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Pixies – Brick Is Red Lyrics 19 years ago
"A fish is fast
And Jimmy's cast
Hang me"

Black Francis is the fish. He think's he is fast, but Jimmy's, or a generic name for a fisherman, "cast", or him throwing his line out, "hangs" or catches the narratorfish.

"A white moon's hot
The other side's not
Hang me"

Night fishing. The fish, in the final seconds of life, would see the moon for the first time. Maybe there is a deeper metaphor here. But, alas, he is still being "hung".

It's not time for me for me to go
It's not time for me for me to go

The fish is panicking- it does not want to die. Obviously.

My eyes have turned
Just the color of diamond
Just the color
The frayed color of ice

His eyes go white, or back in his head, and he dies.

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