In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Dad, what was Nigel supposed to do with your body?
A life that I will never understand
Whose false teeth were gently pushed back into your mouth by your daughter's husband
What am I supposed to do with this?
I feel like I am not nice because sometimes
It is hard for me to think something happy about you
Except for that dad, I love you and I will always, always miss you
Pull my finger
A life that I will never understand
Whose false teeth were gently pushed back into your mouth by your daughter's husband
What am I supposed to do with this?
I feel like I am not nice because sometimes
It is hard for me to think something happy about you
Except for that dad, I love you and I will always, always miss you
Pull my finger
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I think the "pull my finger" line is this sort of random and absurd thing you say when things just become unbearably bleak. This sense of saying something, anything, to lighten the cirucmstances even though it makes no sense at all... just anything to stop you from losing it.
_ written after his dad mike died<br />
If he was very funny at times, perhaps that's why it says "pull my fingers" which is known (at least in America) as the sign for passing gas. Geesh...do I have to 'splain everything. Sad song. Odd band. Band with an odd following (Pen*s misplacement, or is it. Arrr Arrr)
written after the death of jamie's father
I think it's about him not being sure about his feelings towards his dad and suddenly realizing his relationship to him wasn't too great. I think he just doesn't like not having his father around, even though he might not have been fond of him while he was alive.
He's deciding that he does love his father a lot and will miss him a lot, but the things that never went well in his life are still lingering in his mind.
i heard he cant do this song live because it "foreshadowed his fathers suicide" and thats a quote from an interview
i think that's ten thousand times a minute
xiu xiu freaks me out. but i always listen to them. their music is so haunting, and when i'm done listening to them i feel like i need to take a shower.
Good shit tho. very good. the subject matter of his songs are always just so fucked up.
did he write this before or after his father committed suicide?
Even though you asked that over 3 years ago haha, I would still like to answer; it was after.
I'm intrigued by the final line 'Pull my finger'. Is this a sardonic joke to finish off what is a very dark album? Maybe a playfulness that his relationship with his father lacked. Anybody any ideas?
I always thought the "Pull my finger" meant him and his dad used to joke around a lot.
And isn't it "what was Neil" and not Nigel?
Yeah, it is 'Neil' and not 'Nigel' and if I could work out how to change it, I would.
I'm still not sure if the 'Pull my finger' line is him missing the fun he had with his dad, or him lamenting on the fun they never had.
This song always makes me cry.
"And I will always, always miss you."
I think it's the second always that sets me over.