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Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie Lyrics
Sunbeam shone, mousy girl on the end pew
You'd stay home, oh, if only they'd let you
Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
Municipal pool, you're a junior life saver
But your friends are all serious ravers
Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
Reading Judy Blume
But you came too soon
You're too tall, much too tall for a boyfriend
They run and hide, from your buckteeth and split ends
Don't be scared, like the books you've read
You're the heroine
You'll be doing fine
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Bestowing the memory of good and evil
On the ones you left behind
The heartless swine
And you love like nobody around you
How you love, and a halo surrounds you
Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
In the Autumn cool
Say cheerio to school
Listen dear, I've been watching you lately
If I said all these things you would hate me
Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
At the church bazaar
I think I went too far
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Give yourself up to the allure of
Catcher in the Rye
The future's swathed in Stars and Stripes
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Kerouac's beckoning with open arms
And open fields of eucalyptus
Westward bound
You'd stay home, oh, if only they'd let you
Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
But your friends are all serious ravers
Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
Reading Judy Blume
But you came too soon
They run and hide, from your buckteeth and split ends
Don't be scared, like the books you've read
You're the heroine
You'll be doing fine
Bestowing the memory of good and evil
On the ones you left behind
The heartless swine
How you love, and a halo surrounds you
Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
In the Autumn cool
Say cheerio to school
If I said all these things you would hate me
Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
At the church bazaar
I think I went too far
Give yourself up to the allure of
Catcher in the Rye
The future's swathed in Stars and Stripes
Kerouac's beckoning with open arms
And open fields of eucalyptus
Westward bound
Song Info
Submitted by
michaelbondy On Jan 10, 2005
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Oh hellz no! Have you people gone mad?! This song is about drugs and the high that drugs give you. Haven't you figured that out by now?! I thought EVERYONE knew that EVERY song is about drugs by now. Geeze. It's like humans have gone to mars or something thinking it's not about drugs. You all make me sick. I'm going back to myspace.com and complaining about it to all my digital friends (cause I have no REAL friends) about this atrosity.
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It's partly about not quite fitting in with you're mates and thinking you'll never get a guy but you will really. I know the feeling.
I dont know if this is going to sound really stupid, but I always thought pastie in the title was sort of franglish. I thought it was like pasty in english, white. Because the girl it is about is a whiney white girl. And whiney white kids are constantly mocked.. But I am prolly wrong.
From an Interview with John McKeown of The Yummy Fur:
"[...] before they did Belle and Sebastian, they were called Le Pastie De la Bourgeoisie. Me and my sister and Jamie, we lived across from Greggs, (bakery) and we spray-painted that. We wanted to do a Jean-Luc Godard meets '68 slogan, but totally empty, really empty, empty statement. But Stuart must've seen it written on the side of Greggs' wall, and took it or whatever, which I thought was quite nice."
I love this song.
To me, this song is a celebration of the beauty of a intelligent, intuitive girl who is unpopular and not necessarily attractive on the outside, and is also very insecure; the narrator of the song sees her beauty, and sees that her intelligence and strength of feeling, which ordinarily just makes her "weird" to her friends, means that she has the potential to get away from the banality of her junior life-saver job and to live life to the fullest; when i listen to this song, i think of the joy that a left-out kid feels when they finally realize that everyone else was wrong, and that being smart and open to all of life's potential is really the "cool" way to be.
the best song with a judy blume reference ever.
Well, among other things it's about the attraction of American culture - about escaping Britain for Kerouac and JD Salinger and the open spaces.
Wouldn't you like to get away? Kerouac's beckoning with open arms,. And open roads of eucalyptus Westward bound
this is why Belle and Sebastian is brilliant, what other band would reference Kerouac, JD Salinger, AND Judy Blume all in one song?
it's just about unlikely love and leaving what you know in favor of the unexpected, and it's bloody perfect as usual
Qu'est-ce que ca veut dire, "le pastie"? Where's the Judy Blume reference? Is that it?
I've been wondering the same thing, words&tricks. :