Is She Weird

I was going to make many of the same points that MamiyaOtaru made --- the fact that "weird" could also be interpreted as "wyrd" - wyrd, btw, is another way of saying "Fate," as Mamiya indicated. The slight element of Witchcraft / Wiccan that "is she promised to the night" might conjure up in some people, might be taking the song too literally. But track with me here:

I don't know why, but I always had the feeling that he was singing this about the Moon - albeit, a personification of the moon. Or else maybe comparing a woman to the moon? Or how about this --- the Wyrd Sisters (fate as represented by The Maiden, The Mother, and the Crone) are often linked to the three phases of the moon (Waxing, Full, and Waning).

Maybe it's supposed to be the goddess Hecate (who is also a form of the Wyrd sisters - she predates Greek mythology, but is lumped in with that pantheon - eventually losing importance)? Hecate is the goddess that is Earth-Mother to wizards and witches. She is viewed as a young maiden with three faces - Luna in Heaven (the moon), Diana on Earth (Artemis), and Hecate in the Underworld. She is the Light-Bearer, Hecate of the Earth, and the One Who Guards the Gate, in her three forms. When Black Francis says, "Is she over me, like the stars and the sun," I think of Luna - the moon.

The Triple Goddess is another thought - She is worshipped in Pagan cultures - her colors are white for the maiden, red for the mother, and black for the crone. It's obvious that this song is being sung to the Maiden - and he even calls her "white." And promised to the night, like the moon.

Perhaps "her head has no room," because she already has THREE faces - no room for more faces? "Your mouth is everywhere, I'm lying in it," could be her representation as the Earth Mother, maybe? As for the material items - "...rich in good clothes and little things:" "Hecate, whom Zeus the son of Cronos honoured above all. He gave her splendid gifts, to have a share of the earth and the unfruitful sea."

Also, as the mythology tells us, "Hecate gains the title of the 'Queen of Ghosts' and her role as a goddess of sorcery," in one of the Greek dilutions.

Yeah, this was rambling. ;-)

-SL