| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Come Baby Come Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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what i get out of this song is a guy talking to his girlfriend about discovering sex, and then talking her into having an abortion. in the beginning, i think the gratuitous use of the word come is used humorously as a sexual reference, as a young inexperienced couple would find the idea of ejaculate "on the tongue." the second verse sounds like a slightly older and wiser lover is being encouraged firstly to get calloused to life in general, but specifically to the idea that even with the shocking realization that "there are two in there," creatures get murdered all the time in "abattoirs" which i agree with Blackbird is the correct lyric. where he says "come baby come, it goes down easy when you're used to it. None baby none, I have found not one thing true with it," that the person singing that he realizes all justifications for aborting a child, like getting numb to life, are just rationalizing--if slightly unhealthy--ways to deal with how much pain life gives us. i think the girlfriend being talked to in the song asked her mother about sex--specifically oral sex-- and her mother told her it was hard to get used to, but all part of life. the girlfriend probably laughed when she got such candid talk about what is usually a taboo subject with parents and their kids. now with the pregnancy the narrator tells his girlfriend that it was fun, but the days of fun without responsibility are over. their decision seems to go and face their problem with a tough solution: "take my hand and we'll be through with it." probably the pregnancy and the relationship at once. |
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