You snake
You crawled
Between
My legs
Said 'Want
It all?
It's yours
You bet
I'll make
You queen
Of everything
No need
For God
No need
For him
Just take
My hand
You'll be
My bride
Just take
That fruit
Put it
Inside'
You snake
You dog
You fake
You liar
I've burned
my hands
I'm in
the fire
Awooooooh....oooooooohhhh
You salty dog
You filthy liar
My heart
It aches
I'm in
The fire
You snake (You snake)
I ate (I ate)
A true (A true)
Belief (Belief)
Good Lord (Good Lord)
That fruit's (That's fruit's)
Inside (Inside)
Of me (Of me)
Oh Adam (Oh Ad-)
Please (-am please)
You must (You must)
Believe (Believe)
That snake (That snake)
Put it (Put it)
In front (In front)
Of me (Of me)
That snake
Put it
In front
Of me
In front
Of me
It's a brilliant song. I personally interpret it to be about temptation, giving into temptation, and then later feeling the consequences and regret of giving in.
Self-explainitory. If you don't get it, read Genesis in the bible.
There's just something primal, and quite hot about it.
the song is only a minute and a half long, but in my opinion, it's genious. the structure, the melody (if you'd call it that), the Adam and Eve revisionism -- everything about it is just brilliant.
I agree that this song is about how the snake (the devil) tempted Eve into sin. She took the fruit it's too late to return to innocence. It's Paradise Lost! I don't think she's pleading for sex at the end, though, as pumkinhed suggests. She's just explaining to Adam that the snake maliciously tempted her ("Oh Adam, please, you must believe, that snake put it in front of me").
I think it's relating the Garden of Eden story to being tempted and hurt by a man. Snake, as we all know, can be a metatphor for penis...he was charming, she gave into him, fell for him and fucked him...but he lied, he cheated, he didn't just fuck her in the end, he fucked her over.
the snake is penis
the snake is penis
So she's implying that man was the one who is responsible for primal sinn. And next he's proposing complete fall from god. The fruit could be reffering from taking the power of life from god and put it in a woman, so man can from hereon have power to create life. The choice the man made that led to destruction of god also destroyed the infinite solace god offered for the pain in this world. Fire part speaks about the pain this god-killing brought out in this world. At the end is an apologetic tanrum, how...
So she's implying that man was the one who is responsible for primal sinn. And next he's proposing complete fall from god. The fruit could be reffering from taking the power of life from god and put it in a woman, so man can from hereon have power to create life. The choice the man made that led to destruction of god also destroyed the infinite solace god offered for the pain in this world. Fire part speaks about the pain this god-killing brought out in this world. At the end is an apologetic tanrum, how man decived her. But this is just an interpretation..
PS. I just <3 the way she reinterprets (male centered)concepts in man-woman relations.
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the snake is penis
So she's implying that man was the one who is responsible for primal sinn. And next he's proposing complete fall from god. The fruit could be reffering from taking the power of life from god and put it in a woman, so man can from hereon have power to create life. The choice the man made that led to destruction of god also destroyed the infinite solace god offered for the pain in this world. Fire part speaks about the pain this god-killing brought out in this world. At the end is an apologetic tanrum, how man decived her. But this is just an interpretation..
PS. I just <3 the way she reinterprets (male centered)concepts in man-woman relations.
Pj uses biblical stories to sing about heartbreak. Notice how she uses religious themes in songs like "Missed", "The wind",and "Hair." She becomes each character: Mary Magdalene, St. Catherine, Delilah and Samson...in her songs all these characters are always mad with despair and torment over heartbreak. I've always thought Pj isn't as complex as we think...she simply relates to characters, over and over. (Like in A Perfect Day Elise, she identifies herself with Seymour Glass, the protagonist of "A perfect day for banana fish", by J.d salinger.) I dont think she offers a revision of the story of Adam and...
Pj uses biblical stories to sing about heartbreak. Notice how she uses religious themes in songs like "Missed", "The wind",and "Hair." She becomes each character: Mary Magdalene, St. Catherine, Delilah and Samson...in her songs all these characters are always mad with despair and torment over heartbreak. I've always thought Pj isn't as complex as we think...she simply relates to characters, over and over. (Like in A Perfect Day Elise, she identifies herself with Seymour Glass, the protagonist of "A perfect day for banana fish", by J.d salinger.) I dont think she offers a revision of the story of Adam and Eve, I think she uses it to tell a story that everyone can identify with: betrayal.
At the beginning...Adam and Eve were in love, they were the first couple in history, the perfect couple. Their love was sweet and pure, romantic. They lived happily without a worry in the world. (Basically, it was nothing related to sex.) There were no violent, passionate emotions involved. For pj, God's creation of paradise is simply a metaphor of true love...without any dark emotions.
The snake is a powerful attractive man, who drives Eve wild with desire. He defies Adam's sweet, "bland" love, by showing her sexual bliss. ("You snake / You crawled / between my legs)... Eve discovers pleasure, which is something new to her. He convinces her to have sex with him by promising her EVERYTHING. Both paradise (true love) and passion (sex.) (Said "want it all?" / It's yours / You bet / I'll make you queen/ of everything.) She'll be his bride: she'll have all the joy she wishes, eternally, if she only sleeps with him. But passion comes with a price. Eve soon realizes how he deceived her, she discovers that sexual bliss, though wonderful, is actually temporary. Once he's done with her, he doesn't want her anymore. But not only that, she also knows what she has done to the love of her life. (I burnt my hands / I'm in this fire...) What she realizes is that sex is hell because she has commited the true sin, which isn't temptation, but betrayal. And with it comes a torrent of emotions that she was oblivous to: guilt, jelousy, pain, and heartbreak. (My heart / it aches) The snake shows her passion, but in doing so, she discovers she has betrayed Adam, the love of her life. And this throws her into a fit of despair.
Eve also screams (You snake / I ate / a true / belief) She ate the "belief" , the lie that paradise is eternal bliss. For pj, in life there is no such thing as paradise. The man/snake showed her that there are underlying dark feelings in human nature that she was completely oblivious to. In a way, it is the story of a teenage girl discovering what life is.
(Good lord / that fruit / inside of me.) ---> this is really interesting, because although she is mad with guilt and condemns what she has done, here it sounds as if she is longing for it. Once you feel sexual pleasure, you want to taste it again, even if it hurts. Even in her fit of despair, a small part of her STILL longs for that temporary bliss once more.
In the end, she desperately begs Adam to forgive her, although the character knows it is hopeless. She says (You must believe / That snake put it / in front of me.) The snake showed her the apple, in the Bible they describe it as something ripe and juicy, which here could be identified with a penis. It is a hopeless way to beg for someone to forgive you, it is like saying that HE came on to her! It wasn't SHE who looked for him, she promises, but actually him who found her.
I think it's just a brilliant way of telling the story of a woman who deceived the love of her life. She apologizes for breaking his heart and for destroying their love, although there is nothing she can do about it now.
Pj uses biblical stories to sing about heartbreak. Notice how she uses religious themes in songs like "Missed", "The wind",and "Hair." She becomes each character: Mary Magdalene, St. Catherine, Delilah and Samson...in her songs all these characters are always mad with despair and torment over heartbreak. I've always thought Pj isn't as complex as we think...she simply relates to characters, over and over. (Like in A Perfect Day Elise, she identifies herself with Seymour Glass, the protagonist of "A perfect day for banana fish", by J.d salinger.) I dont think she offers a revision of the story of Adam and...
Pj uses biblical stories to sing about heartbreak. Notice how she uses religious themes in songs like "Missed", "The wind",and "Hair." She becomes each character: Mary Magdalene, St. Catherine, Delilah and Samson...in her songs all these characters are always mad with despair and torment over heartbreak. I've always thought Pj isn't as complex as we think...she simply relates to characters, over and over. (Like in A Perfect Day Elise, she identifies herself with Seymour Glass, the protagonist of "A perfect day for banana fish", by J.d salinger.) I dont think she offers a revision of the story of Adam and Eve, I think she uses it to tell a story that everyone can identify with: betrayal.
At the beginning...Adam and Eve were in love, they were the first couple in history, the perfect couple. Their love was sweet and pure, romantic. They lived happily without a worry in the world. (Basically, it was nothing related to sex.) There were no violent, passionate emotions involved. For pj, God's creation of paradise is simply a metaphor of true love...without any dark emotions.
The snake is a powerful attractive man, who drives Eve wild with desire. He defies Adam's sweet, "bland" love, by showing her sexual bliss. ("You snake / You crawled / between my legs)... Eve discovers pleasure, which is something new to her. He convinces her to have sex with him by promising her EVERYTHING. Both paradise (true love) and passion (sex.) (Said "want it all?" / It's yours / You bet / I'll make you queen/ of everything.) She'll be his bride: she'll have all the joy she wishes, eternally, if she only sleeps with him. But passion comes with a price. Eve soon realizes how he deceived her, she discovers that sexual bliss, though wonderful, is actually temporary. Once he's done with her, he doesn't want her anymore. But not only that, she also knows what she has done to the love of her life. (I burnt my hands / I'm in this fire...) What she realizes is that sex is hell because she has commited the true sin, which isn't temptation, but betrayal. And with it comes a torrent of emotions that she was oblivous to: guilt, jelousy, pain, and heartbreak. (My heart / it aches) The snake shows her passion, but in doing so, she discovers she has betrayed Adam, the love of her life. And this throws her into a fit of despair.
Eve also screams (You snake / I ate / a true / belief) She ate the "belief" , the lie that paradise is eternal bliss. For pj, in life there is no such thing as paradise. The man/snake showed her that there are underlying dark feelings in human nature that she was completely oblivious to. In a way, it is the story of a teenage girl discovering what life is.
(Good lord / that fruit / inside of me.) ---> this is really interesting, because although she is mad with guilt and condemns what she has done, here it sounds as if she is longing for it. Once you feel sexual pleasure, you want to taste it again, even if it hurts. Even in her fit of despair, a small part of her STILL longs for that temporary bliss once more.
In the end, she desperately begs Adam to forgive her, although the character knows it is hopeless. She says (You must believe / That snake put it / in front of me.) The snake showed her the apple, in the Bible they describe it as something ripe and juicy, which here could be identified with a penis. It is a hopeless way to beg for someone to forgive you, it is like saying that HE came on to her! It wasn't SHE who looked for him, she promises, but actually him who found her.
I think it's just a brilliant way of telling the story of a woman who deceived the love of her life. She apologizes for breaking his heart and for destroying their love, although there is nothing she can do about it now.
oh god im sorry i thought i was posting this in the general comments thread ahahhaha...i wasn't intending to answer you directly...AND I HAD NO IDEA IT WAS SO LONG! sorryyyy
oh god im sorry i thought i was posting this in the general comments thread ahahhaha...i wasn't intending to answer you directly...AND I HAD NO IDEA IT WAS SO LONG! sorryyyy
For those of us who don't get it, the song's basically about Adam and Eve. At first she's screeching at him for blaming her for them being thrown out of Eden, then by the second half, she's discovered sex and is now pleading for it.