Definitely about a dead girl. "This time of night I could call you up" as in late night calling up spirits

Definitely about a dead girl. "This time of night I could call you up" as in late night calling up spirits

"If I die clutching your photograph" seems reminiscent of someone who'd died

"If I die clutching your photograph" seems reminiscent of someone who'd died

"take me on back, and take me back To the place where I could feel your heart" as in when she had a heartbeat

"take me on back, and take me back To the place where I could feel your heart" as in when she had a heartbeat

"Is this the end or just the start" She died, but her spirit is there (following line follows this point)

"Is this the end or just the start" She died, but her spirit is there (following line follows this point)

Honestly, the chorus has vague correlations but it's the least literal part of the song for me. Again this whole thing is possibly / likely metaphorical too.

"No, I don't care if You think I'm eager to shut your eyes" He doesn't want her to die

"You can't break me with your gutter prose" Pose of a dead person, think rigor mortis

"Would you believe it? She sent me a letter" Yeah nobody would believe that cause she's dead

"And when I'm really ill, won't you cradle me?" as in when I'm dying, be there for me in the afterlife

That's just the first half, but assess the rest. I think this is a really nice song and I only really realized it's true meaning after many years of listening.

This song is very hard to properly understand for someone not from Brooklyn or New York in the late 80s and early 90s. In an interview from about 15 years after this song was released, this is what Pete had to say. I think we could all benefit to read this.

This song is very hard to properly understand for someone not from Brooklyn or New York in the late 80s and early 90s. In an interview from about 15 years after this song was released, this is what Pete had to say. I think we could all benefit to read this.

"Der Untermensch" was about when I was working for the Parks Department, this white guy working in black neighborhoods, and having bottles thrown at me and being screamed at like, "Fuck you, Tarzan!" Meanwhile, the guys yelling at me were selling drugs to little kids. So, yeah, the song was provocative, and it was supposed to be. [...] I was baiting the hook, just like when Carnivore. [...] I have to admit, I was ignorant. [...] I made a mistake, and I do apologize.

It's a well-hidden Beatles reference. The story behind this song (as well as Machine Screw, Fay Wray Come Out and Play, and Dark Side of the Womb) is that Josh Silver made a bunch of fun soundscape tracks while they were recording Bloody Kisses, and Peter loved them and said f*** it, let's put them on the album. This one in particular is referencing the "Paul is Dead" controversy. On the Abbey Road album cover the car license plate said 28IF, as in "Paul would be '28 if' he didn't die". This is changed to "Peter is dead", and he...

It's a well-hidden Beatles reference. The story behind this song (as well as Machine Screw, Fay Wray Come Out and Play, and Dark Side of the Womb) is that Josh Silver made a bunch of fun soundscape tracks while they were recording Bloody Kisses, and Peter loved them and said f*** it, let's put them on the album. This one in particular is referencing the "Paul is Dead" controversy. On the Abbey Road album cover the car license plate said 28IF, as in "Paul would be '28 if' he didn't die". This is changed to "Peter is dead", and he would have been "30 if" he didn't, and his cause of death is the motorcycle accident we hear in this soundscape.

These song lyrics are definitely about some type of time travel, due especially since “time travel” are the two words described by the writer of the song’s subject, from another comment. What I get from it is the following: “no sound but the engines drone” sounds like there’re jet packs involved, beginning as just one person, per the singular form of the wording there. Because of the lines “our minds set free to roam” and “our minds bend” I thought for a moment that some kind of hallucinogenic drug may be involved (possibly sending them on this...

These song lyrics are definitely about some type of time travel, due especially since “time travel” are the two words described by the writer of the song’s subject, from another comment. What I get from it is the following: “no sound but the engines drone” sounds like there’re jet packs involved, beginning as just one person, per the singular form of the wording there. Because of the lines “our minds set free to roam” and “our minds bend” I thought for a moment that some kind of hallucinogenic drug may be involved (possibly sending them on this trip to “other planes”/dimensions),’but I can recognize how the experience of floating/flying around, on its own, could “free your mind”, being empty, open space, as well as “bend” it, as it would have to take a moment and a mind shift to wrap your brain around the experience of having found yourself in another “plane”/dimension, nothing there and no inhabitation, crossing “the empty skies” with no interference or interruption, except meeting this one other person, whether planned or not, which is divulged by the lyrics changing to say “as the engines stall”, being plural instead of singular (“engine’s drone”, not “drones”) as in the beginning of the song. I also wonder if the whole experience may have been actually while dreaming, since “dreaming” is mentioned twice in the lyrics (toward the beginning, and at the end), and being that “astral projection” is something that many people have experienced while sleeping, which involves leaving the body and traveling to another dimension(s)/plane(s), it fits very well. I just don’t know where jet packs or anything operated by an engine fits into any type of dreaming, which takes me back to thinking possibly hallucination. But, no matter how the experience occurred, it seems obvious to me that love or infatuation is part of the meeting with Rosemary within the experience being explained/remembered, and the biggest part, partly due to the title of the song being her name (a woman) and, it gets romantic, which is divulged in the lyrics “we slow down, as the engines stall, our eyes catch sync”, being a slow down of flying, possibly changing positions to facing each other, and they get a better look at one another within the same exact moment (sync), and then the word “explode” follows, describing what happened immediately after, being that in that moment, once their eyes has synced to one another, was the moment of simultaneously falling in love or realizing a deep mutual infatuation causing them both to become extremely excited, or blowing thief minds, and being the climax of the story, “explode” is an awesomely creative way to describe the moment. And if you didn’t catch the involvement of a sexual encounter, there is..... I’m assuming while flying or at least floating, he spells out the sexual encounter being included in a not so obvious way, by saying “as we collide with the energy, in other ways”.....collide means coming together in some way.....using the energy of the experience within the action......and “in other ways” would be saying sexual, without saying it. And, of course, he ends in saying “just stay with me”, as he obviously doesn’t want her to go, which also says romance, (which might lead some to think she’s an alien, as someone commented, but....quite early in the song, he says “we discover the entry, to other planes” which describes the two finding the “other planes”/dimensions together, or at the same time, and the word “entry” being singular, so not likely two different entries at opposite locations or anything like that), but brings me back to the possibility of the experience occurring while dreaming or in a hallucinogenic state, since it’s evident that he’s aware that the particular time together with her will soon be coming to an end, of which he wishes would never come. (If you look up “astral projection”, aka astral travel, soul journey, soul wandering, spiritual journey, spiritual travel, you’ll see that it’s described as an out of body experience, as a spirit or perhaps a body of light, occurring consciously but functioning separately from the physical body and traveling to other dimensions, also called astral "planes", as in the song, which occurs during ones sleep. So maybe Chino has experienced this, dreamt it, or wishes for it to happen). In any sense, this song is phenomenal and a true work of art....I love it!

whenever i hear this song i think of not only being kept hidden in a relationship, but also the ways she accepted it herself and almost desired the secrecy as well. i think of how i’ve experienced this, and the ways you rationalize with yourself that it’s good for you, because if it’s kept hidden, it’s all yours. all of the moments she shared with him were only between them, and only something they could understand, and i think she knew that if it was let out, it would unveil the truth that they were only what she made them...

whenever i hear this song i think of not only being kept hidden in a relationship, but also the ways she accepted it herself and almost desired the secrecy as well. i think of how i’ve experienced this, and the ways you rationalize with yourself that it’s good for you, because if it’s kept hidden, it’s all yours. all of the moments she shared with him were only between them, and only something they could understand, and i think she knew that if it was let out, it would unveil the truth that they were only what she made them to be, and could only be that in their secrecy.