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Your Beauty Must Be Rubbing Off Lyrics
Look at those buggers
Who are looting the crash site
Taking the ring off your sweet little finger
That I gave to you when we got married
You're underwater
Now you're back where you came from
No stealing of beauty that would naturally
Flow from the center of all that you are
Your beauty must be rubbing off on me
If we had children they'd be lovely
And beautiful and posses a peace
And a strength and a depth in their eyes
And a soundness in heart
Even as they cry
And we as lovers bloom
Like lilies in midnight to taste our bellies
Before god we are witness
To currents we cannot control
Your beauty must be rubbing off on me
It's all the faces that you
Never had or that you'll never have
To the shivers you couldn't shake
The planes you didn't make
The hooks that didn't take off at night
In the window as you fight with the curtains to
Cover up your nakedness from the neighbor's gaze
Such a sweet display of nothingness of everything
Never mind these things are fine
The sweet tooth sunset forgets tonight
Cacophony
Cacophony
So let me say you look lovely in all of this
And let me say that the death that I fear
Could in part be a fear that
I'd lose you just as I found you
Don't be a stranger to the danger that is kissing you
Who are looting the crash site
Taking the ring off your sweet little finger
That I gave to you when we got married
Now you're back where you came from
No stealing of beauty that would naturally
Flow from the center of all that you are
Your beauty must be rubbing off on me
And beautiful and posses a peace
And a strength and a depth in their eyes
And a soundness in heart
Even as they cry
And we as lovers bloom
Like lilies in midnight to taste our bellies
Before god we are witness
To currents we cannot control
Your beauty must be rubbing off on me
Never had or that you'll never have
To the shivers you couldn't shake
The planes you didn't make
The hooks that didn't take off at night
In the window as you fight with the curtains to
Cover up your nakedness from the neighbor's gaze
Such a sweet display of nothingness of everything
Never mind these things are fine
The sweet tooth sunset forgets tonight
Cacophony
Cacophony
And let me say that the death that I fear
Could in part be a fear that
I'd lose you just as I found you
Don't be a stranger to the danger that is kissing you
Song Info
Submitted by
precobytes On Apr 13, 2002
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your beauty must be rubbing off on me... sigh
I think this song is about the Goddess, like all his songs (almost) "You're under water, now you're back where you came from", the ocean is a common metaphor for death and the goddess (who is death) Your beauty must be rubbing off might mean something like he is coming to know Her better and to see things from her perspective. Hawksley's ties to the Goddess are very evident if you are familiar with his poetry book, Hawksley Burns for Isadora
Allistar- What about when he says at the beginning of the song. People are taking the ring off his wife's finger. What would that mean regarding the Goddess?
Allistar- What about when he says at the beginning of the song. People are taking the ring off his wife's finger. What would that mean regarding the Goddess?
i just saw him live and he said that early in his career he missed a show his manager set up for him because he was afraid of flying. he called his manager 10 mins before his flight and his manager got all pissed off that he wasnt going. so he decided to write a song so that his manager and everyone else would like him. this is the song he wrote. that being said, to me this is a song about love and loss. hope and fear. its a whimsical expression of the human condition. you can love what...
i just saw him live and he said that early in his career he missed a show his manager set up for him because he was afraid of flying. he called his manager 10 mins before his flight and his manager got all pissed off that he wasnt going. so he decided to write a song so that his manager and everyone else would like him. this is the song he wrote. that being said, to me this is a song about love and loss. hope and fear. its a whimsical expression of the human condition. you can love what you have so much, and fear losing it so much, that you lose out on other things that could be wonderful, because you are too fearful and stuck in your ways to take a risk. every song means something different to each person who hears it. what can I say? its art.