Actually, captainlumpy, this particular song on Trout Mask Replica is spoken rather than sung, by Antenna Jimmy Semens rather than the Captain.
In terms of what the song is actually about, the imagery is extremely sexual, albeit filtered through several layers of hallucinatory metaphor. I always thought "pena" might mean clitoris, but possibly I'm being too literal....
@losttango There was a whole group of Pena poems, most of them lost. (Hey Garland... is another - that song was written and rehearsed around the same time as this, even if it wasn't recorded till 1982).
Don was inordinately fond of this - in rehearsals he had Jeff Cotton reciting it over and over until everyone was sick of it (Cotton in particular)
@losttango There was a whole group of Pena poems, most of them lost. (Hey Garland... is another - that song was written and rehearsed around the same time as this, even if it wasn't recorded till 1982).
Don was inordinately fond of this - in rehearsals he had Jeff Cotton reciting it over and over until everyone was sick of it (Cotton in particular)
Actually, captainlumpy, this particular song on Trout Mask Replica is spoken rather than sung, by Antenna Jimmy Semens rather than the Captain.
In terms of what the song is actually about, the imagery is extremely sexual, albeit filtered through several layers of hallucinatory metaphor. I always thought "pena" might mean clitoris, but possibly I'm being too literal....
@losttango There was a whole group of Pena poems, most of them lost. (Hey Garland... is another - that song was written and rehearsed around the same time as this, even if it wasn't recorded till 1982). Don was inordinately fond of this - in rehearsals he had Jeff Cotton reciting it over and over until everyone was sick of it (Cotton in particular)
@losttango There was a whole group of Pena poems, most of them lost. (Hey Garland... is another - that song was written and rehearsed around the same time as this, even if it wasn't recorded till 1982). Don was inordinately fond of this - in rehearsals he had Jeff Cotton reciting it over and over until everyone was sick of it (Cotton in particular)