| The Residents – Burn My Bones Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The song could also be about the story of the Wendigo, a spirit which takes over humans who turn to cannibalism to survive. If you look at the artwork in the Animal Lover liner, you can see a monstrous figure possessing the man in the song. After a cursory Google search, I've found that there is only way to kill a Wendigo; you must burn it. |
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| The Residents – Main Titles (God In Three Persons) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I'm not 100% sure, but the lyrics may be the opening credits to the album "God in Three Persons". | |
| The Residents – Burn My Bones Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Within the context of the accompanying story, the first half of the song is easy enough to interpret: the man is driven by hunger and madness to contemplate killing and eating his two sisters. The ending is a bit more challenging to interpret. Perhaps the titular lines, "please, somebody, burn my bones" are a request made after the man butchers his own kin; maybe he realizes that their deaths will not be enough to prolong his own, or maybe he considers suicide in light of his desperate, ghastly actions. This man, an animal and a killer in the end, wishes nothing more than an anonymous ritual to burn away his remains, the last physical evidence of a grisly tragedy in a cold, uncaring wilderness. |
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| The Residents – Burn My Bones Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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from the "Animal Lover" insert: THE WOLF The wolf was cold and hungry. He had followed the man for hours ...waiting, waiting, for just the right time. Waiting for a moment of weakness. Waiting for an opening. Not that the man presented much of a threat ...or much of a meal. But now something strange was happening. Standing still and staring up at the night sky, the man abruptly began to howl, in a most disturbing way. Maybe this was not a meal to consider. The wolf had seen the man and smelled his scent around the forest for some time. He knew that the human lived with his two sisters in a small shelter not far away. He also knew that this winter was longer and colder than most, and food was nowhere to be found. Turning his attention back to the man, the wolf noticed that howling seemed to swell in intensity. Gradually a feeling of discomfort crept up the animal’s legs, slithered across his back and slowly oozed into his chest. The feeling seized his throat and squeezed it tight. Feeling more and more uncomfortable, the animal told itself to run. Flee. Get away from the howling man. The man who now seemed to be glowing a white hot and impossibly bright light. The light of hunger mixed with fear, the light that illuminates the black pit of despair and makes anything possible. Makes anything desirable. Makes anything real. Suddenly the man began to move. Quickly, silently, purposefully, towards the small shelter just over the hill. Transfixed, the wolf followed. And watched as the man quietly entered his home. Again the man howled, shaking the wolf’s soul as he heard a no longer human wail mixing and blending into the sound of several horrified screams. No, thought the wolf, this was not a meal to consider. |
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| Tom Waits – Widow's Grove Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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From The Tom Waits Library: "Widow's Grove: the song differs considerably from its transcript, indicating that it originally might have been intended as a duet/ dialogue, with the victim speaking from an afterworld. - And I bit the flowers from your wrist corsage: Orphans booklet has this transcribed as: "I bit the flowers from MY wrist corsage." - Near the breath of a swallow, petals dropped as you fell: Orphans booklet has this transcribed as: "Near the breath of a swallow, petals dropped as I fell." - Your skirts brushed to the furious pounding: Orphans booklet has this transcribed as: 'MY skirts brushed to the furious pounding.'" So, I am pretty sure this is not some "dirty sex song," nor is it about lesbians. Jealousy, murder and heartbreak? Sure, why not. Horse-sex and/or lesbians? No. |
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| Tom Waits – Back in the Good Old World (Gypsy) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Obviously, it's about some sort of nostalgic, re-animated corpse. Nowadays, zombies are a bit clichéd, but this was back in '91, so we can obviously see how far ahead of the curb Mr. Waits was and is. Five stars. |
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| Sonic Youth – I Love You Golden Blue Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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When I listen to this song, I remember a story I heard about a college or boarding school in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A young boy ran away from an orphanage or something like that and was taken in by these two girls attending the school. While the kid's in their room, they hear the head mistress coming down the hall, so they tell the kid to wait outside on the windowsill. He's reluctant to go, seeing as how it was the dead of winter, but the girls provide no alternative. The head mistress enters the room and lectures the girls about something, all the while the kid is freezing outside on this ledge with the window locked behind him. Unfortunately, he dies, so now his ghost occasionally appears outside, complete with blue, frozen skin; from what I remember, the ghost of the "Blue Boy" is benign. Actually, I just Googled it real quick and found a forum post that re-tells the story (http://preview.tinyurl.com/y2gw83p, second post). This is probably way off base, but it's quickly becoming the only thing I can think about whenever I hear this song, which could be a bad thing because it's kind of stupid. However, the story is pretty sad so I suppose it goes along with the melancholic tone of the song. In addition, all of the "Dead boy stares" verses fit pretty well; the last two lines of the song are pretty coincidental too. |
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