| Babes in Toyland – Blood Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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what throws a new light on the song is that the lyrics on the peel session go like this: "i never thought that you'd explode through my eyes i never wanted this disease dear liver crawling on my knees, i never wanted to be alone good god! i'd love to flow through you" i think this song is about being taken advantage of while emotionally vulnerable (newly single?) and subsequently infected with something like hepatitis (having her 'blood' 'infused' with the virus, bringing her debiliated 'liver' to its 'knees-' a clue as to the mode of transmission?). explosion/implosion through eyes, her misplaced trust, surprise at discovery of infection and how it twists her perception of the person. she probably took out the reference to disease on fontanelle because it would have been too obvious, and changed the 'pass/fly/flow through you' to 'i had to' to illustrate the element of coercion. the surreal bridge, again on the shift in perception of the ex-lover, is beguiling, innocent, and accusing. "are real? you are real sometimes are unreal you are unreal, ceilings peel, peel, sometimes" the flange on the bass part gives a dreamy quality to the first few musings while the return of the stabbing, staccato guitar on the last line highlights the accusatory yet resigned, neither-here-nor-there conclusion. 'ceilings peel, peel, sometimes' is as above, surreal but also evokes a bored girl staring at the ceiling during sex, which is mirrored by the line 'i never ever was amused' 'crawling on my knees' - in submission n.b. again hepatitis or something like it is alluded on "memory" -- a chronic episode? "look what you done to me, sallowing, shallowing, yeah!" - jaundice and general debilitation the virus brings |
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| Babes in Toyland – Sweet '69 Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| for me it is about SEX. it's littered with sexual puns and references. pick them out for yourself. | |
| Babes in Toyland – Catatonic Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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i think there aren't really drug references here; if anything they're disparaging self-harm references. i could understand someone interpreting the imagery as drug-induced hallucinations. but i think there is more of a hint of schizophrenia here (hence 'catatonic') 'mary' is the doppelganger (think really hard about who this might be) she can't get away from, who's under her skin, and the toilet/fucked/eyes thing is a way of making her sound hideous, and expressing horror and disgust. 12345 glad you're not alive 678910 back to hell again - imagining the double dead... pretty straightforward a twisted playground chant that shows how far gone she is with it all i know you well i wear your smell - she knows the others' faults intimately and can't even get rid of her lingering smell nailed at the hips i see you are me - hatred and fear of the symbiotic relationship between them; in seeing her faults she also sees her own this sick charade- the acting out of mirroring each other is like an illness the screaming in general just SOUNDS like she's in flight from something she can't escape (-mary). |
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