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Count In Fives Lyrics
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Yeah I count in fives.
I do it everytime.
And If another number confronts me
I will cut you in half.
Irrespective of the subject
I will make it apply,
no matter what the object
I will count in fives,
just tell me the location
I will stand outside...
Oh yeah,
if you give me too many
I will multiply.
Force too many into my hand and
I will not comprehend.
Oh yeah,
another number confronts me
and I force it to divide.
The first time with someone holding my hand. The second, me holding it out.
Tally tally.
Oh yeah,
if you try to deceive me
I fell it burn in my hand.
Now watch the numbers run to me as
I count them in fives.
Yeah I count in fives.
I do it everytime.
And If another number confronts me
I will cut you in half.
I will make it apply,
no matter what the object
I will count in fives,
just tell me the location
I will stand outside...
if you give me too many
I will multiply.
Force too many into my hand and
I will not comprehend.
another number confronts me
and I force it to divide.
The first time with someone holding my hand. The second, me holding it out.
I fell it burn in my hand.
Now watch the numbers run to me as
I count them in fives.
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no ones commented this! whats going on? this is a great song, based on one of their first songs full moon, in fact, which sounds a lot like pump it up by elvis costello
I think this is about Faris, as a kid, having a bit of a learning disability and becoming frustrated when he was asked to count in anything but multiples of five. So basically to me it's just about being different and feeling angry.
Oh, hoismith, I'm pretty sure you meant that comment for DATC cos it's the one that is a development of Full Moon?
Faris said in an interview that when he was younger he used to like having things in fives (his example was eating five grapes), and he started to get obsessed with it, and couldnt concentrate on anything else. Brilliant song :)
its a great song... BUT IT HAS NO MEANING!! theyre just drugged up Edwardian NUTTERS. brill, but totally craaazy.
anti-love you idiot... Edwardian? Go back to school and retake history. I think you're predating the horrors by a couple hundred years or so. And the Horrors are an extremely intelligent and well educated band. Danyes and knifecollection I believe have very viable explantions. Seeing this band in march in manchester
faris use to deal ecstasy in 5's, he has some obsession with the number or somthing. its buff live. they are really good
Faris had like OCD when he was little. He said in an interview if he ate a grape he would have to eat five before you could do anything else.
I love this song! It's about Faris counting everything in fives when he was a kid.
FARIS: "The lyrics are about me counting things in fives when I was a child - I'd always step on paving slabs in groups of five."
There's a full list of The Horrors - Strange House song meanings from the band themselves on http://www.skiddle.com/music/articles/the-horrors--album-tour-and-instore-gigs-_230207.php.
i love this song poor faris i know what u had to go through