Damn your chest-beating just you stop your screaming
Splitting through my head and swinging from the ceiling
Move it over Tarzan can't you see I'm bleeding
I've called you by your first name good lord it's me-Jane
I'm calling split head
I'm moving me-Jane me-Jane

Damn your chest-beating just you stop your screaming
All the time you're hunting swimming fishing breathing
Don't you ever stop and give me time to breathe in
I've called you by your first name good Lord it's me-Jane
I'm running split head
And I'm moving me-Jane

And I'm trying to make sense
You're screaming
Don't ruin it on me
Don't ruin it on me
Don't ruin it all on me

Tarzan I'm pleading stop your fucking screaming
You've got me many walls around him don't you see it
Oh move it over Tarzan can't you see I'm bleeding
Good Lord you never stop
Don't ruin it on me
Don't ruin it on me
Don't ruin it on me
Don't ruin it on me
Don't ruin it on me
Don't ruin it on me-Jane
Don't ruin it on me-Jane
Don't ruin it on me-Jane


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    well, there's abuse involved in the tarzan-jane relationship. she's bleeding, and he just doesn't stop hitting her, screaming at her, and beating his chest.

    like suitboy said, tarzan and jane are metaphors. the man is the stanley kowalski-esque brute, and the narrator is the receiver of the abuse. the split head part could have a double meaning; her head could be physically split open, or she could be losing her mind.

    she calls him by his first name, which shows that she's trying to calm him with civilization. i suppose that this idea goes with the gender-stereotype (found often in romantic lit.) that women try to hold back their men and civilize them.

    bruisevioleton December 20, 2006   Link

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