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Meet The Brick Shithouse
This Is The Brick Shithouse [Repeats]
Meet The Brick Shithouse

Don't you wish you'd never met her? [Repeat: x3]
Lay him down, lie on
Lay him, down
Now your lover went and put me in the ground,
I'll be watching, when he's around.
Now your lover went and put me in the ground,
I'll be watching

Meet the Brick Shithouse,
Kiss the Brick Shithouse,
Meet the Brick Shithouse,
Kiss.

Lay him down, lie on
Lay him, down
Now your lover went and put me in the ground,
I'll be watching, when he's around.
Now your lover went and put me in the ground,
I'll be watching, when he's around

When you cum you never make a single sound,
I'll be watching, when he's around,
When he's around, when he's around,
He's around.

Don't you wish you'd never met her ? [Repeat: x3]

Lay him down, lie on
Lay him, down
Now your lover went and put me in the ground,
I'll be watching, when he's around.
Now your lover went and put me in the ground,
I'll be watching, when he's around

When you cum you never make a single sound,
I'll be watching, when he's around,
When he's around, when he's around,
He's around.

Don't you wish you'd never met her? [Repeat: x3]

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"Brick Shithouse" as written by Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal, Steven Hewitt

Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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    General Comment:someone told me it's about a teddy bear thrown away.. =p
    Flag ahamoment333on April 25, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:Just like to add that "Don't you wish you'd never met her" repeated as a bridge in a song is stolen directly from "Dirty Blue Gene" by Captain Beefheart, from the album "Doc at the Radar Station".
    Flag caitsith01on January 21, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Brilliant.
    The title is funny, the electronic elements add a nice effect, the drums, the vocals...
    Flag roachbubblegumon June 02, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:According to Brian Molko, it's about a disembodied soul floating overhead watching their lover make love to the person who killed them. "About getting to beaten to death", verbatim.

    And Deebs is right...."don't you wish you'd never met her" = shoutout to PJ Harvey's "Rid Of Me".
    Flag Rachel Summerson August 12, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i think the meaning is clear there is a woman who is cheating her husband that is why yhe lover doesnt make a single sound cause he is afraid of being caught by the husband but i guess he get caught so he wishes he had never met her ... i didnt get the ghost story but yeah prolly the husband kills the lover thats all .AND i wonder who can write songs like brian amazingly beautiful
    Flag gypsy rose leeon June 06, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:A brickshit house is slang for a solid guy. The song is about cheating on your gf with a man..
    Flag brailtothenighton March 25, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:if u think about it musicaly this song is sooo far ahead of bands like funeral for a friend
    Flag stereocaseon December 13, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Although with my theory, I'm not sure what sense the 'now your lover went and put me in the ground' is in.
    Flag Deebson September 12, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Brian has said this song is about someone getting beaten to death. the way I interpret it, is some guy (The Brick Shithouse) finds out his wife/girlfriend is having an affair.

    She never makes a single sound cos the other guy is providing her with sex. And so her husband is thinking, ok, I'm going to be watching when he's around. And as he's beating the guy to death, he's saying 'don't you wish you never met her?', which is a line Brian borrowed from the PJ Harvey song 'Rid Of Me', which Brian has acknowledged. It is one of his favourite albums ever.

    Although with my theory,
    Flag Deebson September 12, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Anyone heard the phrase 'Built like a brick shithouse?' It means someone who is very large and muscular. So maybe the brick shithouse in this is a very masculine man.
    Flag Prisoner.I.Wason August 16, 2006   Link

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