So she washed her cut in the sink
And picked up once more
Along the way
Down to the bay
Where did I stay
I was nineteen
And so relieved to be
Beating twenty
Without her clothes she looked like
A leper in the snow
I left her in the snow
Without her clothes
My movements were slow
She didn't even know
What she was
Taking away
We didn't talk much
It must have shown
She must have known
The next day she never called me again
The day after that
She gave me a call
She was all drunk
Her words came slow
I didn't even know
What I had taken away
And picked up once more
Along the way
Down to the bay
Where did I stay
And so relieved to be
Beating twenty
A leper in the snow
I left her in the snow
Without her clothes
She didn't even know
What she was
Taking away
It must have shown
She must have known
She gave me a call
She was all drunk
I didn't even know
What I had taken away
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How we unavoidably abuse each other every time we abruptly call off our newfound intimacy
I believe this song is about two people losing their virginity to each other, not out of love or anything as romantic as that, but simply out of a desire to have sex. Whatever relationship they had with each other quickly dissolved after this encounter, which didn't live up to either of their expectations.
That was my understanding of it too.
That was my understanding of it too.
I always heard this one as "leopard in the snow", not leper, and thought of it as kind a romantic song (well, in Smog's range of romance, anyways).
I think there's a sort of unexpected empathy at the end there where he realizes that she had been a virgin too, and the line "the next day she never called me again" indicates that the narrator is kind of heartbroken by that.
I heard it that way too.
I heard it that way too.
Its definitely about the loss of virginity. Does the first line mean what I thinks it means?
I don't think so. Seems like we're jumping into a story part way through, after she's picked up a cut. (As evidence against: 1) that would be kind of weird, 2) how would he know?)
I don't think so. Seems like we're jumping into a story part way through, after she's picked up a cut. (As evidence against: 1) that would be kind of weird, 2) how would he know?)