To Cure A Weakling Child

It's loosely about child abuse. The title: "To Cure a Weakling Child" denotes a harsh attitude toward a child, from which one can infer the "cure" not being a positive thing.

The lyrics, a child's voice talking about his body parts connecting with "your feet," further hints at an abusive theme.

The percussion starts off slow, connotation of the earlier, "more precious" years in life. The further it goes on, the the more menacing the beat becomes, until the 2:10 mark, where the song completely shifts from an innocent, albeit creepy tone to a ravaging of percussions reminiscent of a life-threatening beating. After which, the child's voice is played backwards, denoting that nothing could be the same.

The song continues as before the pounding drums, but fades out, leaving the haunting voice as the last thing to flicker out, suggesting either future beatings, or the rekindling of scars from the past.

Leastaways, that's how I see it. I could just be talking out of my arse, but that's what it means to me past the scarce lyrics.

I think it's about finding the meaning of life. I can't believe how beautifully phrased these lyrics are; Richard D. James is obviously a poetic genius. The words are so plain yet so complex, deep, and twisted. You have to look deep to understand their true meaning, however. I wish more musicians could write like this.

I don't think it's a stretch to say it's about child abuse. In the context of such a dark and disturbing album, it was the first thing that crossed my mind.

Its a great song although those lyrics above are incorrect... it goes "My Feet, My Arms, And My Ears, And Your Beat"

acrually its feet not beat

actually*

iv always thought it was feet but i now think it could be "beat". Think about it... My Feet (dancing), My Arms (waving around) And My Ears (listening to the music)...And Your BEAT (Aphex's tunes!) What do u all think???

actually, richard just recorded himself saying a bunch of random shit. and then chopped this together. i don't think there is a meaning. find beauty in the random complexities of inane babble? maybe.

either or, the song rocks it. hard.

whether its 'feet' or 'beat', doesnt matter cause the words are skewed to let you hear what you want. To me, this song is about listening to any aphex twin curing his listeners, especially on the Richard D. Jame's album, most of the songs are soothing. I wish he had done a music video for this song, does he have any from RDJ's album?