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"
I'm sin
Done in water
You might be over him
He's somebody's daughter
As far as is well known
Send me a black one
Muzzled in a big fat one
Open with a castrate
Mystery man
He sits here with father
We seem so in love too
Open up a cat skin
White with a pretty hand
Wish the little beast gone
Half-made man
Elvis has honor
Not half-boned siksura
Heavy Betty big bone
Little Kitty big bone
I'm not sweetly
Give me one
Eat more with your collar
Calling me a man
Time is a big one
Lonely and a bit of fun
Mystery and hopeless
Happens with the palm trees
And she makes me want to see
Bring the kid and carry me
Rig it with the closeness
Hang my bones.
Done in water
You might be over him
He's somebody's daughter
As far as is well known
Send me a black one
Muzzled in a big fat one
Open with a castrate
Mystery man
He sits here with father
We seem so in love too
Open up a cat skin
White with a pretty hand
Wish the little beast gone
Half-made man
Elvis has honor
Not half-boned siksura
Heavy Betty big bone
Little Kitty big bone
I'm not sweetly
Give me one
Eat more with your collar
Calling me a man
Time is a big one
Lonely and a bit of fun
Mystery and hopeless
Happens with the palm trees
And she makes me want to see
Bring the kid and carry me
Rig it with the closeness
Hang my bones.
Lyrics submitted by AhmedAR94, edited by MooDog11, lucifer101
Lizzy Lyrics as written by Roger Osbourne
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Okay, for the last time, it is NOT 'Elvis has honor', it's 'Elvis had a daughter'. God, this interpetation's been rehashed so many times I can't take it anymore. Okay, here we go.
'Muzzled in a big coal' 'Heaven better give one' 'I'm not sweet, and give me one' 'Calling m-m-me me a man'
Okay...I wasn't listening to the song when I typed that but now I am, and I found even MORE wrong lyrics. Nice job.
'As far as is well known' is'As far as is well knows' 'Muzzled in a big fat one' is 'Other than a big sun' 'White with a pretty hand' is 'Why another pretty land?' 'Elvis has honor' is 'Elvis had a daughter' 'I'm not sweetly, give me one' is 'I'm no sweet and give me one' 'Calling me a man' is 'Calling m-m-me a maid' 'Lonely and a bit of fun' is 'I only have to free some' 'Happens with the palm trees' is 'Have a twisted ????' 'Rig it with the closeness' is 'Rig it with the close pound'
That's like 9 lyrics you messed up. Try listening to the song next time.
The chorus of this is heavily ripped off from the Pirates' classic "Shakin' All Over". Just listen to the song and compare.
Waitaminnit - "Heavy Betty big bone" is actually "Heavy Metal Wigwam", you philistines!
Heh, I've realized that it's useless to argue over the lyrics of the Melvins....God knows how Buzz and Dale write this stuff, but it's mostly unintelligible, the biggest exception being "Air Breather...."
And I apologize for sounding like an ass before, haha. I guess I just got pissed over the amount of times I heard that "Elvis has honor" line....even though it's clearly not right.
This song is greatness either way.
I don't know why, but from what little I can make out of the lyrics and how the song sounds, I made an idea about what this song is about. It sounds like someone takes advantage of a position of trust, like father to a daughter, and sexually molests her, and she gets pregnant and has a child. I dunno. I'm making shit up, but that's what I always saw when I listened to it.
idk, but htis song is purely awesome in the mellow sense
I thought it was "Heavy Metal Big One" instead of "Heavy Betty big bone" or "Heaven better give one".
Its' definitely "rig it with a clothespin" at the end, especially considering he says,"hang my bones."