Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
Just wishing that I had just something you wore
I put it on when I go lonely
Will you take off your dress and send it to me?
I miss your kissin' and I miss your head
And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead
Run outside in the desert heat
Make your dress all wet and send it to me
I miss your soup and I miss your bread
And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead
So spill your breakfast and drip your wine
Just wear that dress when you dine
P-I-X-I-E-S
Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
Just wishing that I had just something you wore
Bloody your hands on a cactus tree
Wipe it on your dress and send it to me
Sitting here wishing on a cement floor
Just wishing that I had just something you wore
Just wishing that I had just something you wore
I put it on when I go lonely
Will you take off your dress and send it to me?
And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead
Run outside in the desert heat
Make your dress all wet and send it to me
And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead
So spill your breakfast and drip your wine
Just wear that dress when you dine
Just wishing that I had just something you wore
Bloody your hands on a cactus tree
Wipe it on your dress and send it to me
Just wishing that I had just something you wore
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I read what Black Francis said about this song - it is about a guy in prison. The references to the blood aren't about murder, though. The guy in prison misses his girlfriend and all he has is letters, when what he wants is something with her smell, something from her body, because "a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead."
So he says she should cut her hands on a cactus, wipe it on her dress and send him that instead of a letter; alternatively she should get hot in the desert and sweat in her dress, or spill food on it - anything to get a smell that reminds him of her.
The Bowie cover is pretty cool, that whole album is good actually. I like to imaging Bowie sitting at home listening to the Pixies - kind of cements to me the importance of the Pixies in modern music.
@caitsith01 it was the music of Helter Skelter and the words of Sweet Honey Pie
@caitsith01 it was the music of Helter Skelter and the words of Sweet Honey Pie
It's about missing someone so much you just wish you had something with their smell or scent on it in your possession
Pixies were touring at the beginnig with Bowie, so there´s connection. He liked them a lot, called them " psychotic Beatles ".
I wonder if their Wild Honey Pie cover helped that image. :)
I wonder if their Wild Honey Pie cover helped that image. :)
Has any one noticed that as the song goes on and Black Francis's desire for the person he's missing grows, his instincts grow more and more primal. First he just wants her smell, then he wants the dress to be covered in wine and food then finally he wants blood.
@Red_Left_Hand interesting observation, I think that sounds fair. I more looked at it as he wanted her blood in the end because that would be proof SHE is alive.. like she had food and drink spill but he wanted just something from her herself to prove she’s still alive
@Red_Left_Hand interesting observation, I think that sounds fair. I more looked at it as he wanted her blood in the end because that would be proof SHE is alive.. like she had food and drink spill but he wanted just something from her herself to prove she’s still alive
I know I'm probably wrong, but it could be a guy in jail who left his girlfriend (like you would have to) while he was in jail, she then runs off and he's not sure if SHE'S writing to him, if she went off with someone else or she could even be dead.
I think it's the being with someone else possibility: "the fact that you write to me with all this passion doesn't mean you actually feel it". I believe it's not uncommon for people to fake their feelings towards jalied partners in order not to crush their hopes of getting out.
I think it's the being with someone else possibility: "the fact that you write to me with all this passion doesn't mean you actually feel it". I believe it's not uncommon for people to fake their feelings towards jalied partners in order not to crush their hopes of getting out.
I always thought it was dine, not dying. He's talking about spilling food and wine on the dress, so "dine" isn't much of a stretch.
Is it fucked up for a girl to put on the sweatshirt of someone she misses? No? Then why is it "pervy" or "fucked up" for a dude to put on a dress of someone he loves when he misses her? It's about that primal comfort that words and ideas just can't provide.
it's about being separated from the one you love and, lets be frank, wanting to fuck them... but not being able to, and so instead wishing you had something to remind you of them
David Bowie covered this song on his new album. I think that proves just how rad the Pixies are.
I've also always thought it was "dine."