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Too dangerous to keep.
Too feeble to let go.
And you want to bite the hand.
Should have stopped this long ago.
Go now, you've been set free.
Another month or so you'll be gorging on me ("poisoning me" on 2nd and 3rd times)
With your lovely smile.
I see you slither away with your skin and your tail,
Your flickering tongue and your rattling scales
Like a real reptile.
Had you coiled around my arm.
How could you ever know
How I loved your diamond eyes?
But that was long ago. (Chorus)
And I should have believed Eve.
She said we had to blow.
She was the apple of my eye.
It wasn't long ago. (Chorus)
Too feeble to let go.
And you want to bite the hand.
Should have stopped this long ago.
Another month or so you'll be gorging on me ("poisoning me" on 2nd and 3rd times)
With your lovely smile.
I see you slither away with your skin and your tail,
Your flickering tongue and your rattling scales
Like a real reptile.
How could you ever know
How I loved your diamond eyes?
But that was long ago. (Chorus)
She said we had to blow.
She was the apple of my eye.
It wasn't long ago. (Chorus)
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This was an amazing song for it's time! truly underrated.
i completely agree
i completely agree
Maybe this song's about the Garden of Eden, or how Adam and Eve were kicked out of it:
But maybe the Garden of Eden theory is a metaphor for something else entirely?
@strider3005 yes you're right but i also think that the song also talks about of the influnce of the snake in the present
@strider3005 yes you're right but i also think that the song also talks about of the influnce of the snake in the present
This song is getting at that same damn thing. 'too dangerous to keep, too feeble to let go' the speaker's relation with that same object of the imagination that stares back at you with 'diamond eyes'. 'you want to bite the hand', the hand that feeds is that alterna subject within but this certain object, feeding it, is robbing this subject of what it wants to do. 'should have stopped this long ago' consolidates this. and yes, if you ask you will be extricated from it, but alas you were too feeble to let go, but it is too dangerous to stay suspended about it indefinitely. and yes, in another month or so you'll come back to gorge on it, which has to do with I it was never you, in the first place.
I like the biting part.
I like the biting part.
you too, silly cheeks? its gehenna, a req if i have you at all pegged: fields of the nephilim
you too, silly cheeks? its gehenna, a req if i have you at all pegged: fields of the nephilim
i love the guitar in this. just makes me wanna dance!
The dirty sounding guitar really makes this song, it almost seems out of place in a song like this but works so well.
I agree with bear hug, it's just a clever way of describing a failed relationship.
Wow, what an awesome song! The guitar is excellent. One of the Church's best. Another great but under-rated 80s band
Could be about smack - "Had you coiled around my arm". Maybe.
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Adam and Eve and the serpent, slightly reinterpreted by Kilbey. He does stuff like this a lot.
The authors listed seem to be highly erroneous--those names do not appear in the credits of any version of this record that I own.
Oh, yeah, a lot of people seem to think it's about a bad romance. I suppose that might work metaphorically, but I don't agree with it. On the other hand, follow this song up with "Lose That Girl," by St. Etienne, and maybe "Heartbreaker," by Led Zeppelin, if you wanna keep that going. ;)
Oh, yeah, a lot of people seem to think it's about a bad romance. I suppose that might work metaphorically, but I don't agree with it. On the other hand, follow this song up with "Lose That Girl," by St. Etienne, and maybe "Heartbreaker," by Led Zeppelin, if you wanna keep that going. ;)
Time for some corrections!
"too feeble to let go"? wtf? at what point does the narrator describe the other person as "feeble"? It's ridiculous.
The actual line is "Too dangerous to keep/Too evil to let go".
Can anyone think of a reptile that can "rattle" their "scales"? NO. THAT'S STUPID.
The actual line is "I see you slither away with your skin and your scales/your flickering tongue and your rattling tail/like a real reptile"
Other than that, thanks for posting.
@ogami1972 Haha, played this 6x so far, and yeah, every time, I still hear "feeble", 'til I got here. Which makes more sense he says "evil", right?. But I still hear "rattle your scales" after the fifth play.
And there's just one snake I know of that rattles their tail. But the ladies do it better.
@ogami1972 Haha, played this 6x so far, and yeah, every time, I still hear "feeble", 'til I got here. Which makes more sense he says "evil", right?. But I still hear "rattle your scales" after the fifth play.
And there's just one snake I know of that rattles their tail. But the ladies do it better.
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