Mexican Cousin Lyrics
i want to kiss my mexican cousin once again
oh cover every emotion from happiness to sorrow
and the converstations i forget will tell me about tomorrow
when the phone calls come
am i in bed or in a hearse
the things you tell me about myself can make me feel any worse
well im awful sorry you got pissed
just have to cross you off the list, of my true friends
and tequilla is where it starts and where it ends
mexican cousin again
mexican cousin again
mexican cousin again
mexican cousin again
i wanna, wanna kiss your mexican cousin again
i wanna, wanna kiss your mexican cousin again
i wanna, wanna kiss your mexican cousin again
The "Mexican Cousin" is him when he's drunk on tequila.
He wakes up in the morning hungover as all get out, hence not sure if it's a bed or a hearse, because he feels like he is dead.
The next day when people start calling him pissed off, he pretty much says whatever, I can't feel much worse, and if you can handle me at my worse then you aren't a true friend, so I am crossing you off my list of true friends that. The one that starts with tequila, and ends with tequila.
Saying he would rather drink tequila, his true friend, than have to deal with you being angry with him.
Is this Phish's only drinking song? If you don't know the meaning then you're an idiot.
this song confuses me...
it seems as if the lyrics are purposely tangled and non-coherent as if to convey a night with tequila!
cause at first it's "my" mexican cousin, then, ultimately, it ends up being "your" mexican cousin....
example 1: the conversations "i forget" (past tense) "tell me about tomorrow" (future), wtf?
example 2: "the things you tell me about myself can make me feel any worse" that sentence is sooo twisted, so much so that it almost would only make sense after (or in) a night of tequila...
then it goes on to, what i assume is, people getting pissed cause "i" (he/the narrator) made out with "my" mexican cousin; "well im awful sorry you got pissed"
but then ends with, "i wanna kiss your mexican cousin again"
as fcked up and illogical as the lyrics are and seem, they are and seem absolutely perfectly fcked up (for a song that is drowned in a night of tequila)!
that's because these lyrics are a little off, the real ones say "the conversations I forget YOU'LL tell me about tomorrow" meaning he wont remember anything that happened that night but someone will tell him in the morning. then its "the things you tell me about myself can'T make me feel any worse" meaning when he's drunk he's learning things about himself he doesnt like. then its not "I wanna kiss your mexican cousin again" its "i wanna kiss YOU-OOH, mexican cousin again." he makes it 2 syllables just b/c it sounds better that way....
that's because these lyrics are a little off, the real ones say "the conversations I forget YOU'LL tell me about tomorrow" meaning he wont remember anything that happened that night but someone will tell him in the morning. then its "the things you tell me about myself can'T make me feel any worse" meaning when he's drunk he's learning things about himself he doesnt like. then its not "I wanna kiss your mexican cousin again" its "i wanna kiss YOU-OOH, mexican cousin again." he makes it 2 syllables just b/c it sounds better that way.
great song overall, really does sum up a night of tequila