This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
They got a ranch they call
Number Fifty-One
They got a ranch they call
Number Fifty-One
You can't see it at all
'Less your flying by
Just sitting there square
Baking in the sun
Beneath the sky, sky, sky, sky
They're gonna put it down
Right on the strip
They're gonna put it down
On the Vegas strip
They're gonna put it down
And step outside
Into the lights
Right outta that ship
Saying hi, hi, hi, hi
I was driving doing nothing on the shores of Great Salt Lake
When they put it on the air, I put it in the hammer lane
I soon forgot myself and I forgot about the brake
I forgot about all laws and I forgot about the rain
They were talking on the 9 and all across the Amy band
Across the road they were turning around and headed south with me
It got so crowded on the road I started driving in the sand
My head was feeling scared but my heart was feeling free
The desert turned to mud, it seems that everybody heard
Everybody was remembering to forget they had the chills
Then I heard the voices on a broadcast from up on the bird
They were getting interviewed by some good man whose name was Bill
I'm almost there to Vegas where they're puttin' on a show
They've come so far, I've lived this long at least
I must just go and say hello
Number Fifty-One
They got a ranch they call
Number Fifty-One
You can't see it at all
'Less your flying by
Just sitting there square
Baking in the sun
Beneath the sky, sky, sky, sky
They're gonna put it down
Right on the strip
They're gonna put it down
On the Vegas strip
They're gonna put it down
And step outside
Into the lights
Right outta that ship
Saying hi, hi, hi, hi
I was driving doing nothing on the shores of Great Salt Lake
When they put it on the air, I put it in the hammer lane
I soon forgot myself and I forgot about the brake
I forgot about all laws and I forgot about the rain
They were talking on the 9 and all across the Amy band
Across the road they were turning around and headed south with me
It got so crowded on the road I started driving in the sand
My head was feeling scared but my heart was feeling free
The desert turned to mud, it seems that everybody heard
Everybody was remembering to forget they had the chills
Then I heard the voices on a broadcast from up on the bird
They were getting interviewed by some good man whose name was Bill
I'm almost there to Vegas where they're puttin' on a show
They've come so far, I've lived this long at least
I must just go and say hello
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The narrator is driving in Utah, when he hears on the radio that aliens are going to land in Nevada. He floors it heading for Vegas. The CB is lighting up with the news (9 is the emergency CB channel). People going the other direction are U-turning into his lanes trying to get to Vegas as well. It's raining in the desert as they all move down I-15. They're listening to the radio as the aliens are being interviewed by Bill Goodman. They're almost there...
when i figured out what this song was about, i listened to it over and over again.
fenris is dead on.
amy band refers to AM band.
I read some interview with Charles in which he said a spacecraft landed near his neighborhood when he was a child. Everyone gathered and went to greet them. This song is his personal reference to that experience.
Anyone else heard that?
Reminds me a lot of Radiohead's Subterranean Homesick Alien. The aliens are coming, and it's gonna be scary, but most of all it's gonna be beautiful.
the end part of this song is timeless the way it shifts into a totally different style
Bill Goodman's theme song for his radio show was called "It's-a-Happening", hence the name of this song.
Yep, fenris summed it up, yadda yadda.
My God what a beautiful chorus.
i think this song is about forgetting who you are the whole thing is just so dreamy it seems like maybe a false reality francis is creating and the aliens are just some other-worldly thing that really fascinate him and he's driving through the desert looking for what hes been dreaming about i love the "i forgot" sequence and then the very last line
the last half of this song is from another pixies song called The Thing off The Complete B-Sides. an early recording. The Thing... get it. love it, fuck it.
The Pixies at their most beautiful and crazed-out. I looooooove how Frank screams "number 51" and those magnificent "aaaahhhh"s all around the chorus, joined by that guitar work so typical of Santiago... it's just plain addictive, necessary.
This is their best song hands down. Every second of it is musical perfection. Bossanova was BY FAR their best sounding album in my opinion. Go get it if you haven't already.