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.
Love starved backwood teaser farm girl hot eyed bride
Stone cold blond a quivering menace atomic wallop wholesale murder
We want out
We fish at night
Sex in heaven
Tough town
A cruel touch
Sailors leave
Sirens screaming
Lap of luxury
A show of violence
Take off your mask
Lay off my brother
Kiss my fist
Stop at nothing
A steaming swamp
And a troubled heart
The sky is red
And I can't stop running
Her baby stares
The secret's there
So help us god
I'll swing at your funeral
The stubborn air
The killer mob
A red bone woman
A double cross
Big fake bitter love underbelly freezing jungle
One step more he'll stir your senses scratch your surface and nail your head
Murdered angels
Bodies in bedlam
A women scorned
You can't hang me
Tied to my job a blast scene alibi tied to a tree in a blind alley
Nothing before
A big fear
Don't get caught
By her father's friends
Swamp girl faded
The tiger's wife
A frenzied love
Hot climate
Twisted passions
Flesh parade
Dead ahead
A world so wide
Big river love camp
The house boy and hill girl
The agony column
Don't crowd me
It's time for crime
Strange breed river girl's misery index
Inside my head my dog's a bear
She was significant
I'm insane
Inside my head my dog's a bear
She was significant
I'm insane
Inside my head my dog's a bear
She was significant
I'm insane
Inside my head my dog's a bear
She was significant
I'm insane
Stone cold blond a quivering menace atomic wallop wholesale murder
We want out
We fish at night
Sex in heaven
Tough town
A cruel touch
Sailors leave
Sirens screaming
Lap of luxury
A show of violence
Take off your mask
Lay off my brother
Kiss my fist
Stop at nothing
A steaming swamp
And a troubled heart
The sky is red
And I can't stop running
Her baby stares
The secret's there
So help us god
I'll swing at your funeral
The stubborn air
The killer mob
A red bone woman
A double cross
Big fake bitter love underbelly freezing jungle
One step more he'll stir your senses scratch your surface and nail your head
Murdered angels
Bodies in bedlam
A women scorned
You can't hang me
Tied to my job a blast scene alibi tied to a tree in a blind alley
Nothing before
A big fear
Don't get caught
By her father's friends
Swamp girl faded
The tiger's wife
A frenzied love
Hot climate
Twisted passions
Flesh parade
Dead ahead
A world so wide
Big river love camp
The house boy and hill girl
The agony column
Don't crowd me
It's time for crime
Strange breed river girl's misery index
Inside my head my dog's a bear
She was significant
I'm insane
Inside my head my dog's a bear
She was significant
I'm insane
Inside my head my dog's a bear
She was significant
I'm insane
Inside my head my dog's a bear
She was significant
I'm insane
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naw man this song is made up of backcover descriptions and titles of cheap pulp fiction novels. It shows some of them in the linear notes for "Bad Moon Rising," check it out: sonicyouth.com/history/og-set.html. Or exactly: sonicyouth.com/mustang/lp/lp03s.jpg.
I absolulty love this song. The entire album is mind blowing.
Thurston made this up of titles of movies i believe.
yeh sunrise is correct. the lyrics are really good even though they're so random
I think the "dog" line might've come from an actually observation about a dog. My dog reminds me of a bear sometimes...
Really, it's possible that this song is about seriously screwing up a relationship, told through said paperback fragments.
The way these lyrics were composed (the lyricist just taking the book covers before him and putting them together) reminds me of how the story of Kaiser Sose was "written" in The Usual Suspects. Just a bunch of the random sh*t laying around, taken in by the eyes, and woven together to make a story. (Of course, the Kaiser Sose story was coherent whereas these lyrics are just meant to hopefully evoke random feelings and thoughts.)