"got your e-mail address from your profile on songmeanings.net, where you posted something about the Why?-song "By Torpedo or Crohn's". I was on a concert of them yesterday (where they also sold these t-shirts) and I talked to Douglas (piano) & Austin (bass/guitar), among other things, about this line ("Kisses or Stitches. No Mitt for these Pitches."). I had read your post before the concert and I had also wondered about that line before, and I thought, you might be interested in what they said to me (I don't have an account on songmeanings.net, that's why I'm sending you this email). They explained it to me as follows: The mitt is from baseball (I guess you know that, I didn't [I'm German and don't know baseball too well...]) and the pitch is from baseball, too. And "these pitches" are so fast/hard that there is no mitt that one could catch them with without breaking one's hand bones. So I guess: whether he gets kisses or stitches, the emotions that come with them are so extreme that he can hardly/can't bear them without being hurt/broken."
I received this email in regard to my post.
"got your e-mail address from your profile on songmeanings.net, where you posted something about the Why?-song "By Torpedo or Crohn's". I was on a concert of them yesterday (where they also sold these t-shirts) and I talked to Douglas (piano) & Austin (bass/guitar), among other things, about this line ("Kisses or Stitches. No Mitt for these Pitches."). I had read your post before the concert and I had also wondered about that line before, and I thought, you might be interested in what they said to me (I don't have an account on songmeanings.net, that's why I'm sending you this email). They explained it to me as follows: The mitt is from baseball (I guess you know that, I didn't [I'm German and don't know baseball too well...]) and the pitch is from baseball, too. And "these pitches" are so fast/hard that there is no mitt that one could catch them with without breaking one's hand bones. So I guess: whether he gets kisses or stitches, the emotions that come with them are so extreme that he can hardly/can't bear them without being hurt/broken."
that is so awesome. it's amazing how just one little lyric can be so deep. yoni is a god.
that is so awesome. it's amazing how just one little lyric can be so deep. yoni is a god.