your kisses scourge me, hyssop in your perfume

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what does this lyric mean to you?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 November 2003 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

to be honest, absolutely nothing

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 7 November 2003 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

'the kind of song where the protagonist desires that his lover haunt him, taunt him, and if at all possible, to consume him with a kiss of fire'

― Myron Kosloff, Friday, 7 November 2003 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

hyssop is metioned in a michael nyman peice - i forget which though. "Purge me with hyssop and i will be clean"

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 7 November 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Hyssop! The gayest herb ever.

― antexit (antexit), Friday, 7 November 2003 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"Purge me with Hyssop, and I shall be clean" is a quote from the bible. I like that line a lot, I like the sensual association of kissing with smell, it's very, uhh, Keats-ian, if I can say that without sounding like a tool. But shit, most of all I like the way Marcy Mays delivers it: the first bit's really anguished, but the second half sounds like surrender, like she's resigned to the torment of it all.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 7 November 2003 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

it means im listening to one of the greatest songs ever....

― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Friday, 7 November 2003 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

It means that Dulli is indulging his messiah wannabeism again. But from him it works.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael Nyman - "miserere", it was.

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

i'm listening to this again (the dulli vox version).

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"if i have to lie about
everytime i came undressed...

ooh hoo
ooh hoo..."

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 2 May 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

is someone about to zip you down and kiss you there?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Sunday, 2 May 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

who do you think i am, Jon Williams?

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 2 May 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

ouch--sorry. curse softly to me, gygax!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

this may be my "one more time"

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, one of my favorite songs. The way her voice just cracks and shudders on "HYYYyy-sop" the second time around, it knifes you in the gut. She's caught between resignation and indignation, which is why the song has to be sung of course. Brrrr.

― Dare, Monday, 7 June 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

listening to the Whigs for the first time in a while and this thread reappearing- CLASSIC

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

yes, random play kills me again (dulli version)... ouch0rz.

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 24 October 2004 04:27 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･)　　　°~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Friday, 14 November 2008 07:21 (sixteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

i'm sure we'll all be friends

― mookieproof, Sunday, 16 February 2020 06:15 (five years ago)

eleven months pass...

From a book I'm reading:

Hedge hyssop was widely known to be an abortifacient, for
which it would need to be taken in large doses, which would
have made it a very dangerous process. A case was recorded
where four women had been given a decoction of Gratiola as
an enema, by some herb doctors. One of the women suffered
violent vomiting and purging, and then became unconscious.
he noted another surprising side effect; that all the women
had a strong attack of nymphomania. In another case a
woman had constrictions of the throat and convulsions died
two days after taking the medicine. Hedge hyssop is no longer
used in general medical practice, but some homeopathic
doctors still use it for gastral problems.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 4 February 2021 03:21 (four years ago)

three months pass...

all ugly thoughts are gone

― mookieproof, Friday, 21 May 2021 00:21 (four years ago)

two years pass...

i can smile now
you won't find out

― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 April 2024 04:16 (one year ago)

as an aside, that Greg kicked (nearly) everyone out of this band is NAGL...

no steve/rick(nor marcy!), no credibility.

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 20 April 2024 05:59 (one year ago)

i mean, they’ve played “my curse” with marcy since the reunion. i think it was extremely unlikely they’d reunite with steve earle. and dulli’s explained why he couldn’t keep things going with rick mccollum, dude has red light fever, it was apparently one of the reasons they broke up to begin with

― ivy., Saturday, 20 April 2024 14:26 (one year ago)

marcy appeared on the last album!

― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 April 2024 00:18 (one year ago)

i haven't loved any of the reunion work but it was really good to see them back in whatever it was, 2015 or something. maybe I'll make it to the church/whigs tour this summer.

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 21 April 2024 00:31 (one year ago)

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