favorite pixies lyric?

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either:
"i was wearing eyeliner, she was wearing eyeliner"
-or-
"uh! said the man to the lady"

― d. powers (popmatters devon), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:58 (twenty-two years ago)

it's educationaaaaaaaaaaallll!

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

hey, i know you.

― d. powers (popmatters devon), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)

hey, perhaps I should finish that review then

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i also have decided on the worst pixies lyric--which as to be "he's got friends like paco picopiedra/ la muneca"

― devon powers (popmatters devon), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I also love: "You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me"

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i also love "her body a rocking chair for my soul"

― devon powers (popmatters devon), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:14 (twenty-two years ago)

though, on close examination, it almost sounds like a john mayer lyric

― devon powers (popmatters devon), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"he bought me a soda, he bought me a soda and tried to molest me in the parking lot, yep, yep yep yep!"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:47 (twenty-two years ago)

from distant star to this here bar
the me, the you, where are we now
hurray the blues of everyone

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:03 (twenty-two years ago)

the screaming from "vamos"

― hflsd, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Paco Picopiedra = Fred Flintstone in Spanish

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

la muñeca = the wrist (i have never understood the connection)

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
If there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself
Where is my mind

― abegrand, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

she's a real left-winger cuz she's been down south and held peasants in her arms. she said "i could tell you stories that make you cry. what about you?" i said, "me too. i could tell you a story that would make you cry."

and she said, "aaaahhhhhhhhh."

― tcbmf, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

My Mother said something to me
When I Was 23
She Spilt A Cup Of Tea
All Over My Knee
I Said,
Mother, Oh My GAWD!
What Have You Done?

She Said Never Mind Son
Your Pantaloon Is Undone
I Can See Your Well Hung

Then She Fiddled With My Cords

― mzui, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"bloody your hands on a cactus tree
wipe it on your dress and send it to me"

― David_X (David_X), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Upon construction
there is the mohawk
his way of walking
quite high above the ground
fearless of looking down
skywalk
some people say that
the navajo know
a way of walking
quite high above the ground
fearless of looking down
oh no.

― Mitchell Wimbish (Mitchell), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

got a card in my spokes
im practicing my jokes
im learning

or something like that

― ddb, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm one unhappy prick!"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

ddb isn't that Superchunk or something?

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 17 March 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"This is a song about a superhero named Tony, it's called Tony's song."

― earlnash, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything's gonna burn,
We'll all take turns,
I'll get mine too.

― boldbury, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

You know... when you GROPE... FOR... LUNA!

You were wearing your BAD SHOES

THIS SONG IS ABOUT A SUPERHERO NAMED TONY... IT'S CALLED TONY'S THEME.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"If man is fine
And the devil exists
Thank god there's heaven"

yes, that's genuinely what I thought the lyrics were til about five years ago...

real answer: "There is something about this song...this is a song abbout something there"

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Her warm white belly
In the life I’d lived
Had seen nothin’ finer
She shake’s and she moves or something
She’s like jellyroll like sculpture

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Latebloomer OTM.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

now i'm going to sing the perry mason theme

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I was looking handsome, she was looking like an erotic vulture.

― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

the "You Fuckin' DIE!!" bit. Those Pixies are mental. WHAT is the point of that? Oh, and the "He was into field hockey players" bit.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

it's obvious, but I've always loved:

"come on, pilgrim, you KNOW he loves you"

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Then She Fiddled With My Cords

Dammnit...I was just about to post this.

― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Why do cupids and angels
continually haunt her dreams
like memories of another life
is painted on her shirt in capitals
out on the free free way
there's only she and the they
represented by the lights
we went to the store and bought something great
which samples this song from washington state
go little record go
it is named by
some guy named joe
and the words
are the letters of the words
said
electrically played
for outer space and those of they who paid
this song is twice occurred
and now its time to go
away on holiday.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember asking a Spanish friend of mine to translate 'Oh My Golly', 'Isla de Encanta' and the start of 'Vamos' for me. She sat for a while with her fingers on the rewind and play buttons going back and forth over Vamos repeating "It makes no sense, it makes no sense." Once she had provided her best translation, I agreed.

Favorite lyric:

One night upon my motorcycle through the desert I sped / I smashed my body so that all my friends thought I was dead / My sister held me close and whispered to my bleeding head / "You are the son of a motherfucker." 1..2..3..4

― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember asking a Spanish friend of mine to translate 'Oh My Golly', 'Isla de Encanta' and the start of 'Vamos' for me.

it's very heavy Puerto Rican dialect, maybe that accounts for some incomprehension from a Spaniard.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"la muñeca = the wrist (i have never understood the connection)
-- gygax! (gygax0...), March 17th, 2004 12:06 AM."

Muneca also means "doll"... it's a term of endearment.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm surprised how many people's lyrics are from the song "subbacultha."
which to me confirms that trompe le monde is way underrated.

― devon powers (popmatters devon), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone's already taken the 'he tried to molest me in the parking lot' one so I reckon I'll go for:
You're suffocating
You need
A good shed

― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

This one has always got stuck on my head:

"And this I know / his teeth were white as snow / what a gas it was to see him"

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Not sure why this always stuck in my head, but:

must be a devil between us
or whores in my head
whores at my door
whores in my bed

(from Hey)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

She got hips like Cinderella!

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

when I say I'm in love / you best believe I'm in love / l.u.v.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

oh wait

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"Manta Ray"

All in a day
All for me
Trek across the space
It'll be just like they say

Oo, oo,
Oo, oo
Yeah

Since I am told
Month number three
He has no memory
Of flyers in the night

Oo, oo
Oo, oo
Yeah

They went away [2X]
My manta ray is all right [4X]

Police they say
My mother too
A fish from Mon Shamoo (?)
Above my head tonight

Oo, oo
Oo, oo
Yeah

There is a way [2X]
My manta ray is all right [7X]
(While Black Francis screams "All right!")
All right
police they say
my mother too
a fish from moshamboo (?)
above my head at nights

ooh ooh ooh ooh, yeah!

― manuel (manuel), Thursday, 18 March 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

this pixies lyric is the story of my life:

i had me a vision
there wasn't any television
from looking into the

Suuuu UUUhhh Unnn

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 18 March 2004 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

This one has always got stuck on my head:
"And this I know / his teeth were white as snow / what a gas it was to see him"

-- JP Almeida (xonix6...), March 17th, 2004.

me too.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 19 March 2004 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

when one side is hot,
the other side of the moon is not

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Friday, 19 March 2004 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

I've got something against you!

― Ben Morrison, Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Uriah hit the crapper, the crapper
Uriah hit the crapper, the crapper
Uriah hit the crapper, the crapper
Dead"

btw, what's the "then she fiddled with my cords" from?

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Monday, 26 July 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

outside there's a boxcar waiting

― gem (trisk), Monday, 26 July 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Caribouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

Caribouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Monday, 26 July 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

un chien andalusian (sp?) is pretty cool too

― gem (trisk), Monday, 26 July 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"Keeping low doesn't make no sense."

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Monday, 26 July 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

when one side is hot,
the other side of the moon is not

Black Francis must have liked this lyric as well - didn't it get used in two different Pixies songs?

― The Yellow Kid, Monday, 26 July 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

btw, what's the "then she fiddled with my cords" from?

It's from a pastiche Pixies song called 'Motherbanger' that was given away with a magazine some years ago.

This blog appears to be hosting an mp3:
http://fallingsky.blogs.com/falling_sky/2004/05/mp3_of_the_week.html#comments

― Graeme (Graeme), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

david x and dieblucasdie otm.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"What's that floating in the water?
oh neptune's only daughter"

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"I am one happy prick!"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm one unhappy prick!"

I alwasy thought it was "one happy prick."

xpost latebloomer...

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost
yellow kid - one if them is on "brick is red", from surfer rosa. "one sides hot, the other sides not", is i think how that one is.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i also have decided on the worst pixies lyric--which as to be "he's got friends like paco picopiedra/ la muneca"

Bit late to the thread (ha) but muñeca can also be a derogatory term for a homosexual, used like "fag" or "bender".

― bohford, Monday, 26 July 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"paco picapiedra" is what Fred Flintstone is known as south of the (USA) border.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 26 July 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"breasts like a cluster of grapes" baffles me still.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 26 July 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

if you scroll through real fast it sounds in yr head like these could all be from one, er, gigantic, baffling pixies tune.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"The day is like a warm night/ salt rusts the cold line"

"salt rusts the cold line" is incredibly beautiful imo.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

hey
must be a devil between us
or whores in my head
whores at my door
whores in my bed

― Blue, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I said, "Losing my penis to a whore with disease."
"Just kidding," I said. "Losing my life to a whore with disease."
She said, "Excuse me, please?"

...from I've Been Tired.
oh, i love them. so very, very much.
random lines just get stuck in my head aaaaaall day.

― piffle, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

the day is like a warm night
salt rusts the cold line.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Does "motherbanger" count? I didn't know it was a Pixies spoof.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

hold my head
we'll trampoline
finally through the roof
on to somewhere near
and far in time

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Keep getting friends looking like lesbians
If we get bored, we'll move to Californiaaaaaaa!

(aka pretty much anything out of Vamos)

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

"STOP!"

"I --"

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

drove my car into the ocean

― Sym Sym (sym), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

at the moment:

He bought me a soda and he tried to molest me in the parking lot
Yep, yep yep YEP!

I miss your soup and I miss your bread

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

seven years pass...

there were rumours he was into field hockey players

― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Friday, 14 June 2013 21:50 (twelve years ago)

they were so quiet about it

― Hearing moyes confirmedare we hearing m (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 14 June 2013 21:59 (twelve years ago)

it's very heavy Puerto Rican dialect, maybe that accounts for some incomprehension from a Spaniard.
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 20:19 (9 years ago)

This is kind of reassuring, if true. I had a similar experience of trying to get a Spanish woman to explain the lyrics of Isla de Ecanta to me and her telling me that they were just gibberish. Mind you, this was in the days before you could find everything on the internet so I had no access to the Spanish lyrics in written form. And I was abroad without my record collection so I had to try to remember what the words were, which was pretty difficult as I didn't speak Spanish. So it's quite possible I was talking gibberish in the first place.

― Hearing moyes confirmedare we hearing m (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 14 June 2013 22:05 (twelve years ago)

So I applied basically

― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Friday, 14 June 2013 23:02 (twelve years ago)

i'm a humble guy with healthy desires

― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Monday, 17 June 2013 20:44 (twelve years ago)

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