Popsicle Toes

In October 2010 I am the first person to comment on one of the best lyricists of last century?

Well let's get right to it.

Pulchritude means physical beauty.

Pentax is a reference to a camera.

Birthday clothes = birthday suit = the nude

The allegory goes from top down comparing a globe to a woman's body.

North America = face

BRAzil = breasts

Panama = vagina

Tierra del Fuegos = toes

see saw = have sex

Some of the comments are really...reaching. North America represents her breasts. Brazil, her bottom. And come on, people...Panama is referring to the most famously known geographic part of Panama, the Panama Canal. Now it should be obvious what he's referring to, her vaginal opening, "the canal... Tierra del Fuegos...if you look at a map, you'll notice that they are a series of islands at the end of the continent of South America and they actually look like toes, thus, her toes. "I always froze" refers to the common complaint of many a man about his wife's cold toes touching him in bed. I have had a similar complaint, lol...men, women are almost ALWAYS cold. So when Michael Franks refers to her popsicle toes, he means exactly that. I have always thought Michael's lyrics are very clever about getting across his point in a poetic fashion, actually he's probably one of the best, but he doesn't make it impossible to understand.

Well let me try

God gave out rhythm, refers to her sexy walk, her motions and moves

"Add, subtract, divide by two" refers to her breasts, her eyes, her legs, but mainly her breasts, overpowering me.

"Popsicles toes" are her nipples

"Load your Pentax when I'm in the nude", means she gets turned on when i'm nude

"Birthday Party" means get naked and have sex, and so does hit the floor and explore

Pulchritude here means enamored by her breasts

"brave to expose those popsicle toes" are her nipples protruding through her shirt

"I always froze" means i can't help but stare

"Miss Pennsylvania" again refers to her pointy nipples

Again "Nicest North America" refers to her torso, breasts again

But I think BRAzil = her butt (but if not it's her breasts)

Panama = vagina

"Tierra del Fuegos are nearly always froze" = healthy pointy nipples

we gotta see saw until we unthaw those -- Posicle Toes = have sex until her pointers warm and soften

I agree with most of the previous posters, but I think Popsicle Toes is exactly that, cold toes. It is why he wrote "You're so brave to expose ALL those popsicle toes". If he meant nipples, I don't think he would have wrote ALL. Pulchritude means beauty, loveliness etc. Tierra del Fuego is at the southern tip of Argentina, so probably toes. North America= Breasts or torso? Miss Pennsylvania? Not sure what that means. Brazil has gotta be breasts. If you look at it on a map, the way it is shaped will make you think breasts. Panama I believe might mean clitoris. Again, look at Panama on a map. What female part comes to mind? Anyway, great song by a great artist.

C'mon kids. This is a song about a Catholic couple about to make a baby. Rhythm refers to the rhythm system. Have you ever seen those Catholic dolls add, subtract, multiply and divide by two to calculate when they can or can't concieve a baby? They make Einstein look like a piker. I know today's your birthday, i.e. the day we can concieve a child.

The nicest North America is a woman's upper torso, where they ALL keep their breasts. Their warm Brazil is their difference between boys and girls, and their Panama is their waist.

Her Tierra del Fuegos are her feet where she keeps her Popsicle Toes. And exploring Popsicle Toes usually happens when a couple is undraped (naked) and in physical contact with each other.

Miss Pennsylvania could be any state. She might as well have been Miss Florida or Miss Wyoming. With all this pulcratude she is a beauty queen, and are all the Miss's.

What the deal is with her Pentax I have yet to figure out. But, a couple taking pictures of each other while they are equipped to make a baby doesn't seem impossible to me.

And if the lyrics mean nothing it is, as said before, a great song by a great artist

Popsicle toes = COLD FEET, which is slang for being nervous about something (usually sex or commitment). The narrator wants to help his sweetheart get over her nervousness about either having sex with him, committing to him, or both

I believe that "unthaw" is used incorrectly since this would mean to freeze. It would be more correct, and fit in the song as-well, to say "can thaw". I guess that's artistic license.

Pretty much I agree. However, I think that North America is her upper body in general. Also, warm Brazil and Panama is most likely wordplay on brassiere and panties. I also always thought that "add, subtract, multiply....divide by 2" referred to the phenomenon of producing eggs and reproducing (multiplying) and dividing the cell into 2, 4, 8 etc. as a fetus develops.