| Ween – She's Your Baby Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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There was an interview with Ween one time wherein the interviewer just went down the White Pepper song list and asked them what it meant. When asked about this song, Deaner said that he didn't know what it meant, he never asked Gener, who wrote and sang the song. Dean did say that he thought it was about Gene's daughter. I've run on that assumption ever since. The tone in which the song is presented is one of tenderness. It's a lovely song, especially as he invokes the image of a carnival of some sort. That is an interesting note about Kafka's "Metamorphosis," by the way. The second verse sounds like a fight between Gener and his wife, with one of them accusing the other of having changed. "You might want to question the fact/ That you're not quite the same." At the end of the fight Gener goes to his daughter's room "where she's keeping so quiet". The "million layers of crust and deposit" could be the image of a child's messy room, or it could even stand for the persistence of a stagnant or ugly relationship over time. "Bury the reasons" - looks like he knows he can't explain his fights away when he "told her that this was for good." Now it looks like the family, his daughter's home, is splitting up. And she's his baby. Gene and his wife Sarah Poten divorced not long after the release of the album. Sorry for being so long-winded. |
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