25th Century Quaker

Thats what it sounds like to me anyway! I have no idea what it means apart from that he was tripping his nads off at the time. I think its more about the sounds of the words with Beefheart. I love the line: "Eyes that flutter like a wide open shutter"...

Oh yeah, anyone reads this page has to hear that! Shutter Shutter, shutter, shuter, like a camera going off...

How would a girl off the Mayflower react to a 25thC quaker? The subject doesn't really take off though does it? It just becomes a tonal poem.

I think “Mayflower child” is a play on the 60s “flower child”. It’s also about the past meeting the present, the European discovery of the continent and the Society of Friends of the future, a Whitmanesque vision of brotherhood.

Blue cheese faces surrounded by laces may refer to the old school bonnets women used to wear, blue with lace, and the cheese white faces of their skin. He may also have been looking at old fades and even moldy pictures with splotches.

There was a lot of imagery in this era of women running or strolling through meadows of wildflowers, so the picking poppies goes with this. Usually the sun gleamed with Lens flares (eyes that flutter like a wide open shutter, sun sifting through and through)

Me into you : a sense of communion.

Going to the cottage : to visit, hospitality, catching up on old times. But possibly also a reference to cottage cheese playing with the blue cheese faces.