ithillion
01-17-2006

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Just a little footnote from the start of the topic, the quotes at the start and end of the song are from an american documentary that was called "Pimps and their Ho's" if I remember correctly.

They were spoken by the pimps, trying to make a sale to a bugged journalist.

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CrumblingEffigy
05-23-2006

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It could just be me, but I don't think this song is solely written about prostitution. To me it isn't only about it, but also about corruption, money, and the belief these days that you can get anything you want if you hand over some money.
I also agree with a few of the others here.

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sprocket
06-09-2006

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Oh jesus. Putting "An ambulance at the bottom of a cliff" rather than a fence at the top is a euphemism. It means fixing the symptoms rather than the cause of a problem.

It's a parable, not a true story you dumb fucks! Try not to take everything literally.

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sprocket
06-09-2006

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Cos of course paying for an ambulance day-in, day-out is cheaper than a fence.

Pffft!

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sprocket
06-09-2006

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No, I'm sorry, I'm still laughing at this. Too funny.

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sprocket
06-09-2006

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Aaaaaah hahahahahahaha.

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gsleith
08-24-2006

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The soundclip at the end of track says (I think)
"Two dollars you rub her tits
Three dollars you rub her ass
Five dollars you can play with her pussy
Or you can lick her tits
Choice is yours"

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