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Gracie, we're makin babies, yea, we're barefoot on the tiles
we make 'em soft and small and tender, it's the biggest hazard of your gender
gotta hold it by yourself
Gracie, hold yourself together, it's bad now but it gets better
we're all here to help
everything is swollen, everything is swell... everybody's watching

they all wanna see it kick

pleasure is your crime, junior is your punishment
happens all the time, everybody rub it in.

It ain't hard to find fault in any thing you do,
we learned to love the hard way, you're gonna learn it too.
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Cover art for Caress lyrics by Drive Like Jehu

This is the anthem for St. Martin High School. We happen to have the highest pregnancy rate in the state of Mississippi. MISSISSIPPI. So in other words it's a big baby factory down here. Anyway, it's rather easy to figure out that being a slut is a bad bad thing. We may give our sympathies, but we know you're not all too special.

Cover art for Caress lyrics by Drive Like Jehu

ok, where's the last half of the lyrics?

Cover art for Caress lyrics by Drive Like Jehu

ok, where's the last half of the lyrics?

Cover art for Caress lyrics by Drive Like Jehu

obviously this song is about a teen pregnancy.

but i think it has more to do with a rape that lead to this pregnancy than just being a slut. Cause after the last chorus he sceams out "rape"

also, between me and my brother we managed to decipher some of the last few lines, but some still ended up being obscure. I don't know how to edit above, so i'll just put it down here.

Gracie we're making babies yeah, we're barefoot on the tiles We're all here, we're all invited somehow we're all involved we to see you fuck in there we don't want you to feel pressured, we don't want you to feel ill you in our hearts and especially our prayers.

Cover art for Caress lyrics by Drive Like Jehu

Yeah and the second time he sings the "chorus" it sounds like:

It ain't hard to find fault in any thing you do We know we're gonna find it you're gonna find it too

Cover art for Caress lyrics by Drive Like Jehu

I think a lot of people aren't picking up on the irony.

Yes, it's about teen pregnancy. But what it's addressing is not so much that as it is how these girls are treated and viewed after the fact. It's about the judgmental mass of people who are so eager to cast stones. This is especially evident in the first two lines of the refrain: "Pleasure is your crime, junior is your punishment. It happens all the time, everybody rub it in"

My Opinion

I got the irony pretty quickly. It's about how when we treat teen mothers like crap we are making an already bad situation worse for them, so why not try to help them instead?

 
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