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I drive alone, home from work
And I always think of her
Late at night I call her
But I never say a word
I can see her squeeze the phone between her chin and shoulder
I can almost smell her breath faint with a sweet scent of decay
She serves him mashed potatoes
And she serves him peppered steak, with corn
Pulls her dress up over her head
Lets it fall to the floor
And does she ever whisper in his ear all her favorite fruit
And all the most exotic places they are cultivated
And I'd like to take her there, rather than this train
And if I weren't a civil servant, I'd have a place in the colonies
We'd play croquet behind white-washed walls and drink our tea at four
Within intervention's distance of the embassy
The midday air grows thicker with the heat
And drifts towards the line of trees
When negroes blink their eyes, they sink into siesta
And we are rotting like a fruit underneath a rusting roof
We dream our dreams and sing our songs of fecundity
Of life and love
Of life and love
Of life and love
And I always think of her
Late at night I call her
But I never say a word
I can see her squeeze the phone between her chin and shoulder
I can almost smell her breath faint with a sweet scent of decay
She serves him mashed potatoes
And she serves him peppered steak, with corn
Pulls her dress up over her head
Lets it fall to the floor
And does she ever whisper in his ear all her favorite fruit
And all the most exotic places they are cultivated
And I'd like to take her there, rather than this train
And if I weren't a civil servant, I'd have a place in the colonies
We'd play croquet behind white-washed walls and drink our tea at four
Within intervention's distance of the embassy
The midday air grows thicker with the heat
And drifts towards the line of trees
When negroes blink their eyes, they sink into siesta
And we are rotting like a fruit underneath a rusting roof
We dream our dreams and sing our songs of fecundity
Of life and love
Of life and love
Of life and love
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aj2828aj On Apr 25, 2002
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I absolutely love this song and you to listen to Key Lime Pie all the time during the mid 90's. Anybody else out there know what I mean. I kind of get the feeling he is actually watching the girl(Like through a telescope)...but where is the setting or where is these exotic places?
superfreak, I know exactly what you mean, with just a few changes.
superfreak, I know exactly what you mean, with just a few changes.
I didn't listen to Key Lime Pie so much in the mid-'90s, but I did get it when it first came out. I had got the cassette single of "Pictures of Matchstick Men" in advance of the album, and then I remember I bought the CD of Key Lime Pie (one of the first 10 CDs I ever bought) the week it came out in September 1989. It was in heavy rotation in my CD player at least through the end of summer 1990.
I didn't listen to Key Lime Pie so much in the mid-'90s, but I did get it when it first came out. I had got the cassette single of "Pictures of Matchstick Men" in advance of the album, and then I remember I bought the CD of Key Lime Pie (one of the first 10 CDs I ever bought) the week it came out in September 1989. It was in heavy rotation in my CD player at least through the end of summer 1990.
So, I know this...
So, I know this album very well, and this has always been one of my fave songs. I never thought he was watching through a telescope, but rather more of a casual observer, like just somebody he knows from living in a small southern town where everybody knows everybody else.
Only recently I learned that the song is based on characters from Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow (published in 1973, set in mid-1940s Europe).
That's weird that leamanc just posted their comment only 5 hours ago... I didn't see it until just now, right after I added my own comment on the Pynchon characters... weird!
That's weird that leamanc just posted their comment only 5 hours ago... I didn't see it until just now, right after I added my own comment on the Pynchon characters... weird!
The song is loosely based on the character Roger Mexico from Thomas Pynchon's novel, Gravity's Rainbow. The 'she' in the song is Mexico's lover, Jessica Swanlake, who's engaged to another man, Jeremy ("Beaver"). Mexico detests Jeremy, for obvious reasons, and has an episode where he vainly tries to figure out if Jessica acts the same way with Jeremy as she does with him-- hence the line, "Does she ever whisper..." Mexico wants to take Jessica away out of the London war zone, which is impossible since they both work for the government-- he is a statistician who is charged with figuring out where the German V-2 rockets will land. Mexico is a somewhat grumpy character, but Jessica brings out his romantic and hopeful side, which is how the song portrays him.
Source: http://www.popgurls.com/article_show.php3?id=602
I believe this song is about a man low social class who is in love with the wife of a member of royalty or wealth. He watches her every move, including her favorite fruit. And only he, not her husband, knows what this fruit is. He also daydreams of what life would be if they could finally be together. But he's nothing more than a civil servant, so all he can do is watch her from afar.
I think two words are deliberately swapped in a couple of lines. "Does she ever whisper in his ear, all her favorite places" makes more sense if the couple is making love (she takes off her dress, and is whispering in his ear -- her favorite places to be touched?). "And all the most exotic fruit they are cultivating" is obvious.
I don't know why CVB would do this, except just screwing around, but it makes more sense to me.
Wait, just realized it's 'cultivated'. That fits. Never mind. (now how do you delete a post here...)
Wait, just realized it's 'cultivated'. That fits. Never mind. (now how do you delete a post here...)
@kreniigh you could flag it for deletion, but I don't think your comment is anything that would "spark" a deletion ... is just a point of view, each to their own
@kreniigh you could flag it for deletion, but I don't think your comment is anything that would "spark" a deletion ... is just a point of view, each to their own
It's about a nobody in love with his favorite phone-sex operator. His unreasonable and unfulfilled sexual fantasies are only surpassed by his unreasonable and unfulfilled fantasies of power, prestige, and wealth.