| The Mendoza Line – Triple Bill Of Shame Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is wonderful, lyrically :-) | |
| The Mendoza Line – Morbid Craving Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Here are the lyrics as transcribed on the album. you people should really buy cds, they are great! Couldn't buy a break, wasn't gonna try Never went away and you never quite arrived And I followed just to see you running Things are going to call to you Things of little consequence That which once seemed small to you Now is so immense And I don't know how you could have seen it coming Rolled up in a carpet bag, you should have looked like hell, dear You know it always bothers me to see you doing so well and to see you look so stunning Came uptight and went home raving Strung out with a morbid craving hung up from the walls that are caving down ain't nothing in here worth saving Sell it all for a morbid craving I just don't need the things you gave me now The machinery and the tenements careening through the elements I can feel the fabric of your dress I can see you leaning up against The marble walls and the half-lit hall with someone Did you draw a debtor's pension An impression in the paint I don't recall the things you mentioned They all seem very faint The all seem so difficult so difficult to summon You would have thought you was the first girl ever learned a song by heart but baby if you won't rehearse it someone will have to do your part and i can already see her coming slept all day spent all night praying just to fill a morbid craving rolled him up a hill and then straight down ain't nothing in here worth saving burn it all for a morbid craving i just don't need the things you gave me now Collecting common knowledge Like the dirt beneath my fingers Though I did not go to college There is one lesson that lingers How a boy betrayed your confidence In the theatres and the monuments And I can hardly blame him, dear The way you talk such nonsense You wanna play the lost apostle In a hotel room in Knoxville But you don't know what you're doing So you don't hold me responsible You would have thought you was the first girl Ever loved a married man, oh dear I don't know how much he hurt you But I will hurt you more than him If that's why you keep coming Came all night and went home raving Burnt out on a morbid craving Hung up while the walls are caving down Ain't nothing in here worth saving Fick it all for a morbid craving I can't give back the things you gave me now |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Beautiful Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i don't mean to be the one who comes out and turns this song into something vulgar for any of you, but it's a pretty commonly held perception that this is a song about masturbation. (this is not a totally uncommon theme among b&s songs, many of them have seedy undertones if you read into them (or even if you don't: dirty dream #2, the boy with the arab strao)). it used to be a commonly held notion that you would go blind if you masterbated; this was usually applied to young boys, to scare them away from having unclean thoughts. However, i think that all of the sentiments remain the same. i think lisa feels isolated and alone. I believe she is the same lisa from she's losing it. She fancies girls intead of/as well as boys, which makes her strange to the other kids. at any rate, she's obviously sexually experimental. Lisa, incidentally, is also the focus of the model, apparently (http://www.bowlie.com/forum/belle-and-sebastian/18963-beautiful.html?highlight=beautiful) perhaps her parents took her to a psychologist/doctor to "cure" her of her promiscuity. anyways, that's my take on things. please don't yell! |
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| Belle & Sebastian – Heaven in the Afternoon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this song is full of vulnerability, which i think is why it is so endearing. | |
| Belle & Sebastian – Waiting for the Moon to Rise Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| isn't it pretty? | |
| Belle & Sebastian – (My Girl's Got) Miraculous Technique Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| me too. i always sing wallet. loudly in my car :) | |
| Belle & Sebastian – Dress Up in You Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I agree with everyone who has said it's not about Isobel. At a concert earlier this year, Stuart introduced this song as "a girly one", indicating it was from the perspective of a girl (since it was preceded by act of the apostle, another one from the perspective of a girl). | |
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