Baby I Got The Death Rattle Lyrics
This is probably my favourite song from Hello Sadness. I've been with Los Campesinos! since Sticking Fingers Into Sockets, and it's been great watching them mature from a nauseatingly twee-pop band to stuff like this.
Carrying on with the palmistry imagery, the "girdle of venus" is actually a line on the palm that is a curved line from around the bottom of the middle finger to the fourth finger (next to the pinkie). Apparently it appears on the hands of individuals who tend to be ultra-sensitive. Symbolically it can indicate a need for shielding or creating emotional boundaries. Which i think is quite fitting to the song.
Any thoughts?
I think it's "No headstone Your headboard Is where I want to be mourned"
No, the posted lyrics are correct as written by Gareth in the album's booklet.
No, the posted lyrics are correct as written by Gareth in the album's booklet.
Alright, my bad then
Alright, my bad then
Anybody know what he's saying in the very beginning where you can hear the "headstone" part? He mumbles something.
R U really?
R U really?
Before the mumbling, you can hear a faint recording of them playing the end of the song, singing the "headboard" lines.
Before the mumbling, you can hear a faint recording of them playing the end of the song, singing the "headboard" lines.
After that is the start of the mumbling, where all I can decipher is: "And so this one ... sure enough ... he just threw them (?)". Not sure about that last bit either. Would be very interested if anyone's discovered what he's actually saying here.
After that is the start of the mumbling, where all I can decipher is: "And so this one ... sure enough ... he just threw them (?)". Not sure about that last bit either. Would be very interested if anyone's discovered what he's actually saying here.
i could be like 100% wrong, but i feel like it\'s about being in a bad mental state and using sex as a coping mechanism or being hypersexual as a result.
i think this song is about gareth sucking off strangers.
"Baby I got the death rattle" - Gareth is describing the sound of him choking as the semen accumulates in his throat. ("A death rattle is a medical term that describes the sound produced by someone who is near death when saliva accumulates in the throat",)
"the girdle of venus got me got me down on my knees." His "fate" (the whole palm-reading thing, girdle of venus) is to get "down on his knees" (and suck off other men)
And of course; "And I chewed my only necktie, From the metal frame of my bed, Where I tied your wrists together, Spent all night givin', oh, you get the message"
So he's obviously been tying Men to his bed and spent all night giving them head
As disgusting as this is, it's probably pretty close to what Gareth was thinking about when he wrote the lyrics. He does make rather heavy hints in other songs to him giving head, so it certainly wouldn't surprise me if that's what this song's all about.
As disgusting as this is, it's probably pretty close to what Gareth was thinking about when he wrote the lyrics. He does make rather heavy hints in other songs to him giving head, so it certainly wouldn't surprise me if that's what this song's all about.
I don't think this is the case, to be honest. He seems to be addressing his ex when he says 'your wrists.'
I don't think this is the case, to be honest. He seems to be addressing his ex when he says 'your wrists.'
The giving head bit in general, I think, is just what he seems to be most proud of in the relationship.
The giving head bit in general, I think, is just what he seems to be most proud of in the relationship.
Other than that, it's just about the final stages of a relationship that has came to an end, which leads onto (on the album) Light Leaves Dark Sees pt.II
Other than that, it's just about the final stages of a relationship that has came to an end, which leads onto (on the album) Light Leaves Dark Sees pt.II
On top of that, Gareth has made it quite clear that he's heterosexual. There's an interview with The New Gay that confirms this. So it seems unlikely he'd be giving head to another man.
On top of that, Gareth has made it quite clear that he's heterosexual. There's an interview with The New Gay that confirms this. So it seems unlikely he'd be giving head to another man.