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Pablo and Andrea Lyrics
show me where you keep all your secrets upstairs
night after night you sleep while they're setting off flares
someone came and took all the roses away
now you'll sit showing me tears if you want me to stay
cause down the street all the meters have run out of time
run out of time
I waited for you as the trees swayed out of time
in a crowded room I pick up your lonely stare
I'll cover for you like a slipcover covers a chair
but someone came and took all the roses away
it was only 5 minutes, it felt like it stretched into a day
someone came and took all the roses away
took all the roses away
took all the roses away
night after night you sleep while they're setting off flares
now you'll sit showing me tears if you want me to stay
cause down the street all the meters have run out of time
run out of time
in a crowded room I pick up your lonely stare
I'll cover for you like a slipcover covers a chair
but someone came and took all the roses away
it was only 5 minutes, it felt like it stretched into a day
someone came and took all the roses away
took all the roses away
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Submitted by
typo On Jan 27, 2002
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My favourite part is the solo. There's an incredible but gentle beauty there.
the guitar solo is ira's finest moment. such a thing of beauty.
I love this song. . . It's not even that I can relate to it in any way because in all honesty I really have no idea what it REALLY means. I love the lyrics though and I love the music. One of my favorite Yo La Tengo songs.
My Favorite Part: "I waited for you as the trees swayed out of time / in a crowded room I pick up your lonely stare."
Yeah, the solo is awesome, as well as everything...Yo La Tengo is probably one of the most diverse bands ever...I just found them about a week ago and I am soooo glad!!!
I thought it was about a girl who waited too long for her man and when he came finally she had lost her virginity, but when I read the uhhhclem´s comment about who Pablo and Andrea were it seems I´m off the beam - maybe it´s about her ghost talking to him
i want to make love while this song is playing
My impression is from the point of view of someone who's partner just lost someone at the hospital, and they'll "sit there showing tears if you want me to stay" like "I can leave if you want to grieve in private, or I can be here for you while you go through this". Someone took the flowers away, like a hospital worker is clearing out their room after they've passed
Pablo and Andrea are the children of Robert Frank, the famous photographer and the sculptor Mary Frank. Andrea was killed in an airplane crash in Peru and Pablo killed himself after a lifetime of mental health issues.
Well, I\'m not sure if he was being completely honest when he said that to me, but after a Yo la tengo\'s gig, Ira came to speak with fans and then I asked him who Pablo and Andrea were. He told me they were some good old friends from a summer camp when they were kids, and that they were in love then and still together. I would like to think so just because the song is so beautiful...
I could have sworn Georgia sings "no use in showing me tears if you want me to stay" instead of what is posted here.
It seems like Georgia (singing the part of Andrea in the story) is desperately trying to unlock Pablo and free him from whatever misery he's in. He sleeps through all of the fun (setting off flares outside), he's hiding something, lonely, etc. She doesn't mention the color of the roses, so it could just be that Pablo's upset about a break-up (red roses in that case being the love taken away) or he's in mourning still long after the (black) roses are gone.
All of the verses about time are just emphasizing that she's not going to give up on him. This lyrically also seems to tie into Blue Line Swinger ("I'm willing to hold your hand while you're lost, while you're so full of doubt")
That's my best stab at it.
Pablo and Andrea are the names of the children of the photographer Robert Frank, most famous for his seminal collection "The Americans" (and somewhat notorious for "Cocksucker Blues," the documentary he made about the Rolling Stones). In the early 1970s, Andrea Frank was killed in a plane crash in Guatemala; at about the same time, Pablo Frank was diagnosed as schizophrenic and hospitalized; he died in 1994, the year before Electr-O-Pura was released.
Pablo and Andrea are the names of the children of the photographer Robert Frank, most famous for his seminal collection "The Americans" (and somewhat notorious for "Cocksucker Blues," the documentary he made about the Rolling Stones). In the early 1970s, Andrea Frank was killed in a plane crash in Guatemala; at about the same time, Pablo Frank was diagnosed as schizophrenic and hospitalized; he died in 1994, the year before Electr-O-Pura was released.
I don't really have any idea how that relates the these lyrics, but that's who Pablo and Andrea were.
I don't really have any idea how that relates the these lyrics, but that's who Pablo and Andrea were.
@uhhhclem I did a little Googling.
@uhhhclem I did a little Googling.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/frank-mary claims: "On December 28, 1974, Mary’s twenty-year-old daughter, Andrea, was killed in a plane crash in the Guatemalan jungle near the Mayan ruins at Tikal. One year later, in 1975, Mary’s mother nearly died from cancer, and within a year of his sister’s death, Pablo developed Hodgkin’s disease."
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/frank-mary claims: "On December 28, 1974, Mary’s twenty-year-old daughter, Andrea, was killed in a plane crash in the Guatemalan jungle near the Mayan ruins at Tikal. One year later, in 1975, Mary’s mother nearly died from cancer, and within a year of his sister’s death, Pablo developed Hodgkin’s disease."
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2008/04/frank200804 : In Home Improvements (1985), he picks up the scene, this time outside a Bronx mental hospital on his way to visit his son: “Pablo, I promise you, I won’t give up,” Frank says in voice-over. In...
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2008/04/frank200804 : In Home Improvements (1985), he picks up the scene, this time outside a Bronx mental hospital on his way to visit his son: “Pablo, I promise you, I won’t give up,” Frank says in voice-over. In the hospital, Pablo Frank is unresponsive, borderline insane. "His daughter, Andrea, died at the age of 21 in a small-plane crash in Guatemala. His son, Pablo, lived a life of drug addiction and mental instability before killing himself, in 1994."