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Pushing thrusting bulbs
into the light
a peasant thought
starts its flight
from reason
and from fact
A peasant thought
grows two legs
opens up its heart
an absurd courtship
oh dear
oh dear
what has become of hesitation?
oh dear
oh dear
did the mosquitos bite bring me down?
She said..
"Lets sing the crippling song"
Her lips always ate moments
like days
..and I was not prepared
I was gone
..and I was not prepared
to let my guard down
so i fed her
the end
THE END OF MY SPEAR
We would throw
rocks n' things
into our well
ourselves as well
we would ride to a
. . clack and kabik
Like Dinosaurs
Dropping into the darkness
WE SINK
You should have seen her..
at one with the gods
she said
"Lets sing the Cripple Song"
Then I was gone
Oh dear, Oh dear!
Then i was gone
Oh dear, Oh dear!
Then i was gone
She said
"Lets sing The Cripple Song together"
Then I was gone.
into the light
a peasant thought
starts its flight
from reason
and from fact
A peasant thought
grows two legs
opens up its heart
an absurd courtship
oh dear
what has become of hesitation?
oh dear
oh dear
did the mosquitos bite bring me down?
"Lets sing the crippling song"
Her lips always ate moments
like days
..and I was not prepared
to let my guard down
so i fed her
the end
rocks n' things
into our well
ourselves as well
we would ride to a
. . clack and kabik
WE SINK
at one with the gods
she said
"Lets sing the Cripple Song"
Then I was gone
Then i was gone
Oh dear, Oh dear!
Then i was gone
She said
"Lets sing The Cripple Song together"
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jamie sings in this
well that was pretty, heavy and sweet
Its about growing up from a baby--who is happy, non-self-conscience and interested in everything--into a confused, miserable, self-important adult and hating your significant other and leaving them because they want to marry you. That's how I interpret the video. The lyrics alone seem more like its simply about breaking up when your girlfriend wants to get married (sing the cripple song)
I'm not sure of the entire meaning but it has the band's vague Lynchian style of surrealism at its heart. The lyrics seem to convey a sense of loss and finality linking them to sex and extinction... the theme of the mosquitoes bites and being like a dinosaur fading into the nonsensical "Clack and Kabik" (a deathly fate because of a small seemingly meaningless thing like a bug bite that spreads a plague) at the hands of a divine feminine like mother earth... is trying to say something causality trumping free will and control... but it's interpretation is up to you.
Basically the song is about a someone who is ready to commit and someone who isn't. The person who is ready is, asks the person who has reservations if they are......and that person w reservations absolutely isnt.....so they run from it.