"Daddy?"

"Yes, son?"

"What does regret mean?"

"Well, son, a funny thing about regret is that better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you haven't done. And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend, be sure to tell her SATAN, SATAN, SATAN!!!"


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    General Comment

    The Name of the song is SWEAT Loaf, not sweet. Exact, try living up to your name and being a little more accurate with your postings.

    The guitar riff is a warped version of the riff from "Sweet Leaf" by Black Sabbath.

    shadowwiththeeyeson June 20, 2005   Link
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    During the song, he's singing "Rape a desire" over and over again.

    JofaGuhton October 15, 2006   Link
  • +1
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    Yes, it's sweatloaf, a play on "Sweetleaf" by that other band.

    Onstage once, I heard him yell "SAJACK SAJACK SAJACK" in stead of satan. It was great.

    rainwalkon April 05, 2009   Link
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    This is such a biazazare song good though!

    whiskeyclonehotelon September 16, 2005   Link
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    During the song, he's singing "Rape a desire" over and over again.

    JofaGuhton October 15, 2006   Link
  • 0
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    Well if what Jofaguht says is right then the song would be about the son asking his dad what regret is.

    The son was actually a mistake it was a regret his dad had hence the tell your mom SATAN, SATAN, SATAN and the rape a desire.

    alowishuson June 08, 2007   Link
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    The rest of the song after the dialog, is Gibby Hanes on another clairvoyant binge, rhapsodomancing from the future and trans-nationally, any number of sigur rós songs.

    twocenton October 12, 2008   Link
  • 0
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    it is sweat loaf not sweet loaf

    SludgeGarden13on December 03, 2008   Link
  • 0
    My Opinion

    after he sings 'rape, a desire' he says something in the next verse (?) that i can never quite make out.

    but it's a fucking brilliant song any way you look at it.

    gandydanceron July 04, 2012   Link
  • -1
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    stfu sludge garden

    Beavis46on March 31, 2009   Link

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