This is a song about something there
There is something about this song

We did the clubs what ass
I was hoping to have her in the sack
I was looking handsome
She was looking like an erotic vulture

I was all dressed in black she was all dressed up in black
Every thing was fine down here
What you call it here, call it what you will here
Way down down down in this subbacultcha

Her warm white belly in the life I'd lived had seen nothing
Finer she shakes and she moves me or something
She's like jellyroll like sculpture

I was wearing eyeliner she was wearing eyeliner
It was so good down here saving for my scrapbook here
Way down down down in this subbacultcha

We haven't been found
We haven't been found
We haven't been found
We haven't been found

Now we live on the sea and relax and ride the tack
Drug running on this panamanian schooner

She walks the deck in a black dress
And me I dress up in black and we listen to the sea
And look at the sky in a poetic kind of way, what you call it
When you look at the sky in a poetic kind of way
You know when you grope for luna

We haven't been found
We haven't been found
We haven't been found
...



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Subbacultcha Lyrics as written by Charles Thompson

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    No comments? What's up with that.

    This song is a bit different to the others on the album. The thing that I like about it is the creative use of syllables and timing in the words - "everything was fine down here / what you call it here / call it what you will here" - the words carry their own rythm and the reversal of the wording adds a sort of symmetry.

    The symmetry is all through the song, the whole "I was.../she was..." pairing of the verses.

    Also interesting are the reflexive lyrics: "this is a song about something there / there's something about this song" (more lyrical symmetry too).

    And the end lines - "when you look at the sky in a poetic kind of way/you know when you grope for luna", seems to me that this is a comment on the moon being an inspiration for anyone with a poetic/romantic personality but our attempts to write when inspired by the beauty of the moon (luna) is always relatively clumsy compared to the reality (we can only "grope" for it).

    caitsith01on July 07, 2003   Link

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